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Letter to Editor | Is it time to face reality? Or is it too late?
||| FROM MICHAEL JOHNSON ||| S.C. Watson illustration paid for by MJ and friends. Coming out of the year 2020, a year marked by the pandemic, now allows us to reflect upon where
Letter to Editor | A proposal to tailor tourism to fit our county
||| FROM BILL APPEL ||| I propose that tourism be better tailored to match our culture and ecology with a new generation of participating tourist facilities that are operated in a manner that attracts possibly
Midnight Mutterings | Night Shift
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| I just arrived in Bellingham, along with my constant unseen passenger. She’s been coming along on all my trips, uninvited, for several years now. I say ‘she’ even
Midnight Mutterings | Plastic
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS BY JACKIE BATES ||| You may have noticed references to Plastic Free July in San Juan County. In case that has somehow escaped your attention, here’s a link to a recent article
Letter to Editor | An open letter to the Journal of the San Juans
||| FROM MICHAEL JOHNSON ||| To: Mandi My name is Michael Johnson. I live on Orcas Island. I find myself at this time wanting to reach out to you in response to your 6/29 editorial
Climate Eyes | Tennis, anyone?
||| BY STEVE BERNHEIM, theORCASONIAN REPORTER ||| To limit global warming to 1.5°C / 2.7°F above pre-industrial levels requires rapid transitions in energy and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and requires deep emissions reductions in
Guest Opinion | Zero emissions EV charger project on Orcas Island
||| FROM BRUCE BENTON ||| Shortly after my wife and I moved permanently to Orcas Island in June 2020, I launched an EV charger project for the Island. It was clear through discussions with people
Midnight Mutterings | Return to Glacier Bay
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS BY JACKIE BATES ||| More than thirty years ago, my daughter and I went traveling. We went on a ferry/kayak trip, just the two of us, to Southeast Alaska. First, we took
Letter to Editor | Really sad the last few days
||| FROM JOHN TITUS ||| I have been talking to various people who say they are just going to have to leave Orcas. These folks are hard working, love their jobs, but can’t afford to
Letter to Editor | A note of gratitude
||| FROM CAMILLE and JOHN FLEMING (Mother and Father of SOFIA) ||| The class of 2021 graduates this week. As the parents of a senior, we had the great fortune to attend the special events
Midnight Mutterings | More cat stuff
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| If you’ve been reading these columns, you have already met Sybil-the-Cat, who generously shared her house with me for sixteen years. What I haven’t mentioned is that for
Editorial | I’ve got a preposition and a couple other tidbits to discuss with you
||| BY LIN MCNULTY, theORCASONIAN EDITOR ||| Every once in awhile, we receive a request from someone looking to re-connect with an old acquaintance, to look up a childhood or college friend. The requester kind
Midnight Mutterings | Of crows and cat: A bit more
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| Sybil-the-Cat and I used to go for walks on Obstruction Pass Road and on the beach. It was her idea. She was an ordinary cat in the house,
Letter to Editor | Orcas Island has always been Lummi Nation homeland
||| FROM SPIRIT EAGLE ||| While appreciating Michael Riordan’s letter to the editor to the Islands' Sounder regarding the Lummi totem pole journey to Orcas Island, there is something of a misconception I would like
Guest Opinion | Greenwashing San Juan County
||| FROM ELISABETH ROBSON ||| Today I received in my inbox an email from OPALCO extolling an affordable energy future powered by renewables and carried by electric vehicles. We get pictures of solar panels and
