You may remember “Scooby” – we featured him as our pet of the week several months ago. He’s still waiting to find his forever home and we can’t understand why because he’s such an all-around great guy! He’s about 3 years old and still has quite a bit of kitten in him. He loves to  Continue Reading

Want to Christmas shop in Bellingham or Seattle? No problem! Airport partners, Northwest SkyFerry and Westwind Aviation, have teamed up with the Port of Friday Harbor to provide great shopping deals for islanders. Westwind Aviation is offering a Seattle shopping spree with airfare to Boeing Field, limo service to your favorite shopping destination and a  Continue Reading

The Port of Friday Harbor has officially opened the new Pilot Welcome Center building. Here’s more from their Facebook page… The new Pilot Welcome Center is officially open! The Friday Harbor Airport now offers a very nice place for visiting pilots to prepare their flight plans and check out the various offerings of Friday Harbor  Continue Reading

FRIENDS of the San Juans partnered with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Tulalip Tribes to remove creosote pilings and a pier in Barlow Bay off of Lopez Island. This project improves water quality, eelgrass growing conditions, and upper beach habitat at a documented Pacific sand lance spawning site. Creosote-treated wood  Continue Reading

Here’s Chef Hobbes with a unique and fun holiday gift idea… Making curry powder to give as Christmas presents is a fun and different gift. I make my curry powder on the mild side, I can always add cayenne pepper later if I want to heat things up a bit. If you use whole seeds  Continue Reading

Dear Friends, The last six months have flown by like eight tiny reindeer! Sherri, Hannah and I sincerely thank you for your support and encouragement. To wind down the year, we are celebrating the “Twelve Days of Christmas” by offering 12% off everything in our shop! From Friday, December 13th, through Christmas Eve day, everything  Continue Reading

Just got this note from Mike Cohen inviting you to his birthday bash at the grange… Hey folks, by sheer luck and coincidence, I just learned that the Grange in Friday Harbor is not booked on Dec 14, my birthday and there’s nothing more that I’d like to do than go there and sing and  Continue Reading

Here’s the latest from Helen at Island Stage Left… “Other Desert Cities” plays Thursday – Saturday at 7:30 and Sunday at 4:00. This is the LAST WEEKEND and we don’t want you or your friends to miss it. We open our Christmas show (see poster at right) Dec 19th and run every day through Christmas  Continue Reading

The Chamber of Commerce announces the winners of the island lighting contest: Theme this year was Holiday Travel: by Plane, Sleigh or Ferry. Best Overall Winner is Creative Passions Craft Supply House. Click here to see the other winners and more photos.

Here is a slideshow of photos from SJCT’s 2013 Fundraiser. Good times! Click here for the slideshow.