Here’s a note from CenturyLink about bill credits for the interruption in service from the broken optical cable last fall… As a customer-focused company, CenturyLink has issued bill credits to impacted customers on the islands. Unfortunately, in order to ensure that each customer received the proper credits, it took a little longer to process the  Continue Reading

We touched on this last week, but here is some more detailed information about this coming Wednesday’s performance at the Grange: Louis XV The Elegant, Florid Melody of the Rococo in France featuring: • Jeffery Cohan – baroque flute • John Lenti – theorbo & baroque guitar Experience the transformation through which musical taste evolved  Continue Reading

San Juan Island School District is excited to announce that an agreement has been reached with Friday Harbor Athletic Association’s newly formed Friday Harbor Fields Board to amend an existing lease for the development of the community fields located on Carter Street. At a special school board meeting on Friday, January 17th, 2014 the San  Continue Reading

Under new management, the place formerly known as The Menu Bar inside The Computer Place at 327 Argyle… As of January 6th it is now The Hard Drive Cafe and has new Co-Managers: Debi Taylor, who you may know from Vinnie’s (yes, she still works at Vinnie’s) and Todd Nasman who you may know from  Continue Reading

You know Chef Hobbes from all the awesome recipes he shares with Update readers – well you may also know that he runs San Juan Island Whale & Wildlife Tours & Water Taxi Services. Today is the first of hopefully many weekly updates from Captain Hobbes on what’s going on with the marine wildlife around  Continue Reading

The Friday Harbor Film Festival’s Tuesday movie series at the grange is showing not one, but TWO movies this coming Tuesday. Here’s the FHFF with more… “The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom“ (55 minutes). Filmmaker Lucy Walker set out to make “a visual haiku about cherry blossoms” in Japan, but changed her plans radically following  Continue Reading

Think “anything goes” — well, almost anything in this new creation that takes out the judging of past island playwrights festivals and offers new opportunities for writers of all ages. “We want more writers doing what they like to do,” said coordinator Julie Laidlaw. Julie’s strategy paid off, with submissions of 14 short plays and  Continue Reading

Do you recognize any kids and landmarks in this video? I heard that this was done with the help of local kids to raise money for the public school’s art program. Way to go kids! Good looking vid! The band Kris Orlowski is one of the bands mentioned in yesterday’s post about the upcoming concert  Continue Reading

Note, this is not the Sunshine Alley Survey (in case you came to the Update looking for that). That survey can be found HERE. But for today’s Small Town Survey, just for fun we’re tossing this out there for you to chime in on it. Was talking about this in a conversation last week and  Continue Reading

This just in from Maude over at the School District office… The San Juan Island School District Board of Directors will hold a Special Meeting on Friday, January 17, 2014 at 3:00 pm in the District Office. The purpose of the meeting is to review the lease between the San Juan Island School District and  Continue Reading