Get some hands-on help with a new iPad, iPhone, Kindle or Android tablet or smartphone. Learn how to download applications, close apps, toggle between apps or multitask, mark favorites, and conserve your battery. Library staff will instruct in an informal setting with other newbies. Remember to bring your charged-up tablet or phone, Apple password or  Continue Reading

Join Us for the Native Plant Workshop! Come join us for a workshop all about native plants! Saturday, March 7th, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM at San Juan Grange. 152 North 1st Street, Friday Harbor. This workshop is free and open to everyone! Come learn about: Planting Techniques Site Selection Rain Gardens Pollinator Habitat, and… Our  Continue Reading

And speaking of gardens and plant sales, Dot wants you to know about the Garden Club’s upcoming excursion. Here she is with more… Tim, will you please post on the Update that the San Juan Island Garden Club has three places left for our March 28th Excursion to La Conner, Christianson’s Nursery (a personal tour  Continue Reading

John Miller was driving home from town yesterday and caught this picture he would like to share with you.

You know that the San Juan Historical Society and Museum is working on their new project, the Museum of History and Industry, right? Click here (and here) if you need a refresher on that. Well, it’s coming along with significant progress being made, most recently a new floor, and finished walls with insulation and a heat pump in  Continue Reading

San Juan Island School District and Island Rec seek to continue their Partnership to Fund School Athletics Programs  For the last five years San Juan Island Park and Recreation District (Island Rec) and the San Juan Island School District have maintained an effective partnership to fully fund the high school sports program.  Under this partnership  Continue Reading

Here’s a new press release from Washington State Ferries… Passengers looking to secure a spot aboard Washington State Ferries vessels in 2015 are sailing to success using WSF’s new vehicle reservation program, launched earlier this year. Between Jan. 5 and Feb. 22, about half of all drivers departing from Anacortes, Friday Harbor and Orcas Island took the  Continue Reading

Mike Martin shares this Wolverines update… Already this year Friday Harbor High School has sent the Boys and Girls Soccer teams as well as wrestlers James Guard and Haley Pile to the WIAA State Championship tournaments. Now the girls and boys basketball teams are one win from qualifying for the Washington State 2B Basketball Championships. After  Continue Reading

Join us to celebrate the life of Mary Kate Berger. Sunday, March 8th, 3:00 pm at Brickworks in Friday Harbor. Ciely Ty Gray will facilitate a remembrance for Mary Kate followed by light refreshments. In lieu of flowers, we ask that donations be made to the Mary Kate Berger fund at Islanders Bank.

The San Juan Garden Club invites you to their next presentation… Farhad Ghatan, life-long gardener and member of the Stormwater Management Board, will present a comprehensive program about how the chemicals we use in our garden adversely affect our garden produce and the environment. He will offer alternative methods of treating pests and common garden  Continue Reading