From San Juan Island Preser­va­tion Trust The weath­er has warmed up and blue­bird sea­son is upon us.  To date, we esti­mate the adult West­ern blue­bird pop­u­la­tion on the island between 26–30 birds. Some birds are still nest build­ing, oth­ers are on eggs, and fives clutch­es have already been band­ed, with some fledged already. We have a few pairs  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Coun­ty Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Coun­cil Islanders seek­ing to make their con­struc­tion busi­ness­es thrive are invit­ed to an online class on con­tracts for con­trac­tors. The event is 3–4:30 p.m., Wednes­day, June 23 over Zoom, with Jim McAdam, EA at Island Tax Ser­vice Inc. Builders will learn how to make sure every­one involved under­stands the con­tract­ed  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Island School Dis­trict Wednes­day the San Juan Island School Dis­trict Board of Direc­tors approved the hir­ing of Hol­ly Wehn­er as the act­ing prin­ci­pal of Fri­day Har­bor Ele­men­tary School for the 2021–22 school year. After grad­u­at­ing from Wash­ing­ton State Uni­ver­si­ty in 2000, Hol­ly worked as a teacher in Salt Lake City, Utah, Issaquah  Con­tin­ue Reading

From the San Juan Coun­ty Fair The San Juan Coun­ty Fair’s in-per­­son Sum­mer Music Series starts Sat­ur­day, June 19. The fair­grounds will host Tom­my Dale and the Dan­ger­fields and The Chameleons for an evening of local enter­tain­ment and fundrais­ing for “Free Wheel­in Rides” from 6–9 p.m.  The goal of “Free Wheel­in Rides” is to pur­chase a safe  Con­tin­ue Reading

From Water­Works Gallery Water­Works Gallery presents the sec­ond “Art Aisle” for Cloud Oakes through July 3 at 315 Argyle Ave. in Fri­day Har­bor. As the artist con­tin­ues to grow and change, Cloud Oakes’s works take on a new per­spec­tive. Cloud in her cur­rent artist state­ment com­ments: “The human form tells a sto­ry of more than  Con­tin­ue Reading

Seed­ing the Sal­ish Sea: First Steps of an Eel­grass Restora­tion Project By Eliz­a­beth Nilles, Michael Ram­sey and Sandy Wyl­lie-Echev­er­ria The dis­ap­pear­ance of eel­grass might seem like a triv­ial top­ic to some, but it is actu­al­ly quite a con­cern­ing phe­nom­e­non. Marine organ­isms and humans alike rely on the mul­ti­tude of ecosys­tem ser­vices pro­vid­ed by eel­grass, such  Con­tin­ue Reading

From the San Juan Island Cham­ber of Com­merce The San Juan Island Cham­ber of Com­merce 4th of July parade and fire­works show will take place this year. We are going along with Wash­ing­ton State Gov. Jay Inslee’s procla­ma­tion that the state will have a com­plete re-open­ing June 30 and we are work­ing fever­ish­ly to hold a  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Islands Com­mu­ni­ty Net­work The first of three forums address­ing vaca­tion rentals in the San Juan Islands was held June 9 to a Zoom audi­ence of about 150 inter­est­ed per­sons. Spon­sored by the San Juan Islands Com­mu­ni­ty Net­work, the forum “Dis­cov­ery” was the first to address the much-dis­­­cussed issue. Reg­is­ter for the sec­ond  Con­tin­ue Reading