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WSF Weekly Report | Focus on recruitment, hiring, training to restore service, and a new website coming
||| FROM PATTY RUBSTELLO for WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| Building back our staffing and service To provide more predictable travel, we made the difficult decision last month to temporarily move to reduced service schedules on most routes.
With time change, be sure to change your smoke alarm batteries
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Sunday, November 7 is the end of daylight savings time and it is also a good time to change your smoke alarm batteries and check any
Second round of ballot counting is completed in San Juan County
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY ELECTIONS ||| November 2, 2021 General Election Number of Precincts 19 Number of Registered Voters 14,567 Total Ballots Counted 5,278 Estimated Ballots Left to Count 1,000 Next Ballot Count On
First ballot count is in for November 2 general election
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY ELECTIONS ||| Results from the first ballot count (4,559 ballots) have been posted by San Juan County Elections. November 2, 2021 General Election Last updated on 11/02/2021 8:03 PM Number
State would like your suggestion for name of new ferry
||| FROM WASHINGTON STATE TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ||| The Washington State Transportation Commission is asking members of the public to help name the state’s next new hybrid electric Olympic Class ferry coming in 2024/2025. Our short survey takes
Washington State Ferries finds Legionella bacteria in water systems on vessels
||| FROM KITSAP SUN ||| Tests on potable water systems on several Washington State Ferries vessels have found “elevated” levels of Legionella, a bacteria that can grow in unused water systems. Agency officials said in a
Letter to Editor | Say ‘yes’ to these six Charter Amendments
||| FROM JANE FULLER, CHARTER REVIEW COMMISSIONER ||| As one of a super majority of 18 elected volunteer CRC Commissioners who supports the six charter amendments on the November ballot I wanted to reach out
Whidbey SAR conducts two MEDEVACs from Lopez Island
||| FROM NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND ||| NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. – A Search and Rescue (SAR) team from Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island conducted two medical evacuations (MEDEVAC) with three
Letter to Editor | Shepler, simply, is best person for fire commissioner
||| FROM PERRY PRUETT ||| It was with great joy I learned that Patrick Shepler has put himself forward for fire commissioner of Orcas Fire Dept. And from what I have been hearing around the
Sheriff’s Report | October 20 – 26, 2021
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20 21-009314 Traffic Hazard 10:23:30 10/20/21 A Lopez Island Deputy was sent to euthanize a road struck deer with broken legs. 21-009316 Agency Assistance 11:00:01
WSF Weekly Check-In | Ramel hears Lopezians ferry concerns, new apprenticeship program, Colman Dock work, hold on new reservations
||| FROM NICOLE MCINTOSH for WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| Work begins on next phase of Colman Dock project More than a million pounds of steel is arriving at our Seattle Multimodal Terminal at Colman Dock Project site.
Letter to Editor | Let’s all vote YES on Park & Rec levy
||| FROM GEORGETTE WONG ||| Please vote YES on Proposition 1 for the Orcas Island Park and Recreation District (OIPRD) levy. Parks and Rec enriches the lives of so many of us on island. Adults
County’s preliminary 2022-2023 budget now available for perusal
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| The County Auditor has published the County's Preliminary 2022-2023 Budget. The County budget sets spending and hiring limits for the County by fund, by department, and by program.
Letter to Editor | Vote ‘no’ on Propositions 3, 5, and 6
||| FROM WILLIAM APPEL ||| We elected our county government to, among other things, regulate our shared environment and protect individual rights. The Charter Review Commission has perceived a failure of citizens to prompt action
Letter to Editor | I encourage a ‘yes’ vote on all Charter amendments
||| FROM ANNE WHIRLEDGE-KARP ||| I am writing these comments as someone who attended several of the Charter Review Commission meetings and followed the process. I encourage you to vote yes on all of the
Letter to Editor | Reject charter amendment proposition 1
||| FROM ELISABETH ROBSON ||| I am writing today to urge voters to vote "no" on the proposed language change in the preamble of the San Juan County charter in the Amendment to the Charter
