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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
Letter to Editor | Urge county to create a “Truth in Planning” document and public buildout analysis
||| FROM NATALIE MENACHO ||| Hey Islander! I hope this little San Juan County love note finds you reveling in the verdant opulence of springtime. We all moved here for the love of our
Midnight Mutterings | A little more on voter suppression
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS BY JACKIE BATES ||| World news has been discouraging of late with the Israel-Hamas conflict escalating and probable war crimes in Northern Ethiopia, so I decided to look a little closer to
Letter to Editor | Kudos to our health and community services staff for keeping us healthy
||| FROM SJCo BOH: DALE HEISINGER MD, CHAIR; NOEL MONIN; JOHN GEYMAN MD; CHRISTINE MINNEY, JAMIE STEPHENS, CINDY WOLF, KYLE DAVIES ||| Recently the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/University of Wisconsin published the county health rankings
Letter to Editor | Thank you for allowing me to serve
||| FROM PATTY MILLER ||| It has been my privilege to serve as one of your Hospital District Commissioners for the Orcas Island Health Care District since the start of the PHD in 2018. I
