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Sheriff’s Report | October 19 – 25, 2022
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19 22-007655 Fraud 09:17:22 10/19/22 A San Juan Deputy responded to a report of fraud. An unknown individual emailed the victim's payroll and attempted to
Rerun: What’s this Ranked Choice Voting thing all about?
||| FROM SHARON ABREU ||| Voting is one of our most important civic activities. While Washington works hard to stay at the forefront of good election practices, there’s one way we could do better. Ranked-choice
Heritage Foundation: Ranked Choice Voting is a bad choice
Ranked choice voting is a scheme to disconnect elections from issues and allow candidates with marginal support from voters to win. It obscures true debates and issue-driven dialogs among candidates and eliminates genuine binary choices
Letter to Editor | Call your legislators to remedy this new tax levy
||| FROM DAVID ECKLUND ||| Our property change of value increased 100% for tax year 2023. Many residents incurred the same or higher. Why? Because buyers paid sellers the inflated prices they were asking and
Fire danger level downgraded to LOW
||| FROM CHAD KIMPLE, SAN JUAN COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL ||| Effective Wednesday October 26, 2022, San Juan County, WA fire danger level is downgraded to LOW. This change lifts the burning restriction as outlined in
Washington students leaving money on the table by forgetting the FAFSA
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE ||| The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) opened on Oct. 1. Students nationwide are applying for aid that might support their college education or career
Conservation Land Bank to host county-wide public meeting
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Got questions for Your Conservation Land Bank? We want to hear from you! We will host a county-wide public meeting on Wednesday – November 9, 2022, from 5:30 pm -
Overnight closure of Olga Road, November 2-3
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County’s Public Works Department announces the overnight closure of Olga Rd on November 2-3. The road will be closed for 12 hours while a culvert is
Letter to Editor | Ranked Choice Voting is wrong for and unneeded in SJC
||| FROM TONY P. GHAZEL, BILL APPEL, TOM STAR, and PAUL DOSSETT ||| Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), the latest fashion in election tinkering, is unneeded in our county. Our current system works well and our
Inslee and legislators begin rolling out reproductive freedom policies for 2023 legislative session
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE ||| As increasing numbers of states begin to enact abortion bans and federal lawmakers vow to pursue a national ban, Gov. Jay Inslee and Democratic lawmakers met
News Flash: Real and personal 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 Monday, October 31.
Sheriff’s Report | October 12 – 18, 2022
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12 22-007470 Malicious Mischief 09:01:54 10/12/22 An Orcas Deputy responded to a report of vandalism at the newly completed Prune Alley improvement project. A report
Inslee wraps up a busy week
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE ||| As other states enact abortion bans, Washington leaders prepare to enact new protections Gov. Jay Inslee and several state legislators met in Bellingham on Friday to
WSF Report: Support for (baseball) Mariners
||| FROM PATTY RUBSTELLO for WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| Showing our support for Mariners playoff run We partnered with the Seattle Mariners for an onboard celebration Friday, ahead of the weekend’s Major League Baseball American
Be glad you vote in San Juan County
||| FROM DEMOCRACY DOCKET ||| 2022 Daily Docket — Thursday, Oct. 20 Here are some updates from today. As early voting is underway in Arizona, the secretary of state’s office has referred a report of voter
Why do “left” and “right” mean liberal and conservative?
||| FROM DICTIONARY.COM ||| The words left and right are closely associated with differing “wings” of the political spectrum. But how did liberal politics become associated with the word left, anyways? And why are conservatives labelled as right? When we discuss the
