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
Salish Sea Early Music Festival will return for new season
||| FROM SALISH SEA EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL ||| Welcome to the 2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival! Please join fabulous Northwest favorites baroque guitarist Stephen Stubbs, harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright, viola da gambist Susie Napper, and violinists David
Attention Farmers, Ranchers | Land Bank farmland lease opportunities on San Juan
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| The San Juan County Land Bank requests proposals from farmers or agricultural/food systems organizations interested in a long-term agricultural lease of its Frazer Homestead and/or Beaverton Marsh Preserves
Learn how to do the Daniel Fast at Orcas Library
||| FROM SAMUEL GAILEY for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY ||| Sersie Blue is a health coach, and Gigi Carter is a certified nutritionist and fitness expert. Daniel Fast: Why You Should Only Do It Once empowers the reader
Island Health’s main hospital entrance lobby reopens December 18
||| FROM LAURA MORONEY for ISLAND HEALTH ||| ANACORTES, WA— Island Health’s remodeled Main Hospital Entrance lobby off 24th Street will reopen Monday, December 18. This is the first completed phase of the multifaceted Emergency
Chair Yoga, Ukulele Kanikapila are among Senior Center favorites
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Chair Yoga with Susie Frank @ Orcas Senior Center –Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10-10:45 am Chair Yoga, offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10-10:45 am, is a gentle
Perfect for holiday shopping? It’s Grannie’s Closet at Orcas Senior Center
Grannie’s Closet @ Orcas Senior Center – Monday-Friday, 9 am-3 pm ||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Grannie’s Closet offers household décor, kitchen, and vintage items, crafting supplies, and much, much more.
We are the Community Water Taxi – Updated
||| FROM COMMUNITY WATER TAXI ||| We are the Community Water Taxi (CWT), a group of concerned island residents running an emergency and on-call inter island water taxi service within San Juan County (SJC) separate
Capital credit checks from OPALCO are being mailed this month
||| FROM SUZANNE OLSON for ORCAS POWER & LIGHT COOPERATIVE ||| More than $1.06M in capital credit checks are going out to longtime OPALCO members this month, as they do each year. As an electric
Home from college, Crow Valley String Band to present Home for Holidays concert
||| FROM RACHEL BISHOP for CROW VALLEY STRING BAND ||| The Crow Valley String Band invite you to join us for a cozy evening of bluegrass, folk music and seasonal readings and tunes for our
Food System Plan for San Juan County | Public comment period Dec. 8-22
||| FROM CAITLIN LECK for SAN JUAN COUNTY FOOD SYSTEM TEAM ||| Four years in the making, the draft Food System Plan for San Juan County is now available for public comment from December 8th
Sheriff’s Report | November 28 – December 5, 2024
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 23-009212 Vicious Animal 09:45:42 11/28/23 A Lopez Deputy responded to a report of two escaped dogs. The dogs entered a neighbor's coop and killed
“Lease to Locals” rental subsidy program goes live on Nantucket
||| FROM THE NANTUCKET INQUIRER & MIRROR ||| ACK•Now’s “Lease to Locals” program, which will pay property owners to rent to year-round residents instead of using their properties as short-term vacation rentals, officially went live
WoW! Thank you, Orcas
||| FROM HILARY CANTY ||| WOW! What a great Holiday GiveOrcas Campaign! 17 of the 19 proposals were fully funded and more than $150,000 was contributed from over 300 donors. Amazing! The generosity of this
We are the Community Water Taxi
||| FROM COMMUNITY WATER TAXI ||| We are the Community Water Taxi (CWT), a group of concerned island residents running an emergency and on-call inter island water taxi service within San Juan County (SJC) separate
WSF Weekly Report | Vessel repairs and visitors galore to see how WSF operates
||| FROM PATTY RUBSTELLO for WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| Update on unplanned vessel repairs Work on Walla Walla is going well, and we expect the ferry to be back in service in the next month. When it’s
Update regarding last month’s hunting accident on Lopez Island
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office would like to acknowledge the community’s questions and continued interest in the November 18 hunting accident on Lopez Island. This is still
