A Marysville man is believed to have taken his own life after authorities recovered a dinghy that was abandoned and…
To discourage appears to be about as far as the San Juan County Council is willing to go. The council…
April 14: A wandering band of pigs took its toll on a Lopez Island woman’s garden after they wiggled out…
The Wolverines got off to a shaky start by giving up three runs in the first inning of Saturday’s double header against Orcas.
But after that, it was all Friday Harbor.
The Lady Vikes notched up a league win against Darrington this week, with non-league losses to Lynden Christian and Seattle Lutheran.
The Vikings beat Darrington in five innings on April 21, by the 10 run rule at 13-3.
“That game was really good because we played a really sound defensive game, started to knock off the rust, the team really worked together well,” said Harris. “Our pitchers were sound and tight to the strike zone and our bats were really alive.” Lanie Padbury hit a double and a triple, and both April Hofmann and Emily Bodenhamer hit a triple as well.
San Juan County’s eight-month-old rules on selling products on the street corner are dead and gone.
They’ve been supplanted, however, by an ordinance which some claim is equally unconstitutional and in some ways is even worse.
The San Juan County Council on Tuesday voted without dissent to repeal a street-vending ordinance which it approved in July and to replace it with a new set of rules that prohibit vendors from using the public-right-of-way – sidewalks and streets – as a location to set up shop.
The cost to dispose of garbage is about to climb. On Tuesday, the San Juan County Council opted to move…
More land could become available for residential use in San Juan County’s rural areas in the wake of a recent…
An across-the-board rate-hike and an increase in the minimum fee are just part of latest solution.
But that’s a good place to start.
On March 16, the San Juan County Council unanimously endorsed an “emergency surcharge” under which all categories of tipping fees would be raised by 14 percent and the minimum fee for garbage disposal would go from $8 to $12. (The council took a step back from the $15 minimum fee it favored the week before).
Nearly twice as much.
That’s how much it could cost to dispose of a single can of garbage at San Juan County’s solid-waste transfer stations.
On Tuesday, the County Council endorsed a series of steps to help remedy the funding woes of its solid-waste operation in the short term and over the long haul as well. Included is an 87-percent increase on the price to dispose of a single can of garbage.
The search for a stable source of funding for the cash-strapped county solid-waste operation is headed backwards. The County Council…
The San Juan County Fair will have about $5,000 from the county general fund to help it get through 2010.
Whatever else the Fair might need to keep itself afloat, it will have to generate on its own.
That’s why prospects of a newly created land-use overlay have been welcomed with open arms at the headquarters of the county Fair. It sets the stage for the Fair to host and to cash-in on an assortment of activities and events that have long been prohibited by land-use restrictions that apply to all 14 acres of the fairgrounds in Friday Harbor.
Chalk up another claim to fame for the San Juan Islands. A recently released survey of Washington state’s 39 counties…
