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Guest Opinion | County residents will bear the burden
||| FROM VALERIE A. JUSELA ||| San Juan County’s residents face possibly crippling liabilities from county failures thus far to effectively regulate short-term or “vacation rental” permittees in our community. As a career business analyst
Editorial | When the alarm bells get too loud to ignore, it’s time for action
||| BY LIN MCNULTY, theORCASONIAN EDITOR ||| Can you hear that fire alarm clanging? Is it becoming increasingly, frighteningly loud? By some counts, within just the last six months at Orcas Island Fire & Rescue,
Letter to Editor | To my fellow Orcas islanders, to all islanders
||| FROM DOMENIC VERBANO ||| As people start to awaken to how we have all been played, by the controllers of this world, I want to put out a call for us all to come
Sun Days on Orcas | Guard your heart
||| SUN DAYS ON ORCAS by EDEE KULPER ||| Teenagers and college kids, every form of media is telling you about love. You don’t turn on the radio and hear songs about riding horses or
Letter to Editor | Here are reasons for my resignation as Fire Commissioner
||| FROM JANET MARLOW ||| In order to clarify the reasons behind my resignation from the Orcas Island Fire & Rescue Board of Fire Commissioners, the full content of my February 1 resignation letter follows.
Letter to Editor | I feel a need for apologies to Ray’s Pharmacy for last week’s demonstration
||| FROM VELMA DOTY ||| Apologies to Rays Pharmacy and all others who were recipients of last weeks “protest.“ Not on behalf of the group BUT because some on our island who chose that behavior
Guest Opinion | Former OIFR Commissioner says Fire Department allegations are serious
||| FROM AMANDA MONTAGUE ||| The recent articles posted by Mia Kartinger on the dysfunction in OIFR leadership elicited some uninformed and unfortunate comments that need to be responded to. I could not agree more
Letter to Editor | Orcas Food Co-op response to the January 31 protest
||| FROM LEARNER LIMBACH, ORCAS FOOD CO-OP GENERAL MANAGER ||| In light of the mask mandate related protest that took place on Monday, January 31, in Eastsound, I’d like to take the opportunity to share
Sun Days on Orcas | I don’t fit it and so don’t you
||| SUN DAYS ON ORCAS by EDEE KULPER ||| I love emotion. I love happy. I love love. When you’re in a community of Christians, you sometimes hear that someone “heard” God speak to them.
Midnight Mutterings | Curmudgeonly yours…
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| Admittedly, English is my second language. Sort of. Southern English is a dialect, one widely considered inferior and sometimes (especially when unintended) pathetically comic. In my experience, Southern
Sun Days on Orcas | Communing
||| SUN DAYS ON ORCAS by EDEE KULPER ||| We’ve come to the time of year when I start thinking, ‘What are we doing here?’ The place is a ghost town except for the market,
Letter to Editor | An open letter to the sensible
||| FROM EDWIN WORDSWORTH ||| An open letter to the sensible, How few of us there are, of late. I know I don’t speak for myself alone when I announce that I for one have
Guest Opinion | Coronavirus and our island ecosystem
||| FROM RUSSEL BARSH for KWIAHT ||| Thus far, efforts to contain and combat the SARS-Cov-2 virus that causes Covid-19 have focused on humans. Reasonable enough, given that there are billions of us, mainly packed
Guest Opinion | We need to resolve our working community housing crisis
||| FROM BILL BANGS ||| Most of us know or have heard of someone who has been a hardworking neighbor in our county for many years and who has lost their long-term rental home. Some
Sun Days on Orcas | What do you exude?
||| SUN DAYS ON ORCAS BY EDEE KULPER ||| There was a tragic accident here a few weeks ago. I’ve been thinking about the person whose life completely changed after the moment of impact. Seeing
