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    Articles by Laura Kussman
    The hype about 5G | Part 2
    The hype about 5G | Part 2
    By Laura Kussman • March 25, 2020 1:30 am

    Note: This is part two of a two-part series about 5G in the San Juan Islands. To read part one,…

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    Steve Alboucq photo                                Above: Tiffany Loney
    ‘Chicago’ premieres at Orcas Center
    By Laura Kussman • March 10, 2020 1:30 am

    Update: Due to the global outbreak of COVID-19, Chicago has been postponed for a later 2020 date.

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    CNN Photo | Graph showing where the higher range 5G frequencies land on the electromagnetic spectrum
    Part I | The hype about 5g
    By Laura Kussman • March 4, 2020 1:00 am

    In the wake of the news that Verizon Wireless will begin installing a new 4G LTE cellular antenna on the…

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    Contributed Photo | Rick Larsen celebrates at the Olga Store, helps FOSB receive their tax-exempt status
    Rick Larsen: Dad Joke King
    By Laura Kussman • February 29, 2020 1:30 am

    A wide range of topics were covered by U.S. Rep Rick Larsen (WA-02) during his most recent community town hall…

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    Compost Queens
    Compost Queens
    By Laura Kussman • February 29, 2020 1:30 am

    It’s the first Community Composting Task Force Meeting and the topic of the evening is worms.

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    Contributed photo                                 Ashling Gordon rehearsing during one of two eight-hour rehearsal days
    Orcas High School students return to Carnegie Hall
    By Laura Kussman • February 13, 2020 1:30 am

    For the fifth year in a row, students enrolled in the Orcas Island High School strings program flew to New…

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    Contributed Photo | The Olga Store building dressed in white during snow days 2020
    Olga Store is now community-owned
    By Laura Kussman • February 8, 2020 3:00 pm

    For the first time in a decade, the 100-year-old, Orcas Island milled, cedar flooring inside the Olga Store will come…

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    Why we celebrate love | Editorial
    Why we celebrate love | Editorial
    By Laura Kussman • February 8, 2020 1:30 am

    One of my favorite definitions of love I discovered in RZA’s book “The Tao of Wu” when I was a…

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    I Saw You / You Saw Me
    I Saw You / You Saw Me
    By Laura Kussman • January 21, 2020 1:30 am

    The Islands’ Sounder is launching a new column in 2020: “I Saw You / You Saw Me,” otherwise known as,…

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    New 4g LTE antenna on roof of Napa
    New 4g LTE antenna on roof of Napa
    By Laura Kussman • January 20, 2020 1:30 am

    Verizon Wireless has been issued a permit from the San Juan County Department of Community Development to install a new…

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    Contributed photo of sketches by Robin Lee Carlson | Artist and biologist Robin Lee Carlson hiked Cascade Creek from Mountain Lake to the San Juan County Land Bank’s Coho Preserve to sketch these images.
    Place as a muse in ‘Ode’ to Orcas...
    By Laura Kussman • January 15, 2020 1:30 am

    It had been a year in the making when locals Ayn Carrillo Gailey and Sara Cunningham Farish sat down to…

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    Contributed photo | Excavators remove material at the intersection of West Beach and Enchanted Forest roads
    West Beach Culvert replacement project completed
    By Laura Kussman • December 20, 2019 1:30 am

    It’s a brisk December afternoon, but the rain is withholding.

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    Contributed photo                                 On the porch: Board members Selby Lighthill, Gay Peresky, Colleen Stewart, Debbie Durand, Oshen Schiweck. Not present: Bizzy Riley and Frank Martin. Bottom: Joe Symons, Natalie Menacho, Cal Rogers, Chelsea Thorpe, Ritambhara Tyson, Shawna Hanan, Lorna Rhodes, Learner Limbach, Grace Chung, Dan Gottlieb.
    Friends of the Olga Store make an offer
    By Laura Kussman • December 10, 2019 1:30 am

    After a month of pledge-gathering, Friends of the Olga Store Building put in an offer to purchase the Olga Store…

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