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“It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.”

JIM ROHN 


LATEST NEWS

Health Care District to meet

September 18th, 2024|

||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND HEALTH CARE DISTRICT ||| Board Meeting - Special - September 19, 2024 The Orcas Island Health Care District Board will hold a Special Board Meeting on Thursday, September 19, 2024  from 12:30 - 2:00 PM in Maria's Room at the Orcas Island Library, 500 Rose Street, Eastsound.  The agenda

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Letter to Editor | I’m all in for Kari McVeigh

September 18th, 2024|

||| FROM STEPHANIE PRIMA ||| Kari McVeigh has the experience, the skills, and the vision to move our county out of this current 'stuck' position. She fully understands the economic and environmental concerns of full-time island living, already has proposals to balance these needs, and knows how to listen to

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San Juan County Affordable Housing News Roundup – Fall 2024

September 18th, 2024|

Council approved five Affordable Housing Awards totaling $65,000 and allocated $30,000 to local Resource Centers via the Emergency Rental Assistance Pilot Project. ||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County continues to support affordable housing efforts throughout the islands via the Home Fund, the Affordable Housing Awards, Connecting Housing

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Animal rights group calls for release of Argentina’s last captive orca

September 18th, 2024|

||| FROM WJBD RADIO.COM ||| (LONDON) — Animal rights activists are calling for the release of an orca who has been living in Argentina’s largest aquarium for over 30 years. The orca named Kshamenk, pronounced Shamenk, is the last captive orca in all of Latin America, living in Buenos Aires’

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Letter to Editor | Land Bank is successful; let’s not lose it

September 17th, 2024|

||| FROM JANE WENTWORTH ||| I am proud to live in a county with a citizen-founded Land Bank. The forward-thinking citizens of San Juan County voted in 1990 to establish the Land Bank real estate excise tax (REET), after helping to create the state enabling legislation. Citizens have renewed it

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New orca calf born to Southern Resident L pod

September 17th, 2024|

||| FROM KING-TV ||| A very young orca calf was spotted off the coast of San Juan Island Monday. The calf is the newest member of the L pod subgroup. According to the Center for Whale Research, the calf, L128 and its mother, L90, both look healthy and appear to

Art Opening | Robert Dash

September 16th, 2024|

||| FROM ORCAS CENTER ||| Orcas Center’s Visual Arts Committee (VAC) is pleased to present the next Art Opening, Friday, September 27 from 5:30pm – 7pm with featured artist, Robert Dash in the lobby, and a community show of Drawings and Prints in the Madrona Room. Robert Dash is an

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PFFAP applications open to support local infrastructure and small businesses

September 16th, 2024|

||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Starting today, applications are open for the Public Facilities Funding Assistance Program (PFFAP). Funded by sales and use tax, this program allows for local entities to apply for funding to finance public facilities serving economic development purposes.   What is PFFAP?  San Juan County

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Letter to Editor | A cascade of management failures

September 16th, 2024|

||| FROM MICHAEL RIORDAN, FRED KLEIN, and ROBERT AUSTIN |||  On Saturday EWUA members received yet another in a long chain of email letters purportedly written by Board President Teri Nigretto, claiming to absolve General Manager Dan Burke of his unauthorized misappropriation of over $10,000 in member funds. Upon closer

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