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Letter to Editor | Kari McVeigh is the leader we need
||| FROM WILLIAM SEVERSON ||| In conversations with Kari McVeigh, I know that she understands the unique challenges that our island communities face. We are a group of islands in the middle of the Salish
Letter to Editor | Justin demonstrates the epitome of what an Islander is
Islanders Registered to vote can vote for any Council Candidate County wide ||| FROM CLARK CUNDY ||| As islanders we all are attempting to put the pandemic behind us and take a look around our
Letter to Editor | Land Bank preserves access to shared natural land
||| FROM MARGARET MILLS ||| A balanced community life for us all in San Juan County depends on two things: preserving and improving our shared access to natural land--forests, mountains and shores--and creating and preserving
Letter to Editor | I’m all in for Kari McVeigh
||| FROM STEPHANIE PRIMA ||| Kari McVeigh has the experience, the skills, and the vision to move our county out of this current 'stuck' position. She fully understands the economic and environmental concerns of full-time
Letter to Editor | Land Bank is successful; let’s not lose it
||| FROM JANE WENTWORTH ||| I am proud to live in a county with a citizen-founded Land Bank. The forward-thinking citizens of San Juan County voted in 1990 to establish the Land Bank real estate
Letter to Editor | We are entitled to hear the whole story about McVeigh
||| FROM DAVID JOHNSON ||| I am compelled to respond to Kari McVeigh’s recent letter to the editor published on July 10, 2024, titled “Kari McVeigh responds to attacks.” While Ms. McVeigh attempts to frame
Guest Opinion | Energy transition, the bigger picture, Part 3 of 3
||| FROM ED SUIJ ||| Richard Heinberg had seven concurrent steps of what we could do. Here are a couple more. If all happened simultaneously we might have a slim chance. Step 1 It is
Letter to Editor | A cascade of management failures
||| FROM MICHAEL RIORDAN, FRED KLEIN, and ROBERT AUSTIN ||| On Saturday EWUA members received yet another in a long chain of email letters purportedly written by Board President Teri Nigretto, claiming to absolve General
Editorial & Adrift | Another beautiful day on Orcas Island
||| BY LIN MCNULTY, theORCASONIAN EDITOR ||| It's just another beautiful day on Orcas Island. The sky is clouded over and we probably, once again, will not see the aurora over our heads tonight. If
Guest Opinion | Energy transition, the bigger picture, Part 2 of 3
||| FROM ED SUIJ ||| Before we continue with Part 2, here is some added information that is useful when we talk about the lifespan of solar panels. The energy payback of solar panels is
Guest Opinion | Energy transition, the bigger picture, Part 1 of 3
||| FROM ED SUIJ ||| A few notes regarding the excellent recent article by Richard Heinberg about energy transition, which was published HERE a couple weeks ago. We will have a closer look at: urgency,
Letter to Editor | Two major reasons to support Kari McVeigh
||| FROM SHAUN HUBBARD and HAROLD KAWAGUCHI ||| Two of the many reasons why we support Kari McVeigh for San Juan County Council: fire and water. Inherently, islands are finite bodies of land surrounded by
Letter to Editor | Land Bank deserves our support
||| FROM ELISABETH ROBSON ||| When I first considered moving to San Juan County over a decade ago, the first thing I did was go to every bit of public and protected land in the
Letter to Editor | Stephanie understands our community
||| FROM SCOTT and LESLIE BRENNAN ||| Our next San Juan County Commissioner needs to be someone with a deep understanding of how our island lifestyle works and how the average middle class islander
Letter to Editor | O’Day is ready for the job on day one
||| FROM BOB JARMAN ||| Stephanie O’Day is a long time Islander who knows our islands well. She is community minded, and community involved. Stephanie is familiar with our county issues, both as a community
