San Juan County Council has community meetings scheduled this week to answer questions about the proposed Shoreline Master Program. Meetings will be held Tuesday on San Juan, Wednesday on Orcas, and Thursday on Lopez. See the San Juan Calendar for details. If you wish to participate but feel you could use some preparation there will be a prep session held  Continue Reading

A winter scene with Orca from Captain James Maya… January 2, 2016, K26 and a friend, one of the K14s, in South Haro Strait, headed west. The Olympics in the background. We were surprised to find them on the west side of San Juan Island as we headed out on our trip that day. Pleasantly  Continue Reading

I stopped by the atrium of San Juan Islands Museum of Art on Friday to meet the artist, Dana Lynn Louis. Louis is in the process of creating an installation called As Above, So Below. Her floor to ceiling drawings of abstract patterns on the tall glass walls seem to suggest stands of DNA, prayer beads, or  Continue Reading

Joel Arnold shares this letter with you about the upcoming School Levy… This fall I had the opportunity to chair the SJI School District Capital Facilities Levy Committee.  As the election date is rapidly approaching this February 9th, I wanted to take a moment to share with the community the process by which the final  Continue Reading

This time of year you can come around a bend in the road and suddenly catch a sight of Mt. Baker that takes you breath away. Nancy DeVaux sent us this photo of Mt Baker at its snowy best taken from Mt. Grant.

Organizers for the Benefit of Terry Ogle bring us this good news… Terry and Janie Ogle arrived home on the afternoon ferry on Friday, January 8, 2016. They have been gone since August 1, 2015. Even though this phone picture is a bit fuzzy, you can see Terry’s wonder and Janie’s smile shining through. They  Continue Reading

Hospice of San Juan will offer its 2016 Grief Support Group to anyone in the community who is grieving the loss of a loved one. This professionally facilitated group offers participants an opportunity to share their individual experiences and to acquire tools and resources for coping with their personal grief. Registration is open for the  Continue Reading

On Monday, January 11 the Conscientious Projector Documentary Series with Rob Simpson will present Gasland 2, a follow up to the Oscar nominated film Gasland. In Gasland 2, filmmaker Josh Fox uses his “trademark dark humor to take a deeper, broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas  Continue Reading

From the Soroptimists… Soroptimist International of Friday Harbor will have Bingo at the Mullis Center beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 16, 2016. Games will also be held from 2 to 4:30 p.m. January 23, January 30, and February 6, 2016. Bingo books for ten rounds with three cards per round will be sold at  Continue Reading

Many Islanders know Grisha Krivchenia through the music program that he founded and ran at the Spring Street International School. I used to hear him regularly when my mother was living at the Village at the Harbour and Grisha would come in and play, sometimes classical piano, sometimes modern, and sometimes with his jazz trio.  Continue Reading