Here’s a thought…
Guest Opinion | Funhouse Commons’ message of solidarity
-- from The Funhouse Board, Executive Director, and Staff -- The recent protests sweeping the country are a long, overdue wake up call for many individuals and organizations across the world, including The Funhouse. Being
Guest Opinion | Support Orcas health commissioners
-- from Norm Zimlich -- Friends, in the flood of bad pandemic news, have you have missed the historic GOOD NEWS about Orcas healthcare happening right now? For the last 14 years Orcas has been
Letter to Editor | Our health dilemma comes from our DC leaders
-- from David Kobrin -- This dilemma of our needing to choose between the economic health of those in our community, and the physical health of those in our community, is a result, I believe,
Letter to Editor | Allow health commissioners to do their job
-- from Tony Giefer MD -- As a physician who provided medical care on Orcas for over 12 years, I wish to comment on some of the current issues. The initiator of the petition to
Letter to Editor | Here’s why I would like to be your Port Commissioner
-- from Matt Fikse -- My name is Matt Fikse and I've thrown my "hat in the ring" as a candidate to fill the open term on the Port of Orcas commission. Here is some
Guest Opinion | Businesses and guests must work together to safely reopen
-- from Barbara Marrett for San Juan Islands Visitors Bureau -- The world may no longer resemble the one we knew in early March, but San Juan County has risen to the occasion of meeting the
Letter to Editor | Do we need street lights on Prune Alley?
-- from Chris Bean-Hearne -- A few days ago I saw the conceptual design for Prune Alley Street improvements. They include -- but are not confined to -- the installation of seventeen street lights, each
Letter to Editor | Kudos to Dr. Frank James, health department
-- from Lydia Miller -- I want to commend Dr Frank James, the Board of Health and County Council, for making the prudent, responsible decision to move San Juan County to Phase 2 and urge
Letter to Editor | I support the Orcas Island Health Care District plan
-- from Melinda Milligan -- I've recently become aware of a petition to exempt the University of Washington clinic from the need to submit a proposal for the establishment of a health care system/practice on
Letter to Editor | Say my name
-- from Sherry Vinson -- I’m wondering if I have the right to even write this letter; a privileged white woman living a privileged white life in a privileged white community. If Sean Bell were
Letter to Editor | Reopening is a symbiotic relationship
-- from Laura Saccio, Earthbox Inn & Spa -- More than 20 years ago, my grandfather, a New Mexican farmer, rescued me from a life of impersonal work in the financial industry. I had been
Village Voices | How are you feeling about all that’s going on in the world?
-- by Minor Lile, Orcas Issues reporter – And here we are in early June. With the monthly Village Voices series, we take the pulse of the Orcas Island community. Every month we’ll be out
Guest Opinion | Trump angling to contest the 2020 vote count
-- from Hedrick Smith, ReclaimTheAmericanDream.com -- Washington – The ominous danger lurking behind Donald Trump’s mindless, factless fear-mongering about mail voting is that his real aim is not to banish all-mail voting in 2020 but
Guest Opinion | Look back and weep
-- from Michell Marshall -- I feel an urge to share my reactions to recent events. As with so much else involving race, “it’s complicated.” People my age are reminded of the chaos of the
Letter to Editor | I vigorously oppose relaxing Phase 2 lodging standards
-- from Joe Symons -- I write to vigorously oppose relaxing the phase 2 standard toward lodging facilities as proposed by the San Juan Islands Visitors Bureau Board of Directors and Lodging Recovery/Reopening Committee. Missing from
