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Letter to Editor | We need to have resources available for our students’ education
||| FROM ANNE FORD MCGRATH ||| My name is Anne Ford McGrath. I have been an educator for over 25 years and am so grateful to live in a community that has continuously supported education
Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
Letter to Editor | Are tourists the answer for our local community?
||| FROM UZEK SUSOL ||| I'm pondering & looking to understand the push for more Tourism & the people that say we (year round locals) need them to survive. We (year round locals) have no
As the Paradigm Shifts | I don’t like being told what to do
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| As we age, we don’t want to give up our freedom and independence, which often means that we make choices that perhaps are not necessarily in
Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
Letter to Editor | I’m choosing not to be an OIFR volunteer
||| FROM NICK NEGULESCU ||| I'm able-bodied and in my mid-40s but I will not be choosing to volunteer with this fire department any time soon, if ever. From my point of view as a
Midnight Mutterings | We are all immigrants
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| Words at the base of the Statue of Liberty that stands over the New York Harbor: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe
Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
Full Moon Tarot | We seek help and learn our natures but it’s not yet time to leap
||| FULL MOON TAROT by NIK SCHULZ ||| December 26, 2023–January 25, 2024 Here’s my interpretation for what Spirit offers for the coming lunar cycle starting on December 26th. Seeking help and really looking into
As the Paradigm Shifts | The re-enchantment of our inner-Santa
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| At this time of year, we are celebrating the presence of miracles. We are celebrating the coming of the light. We are celebrating the potentiality for
Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
Midnight Mutterings | Aloha
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| I could start out telling about my recent visit to that land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with the usual (and wonderful) things like sun and
Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
Letter to Editor | Good news? Chelan remains on SJI route
||| FROM BOB DISTLER ||| As I reported on Tuesday evening the 12th, WSF’s reservations website indicated—as it had for some time—that beginning the next day, the 90-car Sealth would replace the 124-car Chelan on four of six daily
Guest Opinion | Why is San Juan County not talking about Ecological Overshoot? Part 3
||| FROM ELISABETH ROBSON ||| Part 1:theorcasonian.com/guest-opinion-why-is-san-juan-county-not-talking-about-ecological-overshoot/ Part 2: theorcasonian.com/guest-opinion-why-is-san-juan-county-not-talking-about-ecological-overshoot-part-2/ What should we do? That is the question we ask ourselves when we think about wicked problems like ecological overshoot. The three speakers who presented
