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Letter to Editor | Library has no role in advertised meeting
-- from Phil Heikkinen, Library Director -- Some of you may have received a post card within the past few days about two upcoming presentations about “MASA Medical Transport Solutions.” I believe this mailing was
Letter to Editor | My choices for Orcas Port
-- from Myrna Fant -- As a long-time resident and pilot on Orcas Island, please join me in voting for: Clyde A Duke, Poke Haffner, Bea vonTobel, and Mia Kartiganer. Let's keep the Port
Orcas history? Where do you find that?
-- Orcasional Musings by Steve Henigson -- A loyal reader has asked me where I get the information that I've been putting into my (so far) weekly column. Well, my sources are easy to name,
Letter to Editor | Lip service does not national security make
-- from Joseph Murphy -- Every once and awhile someone in public life stands up and says, “Enough!” We all know the chant from the movie Network, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going
Letter to Editor | Last day to support April’s Grove
www.giveorcas.org -- from Joellen Moldoff -- Thanks to all of you who have helped, we are mighty close to the goal of raising 250,000 for April's Grove. According to the latest information I just received
Dance halls? Where were they?
-- Orcasional Musings by Steve Henigson -- Back in the good old days, there weren't a lot of recreational opportunities for the people of Orcas Island. There was no electricity, and therefore no movies, and
Kruse Reviews: Saving our democracy
-- Book review by Jens Kruse -- Larry Diamond opens his book Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition and American Complacency (New York: Penguin Press, 2019) with the scene when, two days
Horseshoe Highway? What’s that?
-- Orcasional Musings by Steve Henigson -- Back in Orcas Island's early days, if you wanted to get from one island hamlet to another, or even from one farm to another, you had to use
Letter to Editor | Medevac denials by Kaiser causing local crisis
-- from John Geyman, M.D. -- The recent denials of many medevac flights by Kaiser Permanente, followed by its withdrawal as the only option for health insurance in San Juan County starting in 2020, poses
Guest Opinion | At least $400,000 a year paid to OPALCO general manager
-- from Alex MacLeod -- It may come as a bit of a surprise that we OPALCO ratepayers forked over nearly $400,000 in compensation two years ago to Foster Hildreth, our general manager. What we’re
Kruse Reviews: Two new books that memorialize D-Day
-- A book review by Jens Kruse -- This Thursday, June 6, 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. By way of remembrance and commemoration I read and would
Guest Opinion | New road going in the wrong direction
-- from Mindy Kayl -- As I sit in my house and watch Mt. Wollard go by in the back of gravel trucks, I wonder why is our county government so reactionary, backwards, and fearful
Guest Opinion | The Feds and the damage done
-- from Joseph Murphy -- When someone’s dogs are being pinched it is human nature to look aroundfor someone to blame. It is becoming more apparent by the day and hourthat the force which is
Letter to Editor | Sr. Lucy gave inspiring talk last week
-- from Sally O'Brien -- Have you ever spent time with someone who clearly operates at a different level than you? They simply don’t see the everyday barriers as, well, barriers? That is what I
Letter to Editor | Obtrusive technology taking us over
-- from Joseph Murphy -- A few years before the Doty's relinquished the space that is now theOrcas Food Coop, a sign went up in front of the cash register station. Itdepicted a primitive version
