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Letter to Editor | Sounding the tourist/visitor alarm
-- from Evan Wagoner -- The following is an open letter to my home, Orcas Island, in San Juan County, in Washington State. I’m writing this as our first confirmed COVID-19 case was just announced on Orcas.
Letter to Editor | We pray
-- from Domenic Verbano -- We Pray: That All beings Are Whole And Well, That All Beings Are Wise And Wonderful, That We All Are One, And We Understand That. We Pray: That All beings
Aging Like a Guru | What can a fishpond teach us?
| Aging Like a Guru | by Rosie Kuhn I have a small fishpond with Koi and goldfish. The nine of them have been together for about four years. They've weathered some severe winters together and
Orcasional Musings | I guess that I’m on vacation
| Orcasional Musings | by Steve Henigson You'll have to pardon me: Because I'm recovering from a life-threatening illness which left me with a temporarily-compromised immune system, I'm kind of isolated in my home for
Editorial | We can do this, right?
| by Lin McNulty | Editor We have quickly learned about 'social distancing;' it's all the rage right now. Anybody who is anybody is doing it: not shaking hands, avoiding crowds, keeping close to home
Letter to Editor | Nettles: Find ’em, cultivate ’em, enjoy ’em
-- from Susan Shannon -- Nettles! Now is good time to love the Island-and let it love you! A great antidote to the anxiety, fear and stress caused by the threat of COVID-19 and the
Guest Opinion | Now is the time to support one another
-- from John Evans -- The COVID-19 event will have a major effect to life on Orcas island this spring and summer as services, restaurants, retail and tourist related businesses are closed for an unknown
Aging Like a Guru | What’s really happening when life gets scary
| Aging Like a Guru | Rosie Kuhn Regardless of who you are, the career path you’ve taken, your family, or the spiritual path you are on, inevitably you will meet something really scary and
Orcasional Musings | International women’s day? Black history month? What about all that?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| Mothers' Day, a pseudo-holiday invented by commercial interests attempting to sell us gifts appropriate for giving to our mothers, occurs on the second Sunday of May every year.
Letter to Editor | Thank you for supporting school music
– from Miriam Ziegler for the Music Advocacy Group – An enthusiastic crowd of more than 225 Orcas community members came to the OISD High School Gym on Sunday, March 1st, for the 23 rd
Aging Like a Guru | Depression is so depressing
-- Aging Like a Guru by Rosie Kuhn -- While scrolling through posts on my Facebook page the other day, I came across a photo of some of my friends that was taken a couple
Orcasional Musings | Rabbits, Sex, and Leonardo of Pisa
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| About 20 years ago, someone who lives near Orcas Village and the Ferry Landing made a serious error and released a domestic rabbit or two. Since then, the
Guest Opinion | The U.S. coronavirus outbreak and the Trump administration
-- from Michael Riordan via Seattle Times -- As the numbers of local coronavirus cases and deaths grow inexorably, Seattle-area citizens are paying the awful price of the US president’s disdain for science. Our sprawling
Letter to Editor | A minor public health matter
-- from Tony Suruda -- Orcas residents are currently facing uncertainty regarding a major disease outbreak. I'd like to call attention to a minor but annoying issue at the Orcas Island Off Leash area: The
Village Voices | How are you feeling about the coronavirus situation?
— by Minor Lile, Orcas Issues reporter — Welcome to March. This is the third in our Village Voices series, in which we take the pulse of the people of Orcas Island. Every month we’ll
