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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:
‘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.
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,
‘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.
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
Letter to Editor | New medical center now has a solid foundation
||| FROM VELMA DOTY ||| Orcas community has come a long way in its struggle for stable medical care. After decades of fundraising and large private donations to different doctors and clinics we are now
Letter to Editor | After recent snow, tow truck operator says, “well done, Orcas”
||| FROM UZEK SUSOL (ORCAS TOWING) ||| I had many “I’m stuck in the ditch” calls. Going through my incoming phone records I had an average of 25-35 per day starting last Friday through Wednesday,
‘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 | Thank you, National Guard
||| FROM DAVID KOSIUR ||| While some of us might have initially had problems making a reservation for this week’s Covid-19 vaccinations, everything went very smoothly and quickly when my wife and I went for
Midnight Mutterings | Zooming into matrimony
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS BY JACKIE BATES ||| Just before Christmas, 2020, a couple I met on the beach told me about their wedding which was held the day before in her Seattle apartment. Only the
