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Occam steps in to deliver our Thanksgiving greetings
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
Letter to Editor | We can build bridges and move a mountain; What a community!
||| FROM CINDY WOLF, COUNTY COUNCILMEMBER ||| The relative calm of this afternoon before Thanksgiving Day is a perfect moment to pause and reflect on the last week with gratitude. In the face of a
Letter to Editor | Contributions to Community Emergency Fund help direct resources where they are needed most
||| FROM HILARY CANTY for ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ||| Recently, the Orcas Island Community Foundation (OICF) received a significant anonymous gift to the Community Emergency Response Fund (CERF). This fund was established in March
Letter to Editor | We need to ask ‘why’ of our Fire Department
||| FROM COLEEN O'BRIEN ||| I write in support of our Volunteer FireFighters and EMTs and the employees of the Orcas Island Fire Dept. We Orcas livers and lovers depend upon them to save our
Letter to Editor | Thank you to our public health workforce
||| FROM TOM EVERSOLE ||| Today is “Public Health Thank You Day,” a day to recognize the hard work and resilience of the public health (PH) workforce. I would like to thank San Juan County
Climate Eyes | Dry wet
||| CLIMATE EYES by STEVE BERNHEIM, theORCASONIAN REPORTER ||| In the Pacific Northwest, we’ve survived the Heat Dome but now less than five months later the bridge at Doe Bay is washed out. While each
Letter to Editor | A community comes together
||| FROM JOE BROTHERTON for DOE BAY RESORT ||| We hope this message finds you well and safe after the most recent deluge that hit the Pacific NW. For us, we were met with a
Letter to Editor | Take action to eliminate those unwanted catalogs in the mail
||| FROM JANICE WIEMEYER ||| Like others, I notice many discarded catalogs at the post office at this time of year and think about all of the trees throughout the country these discarded catalogs represent.
Sun Days on Orcas | Thankful
||| SUN DAYS ON ORCAS by EDEE KULPER ||| I was born in Texas, the fifth child 11 years after my closest sibling. They were all born about a year apart and when my Catholic
Midnight Mutterings | If you build it, they will come… ***
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| On Tuesday, when the wind and rain subsided enough to see, I checked for my heron. Sure enough, there it was, standing on the boardwalk that goes from
‘Occam’s Razor’ | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
Letter to Editor | Open letter to community from Fire Chief Williams
||| FROM SCOTT WILLIAMS, CHIEF, ORCAS FIRE & RESCUE ||| To the Orcas Island community: First and foremost, I will say the members of Orcas Island Fire & Rescue appreciate all of you and your
Letter to Editor | I’m leaving the fire department with heavy heart
||| FROM HILARY CANTY ||| It is with a heavy heart that I announce my resignation from Orcas Fire and Rescue, through which I have had the pleasure to serve this community as a volunteer
Editorial | In the meantime, Orcas islanders still rely on you, OIFR, so do the right thing
||| BY LIN MCNULTY, theORCASONIAN EDITOR ||| There's definitely something awry at Orcas Island Fire & Rescue. My email recently has been beset with messages that reveal unsettling, internal strife, and personal angst with increasingly
‘Occam’s Razor’ | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
