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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
Early ferries? From where, to where, with what?
Part 2 -- Orcasional Musings by Steve Henigson -- There were regularly-scheduled passenger boats to the islands in 1860, but they were British, and they carried the Royal Mail from Victoria to San Juan Island.
Orcasional Musings | Early ferries? From where, to where, with what?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| If you want to visit an island, you have to take a ferry. So it all hinges on where you can get on, whether it goes to where
Orcasional Musings | Friday Harbor? Why’s it called that?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| Our illustrious Editor recently asked me to write a short essay on what happened on Orcas Island during the very brief, but not really unpleasant, little dust-up that
Letter to Editor | Earth has a solution to humanity’s destruction
-- from Domenic Verbano -- The Earth’s Solution to Humanity's Destruction: Unity Consciousness. There is a solution. And the Earth has it. And it is so gentle and subtle and sweet, many of us have
Letter to Editor | The world is a better place with music
-- from Anita Orne for Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival -- As the final notes of the 2019 Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival fade away, their echo and our memory of the music sustains us
