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Letter to Editor | Personal invitation to Land Bank’s community conversation
||| FROM BRIAN WIESE and SANDI FRIEL ||| INVITATION--Please join us for the LAND BANK’S ORCAS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION, via Zoom, next Wednesday, April 7, 5:30 – 7 p.m. We will talk about the Land Bank’s
Guest Opinion | Can vacation rentals be good neighbors?
||| FROM YONATAN ALDORT ||| As the dust settles around the County Council’s decision to extend a limited moratorium on new vacation rental permits, we have a moment to catch our breath and reflect on
‘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 | Passing along the American Rescue Plan stimulus
||| FROM STEVE JUNG ||| Last week, my wife and I received our American Rescue Plan stimulus payments from the federal government, with gratitude for its efforts to jump start our pandemic-afflicted economy. There is
Letter to Editor | Another thank you from the Food Bank
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK ||| This time we are focusing on the many businesses, nonprofits, and organizations who have supported the Orcas Island Food Bank over our COVID year. The list is too
Letter to Editor | In support of Proposition 2 for our schools
||| FROM LESLIE HUTCHINSON ||| I write in support of Proposition 2. This is a renewal request for an expiring technology levy for our schools. It is not a new tax but instead is the 2021 Replacement
‘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 | We support Fant, Osterman for OPALCO board
||| FROM SUE BAUER, SANDI FRIEL, NORRIS CARLSON ||| After listening to the recent OPALCO board candidate forum, we found both Rick Fant and Tom Osterman to be compelling choices from an environmental protection perspective. Mr. Fant spoke
Letter to Editor | I recommend Joe Cohen for OPALCO board
||| FROM PATRICK SHEPLER ||| I strongly endorse and recommend Joe Cohen for a board position with OPALCO. Having worked with Joe for the last few years, I find him to be highly dedicated, ethical,
Guest Opinion | OK, Joe, what’s next? Voting rights or jobs and taxes?
||| FROM HEDRICK SMITH, RECLAIM THE AMERICAN DREAM ||| Washington -Joe Biden’s stunning victory on his boldly ambitious $1.9 trillion corona relief package and its striking popularity with voters, including grassroots Republicans, now tempts many
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
‘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 | 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
