A fun and helpful zoom session with Monique Mead

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A fun and helpful zoom session with Monique Mead

Submitted by Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival.

An appeal from the Orcas Senior Center

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An appeal from the Orcas Senior Center

Submitted by the Orcas Senior Center.

Orcas Food Co-op’s 6th annual member meeting: Thriving Together

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Orcas Food Co-op’s 6th annual member meeting: Thriving Together

Submitted by Orcas Food Co-op.

Friday Harbor Virtual Film Festival coming Oct. 15-25

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Friday Harbor Virtual Film Festival coming Oct. 15-25

All films will be available on-demand for 10 days, Oct. 15-25.

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Thank you Orcas Island and thank you Kevin Ranker

Submitted by The Orcas Island Community Foundation

Dave Castor honored by Moran State Park

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Dave Castor honored by Moran State Park

On Sept. 13, friends gathered to recognize volunteer Dave Castor.

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Friends of the library to elect directors

The meeting will be held virtually.

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Skagit Farmers Supply provides scholarship to an Orcas student

Skagit Farmers Supply has announced eight “Careers in Agriculture” scholarship awards to students for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Katie Jones/ Contributed photo, Center for Whale Research. Permit #21238                                J35 with her new calf J57.

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New calf born to Jpod

J35, Tahlequah, has given birth.

Three ways to catch Eth-Noh-Tec in September

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Three ways to catch Eth-Noh-Tec in September

Virtual storytelling!

Mussels are farmed on ropes suspended in the water. Mussels anchor themselves to the rope and other substrates by producing a network of fibers known as byssal threads. Photo taken at Penn Cove Shellfish LLC in Coupeville, Washington. (M. Stone, UW Media/contributed photo)

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The energetic cost of mussel byssal thread attachment

Specialized biological structures are key for organisms’ survival.

4-H’ers live up to “Learn by Doing” slogan at first ever virtual Fair

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4-H’ers live up to “Learn by Doing” slogan at first ever virtual Fair

4-H’ers live up to “Learn by Doing” slogan at first ever virtual Fair

Researcher Mark Sears permit #21348/contributed photo                                J56 and J3.

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Commercial and recreational boaters asked to“Take The Pledge” to protect pregnant orcas

Whale-watch companies asked to stop disturbing critically endangered orcas