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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
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
