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Guest Opinion | May we each continue to support one another
||| FROM PAUL FREEDMAN ||| At a time when many in our community and across the country are living in fear, it feels critical for our local community-based organizations to unequivocally state their values. In
Letter to Editor | When will lights go out?
||| FROM TOM OWENS ||| San Juan County is literally at the end of the road for our electric energy supplies. Our connection to mainland energy resources is aging and our peak loads are approaching
Letter to Editor | Public Works moves forward with $1.2 million (and growing) storage yard on Shaw despite community resistance
||| FROM LYNN BAHRYCH, J.D., PhD. ||| San Juan County Public Works moves forward with $1.2 million (and growing) storage yard on Shaw Island despite community resistance. Once every seven years, the twelve miles of
Guest Opinion | Reflections on trade, tariffs, and winning
||| FROM DOUGLAS MARSHALL ||| Recent events recalled my high school textbook which taught that countries should balance their imports and exports. I asked the poor teacher “Why?” She became angry, because she could not
Midnight Mutterings | Vaccines
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| The US Senate is currently conducting hearings that will lead to the confirmations (or not) of the selections Donald Trump has chosen for his Cabinet, his closest advisors
Letter to Editor | Odd Fellows’ new manager outlines available services
||| FROM DIDIER GINCIG for ODD FELLOWS HALL ||| With great enthusiasm, I am happy to share with you that I am the new manager of the Odd Fellows Hall. Following in the footsteps of
Letter to Editor | I can now access Library’s public bathrooms
But nowhere else in the Village ||| FROM SHERRY GEE TRONVIG ||| Here’s a grateful kudo to Ingrid Mattson, director of the Orcas Island library. Because of Ingrid, we folks who live with disabilities, the
Guest Opinion | Chaos, cruelty of a wannabe king
||| FROM JANET ALDERTON ||| We are all being affected by the chaos and cruelty of a wannabe king. We must speak out and ACT when the Trump administration violates our values. I am a
Letter to Editor | Meaning of searing words still relevant to today
||| FROM SAN OLSON ||| With sincere apology to Pastor Martin Niemölle, I am rewriting his searing words to be relevant to today’s political and cultural environment. He made his historic and present statement in 1946 as an indictment of passivity and
Midnight Mutterings | How circumstance might influence our behavior and ethical choices
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| We are all, I assume, paying attention to the Senate Hearings for the Confirmation of President Trump’s Cabinet. Also, I assume, we are all noting the difference in
Midnight Mutterings | The right to rewrite
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE.BATES ||| We all learned in school that history is written by the winners. We have our own recent experience of that sad fact. After the January 6, 2021 attack on
Guest Opinion | A modest proposal
||| BY ROBERT AUSTIN ||| I have a modest proposal for 2025: let’s ban all political parties. Wait a moment, hear me out… candidates will discuss only their proposed policies and will detail which group
Guest Opinion | A wish for my community in 2025
||| BY ELISABETH ROBSON ||| Growth and Overshoot Growth, the basis of our local and the global economy, will not continue much longer. There are many intersecting reasons for this, but all can be described
Midnight Mutterings | Wet Christmas
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| Not sure there’s a song about that. I know there is a White Christmas, a Blue Christmas, but I don’t recall a Wet Christmas song. Wet and Windy,
As the Paradigm Shifts | Am I doing Christmas, or being Christmas?
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| I find myself in a dilemma. I love when Christmas rolls around. I watch countless Christmas movies and look forward to dinners with friends. I’ve been
