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EDC ferry service disruptions survey finds most respondents reporting negative impacts
||| FROM VICTORIA COMPTON FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ||| The EDC recently launched a survey to determine economic and social impacts to San Juan County residents, from recent Washington State Ferries service disruptions. Initial findings
Letter to Editor | Opposed to most of the Charter Amendments
||| FROM MADRONA MURPHY ||| I’m writing both as a conservation researcher who works on climate change and plant communities in the islands and as a former Freeholder and having served on the previous Charter
Fire Commissioners regular meeting is Monday
||| FROM KIM KIMPLE for ORCAS FIRE & RESCUE ||| The Board of Fire Commissioners will hold a regular public meeting on Monday, October 18 at 5:30 p.m. - see attached agenda. Meeting access information can
Letter to Editor | Shepler understands the role of the fire service in our community
||| FROM R. J. MYERS, FIREFIGHTER/EMT ||| When Paramedic Patrick Shepler entered the back of the classroom in my fire academy nearly 10 years ago, a pager hanging off his belt, cup of coffee in
Latest from Lekanoff | It’s Orca Recovery Day, COVID updates, student financial aid, and – yes – ferries
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. DEBRA LEKANOFF ||| Orca Recovery Day Today is Orca Recovery Day - a day in which people from across Washington will go out in their communities and take action
Sheriff’s Report | October 6 – 12, 2021
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6 21-008967 Agency Assistance 09:20:39 10/06/21 A Lopez Island Deputy accompanied representatives of a state agency to contact a resident. The person was not located.
Spooky reminder: Second half property taxes are due on Halloween
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Rhonda Pederson, SJC Treasurer San Juan County Treasurer, Rhonda Pederson would like to remind county property owners that the second half property taxes and personal property
This week’s ferry update: Reduced service schedules begin tomorrow
||| FROM PATTY RUBSTELLO for WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| Temporary reduced service schedules starting Saturday, Oct. 16 First off, I want to thank our riders for their continued patience and understanding as we navigate through
Letter to Editor | I encourage you to support our charter amendments
||| FROM SHARON ABREU ||| Dear San Juan County Neighbors, I encourage you to vote in favor of the six San Juan County Charter amendments proposed by the Charter Review Commission. I'm impressed with the
Letter to Editor | Shepler knows how a Fire Department is supposed to work
||| FROM TOMAS ARDAVANY, RN, PARAMEDIC ||| “Who are you?” he asked me at the gas pumps on Mt. Baker Road. “I’m the Paramedic today", I said, as I pumped gas into the rig. “I
State to implement schedule tweaks, reduced service system-wide starting Saturday
Service on most routes to be reduced due to severe staff shortages ||| FROM WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| SEATTLE – Beginning Saturday, Oct. 16, Washington State Ferries will temporarily operate reduced schedules on most routes
Rep. Larsen statement on short-term increase in U.S. debt limit
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. RICK LARSEN ||| WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02) released the below statement after supporting a short-term increase in the debt limit. The short-term increase passed the
Guest Opinion | Become informed, join me in rejecting specific Charter Review propositions
||| FROM TONY P. GHAZEL, 2021 CRC COMMISSIONER ||| Are we not tired of statements in another’s opinion in theOrcasonian, such as "dis-information," emanating from all sides of the political spectrum when fair minded voters
San Juan County Democrats have endorsed all six Charter Amendments on November ballot
||| FROM DAVID TURNOY for SAN JUAN COUNTY DEMOCRATS ||| Please read your Voters’ Pamphlet as there is a great deal of information in it. The ‘con’ statements to the Propositions, however, present a lot
Letter to Editor | Hey, Council, did you see this?
||| FROM ALEX MACLEOD ||| OPEN LETTER TO SAN JUAN COUNTY COUNCIL I trust you all saw this week’s WSF newsletter from Patty Rubstello. Along with making no mention of WSF’s mounting service failures, it
Letter to Editor | I strongly support Heinmiller’s retention on Fire Commission
||| FROM ANNE L. PRESSON ||| I would like to express my strong support to re-elect Commissioner Wes Heinmiller for the Orcas Island Fire & Rescue Board of Fire Commissioners, District #2. (OIFR BOFC). Over
