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Earthrise | We need your help!
||| EARTHRISE BY JAY KIMBALL ||| Want to be part of something big? Looking for ways to help the planet? Thinking globally but wanting to act locally? Good news: The county has an online climate
EWUA meetings
||| FROM DAN BURKE for EASTSOUND WATER USERS ASSOCIATION ||| Eastsound Water Users Association is a service-oriented association whose goal is to utilize all available resources to ensure that an adequate and consistent supply of
Shaw Island community meeting recap
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County held a community meeting on Shaw Island June 3, 2024 to discuss a possible property purchase for the Public Works Department. The meeting was attended
Sheriff’s Report | May 29 – June 4, 2024
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 24-003096 DUI 13:25:32 05/29/24 The Sheriff's Office responded to a single vehicle collision. The driver was possibly having a medical issue and was released
Meet Orcas County Council candidates
||| FROM CINDY CARTER ||| There will be a Townhall Meeting to meet the County Council Candidates on Orcas Island at the Eastsound Firestation on Wednesday, June 26th at 6:30 pm. Candidates will introduce themselves
Island Ways | SSA crews: Staffing levels a “recipe for disaster”
||| FROM NANTUCKET INQUIRER AND MIRROR ||| Orcas and Nantucket Islands are each roughly the same size and the same distance off their respective coasts. We share the same concerns about the high cost of
WSF Weekly Report | Things are looking electric
||| FROM STEVE NEVEY for WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| We’ve hit an exciting milestone in our electrification efforts with the launch of a national contracting process to build five new hybrid-electric ferries. Aside from greatly lowering our
LWVSJ Observer Corps Notes | San Juan County Council June 4, 2024
||| FROM LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS ||| A member of the public expressed concern about a construction activity taking place in a rural residential area on Orcas Island. The Council held a public hearing and adopted changes to the
WSF virtual public meetings
||| FROM WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| We’re hosting systemwide virtual public meetings on June 17 and 18. WSF staff will answer questions and provide updates on the latest at Washington State Ferries. Both meetings will
Larsen 2024 campaign launch
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. RICK LARSEN ||| In two weeks, Representative Larsen is launching his 2024 campaign with Kickoff Week - a series of five events, one in each of the 2nd District’s
Council to meet on Lopez
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County Council will hold its next regularly scheduled meeting on June 11 on Lopez Island. The public is invited to join the three councilmembers and County
WSF service, bad as it’s ever been, only going to get worse
||| FROM ALEX MCLEOD for SALISH CURRENT ||| There have been a number of overview stories recently about Washington State Ferries, including Tom Banse’s good one May 31 in Salish Current. They seem to have been
San Juan County Conservation Land Bank to host public meeting on Orcas
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Learn about the Land Bank’s plans for restoration, parking, and trails at the new North Shore Preserve on Orcas Island. WHAT: North Shore Preserve planning update
Island Ways | Single sick call derails 4 roundtrips on high-speed ferry to Nantucket
||| FROM CBS NEWS ||| HYANNIS - There was trouble at the Hyannis Terminal Sunday as passengers expecting a quick trip to Nantucket didn't get one, all because of one callout. Four round trips canceled
Letter to Editor | I write in support of Kari McVeigh for County Council
||| FROM JAMES SLOCOMB ||| The county is facing a litany of complex challenges. None of them are simple and all of them are to some degree inter-active. We need leadership that is practiced and
San Juan County Courts hold first annual Law Day celebration
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County District Court invited seventh grade students from across the county to participate in their first Law Day celebration. On May 15, 2024, sixty-five students from
