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The choices will be almost limitless when the soon-to-be-created Charter Review Commission gets around to conducting its review of San Juan County’s Home Rule charter, and then offers up a list of recommendations as to what that guiding document ought to contain in the future.
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The lawsuit was an attempt to broadly invalidate key protections in Whatcom County’s state-approved shoreline planning and development regulations, also called a shoreline master program. Ecology approved the county’s shoreline program in 2008.
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San Juan County is expecting a bit of a boost to its bottom line, but not enough to cancel out a nagging shortfall in anticipated revenue or to stave off another round of workforce reductions.
Legally, property owners can be charged an annual fee that would help bolster the county’s floundering solid waste operation without the say-so of local voters. Instead, the county council has opted to put the proposal on the November ballot.
A new era of enforcement will hit the roads of San Juan County, as well as the rest of the state, when Hailey’s Law goes into effect July 22.
An Orcas Island man who pleaded guilty to felony assault after a violent attack on the mother of his child was sentenced to 10 months in jail, four of which he will be allowed to serve on work release or on the county work crew.
A San Juan Island boy accused of murdering his mother and of setting fire to his Friday Harbor home will spend another 45 days in juvenile detention before finding out whether he will charged and tried as an adult.
An uptick in tipping fees won’t cure the long-standing ills of San Juan County’s solid waste operation, but it’s the backup plan for keeping the cash strapped utility financially afloat in the event voters shoot down the grand bailout that’s in store.
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