The scoping workshop put on by Power Past Coal, a coalition of environmental and community groups, and Friends of the San Juans was held Thursday, Oct. 25, in Friday Harbor. A similar event on Lopez drew about 60 people the day before, and another 60 people were expected for an evening workshop on Orcas Island following the Friday Harbor meeting.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Oct. 11 that it had approved a $38.4 million loan to Orcas Power and Light Cooperative, including $24.3 million for smart grid technology.
Islanders voiced concerns last week about the county’s first-ever hospital and its affiliation with Franciscan Health Systems.
If the San Juan County Council needed proof it isn’t making anyone happy with its critical areas ordinance update, it got that proof at public hearings on Aug. 21.
“Pennies from Heaven” might be the theme song for the 2013 lodging tax facilities awards approved by the county council at its Aug. 28 meeting.
Orcas Recycling Services capitalized on a second chance to be part of the solid waste solution by persuading the county council to include it in contract negotiations with Cimarron Trucking for operation of the transfer site.
The competition for the contract to operate the Orcas transfer station may have spurred interest in operating the Sutton Road/Sundstrom property transfer station.
In her reelection bid, U.S. senator retraces earlier campaign success with an appearance at SJC Fair 2012
It’s a good day when somebody else wants to pay for just one project in San Juan County. So it’s “double your pleasure” day for San Juan and Lopez Islands when state and federal officials announced they’ll pay for projects in each location.
Orcas Recycling, operator of the Exchange at the Orcas Island transfer station, put on a full-court press to save its bid to operate the county-owned, but soon to be privatized, tipping floor and self-haul facility.
Recommendations by Charter Review Commission draw criticism of former freeholders
“Yes” is the answer. But the question is “when?”
After more than five years of meetings and hearings and work, San Juan County now has a “new and improved” regulatory framework for locating digital communications sites in the San Juan islands.
The San Juan Islands and surrounding waterways should be included as part of the official study of environmental impacts from the proposed Gateway Pacific coal terminal in Whatcom County, according to the San Juan County Council
