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-- from Rock Island Communications -- San Juan County is allowing Rock Island Communications to install fiber optic cable in the conduit associated with the County's Eastsound Village streetlight project. “Co-locating our fiber optic cable in the streetlight conduit will save businesses located in Eastsound Village a great deal on connection costs,” said Gerry Lawlor,
-- from Rock Island Communications and OPALCO -- General Manager Foster Hildreth announced today that Orcas Power and Light Cooperative (OPALCO) has acquired Rock Island Communications. Rock Island will merge its staff, infrastructure and operations with OPALCO to deliver modern, scalable and reliable broadband services for homes and businesses in San Juan County. “The full
-- by Don Webster -- Remember OPALCO? It was that friendly, financially conservative San Juan electrical Coop that did such a great job of supplying our electricity at rates below much of the nation. It had the foresight to take the initiative to bury most of its transmission lines to improve reliability and also
-- by Margie Doyle -- Over two years ago, I sat at the Lower with a group of my peers (female Boomers of wit and conscience) and tried to puzzle out our hyper, electronic, internet, wi-fi, cloudy, broadband world. We've all spent over 25 years working with Apples and PCs and at least 15 years
-- from Suzanne Olson -- At the October meeting of OPALCO’s Board of Directors, it was announced that Island Network will be re-created as a new entity and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Co-op to provide Internet services. Gerry Lawlor has been hired as Manager of the new entity along with Alan Smith, Field Superintendent and
SEPARATE ENTITY TO DELIVER INTERNET SERVICES TO CO-OP MEMBERS -- from Suzanne Olson, OPALCO -- At Thursday’s meeting of the OPALCO Board of Directors, a motion was unanimously approved that includes a $7.5 million acceleration of our efforts to provide member Internet connections to as many members as possible – and, eventually, serve the entire
-- by Gerry Lawlor -- Gerry Lawlor I recently attended the OPALCO Annual Meeting and I left the boat with a mixture of feelings about what is in front of our community and the role OPALCO will play in the area of telecommunications. Let me say upfront I am a fervent believer in
-- from the Orcas Island Community Foundation -- The Orcas Island Community Foundation (OICF) is beginning new work on needs assessment for the island based on a report from the OICF Needs Assessment Task Force, completed in December 2013. This update follows the Foundation’s 2011 Needs Assessment Report, and was the result of six months’
In recognition of Poetry Month, and to celebrate our treasure trove of Orcas Island poets, Orcas Issues is pleased and honored to offer daily poetry during April. JUST A SCRATCH ON THE BUTT by Audra Query Lawlor I watched him lazily cross the street his dirty white coat matted with debris and turned back to
“The Future of the Euro” Thursday, April 25 at 6 pm at the Eastsound Fire Hall From the Orcas Island Public Library Financial experts Gerry Lawlor and Audra Query-Lawlor will share fascinating and personal perspectives on global economies. They will range over a variety of inter-related topics, beginning with Europe’s huge challenges in facing the