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Orcasional Musings | No!
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| Cancel Culture has arrived on Orcas Island!"Cancel Culture"?What's that?"Cancel Culture" is the state of being so certain that your own way of thinking is the one and only
Letter to Editor | Intolerance has made its way to Orcas Island
-- from Cindy Carter -- Early Wednesday morning, campaign signs of candidates currently actively campaigning were vandalized by those bringing hate to the island. Timothy Hazelo, Kim Wyman, Loren Culp and Joshua Freed are all
Letter to Editor | Vandals on Orcas
-- from Robert L. Waunch -- I drove by the North Beach Rd and School Rd intersection today where we’ve always had a number of signs of candidates for various offices. I observed that vandals had
Letter to the Editor | Tune in to Lopez Huddle Q&A with Dist. 1 council candidates
-- from Sharon Abreu -- This Tuesday, August 11 at 3pm, you can tune in online to the Lopez Huddle group's candidate Q&A with the top two contenders for the San Juan County Council District 1 seat:
Orcasional Musings | Say, Sheriff, who was that masked man?
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| We just got back from our weekly shopping trip to Island Market. It's really the truth: You see everybody you know at the market. But nowadays, with all
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
