Here’s a thought…
“Old age is no joke, but it can feel like one.”
TAD TOMPKINS
Road work on Cattle Point Road begins
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County’s Public Works Department is beginning maintenance on Cattle Point Road this week. The road will remain open to traffic, though drivers may experience traffic delays. Lawson Construction has been contracted to fill cracks in the road surface to prevent water
Guest Opinion | Why I support a San Juan County motor vehicle fee
||| FROM BILL APPEL ||| The recent draft of Destination Management Plan (“Draft Plan”) proposes a charge on all (nongovernmental?) vehicles that travel within the county. While this charge would appear to be in response to short-term visitors to this county, it actually responds to much more. It has to;
County Democrats to host Chris Reykdal and Sen. Lovelett
||| FROM DAVID TURNOY for SAN JUAN COUNTY DEMOCRATS ||| The October meeting of the county Democrats will feature appearances by Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal and state Senator Liz Lovelett (separately, not jointly). The meeting will be Saturday, Oct. 14, at 10:00 AM on Zoom. If you have questions about public education and
Vermont utility plans to end outages by giving customers batteries
Green Mountain Power is asking state regulators to let it buy batteries it will install at customers’ homes, saying doing so will be cheaper than putting up more power lines. ||| FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ||| REPRINT AT REQUEST OF ORCASONIAN READER Many electric utilities are putting up lots
Eastsound Water Association updates and annual meeting notice
||| FROM DAN BURKE for EASTSOUND WATER USERS ASSOCIATION ||| Eastsound Water Users Association (the “Association”) is hosting an annual membership meeting on Wednesday November 15, 2023 to be held on Zoom at 3:00 PM in order to announce the results of the election of two of its Directors to serve on the Board
Auditions upcoming for Whale of a Show
||| FROM BETHANY MARIE for ORCAS CENTER ||| Whale of a Show is the Island celebration of talented youth and their families and will take Center Stage this November at Orcas Center! Acts from ages 5-18 are invited to participate. Don’t be shy – All are welcome and accepted! Solo
Meet the candidates for OIFR Assistant Chief
||| FROM KAT BARNARD for ORCAS FIRE & RESCUE ||| Orcas Island Fire and Rescue is having a candidate meet and greet on Monday, October 16, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. at the Eastsound Fire Hall. All are invited to attend. With the promotion of Chief Holly vanSchaick, OIFR initiated the
Southern Resident Orca community coffee roundtable
Showcasing the interconnected efforts to recover the endangered Southern Resident Orca ||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Join Representative Debra Lekanoff, San Juan County, and the MRC as they celebrate Orca Recovery Day with scientists and policy experts working at the local, state, and federal levels to share our
Second half property taxes due October 31
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County Treasurer, Rhonda Pederson, would like to remind county property owners that the second half property taxes and personal property taxes are due Tuesday, October 31. Payments received in person, via our secure payment box or postmarked after the October
Guest Opinion | Destination Management Plan is still open for public comment until end of this month
||| FROM BRIAN WIESE ||| The County's Department of Environmental Stewardship, in coordination with the San Juan Visitors Bureau and with funding from the Lodging Tax, has issued its Draft Destination Management Plan, proposing its solutions to managing the effects of seasonal tourism, and the plan is open for public
Guest Opinion | An open letter on EWUA management
||| FROM ROBERT AUSTIN, FRED KLEIN, and MICHAEL RIORDAN ||| The three of us have recently watched with growing concern and dismay the unfolding management chaos at the Eastsound Water Users Association. From our combined perspective, there are two groups of EWUA Board members and former Board members who have
Reports of Washington earthquake sparks concerns among residents (to the South of us)
||| FROM KIRO NEWS 7 ||| Residents throughout Washington felt an earthquake around 7:21 p.m. on Sunday. “I felt it here in downtown Seattle, sofa shaking and the water inside a bottle also moving a little bit. I live in a 20+ floor,” said Seattle resident Ramon Pena. Similar posts
OHS freshman musician is off to New York, London with your support
||| FROM LAMAI HONS ||| My name is Lamai and I am a 14 year old freshman at Orcas Island High School. I have been in private music lessons with Rachel Bishop here on Orcas Island since I was 6 years old, and practicing daily since I started. I am reaching
Art exhibit, chair yoga, ukulele are all upcoming at Senior Center
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| “Fall Into Winter”: Art Exhibit @ The Orcas Senior Center – October 9-December 9, Monday-Friday, 9am-3pm The beautiful Quilt Show will be coming down on Friday, October 6 and the Fall into Winter show will be going up! This new art
The Crevice Garden and Plant Conservation at Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND GARDEN CLUB ||| Please join the Orcas Island Garden Club on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, when we welcome Sue Milliken and Kelly Dodson to present The Crevice Garden and Plant Conservation at Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy. Sue and Kelly will be presenting remotely from Port Townsend. Crevice gardens
Midnight Mutterings | Cassidy Hutchinson’s new book
||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| I try to keep politics out of my mutterings online, mostly because I think it’s unfriendly (as well as futile) to try to influence another’s thinking and/or personal beliefs. Most of us can and do read and we all can choose where and
