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Letter to Editor | Thank you, Orcas Island
||| FROM ERIC WEBB for ORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT ||| Dear Students, Staff, Families, and Community, I wish to extend a heartfelt thank you to the voters of Orcas Island for your support of our
Guest Opinion | Where did our community go?
||| FROM GEORGE POST ||| Over the years I have discovered a simple question that helps me sort my way through the often daunting onslaught of information I am exposed to daily. Even if one
Sun Days on Orcas | 27 things about Philana Goodrich
Well hello again, Orcasonian readers! It's been a while since I've written my column. Last year I took a break indefinitely, thinking my family would be moving away for a year to San Luis Obispo,
Midnight Mutterings | Celebrities
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| Last week I was visiting Rose and Molly (the cats) and my son in Bellingham when I complained to him I was having increasing difficulty finding something to
As the Paradigm Shifts | Let go of the belief that there should be a guarantee
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| A while back, I read an article about His Holiness the Dalai Lama, written by Stephan Talty. Stephan describes the life of this man—how he was
Letter to Editor | Thank you to the community for your support during cancer treatments
||| FROM SHERRY GEE TRONVIG (AKA Sherry Vinson) ||| To the community of Orcas Island & those friends from far away: Last year, I was diagnosed with stage 2 cancer. I received treatment at Fred
Island Ways | Nantucket reservation system breaks down again
||| FROM THE NANTUCKET INQUIRER & MIRROR ||| 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,
Midnight Mutterings | Bear
|||MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| Note: The ‘yesterday’ in the first line was muttered nearly four decades ago in Seattle where Tomas was my sometimes next door neighbor. jb Yesterday, I was talking to
Letter to Editor | ‘Dead Man Walking’ opera was enormously uplifting
||| FROM RIVER MALCOLM ||| The filmed version of Metropolitan Opera's Dead Man Walking (shown at Orcas Center this past Tuesday at noon) was a powerful experience, both in terms of immediate emotional impact and
Guest Opinion | Hey, OIFR lieutenants, come on now
||| FROM AMANDA MONTAGUE ||| The open letter penned by the OIFR volunteer lieutenants to the Commissioners is unfortunate and frankly puzzling to anyone who has been involved in what’s been happening at OIFR over
Letter to Editor | How much snow must we heat to be able to flush ?
||| FROM TONY AYER ||| Just ask any Olga water user. In our lives we experience a number of crises,some larger some smaller.How about having no water for 4 days.Thank you shout out to all
As the Paradigm Shifts | Who’s not ready — Holler “I”
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| To get some inspiration for writing today, I opened the book, Diet Like a Guru. I wrote this book eight years ago. I was surprised to
Guest Opinion | Open letter to Fire Commission announcing no confidence
||| FROM THE VOLUNTEER LIEUTENANTS OF ORCAS ISLAND FIRE & RESCUE ||| Commissioners, We are sending this letter on behalf of the volunteer lieutenants of OIFR. This is a difficult letter to send but it
Letter to Editor | We have some preschool challenges
||| FROM DALE HEISINGER ||| When I first read that the OISD was entertaining opening a preschool program, Transitional Kindergarten, designed for 12 to 15 4 y/o children, I thought this to be a wonderful
Guest Opinion | Let’s remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
||| FROM MICHELL MARSHALL ||| Today, we celebrate the Martin Luther King Birthday Holiday because, back in 1983, Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation to establish that Federal Holiday. It was approved by 78% of the House
