Four San Juan County students competed along with 41 other top-notch spellers from Island, Skagit and Snohomish counties in the…
Lanie Padbury stole the game. It was the top of the 7th and the score was tied against rival La…
The Orcas softball girls chalked up another easy pre-league win on March 24 against Bellevue Christian. The score hit 11…
Orcas is celebrating National Poetry Month in April with multiple feasts of the linguistic sort. Orcas Center is hosting the…
Orcasites may have been perplexed and amazed in recent months at the sight of a nine-foot long, banana-like vehicle flying down local roads. Rainshadow Solar proprietor John Mottl’s bright yellow velomobile should make anyone smile: it can roll over hill and dale, at a cost of five pennies for every 60 miles.
Rainshadow Solar proprietor John Mottl’s bright yellow velomobile should make anyone smile: it can roll over hill and dale, at a cost of five pennies for every 60 miles. But Mottl rides for free, as he’s been off the grid for over 25 years and powers his velomobile, called the Quest, with the excess energy from his solar panels.
Last week the Port of Orcas board passed a long-debated resolution that charges 28 adjoining parcels with deeded airport access rights each a $100 annual fee for use of the airport.
“We did not get here lightly,” said commissioner Bret Thurman. “This has been tough on everyone involved.”
Islander Alex Huppenthal has been working hard to garner community support for bringing ultra high-speed internet access to San Juan County through Google’s new gigabit internet experiment. In his view, it would be “a quantum leap” from the current available access. His Facebook group, “Bring Google Gigabit Internet to the San Juan Islands,” has 199 supporters to date. He is encouraging community members to visit the site and to fill out a brief survey.
It was a flight of both the fancy and the plain, the exotically engineered and the good old mundane.
A rumpled pile of shoes at the high school gym door welcomed over 42 stocking-footed participants of all ages to the 15th Orcas Island Kiwanis paper airplane contest, where they created and flew paper airplanes of all shapes and sizes: triangular, square-shouldered, snub-nosed, or built like a Star Wars spacecraft.
The Lady Vikings are heading into another fast-pitch season with three early non-league wins in their pocket. The girls took…
A beloved island culinary legend, Christina’s Restaurant, has shuttered its doors forever.
“That day is over; Christina’s is done,” said Christina Orchid, who opened her namesake establishment thirty years ago, in 1980.
She said the restaurant will never open under that name again.
Christina and her husband Bruce operated the restaurant together until June 15, 2008, when they arranged to sell the restaurant to Maureen Mullen, formerly of Seattle.
Possibly cutting the track and field was an easy enough call, but after that the agony began. The Orcas School…
Orcas middle and high-school students may be seeing more standardized tests in the future. Currently, students see their first timed…
“We’re on fire! We want broadband now! So we’re meeting up at the fire station on Orcas Island,” says enthusiastic organizer Alex Huppenthal. “We’re rallying local residents, activists and contributors to help express interest in Google Broadband Internet. Google plans to install between 50,000 and 500,000 individuals with Gigabit Internet access. That is over 1,000 times faster than the typical island connection. That’s a quantum leap!”
