By Marie-Luz Vil­la MD AGSF, Main Oper­a­tions Man­ag­er, Hos­pice of San Juan San Juan Coun­ty, being rel­a­tive­ly tiny in the eyes of Medicare, receives insur­ance-fund­ed hos­pice care under the umbrel­la of Hos­pice of the North­west (HNW), which is based in Skag­it Coun­ty. Although both San Juan Island and Lopez Island have all-vol­un­­teer hos­pice orga­ni­za­tions to com­ple­ment  Con­tin­ue Reading

By San Juan Coun­ty One new pos­i­tive COVID-19 test result has been report­ed in San Juan Coun­ty, for an Orcas Island res­i­dent who is a close house­hold con­tact of the Orcas res­i­dent report­ed as pos­i­tive on Oct. 26. This is the 36th case report­ed in San Juan Coun­ty. Giv­en the close house­hold prox­im­i­ty of the indi­vid­ual  Con­tin­ue Reading

By FHFF As in each of the last sev­en years, the Fri­day Har­bor Film Fes­ti­val is delight­ed to hon­or film­mak­ers who have done out­stand­ing work on projects screened dur­ing the fes­ti­val. We are very pleased to present the fol­low­ing awards this year: Local Hero Award, two Las­z­lo Pal Emerg­ing Film­mak­er Awards, and Audi­ence Choice Awards  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Port of Fri­day Har­bor will host an online meet­ing at noon, today, Wednes­day, Oct. 28 on Zoom. View the agen­da and how to log into the meet­ing here. Com­mis­sion­ers will dis­cuss pos­si­bly rais­ing fees at Ship­yard Cove over time. They will also dis­cuss lease agree­ments with Salt­wa­ter Farm and Island Air, and pos­si­bly approve a  Con­tin­ue Reading

The next San Juan Coun­ty Pub­lic Hos­pi­tal Dis­trict No. 1 reg­u­lar board meet­ing is at 5:30 p.m., today, Wednes­day, Oct. 28. This meet­ing is ful­ly online due to COVID-19, and mem­bers of the pub­lic may join by dial­ing 509–473‑0276 and enter­ing 279 885 068#. Note that the phone num­ber has changed from pre­vi­ous board meet­ings. Doc­u­ments  Con­tin­ue Reading

By Chuck Dall­dorf, Pub­lic Infor­ma­tion Offi­cer, San Juan Island Fire and Res­cue  San Juan Island Fire and Res­cue along with the San Juan Island Fire­fight­er Asso­ci­a­tion will host a spe­cial, safe, social dis­tanced fam­i­ly Hal­loween event from 2–6 p.m., Sat­ur­day, Oct. 31, 2020, at John O. Linde Com­mu­ni­ty Park, 565 Carter Ave. in Fri­day Har­bor.  Con­tin­ue Reading

By San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty The­atre For two weeks only, at sjctheatre.org, you can see a spe­cial con­cert by Pearl Djan­go. Reg­u­lars on the San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty The­atre stage, Pearl Djan­go filmed a con­cert for SJCT that will be streamed on our web­site from Nov. 12– 29. With a per­for­mance his­to­ry span­ning more than 26 years, Pearl  Con­tin­ue Reading

By San Juan Island School Dis­trict On Wednes­day, Oct. 28, the San Juan Island School Dis­trict Board of Direc­tors will hold a reg­u­lar school board meet­ing at 5 p.m. as a Zoom meet­ing. Click here to join the webinar.

By San Juan Coun­ty Two new pos­i­tive COVID-19 test results have been report­ed in San Juan Coun­ty; one for an Orcas Island res­i­dent, and one for a res­i­dent of San Juan Island. Both cas­es appear to have come from off-island con­tact with infect­ed indi­vid­u­als. These are the 34th and 35th cas­es in San Juan Coun­ty.  Con­tin­ue Reading

By San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty The­atre Melo­di­ous Notes Over the Har­bor is ecsta­t­ic to be able to present a vir­tu­al con­cert for San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty The­atre’s 2020–21 Snap­shot Sea­son. Watch the con­cert here. This con­cert will fea­ture musi­cians who live in Fri­day Har­bor: Eliz­a­beth Schal­ten­brand-piano, Han­neke Klein-Robben­haar-vio­lin, Sasha von Das­­sow-cel­­lo and Sue Col­la­do-clar­inet. Each musi­cian is  Con­tin­ue Reading