Bald eagle nursed back to health following injuries sustained during in-flight fisticuffs
Three islanders are challenging the legality of voter-approved changes to the county charter, as well as state law, in a lawsuit filed last week in a Skagit County courtroom.
Not even its exceedingly spacious lobby, nor the balcony above, proved large enough to contain the hundreds of people who turned out Nov. 17 for the ceremonial ribbon-cutting and open house of the newly constructed hospital on San Juan Island.
The bleachers inside the gym were awash in a sea of red, the color of choice of the anti-coal crowd.
Outside the high school, the sidewalks were rimmed with placards touting the jobs and economic opportunities that an export facility built for coal would bring if permitted as proposed to nearby Cherry Point.
With results of a full-blown environmental review yet to come, it could be months before a verdict is handed down on the giant export facility proposed to be built at Cherry Point, just north of Bellingham.
County council candidates Marc Forlenza and Rick Hughes earned the endorsement of the labor union representing San Juan County employees in their respective races.
Two of the four showed no hesitation at all.
They dove directly into the waters of San Juan Island’s Shipyard Harbor and zipped across the calm, cool, shallow bay like they were headed for home. The other two? Not so much.
An Orcas Island man who knocked down a ferry worker while driving his pickup off a ferry docked in Friday Harbor and continued along his way has 30 hours of community service to perform for misdemeanor hit-and-run.
An 18-year-old San Juan Island man was flown to Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries following a single-car collision, Friday, near the intersection of Bailer Hill and False Bay roads.
San Juan County voters last week handed their local government a lifeline of new revenue in the form of a three-tenths of 1 percent increase in the local sales tax.
A Lopez Island man was ordered to serve 30 days in jail for walking away from the scene of high-speed crash and leaving behind a friend whose injuries proved too severe for him to leave the scene.
It came out of the chute with a slight lead on Election night.
And following Wednesday’s tally of an additional 1,226 primary election ballots, San Juan County’s public safety sales-tax measure would appear to be a sure thing. Billed on the ballot as Proposition 1, the measure surged to a 312-vote lead on the heels of Wednesday count. With only 600 ballots or so left to count, Auditor Milene Henley said that Prop. 1 is sure to pass.
Nearly a half dozen older laptops and iPads, a set of brand new bus radios and a small safe bolted to a floor are among equipment and items that disappeared following a pair of recent break-ins at Orcas Island School.
