Merrymakers gathered once again to share live indie music, make crafts and enjoy food together at the 12th annual Woodsong Arts and Music Festival.
Waiting at the Anacortes ferry terminal for five hours, the Coats found something constructive to do: they fine tuned a spot-on vocal imitation of bagpipes, composing a new song they called, “Get There Earlier Next Time”.
The brief tune inspired raucous mirth at Orcas Center on Sunday night, and the crowd drove home with faces aching from laughing so hard.
Colton Harris-Moore is turning down book and movie offers, saying his latest jaunt as an outlaw wasn’t anything to emulate – in fact, he was scared silly.
According to attorney John Henry Browne, the teen suspect ignored a June offer of $50,000 and free representation by lawyer Jim Johanson because he was too afraid to turn himself in.
Islanders on Lopez, Orcas and San Juan met and questioned candidates for sheriff, Legislature and Congress, during primary election forums…
Low Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements are hurting some local practices, say doctors.
Orcas residents who were alarmed at the disappearance of the Orcas sheriff phone number with the 376 prefix can rest assured: nothing has really changed.
What does Orcas Island get back in return for all the taxes it pays to San Juan County?
The Orcas Park and Rec District discussed this issue at their July 8 meeting. Before asking the community to approve a park and rec district levy, they wanted to examine how taxes already collected by the county help to support Orcas parks.
Orcas islanders gathered to shear their locks at a potluck and hair-cutting party last week, collecting bags of hair to be made into oil-absorbent booms to help mop up the Gulf of Mexico. Some guests even brought their pets to be shorn for the cause.
Deckhand Kacie Guthrie’s clear voice drifts across the harbor as two lines of passengers and crew haul away in unison, raising the one-ton mainsail pull by pull.
New Italian eatery Luna’s has emerged from a long winter eclipse and is ready to tarantella by the light of the moon under the practiced hands of Orcas islanders Heather and Kim Thomas.
“I could never think of it as anything but an Italian restaurant,” said Heather, who remembers eating at La Famiglia with her family as a young child.
Before tackling the highest peak in North America, islander Greg Ripley’s only mountaineering experience was on 2,409-foot Mt. Constitution.
Ripley described the experience as “walking into the unknown”.
“This has been a dream of mine, to climb this mountain, ever since I was a child,” he said.
The sign that formerly announced that Madrona Point is closed to the public has been changed, now reading, “Madrona Point is Sacred Ground, Leave no Trash”.
A large evergreen tree crashed through a guest lodging building at Orcas Suites at Rosario this week.
The tree “did a considerable amount of damage,” said general manager Dick Hansen, crushing part of the roof and one guest room, as well as the deck and stairway.
