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Guest Editorial: A New Exchange — What If?
-- from Tim Blanchard, ORS Board President and Pete Moe, Executive Director -- Ever since we lost The Exchange to fire, everyone’s wondering, “When will it re-open?” It’s an important question. Every day our community
Editorial: Support Orcas Issues on Small Business Saturday
-- by Margie Doyle -- Sometimes, because Orcas Issues is an information service, it seems to fail to register as a business. But that's what we are: a small, local (in modern parlance "hyper-local"), news
Concerned about EWUA Policies and Rates? Attend Special Meeting
-- by Paul Kamin, EWUA General Manager -- The EWUA Board has scheduled a membership meeting for Monday Dec 8th at 6:30 -8:30 pm at the Eastsound Fire Hall. The meeting will include two topics
Guest Column: Background Check Vote Has Ripples Nationwide
-- by Kathy Sakahara for the League of Women Voters of Washington State -- On November 4, Election Day, over one million Washington voters said yes to background checks for gun sales and other transfers,
Guest Column: County Fails to Notify Neighborhoods of Re-zoning
-- by John M. Campbell -- As the currently revised Eastsound Subarea Plan works its way thru the adoption process, a neighborhood rezoning has been added to the agenda without any notice or explanation to
Guest Column: Preserving our Lands and Waters
-- from U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen -- In the Pacific Northwest, we know protecting the environment is essential to our way of life. That is why I am working to protect Washington state’s environment, and
Actors Theater Showcases Orcas Playwrights in “Familiar Distance”
-- by Margie Doyle -- Orcas playwrights Michele Griskey, Lin McNulty and James Wolf have created landscapes of home in three complex, provocative plays, collectively titled, "Familiar Distance." The plays are produced by Lin McNulty
Letter to the Editor: Orcas Viking Football Players
-- by Art Lange -- Winning football games feels good and it’s a great sense of accomplishment. To know: “I’m good at this! We are good at this!” Something else is equally, maybe more, important:
Explore the “Familiar Distance” of Home
-- a review by Leif -- [metaslider id=33004] Orcas has talent! Always on a quest to find new ways to showcase Orcas’ amazing drama resources, Actors Theater has enticed local playwrights to create three new
Editorial: What’s the Right Thing to Say to a Vet?
-- by Lin McNulty -- It's Veterans Day. We all pretty much know what that means, and it's not just another day of big sales. It's the day we honor those who have served our
Letter to Editor: Support Pets for Vets
-- from Carol A. Owens, CRNA, USAF 1Lt., Vietnam Era -- Watching TV last night, I heard for the first time of two very important organizations, dedicated to help Veterans with the difficulties of their
Letter to the Editor: Contribute to the Support of the Fire Dept.
-- by Richard Fadem -- The medics and fire department arrived about 6:30 a.m., Sunday, Oct. 19, to treat me following a compression fracture in the spine that left me helpless. They arrived very rapidly,
Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Services Inspire All to “Share the Warmth”
-- by Kim Bryan, Executive Director, DVSAS -- October usually encourages us to pull our sweaters, scarves and boots out of the back of the closet to meet the chill in the air. How many
Letter to the Editor: Vote Yes on School Levy to Prepare Students for Future
To the Orcas community, I enthusiastically and absolutely support the levy to enable our Orcas Island school district to continue to do the best job possible in preparing our kids for the future. Yes, we
Guest Column: Water Users’ Board Policy is Discriminatory
-- Lesley Liddle -- The [Eastsound Water Users Association (EWUA)] Guest House Initiative remains in my mind an unjustified discriminatory surtax which will affect some long time small water users who happen to have guest
