After a few bumps in the road and some insistent communications to San Juan County council members from Orcas Recycling Services supporters, the contract for operating the Orcas Island transfer station will be discussed, but not voted on, at the county council hearing today.
The present $5 per parcel assessment for San Juan Islands Conservation District programs in San Juan County will be raised by $.05 per acre if an ordinance under consideration by the San Juan County Council is enacted.
In response to a recent Washington Court of Appeals ruling in a Pierce County case, San Juan County and the Town of Friday Harbor are in the process of amending their dangerous dog ordinances.
The San Juan County Council approved funding recommendations for tourism facilities grants totaling $411,000 for the coming year – a 12 percent increase over the amount allocated a year ago.
Agritourism is the latest buzzword for economic development and tourism professionals in San Juan County.
The San Juan Center of Skagit Valley College featured five graduates at or under 20 years of age and three near or over 40.
Just when one Orcas transfer station problem gets solved, another problem takes the stage.
San Juan County Sheriff Rob Nou on Tuesday presented the County Council with more than 20 pages of documents and almost as many reasons why the council should approve obtaining a new boat for law enforcement, firefighting, EMS and marine rescue purposes in San Juan County.
A day and a half of closed-session interviews with applicants for the open county manager position has reduced the field to two undisclosed finalists.
Controversy over a contract for high-tech aerial photographs of San Juan County clouded the final meeting of the six-person council on May 7.
Eighteen months after voters rejected the County Council’s plan for financing solid waste disposal operations with a property tax parcel fee, glitches in negotiations and financing are causing frustration and impatience on all sides, as schedules slip and costs mount in the county’s ongoing effort to privatize solid waste and recycling operations on Orcas and San Juan islands.
A new San Juan County Code Enforcement Ordinance is ready for public comment and council action.
Eighteen years after Howard Garrett, Ken Balcomb, and then-Governor Mike Lowry initiated the movement to return L-pod member Lolita from the Miami Seaquarium to her native Northwest waters, the National Marine Fisheries Service accepted a petition to consider whether Lolita should be included as part of the Endangered Species Act listing of Southern Resident killer whales, now numbered at 84 – plus Lolita.
