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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
Midnight Mutterings | Stacey’s extraordinary words
|||MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS BY JACKIE BATES ||| Yep, I’m muttering about Stacey Abrams again. She has a new book out. This time it’s a children’s book. Her first, and in addition to the wide range of
Letter to Editor | Concern expressed in open letter to OIFR, et. al
||| FROM TONI KNUDSON ||| An open letter to Orcas Island Fire and Rescue Chief Scott Williams, Orcas Island Board of Fire Commissioners and Jeff Richey, Executive Director of Airlift NW: There is concern in
Guest Opinion | When did questioning behavior at OIFR become personal?
||| FROM AMANDA MONTAGUE ||| I feel compelled to respond as a former OIFR Commissioner and someone who cares deeply about the Department to the "Firehouse Foundations" piece written by Mia Kartiganer and the comments
Sun Days on Orcas | Inspiration
||| SUN DAYS ON ORCAS by EDEE KULPER ||| Even after living on Orcas Island for almost a decade, I’m still not accustomed to one very all-encompassing aspect of life here… Constant rain naturally drives
