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Orcasional Musings | A wild turkey mystery story
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| Flocks of wild turkeys live here and there on Orcas Island, but the bunch with which I'm most familiar is the one which lives on our north-east coast,
Letter to Editor | Saddened by local Republican response to police reform
-- from David Kobrin -- I was saddened by the tone set in the San Juan County Republican Party’s response to an earlier Democratic resolution on police reform. To my mind, it is one thing
Letter to Editor | It’s beyond time to pay attention
-- from Thom Carnevale -- I am having a very difficult time, not because I am ill or in the financial dregs, but because of a recent news headline. In downtown Portland, Federal police from
Letter to Editor |School levy provides 20% of annual operating costs
-- from Orcas Education Association -- The teachers of Orcas Island School DIstrict would like to ask our community for your support to vote for the replacement Levy for our schools on the Aug. 4
Letter to Editor | Vote as if your life depends upon it
-- from Thom Carnevale -- In the last two week period, the number of cases of COVID-19 in the US has risen by 48%, the number of deaths by 43%. (+140,000 deaths, +3.7 million COVID-19
Letter to Editor | Vote YES for 2020 school levy
-- Kate Long, Arla & Sam Sutton -- Did you recently read that a 2020 Orcas High School grad received a prestigious Amazon scholarship for the second year in a row? Have you heard that
Letter to Editor | Palmateer has my support for County Council
-- from Katie Fleming -- I support Ryan Palmateer for the County Council District 1 position. I have worked with Ryan for 3 years on energy conservation, renewable energy promotion, and climate action programs in
Letter to Editor | Being black on Orcas Island
-- from Tim Webster black man, father, veteran (USMC) -- My name is Tim Webster and I have lived on Orcas for 12 years. I am a Black man and known by many. People assume
Get organized before you die. Who me?
-- Aging Like a Guru by Rosie Kuhn -- My friend Katherine passed about a week ago. She was a great contribution to people’s lives in so many ways. She’d been a therapist and advocator
Orcasional Musings | The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men…
||| ORCASIONAL MUSINGS BY STEVE HENIGSON ||| I was all set to write about the wild turkeys of Raccoon Point, this week, when, as Robert Burns once pointed out, "the best-laid schemes o' mice an'
Letter to Editor | Now is the time to think forward
-- from Christopher Evans -- The County Council’s application to move into Phase 3 has been put on hold by Governor Inslee in his state wide pause on advancing phases at this time. For the
Letter to Editor | I’ll be taking photos of those who risk my health
-- from Stephen Shrader -- I visit the dog park in Eastsound once or twice a day; it is a social nexus for vulnerable populations, like myself. Yesterday, young people were congregating, hugging, and being
Letter to Editor | Why add streetlights when it’s unhealthy for our kids?
-- from James Libby -- A new multi year US Government study of over 10,000 teenagers shows outdoor lighting messes up their sleep and affects them mentally/physically causing disorders that can last throughout life. This is
Guest Opinion | Coronavirus is now transmitted by air?
-- from Michael Riordan -- The most troublesome aspect of the County’s application to move to Phase 3 of Governor Inslee’s Safe Start program was the proposal to increase restaurant occupancy levels from 50 to
Letter to Editor | About that viral ad campaign during virus
-- from Russel Barsh -- Congrats, Visitors Bureau, your ad campaign went viral. How far-sighted you were to begin promoting a return of tourism to the islands weeks BEFORE the County Council asked the state’s
