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Letter to Editor | Thank you, Orcas Island, from UW Medicine
||| FROM UW MEDICINE ||| To the Orcas Island Community: UW Medicine extends its sincere thanks to the entire Orcas Island community for your support since the opening of our clinic in September 2017. It
Editorial | Have you noticed something familiar in the air? Relief? Hope?
||| BY LIN MCNULTY, theORCASONIAN EDITOR ||| There's something going on, something afoot, stirrings beneath the surface. Have you felt it? I first felt the unrest shuffling after the result of the 2020 presidential election,
Guest Opinion | A brief history of vaccines — today’s best defense against COVID-19
||| BY THOMAS O. BALDWIN, PhD ||| As a result of amazing strides in basic biomedical science over the past several decades—development of methods allowing the cloning of genes, DNA sequencing, etc.— it has been
Letter to Editor | A thank you to good people
||| FROM ART LANGE ||| While we often have seen many acts of kindness and caring during this pandemic period, particularly helping those in need, I was very touched by my experience at Orcas Center
Midnight Mutterings | Back to Georgia
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS BY JACKIE BATES ||| BUT FIRST I want to thank Brian and Neil who responded to my statement a fortnight ago that there had been next to nothing in the news about
Guest Opinion | Amend the Charter with a “Universal” bill of rights that includes the rights of nature
||| FROM JULIENNE BATTALIA FOR COMMUNITY RIGHTS SAN JUAN ISLANDS ||| Is there potential for expanding San Juan County’s Home Rule Charter to include a Bill of Rights recognizing the Rights of Nature within the
Letter to Editor | The pure joy, gratitude of having received my vaccine
||| FROM SUSAN BAUER ||| My husband and I were almost too excited to concentrate on much else in advance of our first Covid vaccine date last week. Like everyone, we are yearning to see
Letter to Editor | Notice: Our vaccine appointment went to junk mail
||| FROM KAREN CAMERON ||| We found our vaccine appointment email in our junk mail four days after it was sent to us. We noticed that there were a lot of openings that are not
Letter to Editor | Urge to uphold vacation rental moratorium
||| FROM NATALIE MENACHO ||| Dear County Council and San Juan County Community, The future of our county is at stake. I urge you to uphold the vacation rental moratorium. The moratorium is not taking
Letter to Editor | In support of moratorium on vacation rental permits
||| FROM NIK SCHULZ ||| Dear County Council and San Juan County Community, I’m writing in support of the Vacation Rental Permit moratorium. I see harm by unfettered vacation rental permit issuance in these ways:
Editorial | Historic ties between pandemics, extremism
||| BY LIN MCNULTY, EDITOR ||| If, like me, you are, to put it mildly, puzzled, alarmed, or even frightened by recent societal divisions, you may find some insight in this recent CBSN conversation with
Midnight Mutterings | There was this thing
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS BY JACKIE BATES ||| As you, no doubt. recall, there was a ‘thing’ that happened at the US Capitol, on Jan. 6, 2021. It was called many names by different people. Sedition,
Guest Opinion | We have good cause to extend vacation rental moratorium
||| FROM ALEXANDRA GAYEK ||| Most of the verbal public comments offered at the Feb. 23 County Council meeting in opposition to the current moratorium on vacation rental permit applications perfectly illustrated the primary reason
Guest Opinion | Food security vs. nutritional security
||| FROM LEARNER LIMBACH ||| It is two weeks until my birthday, and lately I have been choosing a cause each year to fundraise for. This year I decided to organize an online fundraising event for
Guest Opinion | Republicans challenge who votes in 2022
||| FROM HEDRICK SMITH for RECLAIM THE AMERICAN DREAM ||| Washington – The 2020 election let the genie out of the bottle. More than 100 million American voters discovered it was easier to vote by
