Orcas Island High School has been honored as one of the nation’s top schools by US News and World Report…
Greg White is orchestrating a twice-a-week lunch hour knitting group for 4th to 6th graders in a quiet corner of the school library, assisted by Poppies Fabric owner Cheryl Jackson, who has been instrumental in gathering donations from generous islanders. White and Jackson hand out supplies, get the kids started, and are there to help if they get stuck or have questions.
A VW bus completely engulfed in flames stopped traffic on Crow Valley Road this morning around 10 a.m., just south of the intersection with Nordstrom Lane. Orcas Fire and Rescue members were on the scene hosing down the blaze while the vehicle’s owner stood by watching with his dog. The fire began slowly at the rear of the vehicle, and no one was injured. The firemen said a magnesium fire underneath the bus was flaming green.
Zack White and Annalies Schuh win first place. The Orcas Island High School sailors’ win represents first out-of-district win for any team in the Northwest District.
The Orcas Island Yacht Club honored Betsy Wareham and Burke Thomas as “2010 Visionaries” at its annual winter gala, the Commodore’s Ball. Wareham serves as the club’s official handicapper; Thomas as the middle and high school level junior sailing captain.
Hollywood actor Zack Silva made his debut at age 11 on the Orcas Center stage, in a play called Godspell.
“I played a little guardsman. I did my karate up on stage,” said Silva, who grew up on the island, the son of Chuck and Ronni Silva.
“Godspell had an incredible run,” said Silva.
During the last weeks they ran practices in the pitch dark, the field lit by the glare of a fire truck spotlight. When the snow got too deep, they move
Local nurse, doula and student midwife Laurie Gallo is offering Birthworks!, a monthly meeting for pregnant moms and moms of newborns to connect and learn. Birthworks! offers a place and a time for parents and other interested folk to meet, learn from an expert, and share heart-to-heart about all the issues surrounding pregnancy, childbirth, and infancy.
Deer Harbor’s Cayou Lagoon is slowly silting up, choking under a thick layer of mud.
Bob and Meg Connor, who own a 140-acre estate bordering the lagoon, remember playing “Pooh sticks” with their children off the Channel Road bridge in the 1970’s, dropping bits of wood off the upstream side.
“We saw millions of fish going into the lagoon,” said Bob. “There used to be oysters, crabs.” Now, he says, people are incredulous at these stories; there are few signs of life in the murky depths.
For the twelfth dinner of Christmas, Deer Harbor Inn Restaurant gave to the community: great splendid roasted turkeys. Not to…
Fire Department stages live fire exercise in Deer Harbor.
The massive lioness gazed over the mouth of Doe Bay for four decades, sunk back on her mighty haunches, watching over her domain from the bluff. She stood fast through wind-blown salt spray and drizzling rain, her wooden flanks slowly fading to grey, and never left her post.
Years back, when Susan Weber called her three Dalmatians into the house, it was gentle Lady who fetched deaf and oblivious Dally-Mae using a nudge of her nose.
