By Ran­dall Gay­lord, San Juan Coun­ty Pros­e­cut­ing Attor­ney On Thurs­day, Feb. 25, a nar­row major­i­ty of the Wash­ing­ton Supreme Court ruled uncon­sti­tu­tion­al a state statute mak­ing it unlaw­ful to pos­sess con­trolled sub­stances upend­ing a 50-year-old statute and tens of thou­sands of crim­i­nal con­vic­tions in Wash­ing­ton state. “I don’t expect to see meth and hero­in users open­ly  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Islands Com­mu­ni­ty Net­work San Juan Islands Com­mu­ni­ty Net­work invites you to watch its sec­ond vir­tu­al forum that explored how the islands’ schools are respond­ing to the health and edu­ca­tion­al chal­lenges posed by COVID-19. The response so far has been very pos­i­tive and we believe many more islanders will ben­e­fit from the rich  Con­tin­ue Reading

From OPALCO As a coop­er­a­tive, OPALCO holds elec­tions for its board posi­tions on an annu­al basis. The 2021 elec­tion is the first year of the stag­gered elec­tion process. ALL OPALCO mem­bers vote in every elec­tion regard­less of their home dis­trict. The fol­low­ing are run­ning for OPALCO board posi­tions this year: • Dis­trict 2 (two posi­tions open): Rick  Con­tin­ue Reading

From the Town of Fri­day Har­bor   The Town of Fri­day Har­bor Coun­cil adopt­ed Res­o­lu­tion No. 2618 declar­ing town sup­port for approval of Propo­si­tion 1 by the San Juan Island Parks and Recre­ation Dis­trict, also known as Island Rec, in the April 27 spe­cial elec­tion.   Learn more about the levy at www.islandrec.org/levy.   Read  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Island Library The San Juan Island Library will present a vir­tu­al Know Your Islanders event on Oak Knoll Farm and the Pope and Greene Fam­i­ly at 7 p.m., Wednes­day, March 17. Sarah Pope returned home to San Juan Island in 2017 with her part­ner, Adam Greene, to raise their chil­dren and take over  Con­tin­ue Reading

By Karen Meenan, San Juan Island I was asked to be on the Island Rec Levy Com­mit­tee and I glad­ly said yes.  Let me tell you why.  I love Island Rec.  What a gem for our com­mu­ni­ty; such a robust set of pro­grams for a lit­tle com­mu­ni­ty like ours.  Most of us use or sup­port at  Con­tin­ue Reading

From the Cen­ter for Whale Research The Cen­ter for Whale Research is thrilled to con­firm that a new calf, L125, has been born into the South­ern Res­i­dent killer whale com­mu­ni­ty. Fol­low­ing word that J, K, and L pod were in Haro Strait, CWR dis­patched two boats with field researchers to pho­­to-iden­ti­­fy the new calf and  Con­tin­ue Reading

From Fri­day Har­bor Film Fes­ti­val Fri­day Har­bor Film Festival’s Direc­tor Series presents “Unbrand­ed” and “The Riv­er and the Wall,” offer­ing view­ers adven­ture and dis­cov­ery online from March 1–15 at fhff.org. Screen each film for only $2.95. Since Decem­ber this series has attract­ed film lovers from 16 coun­tries includ­ing Europe, Cana­da, Aus­tralia, and the US. “Unbrand­ed,” direct­ed  Con­tin­ue Reading

By Mer­ri Ann Simon­son, Man­ag­ing Bro­ker, Cold­well Banker San Juan Islands Inc As inven­to­ry is very low for exist­ing sin­­gle-fam­i­­ly homes, more and more buy­ers are con­sid­er­ing cus­tom con­struc­tion. Build­ing cus­tom allows you to design and build the exact floor plan and exte­ri­or ele­va­tion that suits your needs, your bud­get and is well cit­ed to  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Island Pre­ven­tion Coali­tion We have some good news to share from the San Juan Island Pre­ven­tion Coali­tion. In these times of being “Zoomed Out” and still phys­i­cal­ly dis­tanc­ing, we have some local teens stay­ing engaged in help­ing pro­mote a health­i­er com­mu­ni­ty! We thought we’d share a lit­tle back­sto­ry on our Peer 2  Con­tin­ue Reading