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“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.”
THOMAS PYNCHON
Sheriff’s Report | May 31 – June 6, 2021
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, MAY 31 23-003931 Unconscious ALS 07:26:54 05/31/23 A Deputy on Orcas Island was dispatched to a report of an unconscious person. The person was found to be deceased. A report was taken. 23-003935 Fraud 09:39:16 05/31/23 A San Juan Deputy took
World’s largest single-masted sailing yacht stops by Orcas
"Because if you wait long enough on Orcas, everything will come to you." - an Orcas islander ||| BY LIN MCNULTY, EDITOR ||| I like that I am able to sit and wait for the world to come to me, rather than be on a mad scramble to see all
County publishes answers to frequently asked questions about Killebrew Lake Road closure
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County’s Public Works Department will be replacing a culvert for Bayhead Creek on Killebrew Lake Road. What is this project? The County will replace a culvert on Killebrew Lake Road, just east of Laporte Road. The FEMA-funded project will install
Sign up now for Whale Museum’s Marine Naturalist Training Program
||| FROM TRACIE MERRELL for WHALE MUSEUM ||| The Whale Museum’s Marine Naturalist Training Program is a high-quality, immersive experience that leaves graduates qualified as a regional professional or volunteer naturalist. The Summer 2023 Program will be entirely in-person here on San Juan Island. You can earn a Whale Museum
San Juan Islands Sculpture Park summer art series returns
Saturdays from 2-4pm June 17 - September 2 (excepting August 19) ||| FROM KRISTIN ARNIM for SJI SCULPTURE PARK ||| Save your Saturday afternoons for some fun, free art at the San Juan Islands Sculpture Park! We are returning for a second year of hands-on, collaborative sculpture creation. All sculpture
Homegrowers: Call Food Bank before you harvest
||| FROM RICK RHOADS for ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK ||| It’s growing season! Each year dozens of you harvest more than you can consume, and each year thoughtful growers share their harvest with friends and neighbors, including via the Food Bank. To make it easy for growers and to cut down on food waste,
Occam’s Razor | Our island, our world through the eyes, pen of S.C. Watson
Welcome to our weekly feature, Occam's Razor, from local artist S.C. Watson.
WSF report | Thanks to Walla Walla crew, community meetings feedback, construction projects continue thru summer
||| FROM PATTY RUBSTELLO for WASHINGTON STATE FERRIES ||| Governor thanks ferry employees working during the Walla Walla grounding On Friday, Gov. Jay Inslee personally thanked several of our employees for their professionalism and expertise in the moments before and after Walla Walla ran aground in Rich Passage on April 15. A fuel issue
FHFF inspires Spring Street students with ‘Pasang’ screening before Nepal trip
||| FROM ELLEN ROBERTS for FRIDAY HARBOR FILM FESTIVAL ||| When Friday Harbor Film Festival heard that a group of eight students, led by Louis Prussack, Head of the school, were heading off May 13th on a three-week adventure in Nepal, they decided to provide a special screening of Pasang:
Celebrate ‘Living High’ at upcoming Library event
||| FROM SAM GAILEY for ORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY ||| Celebrating Living High, the remarkable story of June & Farrar Burn. First published in 1941, Living High has remained in print through decades. The new edition includes previously unseen photographs and an expanded epilogue by Skye Burn, June & Farrar’s granddaughter.
County to host project information meeting Re: Killebrew Lake Rd closure & Bayhead Creek culvert
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| The County’s Public Works Department is hosting a project information meeting to discuss questions and concerns regarding the Bayhead Creek Culvert Replacement project which necessitates the closure of Killebrew Lake Road. The meeting is scheduled for Monday, June 12 at the Orcas Landing
San Juan County names interim director of Department of Community Development
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County has named Norm Gollub as Interim Director of the Department of Community Development (DCD). Gollub has extensive experience throughout Washington State in the areas of land use and community development. He will guide DCD for the next several months as
County to share community development updates at Orcas Island meeting
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| The public is invited to join County staff, including County Manager Mike Thomas and Council Chair Cindy Wolf, at a Community Development-focused meeting on June 13 at the Orcas Center. The meeting will take place in the Madrona Room from 4:00pm-5:00pm. As San
County Council will convene on Orcas Island for upcoming June 13 meeting
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| San Juan County Council will hold its next regularly scheduled, June 13 meeting on Orcas Island. The public is invited to join the three councilmembers and County staff at the meeting at the Orcas Center from 5 - 7:30 p.m. What: San Juan
In search of Orcas litterers; this time it’s the lipsticked coffee drinker
||| FROM WILLIAM THOMPSON -- THE ROAD GUY ||| For two months now, a morning coffee drinker who gets her coffee at Orcas Hotel, tosses her lipstick stained cup out the window as she approaches Eastsound. Only the Orcas Hotel uses this type of cup. The servers at the Hotel
San Juan County’s fire danger level increases to MODERATE
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| Effective Monday June 5, 2023, San Juan County, WA fire danger level increases to MODERATE as fuels continue to dry out. Moderate fire danger means that all fine dead fuels like dried grasses ignite readily, and fires start easily. Residents and visitors alike
