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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
‘Occam’s Razor’ | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
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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
‘Occam’s Razor’ | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
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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
‘Occam’s Razor’ | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
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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
‘Occam’s Razor’ | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
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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
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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,
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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
