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In a media release published yesterday, San Juan County officials reported 18 active COVID cases on San Juan Island, in addition to 17 on Lopez Island and 13 on Orcas Island. By 9 a.m. this morning, active cases on San Juan Island had jumped to 29. The County also noted that they have reason to  Continue Reading

Friday Harbor High School baseball and fastpitch both had their Thursday games at Orcas Island cancelled due to rain. The games will not be rescheduled. Baseball takes to the field for the league championship tiebreaker against Coupeville next Thursday at 3 p.m. in LaConner. All 50 of the second-run prints of Doug DeMeerleer’s painting of  Continue Reading

Merri Ann Simonson sends along this year-over-year real estate market snapshot for the San Juan Islands. The median sale price for homes on San Juan Island increased roughly 13 percent in 12 months — but it could have been worse. During the same period, the median price rose 37 percent on Orcas Island and 46  Continue Reading

Friday Harbor’s latest public art installation came to life this past Tuesday in the Sunshine Alley breezeway between The Bait Shop and the Palace Theater. There’s a Story Here repurposes historic San Juan Island photographs in the style of so-called exaggeration postcards, a popular design approach in the early 20th century that added absurd but  Continue Reading

A small group of us on San Juan Island are thrilled, delighted, moved, awed, and impressed by our local community theater’s presentation of the New York Metropolitan Opera. We are so fortunate that right here in our small town we have this world class opera due to the generosity of Dodie Gann. It’s amazing to  Continue Reading

A few dozen islanders gathered outside the San Juan County Courthouse on Tuesday evening to show their opposition to the prospective overturning of Roe v. Wade. Friday Harbor baseball won both games of a doubleheader against LaConner, 17-4 and 3-1, bringing their overall record to 14-2 and improving to 11-1 in league play. They travel  Continue Reading

Incumbent San Juan County District Court Judge Carolyn Jewett has announced her intention to run for re-election. “During my first term, I gained a lot of experience figuring out what ‘access to justice’ really means,” said Jewett in her candidacy announcement. “The COVID-19 pandemic turned our judicial system on its head and forced us all  Continue Reading