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Letter to Editor | The Conservation Land Bank deserves our support
||| FROM STEVE SNOWDEN ||| I support the San Juan County Conservation Land Bank (CLB) renewal effort because it is a vital part of maintaining scenic, environmental, and recreational attributes of the San Juan Islands
Adrift | Visiting Kamala and Tim
||| ADRIFT by LIN MCNULTY, ORCASONIAN EDITOR ||| I have received almost daily emails from the Harris-Walz presidential campaign indicating the candidates want to meet me. They are even willing to pay for my airfare
Guest Opinion | Regarding EWUA recall communications
||| FROM CINDY WOLF, COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER DIST #2 I have been receiving phone calls and emails from constituents regarding communication from a group running a recall at EWUA asking whether there are safety concerns
Letter to Editor | Landscaper for O’Day
||| FROM STEVE SCHRAMM ||| As a professional environmental landscaper for many years, I have represented numerous clients who are thrilled to live here and wish to enhance the natural beauty of their lands.
Letter to Editor | McVeigh checks all the boxes
||| FROM MAUREEN SEE ||| Kari McVeigh brings all the right characteristics to the table: integrity, intelligence, compassion, the art of collaboration, and leadership. She is the right person, at the right time to bring
Letter to Editor | Time for Teri to resign
||| FROM MICHAEL RIORDAN, FRED KLEIN, AND ROBERT AUSTIN ||| We hereby call for the resignation of Teri Nigretto from the Board of Directors of the Eastsound Water Users Association. Her almost-daily drumbeat of letters
Letter to Editor | O’Day has a working knowledge of the law
||| FROM CARLA J. HIGGINSON ||| I am a fifth generation islander and have been practicing law in San Juan County for the past 44 years. I write this letter in support of Stephanie O’Day
Letter to Editor | Rick Hughes’ leadership is exactly what is needed
||| FROM JONATHAN WELCH ||| I'd like to thank my Campaign Manager Julie Remington, Jeff Noedel of CNL2.com and the voters of San Juan County. While my race is over, I am now endorsing Rick
Letter to Editor | McVeigh knows there is important work to be done
||| FROM LIZA MICHAELSON ||| I am excited by Kari McVeigh running for county council. When I first heard her speak I was floored, first by her sheer energy, then by her vision for this
Letter to Editor | Water recall election : Where is the risk?
||| FROM JOSEPH COHEN ||| EWUA members will submit proxy cards over the next several weeks expressing their preferences on who will continue service as directors. The issue is simple: Which group of directors do
Midnight Mutterings | Fall? Already?
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| Never mind the cold rain after such a long dry spell, is Fall really upon us? Apparently so, as the sure sign is here. In my bathtub. If
Letter to Editor | Village Green community tree not looking good
||| FROM B. SADIE BAILEY ||| It hurts my heart to see our Community Tree at the Village Green looking so bad. I didn’t notice how damaged it had become until several weeks ago when I was walking past it. I
Guest Opinion | EWUA recall vote
||| FROM JIM COOK, EWUA COMMISSIONER ||| Soon it will be time to consider all that you’ve read and heard and VOTE on the EWUA recall. I wish us all luck given the degree to
Editorial | ‘Then quit sending me stuff…’
||| FROM LIN MCNULTY, theORCASONIAN EDITOR ||| Eastsound Water Users Association situation is confusing to me. Anybody else think this way? Several times, now, I have been cautioned to not publish an email I received
Island Ways | Nantucket Select Board approves $450,000 for lease to locals
Orcas and Nantucket Islands are each roughly the same size and the same distance off their respective coasts. We share the same concerns about the high cost of living, lack of affordable housing, tourist management,
