The San Juan County Council directed Department of Community Development staff to develop a draft of greenhouse regulations in March.
In some cases there are cheaper alternatives to the price of a patient’s medication. According to Cristina DuVall, pharmacy manager at Friday Harbor Drug, pharmacists cannot offer these cheaper options unless a patient inquires, because limitations put on them by contracts and laws. Their intent, said DuVall, is to keep pharmacists by being influenced by drug companies and choosing a medication for a patient that might not be the right fit.
Heavy drumbeats from across the water announced the arrival of the Chief George Hunt Memorial Dance Group to Henry Island Friday, Aug. 7. The members of Kwakwaka’wakw Nation came to bless a totem pole commissioned by Craig Tall for McCracken Point, carved by Tom D. Hunt, son of hereditary Chief George Hunt and Mary Hunt.
Since May, predictably, jobs in the leisure and hospitality sector have increased with the tourist season as well as jobs in trade, transportation and utilities.
An Orcas man has been charged with trafficking in stolen property in the first degree, identity theft in the first degree and identity theft in the second degree.
Orcas Power and Light Cooperative members are seeing continued rate increases as it continues to collect less revenue due to lower kilowatt-hour sales.
The morning of July 10, an employee of the golf course opened the store and found the cash register and tip jar empty.
The San Juan County Council has issued a statement that Manager Mike Thomas was not in the wrong in reference to a wetlands evaluation on a San Juan Island property.
Orcas Island resident Peter William Sherman, 27, has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon in the second degree for an incident on July 4 in Eastsound, Orcas Island. Bail was set at $10,000. Sherman is awaiting a trial set for Sept. 21.
The autopsy of an Orcas Island man found off of a North Whidbey beach June 24 showed he died of saltwater drowning, according to Island County coroner Robert Bishop.
A survivor of sex trafficking shared her story last week, in hopes that she could keep others from experiencing the life that she was forced into
