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Letter to Editor | School District grateful to community
-- from Eric Webb, Orcas Schools Superintendent -- I would like to extend my gratitude to the Orcas Island community for their overwhelming support of our Education Programs & Operations Levy. Orcas Island residents have
Letter to Editor | Fund network of alternative medicine providers
-- from Domenic Verbano -- I urge you to fund an Island Network of island physicians, chiropractors, acupuncturists, nutritionists, and movement therapists, as well as others, to work at and in conjunction with a locally
Village Voices | What have you read or watched recently?
-- by Minor Lile, Orcas Issues reporter -- With the monthly Village Voices series, we aim to take the pulse of the Orcas Island community. Every month we’ll be out and about, asking people to
Guest Opinion | In regard to Prune Alley improvements…
||| from Fred Klein ||| With all due respect to the obviously heartfelt concerns of authors and commenters on this topic, if I may, I would like to take a step back from the issue
Orcasional Musings | Are the Olympics coming to Orcas?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| Wednesday afternoon, Jean and I wandered over to scope out Orcas High School's new running track. We were very deeply impressed by what we saw. It looked as
Letter to the Editor | EPRC says unanimous ‘yes’ to original Prune Alley development plans
-- from Chris Bean-Hearne -- The EPRC voted unanimously at their zoom meeting on Thursday to forge ahead with their original plans for the development of Prune Alley despite the numerous complaints and with total
Letter to Editor | OPALCO manager’s salary keeps rising
-- from Alex MacLeod -- A year or so ago I reported that we OPALCO ratepayers had forked over nearly $400,000 in total compensation in 2017 to our general manager, Foster Hildreth. I wrote at
Guest Opinion | Single-use plastic use is up during pandemic; it doesn’t have to be
-- from Kaia, Friends of the San Juans’ Summer Intern -- My name is Kaia and I’m a high school sophomore currently interning at Friends of the San Juans. My grandpa, San Olson, is a longtime resident
Editorial | Paving the way for tourism
-- by Lin McNulty, Editor -- It's a stunning late-July Monday morning with not a cloud in the sky and all the makings of an ideal day to, let's say, sail to the San Juan
Letter to Editor | We need an economy that survives without tourism
-- from Naomi Aldort -- I have written before with strong conviction to the need to eliminate industry based vacation homes on the islands and the importance of keeping the rural nature of our county
Letter to Editor | Should councilmembers with a conflict of interest recuse from voting on transient rentals?
-- from Kat Fennell -- During the Women’s League of Voter’s Candidate’s forum for District 2 Candidates, there was a question as to whether if Council Members owned or operated a transient rental should recuse
Aging Like a Guru | I don’t like being told what to do
-- by Rosie Kuhn -- As we age, we don’t want to give up our freedom and independence, which often means that we make choices that perhaps are not in our best interest. I see
Orcasional Musings | The five platonic solids…or is it six?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| In order to graduate, Orcasian high-school seniors must create, and then successfully complete, a project that results in an improvement to the student, and improvement also to the
Letter to Editor | Transition is difficult and challenging
-- from Robert Boyd -- Transition for us humans is often both difficult and challenging. We find this to be true even when the experience of transition is driven by plans we, ourselves, make. However,
Letter to Editor | Where is our vacation rental permit moratorium?
-- from Joe Symons for Vacation Rental Work Group -- This month is the one-year anniversary of the Vacation Rental Work Group’s (VRWG) Community Conversation about vacation rental regulations in the San Juan Islands. An
