On Feb. 8, vot­ers will decide the fate of San Juan Coun­ty Pub­lic Hos­pi­tal Dis­trict Propo­si­tion 1, a six-year emer­gency med­ical ser­vices prop­er­ty tax levy renew­al. The San Juan Update has received the fol­low­ing let­ters to the edi­tor with state­ments in oppo­si­tion to the levy: Steve Ulvi Mary Foley Fran­cis & Rebec­ca Smith Dan Paul­son William Lon­g­ley  Con­tin­ue Reading

On Feb. 8, vot­ers will decide the fate of San Juan Coun­ty Pub­lic Hos­pi­tal Dis­trict Propo­si­tion 1, a six-year emer­gency med­ical ser­vices prop­er­ty tax levy renew­al. The San Juan Update has received the fol­low­ing let­ters to the edi­tor with state­ments in sup­port of the levy: Trish Lehman Louise Dus­trude Eric Koons Barb Leem­ing Win­nie Brum­sick­le Gail  Con­tin­ue Reading

On Feb. 8, vot­ers will decide the fate of San Juan Island School Dis­trict Propo­si­tion 1, a replace­ment edu­ca­tion­al pro­grams and oper­a­tional levy renew­al. The San Juan Update has received the fol­low­ing let­ters to the edi­tor with state­ments regard­ing the levy: Scott & Tori Zehn­er Travis & Jen­nifer Ayers Louise Dus­trude Sarah Wer­ling Sand­with Board mem­bers of  Con­tin­ue Reading

Some help­ful com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers are orga­niz­ing a cleanup project at Jack­son’s Beach on Sat­ur­day, Jan. 29, start­ing at 10 a.m. The group will meet at the pavil­ion. Trash bags and gloves will be provided.

Today is the last day to sub­mit let­ters to the edi­tor with com­ments on the two levies up for a vote in the Feb. 8 spe­cial elec­tion. Sub­mit your com­ments by email. You can sub­mit a com­ment on one levy, or on both. All let­ters will be pub­lished in the Update tomorrow.

San Juan Coun­ty’s Health & Com­mu­ni­ty Ser­vices depart­ment is mak­ing N95 and KN95 masks avail­able to the pub­lic at no charge. While sup­plies last, the masks are avail­able at three loca­tions on San Juan Island: Fri­day Har­bor Drug Kings Mar­ket Fri­day Har­bor Mar­ket Place Health & Com­mu­ni­ty Ser­vices notes that: For the use of the gen­er­al pub­lic there  Con­tin­ue Reading