M/V Tillikum is expect­ed to be out of ser­vice all of today because of a crew short­age. Fresh flow­ers from Mama Bird Farm are now avail­able at Mar­ket Place, Kings, and the San Juan Island Food Co-op. Local knit­ters are get­ting togeth­er for Knit in Pub­lic Day this Sat­ur­day, June 11 between 8 a.m. and 2  Con­tin­ue Reading

San Juan Coun­ty’s annu­al haz­ardous waste round-up will take place on San Juan Island on Sat­ur­day, June 11 for island res­i­dents. The res­i­den­tial event takes place at the San Juan Trans­fer Sta­tion on Sut­ton Road from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Accept­able mate­ri­als include pes­ti­cides, fungi­cides and oth­er poi­sons, gaso­line and oth­er used fuels, wood  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Crepe Cafe is now open for the sum­mer at 155 Nichols Street, across from Brick­works, where San Juan Island Cheese used to be. They’ll be serv­ing sweet and savory crepes, pani­nis, along with home­made sodas and cof­fee drinks. This week they’ll be open Wednes­day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thurs­day from 10 a.m.  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Coun­ty Coun­cil will hold a reg­u­lar meet­ing on Tues­day, June 7 at 9 a.m. The meet­ing will include two pub­lic hear­ings to con­sid­er: An ordi­nance revis­ing table 18.30.040 (allow­able and pro­hib­it­ed uses in rur­al, resource and spe­cial land use des­ig­na­tions for gov­ern­ment offices) Adopt­ing an ordi­nance to repeal SJCC 18.30.640 (pay­ment in  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Island Artists’ Stu­dio Tour takes place today and tomor­row from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Near­ly 50 island artists are par­tic­i­pat­ing in the event this year. Island Air Ambu­lance will have a space at today’s farm­ers mar­ket to share CPR aware­ness in recog­ni­tion of this year’s CPR Aware­ness Week. Island Air’s flight crew  Con­tin­ue Reading