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
OISD strings present a holiday virtual concert
||| FROM SHARON HO for MUSIC ADVOCACY GROUP ||| https://youtu.be/nXi-tAD_OLE The Music Advocacy Group sends holiday greetings to the Orcas Community, and wants to share the virtual Holiday Concert of the OISD strings program
Mobile COVID-19 testing comes to Orcas Island; A thank you from OIHCD
||| FROM ANNE PRESSON for ORCAS HEALTH CARE DISTRICT ||| Orcas Family Health Center (OFHC) delivered an early Christmas present to the Orcas community, launching a mobile SARS-COVID-19 testing project on Dec. 21. Recognizing the
Advisory committee seeks community input on Coffelt Farm Preserve recommendations
||| FROM TANJA WILLIAMSON for SJC LAND BANK ||| The Conservation Agriculture Resource Team (CART-Coffelt) is holding an online public meeting, on January 14th 2021 from 5:30-7pm, to gather input on their draft report of
2020 In Review | The fate or future of Eastsound
||| BY MATTHEW GILBERT, theORCASONIAN OP/ED REPORTER ||| It's hard to pick just one story, since so many issues are intertwined. But as I look ahead, the nexus of many of our challenges will be
County Planning Commission endorses vacation rental moratorium
||| FROM YONATAN ALDORT for VACATION RENTAL GROUP ||| NEWS: Last month, the San Juan County Planning Commission issued a recommendation to the County Council in which they addressed six of the eight regulatory reform
Islander shares what it’s like to live on an island, in gratitude, during world-wide pandemic
||| FROM JAMES CONNELL ||| [This] is my attempt to musically and visually represent what it's like to live in gratitude on our beautiful island amidst 2020's frenzied and frightening events throughout the world. It
Soon! No more overhead power lines in Eastsound
||| FROM KRISTA BOUCHEY for ORCAS POWER & LIGHT ||| Starting January 15 th , OPALCO will begin the process of replacing the overhead power lines on Prune Alley. Moving the lines underground will increase
2020 in Review | COVID-19 interview with Dr. Frank James
||| BY MINOR LILE, ORCASONIAN REPORTER ||| It could perhaps go without saying that the biggest story I played a part in covering this year has been the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It seems important to
Island Hospital has some upcoming classes of interest
||| FROM RACHEL LAMBERT for ISLAND HOSPITAL ||| FREE MEMORY SCREENING Free memory screenings will be held on Tuesday, January 12, from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at Island Hospital’s Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy clinic, 1015 25th St.,
One of America’s richest islands got pummeled by COVID. Then the warring started.
The wealthy decamped there to escape the virus. But it arrived anyway. And now, residents are pointing the fingers at each other over who is to blame. ||| FROM THE DAILY BEAST ||| HYANNIS, Massachusetts—As
2020 in Review | Contract finalized with Island Hospital, health-care district
||| BY SUSAN MCBAIN, ORCASONIAN REPORTER ||| My top story of the year was the finalization of the contract with Island Hospital. A lot happened at the Orcas Island Health Care District this year --
How federal funds helped Washington communities and families fight COVID-19 realities
||| FROM GOV. JAY INSLEE'S OFFICE ||| Over the past nine months, Washington state has distributed more than $2.1 billion to orchestrate ongoing, significant relief efforts across multiple sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic — a public health
COVID-19 transmission flattening, but not enough to reverse skyrocketing trends from early November
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| OLYMPIA – Today the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) released the latest statewide situation report on COVID-19. The report shows substantial decreases in transmission that are still not enough to
State recap of recent COVID-19 news and updates
||| FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ||| Newest numbers. The Department of Health reported a total of 224,399 confirmed cases as of 11:59 pm on December 23. There have been 3,184 COVID-19 deaths in Washington. For the most
Latest COVID case update from San Juan County
||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| Note: Current positive case numbers are available online at the County Case Count Page. As indicated on that page, these numbers are only updated after
What’s up with being under the mistletoe?
||| FROM DICTIONARY.COM ||| If you celebrate Christmas, it’s likely that at some point this season you’ll find yourself puckering up under a mistletoe branch. What is this tradition of kissing under a plant all about?
