From the San Juan Island Sculp­ture Park Join us from 8–10 a.m. every third Wednes­day of the month through Sep­tem­ber to watch for our fine feath­ered friends at the San Juan Island Sculp­ture Park locat­ed next to Roche Har­bor Resort. The next event is Wednes­day, June 16. Phil Green, a local bird enthu­si­ast and mem­ber of the  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Coun­ty Land Bank The San Juan Coun­ty Land Bank Com­mis­sion will hold its month­ly meet­ing 8:30–11:15 a.m. June 18 via Zoom. The pub­lic is invit­ed to attend. Click here to down­load the agen­da, includ­ing the Zoom link, and meet­ing mate­ri­als. To learn more about your Con­ser­va­tion Land Bank, vis­it sjclandbank.org. If you’re inter­est­ed  Con­tin­ue Reading

From Island Stage Left Island Stage Left presents “Much Ado About Noth­ing” on San Juan Island 8 p.m. Thurs­­days-Sun­­days, July 8‑Aug. 8. This is the biggest gam­ble Island Stage Left has ever tak­en. The cast and crew are about to be paid, cos­tumes are being sewn, oth­ers have been bought, the set is near­ly fin­ished and now  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Island Library San Juan Island Library’s Tails and Tales Sum­mer Read­ing Pro­gram kicks off June 18 with in-per­­son and online pro­grams for chil­dren, tweens and teens. Start­ing June 18,  free Sum­mer Read­ing Pro­gram Starter Kits will be ready for pick up dur­ing the library’s open ser­vice hours from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tues­days, Thurs­days,  Con­tin­ue Reading

From the Ani­mal Pro­tec­tion Soci­ety of Fri­day Har­bor Age: Approx­i­mate­ly 4 years old Sex: Female Breed: Domes­tic Short­hair, Gray Appli­ca­tion: www.apsfh.com/adoption-program/feline-application Mon­i­ca is a delight­ful, beau­ti­ful gray kit­ty look­ing for a hap­py new home. Mon­i­ca was orig­i­nal­ly brought in as a stray on Orcas Island, how­ev­er, she was sad­ly nev­er reclaimed. She is a peace­ful, tran­quil kit­ty and  Con­tin­ue Reading

Class Intend­ed to Cre­ate Jobs   From the San Juan Coun­ty Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Coun­cil Islanders seek­ing new careers are invit­ed to learn wood­work­ing basics in a free class offered by the San Juan Coun­ty Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Coun­cil. This course is intend­ed to help peo­ple gain job skills and obtain eco­nom­ic sta­bil­i­ty. Jean Shear­er and Nicholas  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Coun­ty Land Bank We cel­e­brat­ed Nation­al Trails Day by clear­ing inva­sive Himalayan black­ber­ry along the trails at West­side Pre­serve. Thank you to every­one that vol­un­teered and helped cel­e­brate with us! We’re going to keep the par­ty going and have sched­uled more oppor­tu­ni­ties to remove nox­ious weeds before they get estab­lished on the pre­serves. Please  Con­tin­ue Reading

From OPALCO Wash­ing­ton State Gov. Jay Inslee is expect­ed to lift the mora­to­ri­um on all util­i­ty dis­con­nects July 31. Since the begin­ning of the pan­dem­ic, OPALCO has worked with its mem­bers to offer bill-pay assis­tance and long-term pay­ment options for those who have fall­en behind on their bills. Mem­bers who have pay­ment plans in place will not  Con­tin­ue Reading

From the San Juan Coun­ty Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Coun­cil Trades­peo­ple seek­ing a sec­ond career are invit­ed to an online sem­i­nar called Work as a Con­struc­tion Train­er offered by the Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Coun­cil. Rich Jones, co-own­er and train­ing direc­tor of South Sound Res­i­den­tial LLC, and Al Audette, edu­ca­tion and work­force devel­op­ment direc­tor at the BIAW, will speak  Con­tin­ue Reading

Unem­ploy­ment Could Cov­er Work­er Retrain­ing   From Skag­it Val­ley Col­lege Did you know you can reg­is­ter now for sum­mer and fall quar­ters at Skag­it Val­ley Col­lege? Sum­mer class­es begin July 6 and fall class­es begin Sept. 21, offer­ing online, hybrid and in-per­­son options. Applied Bach­e­lors Earn a bach­e­lor of applied sci­ence in envi­ron­men­tal con­ser­va­tion, and  Con­tin­ue Reading