From Wash­ing­ton State Fer­ries The Dock­side food kiosk, locat­ed near the vehi­cle hold­ing lanes in the Ana­cortes ter­mi­nal, re-opened May 28 after being closed due to COVID-19. The kiosk will be open from 6 a.m.-6 p.m. dai­ly and offer a vari­ety of prepack­aged foods, cof­fee and oth­er bev­er­ages. The café inside the ter­mi­nal build­ing will  Con­tin­ue Reading

From Island Rec In hon­or of Nation­al Trails Day, which is June 5, check out the new­ly refreshed look of www.sanjuanislandtrails.org. Thank you to Tree­house Cre­ative Dig­i­tal Solu­tions for tak­ing on this project, and the trails vol­un­teers and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers who sent in pho­tos of their favorite trails for the new site.   Island Rec is  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Coun­ty Since the last update on Fri­day, May 28, total cas­es in San Juan Coun­ty have increased from 189 to 191. There are no close con­tacts of pos­i­tive cas­es cur­rent­ly in active quar­an­tine. The best remain­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for COVID vac­ci­na­tion will be occur­ring peri­od­i­cal­ly in June. Vis­it www.sanjuanco.com/1737/COVID-Vaccine-Info for more infor­ma­tion. San Juan  Con­tin­ue Reading

From Stu­dio JAMM We have a begin­ner’s tap dance class start­ing 3–4 p.m. Sat­ur­day, June 5–26 at Stu­dio JAMM. The class is for ages 12 and up. Rachelle Radon­s­ki is our teacher and you won’t want to miss it!  If tap danc­ing is some­thing you want to try, now is the time. The ses­sion will last four weeks and  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Preser­va­tion Trust The San Juan Preser­va­tion Trust is pleased to announce this year’s Cli­mate Lead­er­ship Schol­ar­ship win­ners. Con­grat­u­la­tions to Izabela Janecek of Fri­day Har­bor High School and Ayla Rid­wan of Orcas Island High School. A com­mit­tee of Preser­va­tion Trust board mem­bers select­ed Izzie and Ayla from an impres­sive group of appli­cants from across  Con­tin­ue Reading

From the San Juan His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety and Muse­um Father’s Day this year will be on June 20. When think­ing about a his­tor­i­cal pho­to­graph to go with a June his­to­ry col­umn, this four-gen­er­a­­tion por­trait, seen above and shared by the Guard fam­i­ly, came to mind as a great exam­ple of the pas­sage of time in a fam­i­ly  Con­tin­ue Reading

From Wolf Hol­low Wildlife Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter Our thanks to every­one who took part in Wolf Hollow’s Earth Month Wildlife Pho­to Com­pe­ti­tion dur­ing April. There were so many beau­ti­ful pho­tos that we had a real­ly hard time select­ing a win­ner in each cat­e­go­ry. But, after lots of dis­cus­sions, we final­ly select­ed the fol­low­ing win­ners: Young Pho­tog­ra­ph­er: “Short-eared  Con­tin­ue Reading

From the Ani­mal Pro­tec­tion Soci­ety of Fri­day Har­bor Age: 7 months Sex: Female Breed: Lab mix Appli­ca­tion: www.apsfh.com/adoption-program/canine-application Beware of Kaleesa the kissy mon­ster! If you dare to ven­ture near her den for a meet-and-greet, pre­pare your­self to be attacked with love, smoth­ered in kiss­es, and then have your heart stolen. Once she has suc­ceed­ed in  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Island Fire & Res­cue and San Juan Coun­ty Sher­iff Around 5:20 p.m., Mon­day, May 31, San Juan Coun­ty 911 emer­gency cen­ter was noti­fied of a two-vehi­­cle high-speed crash on Beaver­ton Val­ley Road. Two peo­ple were involved and treat­ed by emer­gency ser­vices. The road remained closed while law enforce­ment inves­ti­gat­ed the crash scene. We appre­ci­ate  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan School Island Dis­trict Last Sep­tem­ber, San Juan Island School District’s Grif­fin Bay School grew from a hand­ful of stu­dents to almost 100 stu­dents, K‑12th grade. Grif­fin Bay School may now offer online access to any­one and every­one across Wash­ing­ton state. In May, Grif­fin Bay School was des­ig­nat­ed by the Office of the Super­in­ten­dent of  Con­tin­ue Reading