Here’s a thought…
“Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.”
GIORGOS SEFERIS
News Brief | ‘Roadless Rule’ repeal would affect 2M acres of Washington forest land
||| FROM KING-TV SEATTLE ||| The Trump Administration is paving the way to increase logging and road construction in national forests, including two million acres of land in Washington alone, in a move that would
2026 Fall Native Wildflower Sale
Don’t miss this opportunity to purchase locally grown wildflowers native to San Juan County ||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Mark your calendar for the San Juan County Conservation Land Bank’s Fall Native Wildflower
Library seeks input from caregivers, seniors with disabilities
||| FROM SAM GAILEY for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY ||| The Orcas Island Public Library is inviting community members age 60 and older who live with a disability—as well as caregivers of older adults with disabilities—to a free
K Pod back in the Salish Sea
||| FROM CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ||| Full Encounter Report ObservBegin: 09:48 AM ObservEnd: 11:30 AM Vessel: KCB III Staff: Dave Ellifrit Other Observers: Charli Grimes, Navi Zwart, Aspen Kendrick-Cisneros, Henry Moreau-Smith Pods: K IDsEncountered:
Orcas Clinic new providers meet & greet September 22, 2026
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND HEALTH CARE DISTRICT ||| Island Primary Care - Orcas clinic has welcomed two new Providers over the past six months, Cameron Fralick, PA-C, and Paula Whitmire, MD. In order for community
2027 preliminary budget to be presented to Council at August 25th meeting
San Juan County Auditor’s Office will present the 2027 preliminary budget which includes $3.7 million in potential modifications identified ||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| The San Juan County Auditor will present a preliminary
General Mojo’s to play final Orcas Center summer concert on Aug. 30
||| FROM COLLEEN SMITH SUMMERS for ORCAS CENTER ||| Orcas Center has presented its annual Summer Concert Series on the Village Green, bringing free, live music to the heart of Eastsound, all summer long. This
Larsen releases statement on collapse of U.S.-Canada talks to prevent Trump’s pointless new tariffs
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF U.S. REP. RICK LARSEN ||| WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Rick Larsen (WA-02) released the following statement: "These new tariffs aren't leverage over Canada. They're yet another way that the
Garden Club Presentation | Gardening with mushrooms
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND GARDEN CLUB ||| Please join the Orcas Island Garden Club on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, when we welcome Alex Winstead to share helpful advice for Gardening with Mushrooms in the Pacific
I’m Not the Church Lady | You are here
You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you are ||| I'M NOT THE CHURCH LADY by ROSIE KUHN ||| You are here ... There’s something wonderfully obvious about it—and yet spiritually,
Washington State Department of Commerce federal grants workshop
||| FROM LINDSAY JENNINGS for ORCAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ||| Learn how to build stronger grant applications at this free, informative, and interactive workshop provided by the Washington State Department of Commerce’s Federal Funds Grant Writing
Art Show opening on Friday, August 28 | Peter Carlson, “Me Here You There”
||| FROM MARJORIE TAYLOR for ORCAS CENTER ||| The Visual Arts Committee of Orcas Center announces the opening of a new show featuring recent paintings and prints of Peter Carlson on August 28, 5:30 to
Questions and commitments
||| FROM LINDSAY JENNINGS for ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ||| Earlier this week, at our National Nonprofit Day program, Eric Liu spoke about the role and importance of civic culture. He shared how it is
Prospective Critical Areas Ordinance update process
San Juan County is currently reviewing and revising its Critical Areas Ordinance. The County expects to complete the process by the end of the year. ||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County
Midnight Mutterings | Emojis
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| I don’t love emojis. If this were a text, these sentences would be followed by six dancing broken hearts with sad eyes squirting fat tears. Later lines would
