Here’s a thought…
“Like the drunk guy at the bar who doesn’t drink.”
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL
There’s a moon on the rise
||| BY LIN MCNULTY, EDITOR ||| Whether it is a bad moon on the rise, or a good moon on the rise remains to be seen and, of course, is subject to a multitude of opinions. In the meantime, we can all enjoy the rising moon and be pretty damn
Letter to Editor | Non-issues from the 2020 election campaign
||| FROM DOUG MARSHALL ||| Sometimes what is NOT said is more interesting than what is said. The political discussion of the past few months surprised me by largely ignoring four issues that until recently had been very contentious. What Budget Deficit? From 1980 through the Tea Party elections of
PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center earns top rating for cardiothoracic survey program
||| FROM DEBRA ELLEFSON for PEACEHEALTH ||| October 3, 2020 — FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash., — PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center located in Bellingham, Wash., has earned a distinguished three-star rating from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) for its patient care and outcomes in cardiothoracic surgery. The three-star rating, which denotes
Food Bank recruiting two AmeriCorps service members for their team
||| FROM ORCAS FOOD BANK ||| Join our amazing team! We are currently recruiting 2 AmeriCorps service members starting Dec 1st, 2020. Service members are eligible for a monthly stipend of $1,938, and if the service term is completed, members will receive a $6,195 educational award toward student loans or
Hot Topic #33 | Let’s be honest: A discussion about the holidays and minimizing transmission risk
||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN, DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT ||| Everything about the COVID crisis has been uncertain and ever-changing. Partly as a result of that, we’re all left scratching our heads wondering why some things are allowed and others prohibited. It is difficult to know what is safe vs. high risk,
New COVID-19 case on Orcas has possible connection to previous case
||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN, DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ||| One new positive COVID test result has been reported in San Juan County, for an Orcas Island resident. This is the 37th case reported in San Juan County. Based on comprehensive interviews, it appears there is a connection between this test
Senior Center, Doe Bay Wine preparing for a ‘virtual vineyard’ fundraiser
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Join Orcas Senior Center and Doe Bay Wine Company’s Cole Sisson in the virtual vineyard for a fun, festive and informative hour of wine tasting and food pairing on Sunday, November 22nd at 5:00pm. You will learn how to pair your favorite wines with
Our place in the Universe and what we share with all life
A HUMBLE PERSPECTIVE: Focus on how similar we are, and what we share with all life, and all of the Universe. ( visual — image of Chicago area, the northern lights, and the Milky Way from the Space Station ) ||| BY BRUCE HANNA ||| Our Milky Way
You can help the Food Bank be a huge ‘hero’ during November
||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK ||| YOU can help us be a huge Co-op Hero! When visiting the Orcas Food Co-op during the month of November, the Orcas Food Co-op Community Hero Program gives you two easy opportunities to contribute to the Orcas Island Food Bank: Register Round-up. This
Boards, commissions, committees need your service
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS ||| The County Council is searching for San Juan County citizens to fill current and upcoming vacancies on various boards and commissions. Additional information about each committee is available on the County's website at: http://sanjuanco.com/641/Board-Committee-Vacancies. Persons interested in serving on a board or advisory committee
Letter to Editor | Rick Hughes approaches issues with an open mind
||| FROM MAX HANSON ||| With COVID cases surging around the country, it is worth remarking that San Juan County has one of the lowest per capita infection rates of any county in a state that has one of the lowest rates in the country. As federal leadership seems to
Inslee announces technology investment for Washington students, staff
||| FROM GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE'S OFFICE ||| Gov. Jay Inslee today announced the allocation of $24 million in Coronavirus Relief Funds to purchase approximately 64,000 computing devices for students across the state. These devices will enable students to receive their education in the new COVID-19 remote learning environment. The first
These folks have been harvesting bee cocoons at Orcas School garden
||| FROM DIANNE MACONDRAY FOR ORCAS MASTER GARDENERS ||| On October 19th. a small contingent of the Orcas Master Gardeners harvested Mason and Leaf Cutter Bee cocoons from nesting materials at the Orcas School garden. The group cleaned up the cocoons for winter storage and fed any parasitic insects to
Letter to Editor | Will you allow me to hunt on your land?
||| FROM ELISHA GESSELE ||| I am an archery hunter and was drawn for a second deer permit on Orcas Island. There are small sections of public land available to hunt but I was curious as to if there are landowners who frequent The Orcasonian that would allow me to
Pandemic? These local witches don’t care
||| BY LIN MCNULTY, EDITOR ||| A bevy of witches -- or is it a coven?-- came from seemingly nowhere on Saturday to sweep about the shores of Eastsound aboard a fleet of paddle boards, because what else is a good sea-going witch to do but adapt to the rules
Kruse Reviews | What Were We Thinking
||| BY JENS KRUSE ||| Carlos Lozada, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning nonfiction book critic of The Washington Post, has done us a great service. With a heroic combination of persistence, diligence, stamina and masochism he has read around 150 books about Trump, Trumpism, and the Trump presidency, and has distilled them for
