Almost sev­en years ago, Friends of the San Juans began work­ing with Wash­ing­ton State Parks on a salmon recov­ery project on Sucia Island. After a lot of research, sur­veys, designs, engi­neer­ing, and per­mit­ting, the on-the-ground work to restore habi­tat has come to fruition. Locat­ed along a major migra­to­ry path­way for juve­nile Chi­nook salmon, Sucia’s marine  Con­tin­ue Reading

When life gives you lemons, of course, you are sup­posed to make lemon­ade! But that’s hard to do if you don’t have any sug­ar to sweet­en it. Sorop­ti­mist Inter­na­tion­al of Fri­day Har­bor was very fortunate—we had the sweet­en­er! Covid-19 restric­tions kept us from being able to hold our annu­al fundrais­er: our St. Patrick’s Day Extrav­a­gan­za.  Con­tin­ue Reading

Res­i­den­tial and Com­mer­cial burn per­mits go on sale Octo­ber 5. Fall is here and the time has come for burn per­mits to go on sale. Please fol­low this link to pur­chase a burn per­mit through our online por­tal. Burn per­mits issued at this time will be valid until the end of May 2021. A reminder that burn  Con­tin­ue Reading

The next San Juan Coun­ty Pub­lic Hos­pi­tal Dis­trict No. 1 reg­u­lar board meet­ing will be 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.  Con­tin­ue Reading

Know Your Islanders Talks on ZOOM San Juan Island Library is invit­ing you to a sched­uled Zoom meet­ing. Octo­ber 5, 2020 07:00 PM Pacif­ic Time (US and Cana­da) Know Your Islanders Talk: Lar­ry Wight, Four Months on the South­ern Bor­der — Sto­ries of Open Hearts and Bro­ken Hopes Join Lar­ry Wight for an eye­wit­ness look at con­di­tions  Con­tin­ue Reading