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After several severe storm warnings and the canceling of many community events, the final numbers show gusts reached 70 miles per hour on the coast and 40 in the interior of Western Washington. Eastsound experienced wind gusts up to 32 mph on Friday, and 39 mph on Saturday. As for the severe weather warning, most islanders are asking, "Where did the storm go?"
On Oct. 1, Washington State Ferries began transitioning from its previous food vendor, Olympic Cascade Services, to Centerplate. Olympic Cascade Service has until Oct. 10 to vacate the San Juan Island ferries.
At 8:45 this morning, a Kenmore plane with four passengers went down in Cattle Pass off the shore of San Juan Island. Good Samaritan aboard the vessel Northern Rose recovered four people, one woman and three men, in the water. According to San Juan County Sheriff Ron Krebs, all the plane crash survivors are alive with minor injuries and are being treated at a nearby hospital. One person has a slight laceration and the others have possible hypothermia. According to a KIRO 7 news report the Kenmore Air flight departed from Lake Union at 8 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 30.
It's been called "a dirty act done publicly;" it "grabs you by the throat and never releases," and it disturbs.
Two Minnesota men were found dead on a Lopez Island beach last week. In the wake of their murder-suicide, an even darker story has emerged: the couple was allegedly involved in the sexual abuse of a 16-year-old-boy.
A local diver died after experiencing medical complications near Johns Island on Tuesday afternoon.
Jessica Lynne Whitis, 25, of Friday Harbor, is charged with vehicular assault, assault in the third degree, two counts of reckless endangerment, violating a no-contact/protect order for domestic violence, driving under the influence and resisting arrest. Her arraignment is set for Sept. 2 in San Juan Superior Court.
Megan Christine Mackinnon, 27, of Arlington, Wash., is charged with malicious mischief in the first degree.
A jury found 59-year-old Orcas Island High School teacher Gerald Grellet-Tinner guilty of two counts of Sexual Misconduct in the FirstDegree.
He was an older man and Susan had just turned 18. After he started physically and sexually assaulting her, she was ashamed and afraid that the community would not stand by her if she left him. When she thought he would actually kill her – seven years into their relationship – she ran away with nothing but a few clothes. She was free from bodily harm, but she had to face another obstacle: the people who did not believe her.
