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Letter to Editor | Orcas Center artwork disrupts tranquility of the space
-- from Dick Bronson -- Went to the performing arts center last Sunday for the Willie Thomas memorial. While waiting for the doors to open in the auditorium I walked into the area where various art
Space: Final frontier of aging
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- Space abounds in our lives. How we choose to be with that space is a powerful choice. It doesn’t really matter what you or I choose. Each of us are
Silver? Gold? What’s that about?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| What's so special about silver and gold, to make these metals more precious than the others, and to cause them to be the objects of value upon which
Letter to Editor | My take-aways from VR conversation
-- from Brad Brown -- Last night I was at a meeting where I got the sinking, scary feeling that by the decisions being made by the people there I could lose my home. The
Letter to Editor | The music goes on
-- from Joseph Murphy -- While the old bebopper has passed on, another generation rises in his,and their, place. For all who didn't get a chance to attend the Willie Thomas MemorialConcert held this last
Letter to Editor | One foot on the dock, one in the boat
-- from Bill Appel -- As long as we insist on what seems to be viewed as our God-given right to use fossil fuels at the rate our collective life style demands, we will continue
Open letter to OPALCO board members regarding 5G
-- from Julienne Battalia -- The following letter was read aloud to OPALCO Board members at their recent meeting. Dear OPALCO BOARD Members, Many years have passed since the first contentious discussions about the idea
Guest Opinion | On being of service
-- from Mia Kartiganer -- I love solving puzzles. It requires an agreement to a set of rules that may initially be unclear. Sometimes that’s half the allure. The Master Plan (MP) for the Port
Aging Like a Guru | Rosie is back with more
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- There is no doubt about it - we are all experiencing aging. And, how we choose to participate in our own personal experience of aging – well that’s a very
What’s a dollar worth? Why is that?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| The U.S. dollar was created in either 1774 or 1775, depending upon which history book you're reading. As you might guess, at creation the new dollar was worth
Letter to Editor | Huge thanks to Island Market
-- from Orcas Island School District -- Island Market just presented the district with a check for $5000 for school supplies! Orcas Island School District would like to say a HUGE "Thank you" to Island
Kruse Reviews | The Only Plane in the Sky
-- Book review by Jens Kruse -- Garrett M. Graff, a journalist and historian, has just published what is the must-read account of 9/11/01, The Only Plane in the Sky. Published one day before September
Orcasional Musings | Early ferries? From where, to where, with what?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| In 1922, Captain Harry Crosby converted the Harvester King from kelp collector to front-ramp automobile ferry. At last it was easy to drive on, and then drive off
Guest Opinion | Now there’s a word for it
-- from Bill Appel -- We’ve all felt it in our quiet moments: the breakdown of community values, a steady drumbeat of more people, as people drive faster, make more noise, litter more, drink more
Letter to Editor | Yikes! Historical data no longer available on county website
-- from Joe Symons -- I have noticed that there are significant changes to the SJC web site (in general) and the GIS Open Data Portal files, in particular. These changes are not announced. There
