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The hype about 5G | Part 2

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

Steve Alboucq photo                                Above: Tiffany Loney

Life

‘Chicago’ premieres at Orcas Center

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

CNN Photo | Graph showing where the higher range 5G frequencies land on the electromagnetic spectrum

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Part I | The hype about 5g

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

Compost Queens

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Compost Queens

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

Contributed Photo | Rick Larsen celebrates at the Olga Store, helps FOSB receive their tax-exempt status

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Rick Larsen: Dad Joke King

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

Contributed photo                                 Ashling Gordon rehearsing during one of two eight-hour rehearsal days

Life

Orcas High School students return to Carnegie Hall

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

Contributed Photo | The Olga Store building dressed in white during snow days 2020

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Olga Store is now community-owned

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

Why we celebrate love | Editorial

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Why we celebrate love | Editorial

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

I Saw You / You Saw Me

Life

I Saw You / You Saw Me

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

New 4g LTE antenna on roof of Napa

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New 4g LTE antenna on roof of Napa

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

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.

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Place as a muse in ‘Ode’ to Orcas Island

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

Contributed photo | Excavators remove material at the intersection of West Beach and Enchanted Forest roads

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West Beach Culvert replacement project completed

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

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.

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Friends of the Olga Store make an offer

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