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
Call for artisans for Orcas Winter Market and countywide online auction
||| FROM SAN JUAN MAKERS GUILD ||| Join us as a featured vendor at the Winter Artisans Market at Odd Fellows Hall in Eastsound, Dec 8-10. Open to San Juan County residents. Online applications due
Registration opens for pediatric COVID-19 vaccine appointments
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Registration for the new pediatric 23-24 COVID-19 vaccine is now open, with limited availability for children under 19 years of age. Our first clinics will be held Oct.
Time again for Medicare open enrollment presentations
||| FROM PEGI GROUNDWATER for SAN JUAN SHIBA ||| October 15 through December 7 is your once-a-year chance to review your insurance coverage and make sure that it will still be right for you in
Road work on Cattle Point Road begins
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County’s Public Works Department is beginning maintenance on Cattle Point Road this week. The road will remain open to traffic, though drivers may experience traffic delays.
Vermont utility plans to end outages by giving customers batteries
Green Mountain Power is asking state regulators to let it buy batteries it will install at customers’ homes, saying doing so will be cheaper than putting up more power lines. ||| FROM THE NEW YORK
Auditions upcoming for Whale of a Show
||| FROM BETHANY MARIE for ORCAS CENTER ||| Whale of a Show is the Island celebration of talented youth and their families and will take Center Stage this November at Orcas Center! Acts from ages
Meet the candidates for OIFR Assistant Chief
||| FROM KAT BARNARD for ORCAS FIRE & RESCUE ||| Orcas Island Fire and Rescue is having a candidate meet and greet on Monday, October 16, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. at the Eastsound Fire Hall.
Southern Resident Orca community coffee roundtable
Showcasing the interconnected efforts to recover the endangered Southern Resident Orca ||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Join Representative Debra Lekanoff, San Juan County, and the MRC as they celebrate Orca Recovery Day with
Second half property taxes due October 31
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County Treasurer, Rhonda Pederson, would like to remind county property owners that the second half property taxes and personal property taxes are due Tuesday, October 31.
Guest Opinion | Destination Management Plan is still open for public comment until end of this month
||| FROM BRIAN WIESE ||| The County's Department of Environmental Stewardship, in coordination with the San Juan Visitors Bureau and with funding from the Lodging Tax, has issued its Draft Destination Management Plan, proposing its
OHS freshman musician is off to New York, London with your support
||| FROM LAMAI HONS ||| My name is Lamai and I am a 14 year old freshman at Orcas Island High School. I have been in private music lessons with Rachel Bishop here on Orcas
Art exhibit, chair yoga, ukulele are all upcoming at Senior Center
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| “Fall Into Winter”: Art Exhibit @ The Orcas Senior Center – October 9-December 9, Monday-Friday, 9am-3pm The beautiful Quilt Show will be coming down on Friday,
The Crevice Garden and Plant Conservation at Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND GARDEN CLUB ||| Please join the Orcas Island Garden Club on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, when we welcome Sue Milliken and Kelly Dodson to present The Crevice Garden and Plant Conservation at
Midnight Mutterings | Cassidy Hutchinson’s new book
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| I try to keep politics out of my mutterings online, mostly because I think it’s unfriendly (as well as futile) to try to influence another’s thinking and/or personal
Fire Commision town hall special meeting recording available
||| FROM KAT BARNARD for BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS ||| The San Juan County Fire Protection District #2 (Orcas Island Fire & Rescue) Board of Fire Commissioners invites our community to listen to the recording
Sheriff’s Report | September 27 – October 3, 2023
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 23-007785 Parking Problem 09:44:29 09/27/23 A Deputy on Orcas Island responded to a parking complaint. The vehicle had previously been tagged with a 72-hour
