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Orcasional Musings | Water? Electricity? Oh, and gold!
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| In 1946, my family moved from the rural south shore of Long Island into hyper-urban New York City. One of the things that sticks most strongly in my
Letter to Editor | Is this levy lift still necessary in today’s economy?
-- from Lovel and Boyd Pratt -- We usually fill out our ballots as soon as they arrive in the mail. However, we need more information before we can vote on Proposition 2. We completely
Letter to Editor | Greg Ayers has my endorsement for Port
-- from Rex Chadwell -- I endorse Greg Ayers for Port Commissioner. Our airport and other ports are a vital part of our island community. Ayers brings to the table a lifetime of experience, both
Letter to Editor | Guimond is faithful, rational
-- from Walt Corbin -- It is a fault in our society that most of us don’t get involved with local issues unless we perceived we are getting gored. Adding to that is the fact,
Letter to Editor | We need to take a look at these new ESWD assessments
-- from Becky Flint -- Those of us that grew up in Eastsound when there were open sewer ditches that ran to the beaches have an extra respect and appreciation for the Eastsound Sewer &
Letter to Editor | Support our Airport Commissioners
-- from Dwight Guss -- As someone who has been attending public Port meetings for the last 20 years, I still find it amazing how few of our islanders attendthese informative meetings. This venue is
Letter to Editor | Port of Orcas mission
-- from Gregory and Heather Oaksen -- The Washington State Legislature established the Port District Act in 1911 creating public port districts.The Port of Seattle became the first autonomous municipal corporation in the nation and
Letter to Editor | vonTobel has unequaled Port experience
-- from Eric Gourley -- With the November election coming up in the next few weeks, I would like to endorse Bea vonTobel for Port Commissioner. Bea has served as the Airport Manager for 13
Letter to Editor | My choices for Port Commission
-- from Susan Malins -- I’ve been attending Port of Orcas Commission meetings for the past 18 months, carefully reading all related public documents and requesting public records. Just as with the ORS/The Exchange public
Letter to Editor | Port needs insight that Mia brings
-- from Donna Gerardi Riordan -- Mia gets Orcas. I know her and like her tremendously, so I reveal my bias upfront. She has lived and been a business owner here for decades, and has
Hating yourself through aging – who me?
-- from Rosie Kuhn -- Even though every single being on the planet is aging, we are all having a very unique experience of the world and our reality while we age. There is a
The Grange? What? When? Why?
||| BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| Nowadays, the National Grange is almost an antique curiosity, and the Orcas Island Grange serves mostly as a community theater. But the Grange wasn't always quite so mundane. In its
Kruse Reviews | These Truths by Jill Lepore
-- Book review from Jens Kruse -- Jill Lepore, the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker, has written a one-volume history
Letter to Editor | Bea vonTobel a natural fit for Port Commission
-- from Eric Gourley -- With the November election coming up in the next few weeks, I would like to endorse Bea vonTobel for Port Commissioner. Bea served as the Airport Manager for 13 years
Letter to Editor | Why we need to support Prop. 2
-- from Phil Heikkinen -- When you look in the Voters’ Guide at the dozen programs and services to be funded by this proposition, you may think as I had that most of them already have
