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Letter to Editor | Levy Should Focus on Maintenance, Preservation
-- from Justin Paulsen -- The Orcas Island School District has placed before the voters a proposal seeking funding for many important and critical projects. I fully support OISD in completing the critical repairs and
Letter to Editor | Stay Active, Involved
-- from Sharon Abreu -- The first full day of the new presidential administration saw at least one million people join the Washington, DC demonstration in marches around the country, and many others joined demonstrations
Editorial | The Morning After — Women March to Make a Difference
-- by Margie Doyle -- Yes, I protest [metaslider id=49683] Here I am in Port Townsend, two ferry rides off Orcas Island, joining a line of resisters to the new administration. I held
Letter to Editor | Do School Walk & Talk Before You Vote
-- from Bea vonTobel -- As the ballots go into the mail for your consideration and vote, it is imperative that you vote from an informed perspective. To that end, I encourage you to participate
Letter to Editor | Why I am Voting For School Bond
-- from George Eberle -- “We the People” is the cornerstone of our constitution. We get to decide what is important and what can wait for another day. My involvement started when I went to
Letter to Editor | Take School Tour and Vote “Yes”
-- from Tom Baldwin -- I am writing to encourage all residents of Orcas Island to vote FOR the Phase III school bond issue in the special election February 14. Mailing of ballots is scheduled for
Letter to Editor | Let’s Finish the Job
-- from Patsy & Stu Stephens -- Join us in supporting the completion of the School project. This long, careful and excellent work has been undertaken with the support of the Orcas community. But it
Letter to Editor | On That OPALCO Rate Increase
-- from Alex MacLeod -- In what has become an annual event, OPALCO put out a news release the other day letting us know our electricity rates are increasing yet again, this time by another 5%,
Guest Column: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
-- by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise
Letter to Editor | Never a Better Time for School Bond
-- from Jim Shaffer-Bauck -- One of the most important investments a community can make is in the education of its youth, an investment that produces returns not only to the students directly benefiting, but
“Growler” Draft Environmental Impact Statement: The Emperor Has No Clothes
--from Chom Greacen, Member, Quiet Skies over San Juan County-- The Navy plans to add 36 EA-18G “Growler” fighter jets and roughly double the number of Growler flight operations out of Whidbey Island Naval Air
Letter to Editor | Now is the Time for School Bond Approval
-- from Velma Doty -- It is not easy to support the school bond for more dollars to finish the long range improvements, after all it looks so great now, and to us on the
Letter to Editor | Gratitude to Our Fire and Rescue Team
-- from Larry Parker -- I want to express my extreme gratitude for the work of the staff and volunteer team of Orcas Fire and Rescue. On Christmas Eve I got the call that no
Letter to Editor | Let’s Re-Vision Our Eastsound Vision
-- from Tony Ayer -- Sometimes far out suggestions evoke new ways to envision an issue that may divide a community or even a family unit. With great credit to those who are trying to
Orcas Issues Predicts: Expect the Unexpected in 2017
Orcas Medical Center will receive the necessary donations by the January 15 date to proceed with the agreement with University of Washington Neighborhood Clinics to assume operations at OMC. Growlers will soon be practicing landings
