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Letter to Editor | Rick Fant is best choice for Port Commission
||| FROM ERIC GOURLEY ||| Orcas airport is an invaluable resource for our community. One advantage it provides is transportation of medical patients. I know. As an OAA MercyPilot I have flown patients to the
Letter to Editor | Vote for “Kate” for OIFR Commissioner
||| FROM TOM FISCUS ||| I’m generally pretty reticent to recommend individuals for elected office, but the recent history of OIFR and its Commissioners has me looking at candidates who find the facts and act
Letter to Editor | Join me in voting “no” on fire levy — for now
||| FROM JUSTIN PAULSEN ||| The staff and volunteers of Orcas Fire and Rescue have been responsible for providing invaluable medical and emergency services for myself and my family multiple times in my over 20
Letter to Editor | Another reason to love Orcas
||| FROM LYNN BAKER ||| There used to be a bumper sticker: Orcas Island: The Way Life Should Be. It’s still true. Our ballots arrived today for fire and port commissioners and the fire levy. The
Letter to Editor | Join me in supporting Leith Templin for Fire Commission
||| FROM RICK HUGHES ||| Orcas friends, please join me in supporting and voting for my friend, Leith Templin. She is an amazing, community minded person who has served Eastsound and Orcas island for decades.
Midnight Mutterings | Cat Visit
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| Molly and Rose, age: almost 11 months, came to Orcas for a visit. Rose had been here once before for six days when she was younger. Normally, they
Letter to Editor | Trust but verify: By the numbers
||| FROM PATRICK SHEPLER ||| “Trust but Verify.” Most attribute this phrase to former President, Ronald Reagan. In fact, it was taught to Reagan by Suzanne Massie, a Russian history scholar. The real origins are
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 | Why OIFR needs this upcoming levy
||| FROM DANNY WEIBLING for SAN JUAN PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL 3911 ||| As President of San Juan Professional Firefighters Local 3911 (“Local”), I want to write a factual statement to the public about the upcoming
Letter to Editor | Fire Levy is needed and appropriate
||| FROM ANTHONY SIMPSON ||| Full disclosure, I am and have been a volunteer with Orcas Island Fire and Rescue for about 10 years since I moved to Orcas with my family. I was recruited
Letter to Editor | This was definitely a heartfelt July 4th
||| FROM CINDY WOLF, SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMISSIONER ||| This is a letter of heartfelt thanks for the fabulous Fourth of July festivities in Eastsound. To get out and celebrate in so many ways was
As the Paradigm Shifts | Victim of life’s circumstances . . . or not!
||| AS THE PARADIGM SHIFTS by ROSIE KUHN ||| Francis A number of years ago, when I was writing a column in Orcas Issues about “Aging Like a Guru,”Francis, a beautiful, creative woman and longtime
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 | What happened to the Fire District alternative to sell bonds?
||| FROM CARL BUTTKE ||| During an early presentation by the Fire District financial consultant, she spoke of the benefits of selling tax free municipal bonds for equipment coupled with a tax levy for operations.
Island Kids | The sadness of ultra-processed foods
||| ISLAND KIDS by EVAN BUXBAUM, M.D. ||| Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) make up a whopping 60+ percent of the average American’s daily caloric intake. We are increasingly aware of the health consequences from diets that
