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
Guest Opinion | In Wildness is the Preservation of the World
-- from Comp Plan Update Team -- Photo of Orcas Island in foreground and Blakely Island in distance taken from Doe Bay Resort The dominant theme quietly residing in the 1994 San Juan
PlayFest “Incubates” 12th Year of Local Talent
Friday- Sunday, June 2-4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Orcas Grange --by Margie Doyle -- Aaimee Johnson, Orcas Island Actors Theater’s 2017 PlayFest coordinator, announced to a full house on Opening Night, “It’s been a
Old Dogs Do Learn New Tricks
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- My dog Gracie is almost eight years old - 56 in dog years. She has been chasing frisbees her whole life, but it was just last week that she actually
OISD All Band Concert Plays Music for the Season
Thursday, June 1, 7 p.m., Orcas High School Gym -- from Sharon Ho for Music Advocacy Group -- Riding horses into the wind or frolicking in the forest, the All Band Concert this coming Thursday, June
Odd Fellows Host Flying Karamazov Brothers
Sunday May 28 at 7 p.m. at the Odd Fellows Hall in Eastsound -- by Margie Doyle -- The whacky, uproarious Flying Karamazov Brothers return to the Odd Fellows Hall on Orcas this Sunday, May
Orcas Key Club Gathers Stuffed Animals for Children’s Hospital
-- from Haley Moss for Orcas Key Club -- This past month, Key Club [at Orcas School District] has been extra busy. To benefit the patients at Children’s Hospital in Seattle, Orcas Island students put on
Orcas Voices from Orcas History
--by Margie Doyle -- [metaslider id=52595] Terri Vinson, left, and her grandmother Edrie Vinson, confer at the Orcas Historical Museum's 2015 annual meeting. Photo courtesy Margot Shaw Years of recorded oral history seemed
Letter to the Editor: Support Resistance to Fossil Fuels
-- from Sharon Abreu -- This week, Mike [Hurwicz] and I and a few others from the San Juan Islands will be joining a 4-day walk in British Columbia, through the territories of the Lekwungen
All in One Day’s Work: NAS Whidbey Conducts Two Rescues
-- from Marcie West for Whidbey Naval Air Station -- A NAS Whidbey Island Search and Rescue crewmember is lowered down to two snowmobilers trapped on Mount Baker, May 21. It was the second
Guest Column | Tar-Sands Threat to Northwest Waters
-- by Michael Riordan for Sightline -- This article is part of the series "The Risk of Northwest Oil Spills" Every week another barge or tanker traverses the narrow straits through the San Juan Islands
Local Author Robert Dash to Launch “On an Acre Shy of Eternity”
Wednesday, May 24, 6:30 p.m., Orcas Center -- from Michael Riordan for Orcas Currents -- Author and photographer Robert Dash takes nature exploration to new levels in his book On An Acre Shy of Eternity,
Local Company Awarded Best-Eco Adventure Tour in Pacific Northwest
-- from Brittany Preischel for San Juan Safaris Whale Watch & Wildlife Tours -- For the second year in a row, San Juan Safaris Whale Watch & Wildlife Tours was voted Best Eco-Adventure in the
EMERGENCE Exhibit Will Feature First Nation Artists
-- from Diane Martindale for San Juan Islands Museum of Art -- Thunderbird Portrait Mask by Art Thompson EMERGENCE is the exhibition of First Nation Legendary & Emerging Artists that will run through
Give Orcas 2017 Achieves Full Funding
Thursday, May 25, 3 - 5 p.m., Orcas Center -- from Hilary Canty for Orcas Island Community Foundation -- For the very first time every proposal submitted to the Give Orcas Grant Catalog will be
Roadway Excavation and Rock Breaking Underway at Orcas Park & Ride
-- from Jesse Douglas-Seitz for San Juan County Public Works -- Rock breaking is scheduled to continue on site next week with the large hydraulic hammer. Our contractor will continue roadway excavation bringing the surface closer to
Rep. Larsen Fights Privatization of Air Traffic Controllers
--from Douglas Wagoner for Rep. Rick Larsen -- In a hearing of the House Committee on Transportation, Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02), the top-Ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Aviation, took aim at glaring inconsistencies
