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    Happy holidays | Editorial
    By Heather Spaulding • December 27, 2023 1:30 am

    As 2023 lets out a yawn, stretches and begins to put its pajamas on, giving pause to reflect on the…

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    Photo by Bundo Kim on Unsplash.
    Post Office working overtime to deliver onslaught of...
    By Heather Spaulding • December 17, 2023 1:30 am

    A change in Amazon shipping has left rural post offices across the country overwhelmed. Locally, in already understaffed post offices,…

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    Heather Spaulding Staff photos
    Islanders speak out on the Middle East
    By Heather Spaulding • December 7, 2023 1:30 am

    Hearing about the thousands of people, largely women and children, who have been killed during and since the Hamas attack…

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    Election results are in | Orcas fire levy...
    By Heather Spaulding • November 8, 2023 1:30 am

    As of press time, 1,700 ballots were left to be counted. According to the San Juan County Elections Office staff…

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One pup takes a good look at the humans gathered on the shoreline.
    Return to the wild
    By Heather Spaulding • November 3, 2023 1:30 am

    Five seal pups may not have realized it, but Oct. 21 was to be their last morning in the Wolf…

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    Friday Harbor man pleads guilty to Voyeurism
    By Heather Spaulding • November 1, 2023 1:30 am

    Ryan Hargrave Bennett, 46, of Friday Habor, pleaded guilty Oct. 10 to a charge of voyeurism.

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    Islanders urged to read and provide input to...
    By Heather Spaulding • October 19, 2023 1:30 am

    Islanders are all familiar with the sight of walls of people walking off the ferry and the seemingly never-ending traffic…

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    Contributed photo by Sophie McCoy/UNC
Healthy harbor seals in a tide pool along the coast of Washington State. Puget Sound seal populations are considered healthy.
    Avian flu spreads to seals in nearby county
    By Heather Spaulding • October 7, 2023 1:30 am

    Five harbor seals died just a strait away from San Juan County at Fort Flagler State Park on Marrowstone Island…

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San Juan County Prosecutor Amy Vira provides the ins and outs of a coroner.
    San Juan County Prosecutor Amy Vira provides the...
    By Heather Spaulding • September 30, 2023 1:30 am

    Death does not abide by 9-5 working hours.

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Baby sea stars being relocated from the lab to the wild.
    Saving the gregarious Sunflower stars
    By Heather Spaulding • September 5, 2023 1:30 am

    Faceless and still, it would be easy at first glance to miss the tiny tube feet and mistake a sunflower…

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    Body found in the water
    By Heather Spaulding • August 14, 2023 1:30 am

    A body was found in the water off the Eastside of San Juan Island on July 26. An investigation is…

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    Two ferry workers assaulted
    By Heather Spaulding • August 10, 2023 1:30 am

    Steven Yates, a 52-year-old Alaskan man, was arrested for assaulting a Washington State Ferry crew member.

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    Editorial
    When shame protects criminals | Editorial
    By Heather Spaulding • August 9, 2023 1:30 am

    A girl was sexually abused by her father, and nothing was done. That same child was later pulled out of…

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