Here’s a thought…
“Old age is no joke, but it can feel like one.”
TAD TOMPKINS
2025 Dog Licenses now on sale
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| The San Juan County Auditor’s office is ready for the 2025 dog licensing season! Each year, the department has the pleasure of recognizing a ‘Celebrity Dog’. This year, our office is recognizing a very good boy. We are thrilled to introduce, (although you
Salmon return to lay eggs in habitat after largest dam removal project in US history
||| FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS ||| A giant female Chinook salmon flips on her side in the shallow water and wriggles wildly, using her tail to carve out a nest in the riverbed as her body glistens in the sunlight. In another moment, males butt into each other as they jockey
Drop-In Peer Grief Support Group
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Join us for a supportive, non-judgmental space to process grief and mourning with the Drop-In Peer Grief Support Group Wednesdays at 10:00 am at Orcas Senior Center. This group is designed to help normalize your feelings, facilitate healing, and provide understanding.
Guest Opinion | An environmental spare tire
||| FROM BILL APPEL ||| Let's posit that a lot of federal clear air and water legislation and/or enforcement is stifled by federal executive and/or legislative action over the next few years. What should the blue states do? Background: the states and federal government share what is called concurrent jurisdiction
Uke Float
||| FROM ANITA ORNE ||| It’s Floating Ukulele Jam time again! Grab your uke, your voice, a song or two to share, and your friends and relations and join us on the interisland ferry on the traditional Third Thursday of the month – November 21 Boat is scheduled to depart
Discover Gentle Flexibility
A Balance Class Inspired by the Feldenkrais Method ||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Join Andrea Preiss, a seasoned Feldenkrais practitioner and therapeutic eurythmist, for a relaxing movement class at Orcas Senior Center, Tuesdays at 11 am. Emphasizing a seated position, these subtle exercises rooted in the
Odd Fellows Hall Red Cedar Circle on Sunday
||| FROM CHE BLAINE ||| Paul Chiyokten Wagner is a Saanich Nation tribal member which is located on so called Vancouver Island BC Canada. His mother lived on Orcas Island as a child. He is a cousin of Johnny Moses. As a Traditional Coast Salish Storyteller & flutist he brings
OPALCO explores tidal energy pilot project
A successful effort means locally generated, clean, reliable power for the islands ||| FROM ORCAS POWER & LIGHT CO-OP ||| Earlier this year, Orcas Power & Light Cooperative was awarded a grant through the Department of Energy to continue looking at the feasibility of tidal energy in San Juan County.
Wind advisory issued
||| FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ||| URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Seattle WA 840 AM PST Sat Nov 16 2024 San Juan County-Admiralty Inlet Area- Including the cities of Friday Harbor and Port Townsend ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Southeast winds 30
Midnight Mutterings | News from the Election Recovery Unit
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| Got admitted to the ER ten days ago, just before midnight, suffering from Wild Disbelief, Broken Brain and Heart and Beyond Depression and have been detained for observation ever since. What I can say about my hospitalization so far: The place is packed
Sheriff’s Report | November 6 – 12, 2024
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 24-007147 Welfare Check 13:26:24 11/06/24 An Orcas Island Deputy responded to a call for a welfare check. A hiker on North Turtleback Mountain Trail, Eastsound, WA, consumed Psilocybin mushrooms (magic mushrooms) and experienced negative effects. EMS provided medical assistance.
Larsen: Three years in, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is delivering for NW Washington communities
Together, BIL and Inflation Reduction Act have invested more than $386 million in WA-02 transportation projects ||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. RICK LARSEN ||| WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02) released the below statement on the three-year anniversary of the signing of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Since 2021,
Audition Notice | ‘Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus’
||| FROM MELINDA MILLIGAN for ACTORS THEATER OF ORCAS ISLAND ||| Actors Theater of Orcas Island will hold open auditions for this holiday classic on Nov. 24th, 4pm at the Grange. The play is done as an old-fashioned radio show. The audience watches the show in the "studio", complete with
Regional Chess Championships
||| FROM RANDY KAECH for ISLAND CHESS REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS ||| The regional Islands High School Chess Championships will be held Saturday, January 11 at Anacortes High School, along with the concurrent regional Islands Middle School Championships. The tournaments are open to all students in 6th to 12th grades who reside in San Juan,
Larsen: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law delivers $18.3 Million to improve NW Washington port infrastructure
Port of Anacortes T-Dock, Lummi Nation Fisherman’s Cove dock projects awarded DOT funding ||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. RICK LARSEN ||| WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02) announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $18,379,375 in Port Infrastructure Improvement Program (PIDP) grant funding to the Port of
WSF Weekly Report | Paper receipts will now be bisphenol-free
||| FROM STEVE NEVEY for WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| A message from Steve When you operate a system that millions of people depend on, it’s easy to get caught up in the daily challenges of delivering service. But to truly improve, we must also keep our sights on the bigger
