Thank you for reporting on the WSF. I started riding in the early ’60’s, living in Edmonds and coming to…
Quite a number of years ago I spent a long afternoon with an encyclopedia salesman. He was polite and persuasive. As a young parent I thought it my duty to hear him out and to consider the potential benefit of an encyclopedia set for my children. After all, it could influence their education. Or so said the salesman, using many more words than necessary to define the myriad virtues of a set of encyclopedia. The price of the books was staggering by any measure, but the availability of the easy payment plan, rolled out in force, was the salesman’s answer to that.
Thank you to all the people in the Deer Harbor community who helped make our May 30 dock fundraiser a…
I don’t know who came up with the idea 20 years ago to march children and their pets through Eastsound,…
I am lucky enough to have attended Orcas Island Public Schools ever since I was in Pam Jenkins’ kindergarten class….
The Land Bank and our community owe much to the incredible energy of the San Juan Trails Committee, Land Bank…
I’m pleased to let people in our community know that Larry Kalb, Democratic candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in…
There is a procedure called: “Pre-Publication Review” that exists in journalism for the purpose of checking facts. I would like…
The Eastsound honorary mayoral campaign kicks off June 5 on the Village Green at 11 a.m. Yes, it’s hard to…
We know we are sounding a bit like Paul Revere here, but we’re finding that too many islanders have not…
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the United Way of San Juan County for their generous grant…
The Puget Sound Partnership, recently taken to task by the State Auditor for spending millions in improper, no-bid, high-cost “consulting” contracts, and ignoring a raft of other state regulations governing how it spends taxpayer money, wants the San Juan County Council to form a “Local Integrating Organization” (LIO) to implement PSP’s “Action Agenda.” The County Council will be considering this proposal on Tuesday, May 25.
When I first decided to transfer to another school on the island last summer, I felt that so much opportunity…