If you’ve heard Tingstad & Rumbel, you know they make beautiful music. If you haven’t heard them yet, this is a good time to start…here’s “Galileo”….

It was terrible news to wake up to – that Sharon Hammel had passed away in a fire at her house early Sunday morning. You knew Sharon – she worked for the Town and was responsible for making us look so good – the flowers she watered all spring & summer, the plants, the greenspaces.  Continue Reading

Just got this report from public information officer Ron Garner…. On Sunday morning at 2:11am, a 9-1-1 call to the Sheriff’s Dispatch reported “a structure fire with a person trapped inside” in the 1000 block of Park Street in Friday Harbor, Washington.  A patrolling Sheriff’s Deputy, along with the first two firefighters to arrive attempted  Continue Reading

Some days, do you get the feeling you’re missing something? This is a story a friend of mine told me: I was walking down the sidewalk on a busy New York City day with a friend who lives in the forests of Brazil. He stopped, cocked his head & said, “Listen! I think that’s a  Continue Reading