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Jeff Arnim

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Competitive vegetable season is here

August 16, 2022 at 10:33 pm

At the book sale

August 15, 2022 at 7:49 pm

Summer Film Series preview for Aug. 16

August 15, 2022 at 11:16 am

The orga­niz­ers of the Sum­mer Film Series at San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty The­atre send along a pre­view of this week’s film. The show­ing starts at 7 p.m. Admis­sion is pay-what-you-can. For this sea­son only, fresh pop­corn is avail­able for free. Hive Dra­ma (Alban­ian with Eng­lish sub­ti­tles) — not rat­ed Run time: 1 hours, 25 min­utes Hive is the  Con­tin­ue Reading

Island Jobs: Lake Kennedy McCulloch seeks an Office Administrator

August 15, 2022 at 8:17 am

Lake Kennedy McCul­loch in Fri­day Har­bor is look­ing for an Office Admin­is­tra­tor to work 32–40 hours per week. Learn more in the Island Jobs sec­tion of the San Juan Update.

Notes from the Island — Aug. 15

August 15, 2022 at 6:00 am

The faint smell of diesel still hung in the air at sun­set yes­ter­day evening on the west side, fol­low­ing the sink­ing of the 49-foot fish­ing ves­sel Aleut­ian Isle on Sat­ur­day after­noon. The ves­sel — now locat­ed rough­ly 150 feet below the sur­face — was car­ry­ing an esti­mat­ed 2,600 gal­lons of diesel and oil. This Seat­tle  Con­tin­ue Reading

On a quiet morning at Ihiya Biological Preserve

August 13, 2022 at 7:37 pm

Notes from the Island — Aug. 13

August 13, 2022 at 7:30 am

Here’s the line­up for today’s farm­ers mar­ket, which includes six farms from San Juan and Lopez islands. There’s a mul­ti-fam­i­­ly garage and estate sale tak­ing place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at 4859 West­side Rd. Friends of the Library’s sum­mer book sale hap­pens today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the park­ing lot  Con­tin­ue Reading

Salty foxes

August 12, 2022 at 9:22 pm

County Fair Giving Campaign brings islanders together in support of 30 community projects

August 12, 2022 at 7:15 am

For the first time in three years, San Juan Islanders will get togeth­er in per­son next week for four days of com­mu­ni­ty cel­e­bra­tion, edu­ca­tion, and enter­tain­ment at the San Juan Coun­ty Fair. To help trans­late that com­mu­ni­ty spir­it into action in the weeks and months that fol­low, the San Juan Island Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion is prepar­ing  Con­tin­ue Reading

The dog days of summer

August 11, 2022 at 8:58 pm