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Guest Opinion | Slow down for speeders
||| FROM BILL APPEL ||| A contradiction? Not at all! This is a proposal to remind visitors and those of us who persist in mainland ways that they are now in San Juan County, where
Sun Days on Orcas | Obstacles – real or imagined?
||| SUN DAYS ON ORCAS by EDIE KULPER ||| For many years I thought about the idea of publishing a book about Orcas Island. There were definite reasons that I chose not to for a
Guest Opinion | Discussing whether OPALCO should pay dues to Lower Snake River dam lobbyists
||| FROM SHARON GRACE ||| Is breaching the four lower Snake River dams a tough decision for us or OPALCO? While anything can be argued from many sides, where do the facts lead? Do economics,
Guest Opinion | Snake River dams and human nature
||| FROM BILL APPEL ||| The Snake River dam issue is heating up arguments for their removal (“save the salmon and our totemic southern resident killer whales”) or retention (“our ability to reduce fossil fuel
Guest Opinion | Because we want wild salmon and orca, it’s time to tell OPALCO to support Snake River dam removal
||| FROM SHARON GRACE ||| The waters around the San Juan Islands are a summer home of the critically endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales. OPALCO, the islands’ utility co-op, is owned by islanders. Islanders overwhelmingly
Sun Days on Orcas | 30 things about Frank Loudin
||| SUN DAYS ON ORCAS ISLAND by EDEE KULPER ||| Frank Loudin I’ve recently become acquainted with artist Frank Loudin through BJ Arnold’s friendship with him, and as always, it’s fascinating to learn
Sun Days on Orcas | Hope
||| SUN DAYS ON ORCAS BY EDEE KULPER ||| Masks are coming off, the sun is beginning to come out more, the geese are honking, the birds are chirping, and while it’s still cold outside,
Letter to Editor | Our school staff members are heroes, role models
||| FROM ERIC WEBB, ORCAS SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT ||| As we approach the two-year anniversary of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we begin to reflect upon the opportunities and challenges that have been thrust upon
Sun Days on Orcas | What you should know about Orcasonian Beverly Franklet
||| SUN DAYS ON ORCAS by EDEE KULPER ||| If you haven’t already met her, Beverly Franklet is a stunning go-getter. Not in a hyper, can’t-sit-still kind of way but in a calm, adventurous, live-life-to-its-fullest
Letter to Editor | Support the democratic process in San Juan County
||| FROM LEARNER LIMBACH ||| I’m writing to express my support for Ranked Choice Voting being on the ballot for San Juan County voters to vote on this November, along with the other three charter
Guest Opinion | We are all visitors to these islands
||| FROM WILLIAM APPEL ||| There has been much discussion about tourism, overpopulation, exhaustion or abuse of natural resources in the San Juan Islands ranging from anguish at environmental degradation and changes imposed by crowding,
Sun Days on Orcas | I’m alive thanks to Catholicism
||| SUN DAYS ON ORCAS by EDEE KULPER ||| My mom was proposed to five times before saying yes. How does that happen? Did she seriously lead a bunch of guys on, then dash their
Guest Opinion | In their own words: Dysfunction at OIFR as described by Commission
||| FROM AMANDA MONTAGUE ||| "Operations of the department have not been interrupted, and the Chief communicates well with the BOFC, but Chief's effectiveness this year has decreased compared to the year before. I'd hoped
Sun Days on Orcas | When a girl says …
||| SUN DAYS ON ORCAS by EDEE KULPER ||| Teenage (and college) guys, when a girl says she just wants to be friends, take her up on it. If she’s anything like I was, she’s
Letter to Editor | Looking back at local reaction to Sandy Hook’s school shooting
||| FROM FRED KLEIN ||| News that the parents of some of the 20 schoolchildren at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut who, along with six adults, were killed in a mass shooting event in
