Following the spring school break from April 6 to 13, Orcas Island students again sit down for Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) testing. The 10th graders have already finished the WASL Reading and Writing tests. Elementary/Middle School Principal Tom Gobeske announced at the March 26 Orcas Island School District

Han-shan, that great and crazy, wonder-filled Chinese poet of a thousand years ago, said: We're just like bugs in a bowl. All day going around never leaving their bowl. I say: That's right! Every day climbing up the steep sides, sliding back. Over and over again. Around and around. Up

When You Are Old When you are old and gray and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And

By Stan Matthews County Communications Program Manager The San Juan County Health and Community Services Department is now offering a computer-based food handling training program that allows people to do the required coursework and take the test to qualify for a food handling card in less than an hour. The

Contributed by Michelle Reed Kindness Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate

Animals I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not