I am writ­ing to urge you to join me in vot­ing yes for the Library bond this Novem­ber. There are lots of rea­sons why we need a new build­ing — safer park­ing, space for pro­grams, more space for books and oth­er mate­ri­als, and to save mon­ey on build­ing upkeep, which takes a larg­er bite out  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Islands Muse­um of Art shares news about an unusu­al upcom­ing exhi­bi­tion. It is not often we get to wit­ness the artist at work — but in the com­ing days, Kevin Chris­ti­son will be fin­ish­ing his art piece in the glass Atri­um Gallery before our eyes. You can walk into his SJIMA stu­dio at  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Coun­ty sends along an update about the return of COVID boost­er clin­ics on San Juan Island. San Juan Coun­ty Health and Com­mu­ni­ty Ser­vices is bring­ing back Bird’s Eye Med­ical in Octo­ber to pro­vide biva­lent COVID-19 boost­er vac­ci­na­tions on San Juan Island. HCS will be on San Juan Island on Mon­day, Oct. 17 and Tues­day,  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Sorop­ti­mists share news about one of their edu­ca­tion­al pro­grams. Sorop­ti­mist Inter­na­tion­al of Fri­day Har­bor is now accept­ing appli­ca­tions for the Live Your Dream Award. This award helps women in over­com­ing per­son­al dif­fi­cul­ties and bet­ter­ing their lives through edu­ca­tion and train­ing. The recip­i­ent may use the cash award for tuition, books, child­care, trans­porta­tion, or any  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Coun­ty Fire Mar­shal shares news about two impor­tant fire-relat­ed pol­i­cy changes. Effec­tive today, San Juan Coun­ty’s fire dan­ger lev­el has been down­grad­ed to mod­er­ate. This change is due to cool­ing tem­per­a­tures at night, a high dew point, and high­er rel­a­tive humid­i­ty. Recre­ation­al camp­fires remain open at this time and include attend­ed fires  Con­tin­ue Reading

FHFF is look­ing for help putting on this year’s fes­ti­val, which returns to the­atres for the first time in three years. You can be an inte­gral part of this year’s in-the­a­tre Fri­day Har­bor Film Fes­ti­val. With­out the com­mit­ted help of many film-lov­ing vol­un­teers there would be no fes­ti­val. Your time and ener­gy make all the dif­fer­ence.  Con­tin­ue Reading

The PHD sends along a link to a long-term care sur­vey tar­get­ed at seniors in San Juan Coun­ty. San Juan Coun­ty Pub­lic Hos­pi­tal Dis­trict No. 1, along with the oth­er Hos­pi­tal Dis­tricts in San Juan Coun­ty and Inter-Island Health­care Foun­da­tion, is in the process of con­duct­ing a sur­vey to iden­ti­fy the needs and expec­ta­tions of  Con­tin­ue Reading

Have you seen the blue and white yard signs pop­ping up on San Juan Island that say “Vote Yes Library”? On Nov. 8 we have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to approve a bond pro­pos­al to build a new pub­lic library on San Juan Island. To learn more about this, look up voteyesforoursjlibrary.com. This is a worth­while project.  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Ani­mal Pro­tec­tion Soci­ety of Fri­day Har­bor shares a look at the adopt­able ani­mal of the week — Faline, a five-year-old domes­tic medi­um-hair tab­by with spe­cial needs. I’ve heard what some peo­ple say — they say I look “a lit­tle rough around the edges”, but I real­ly like the way I look and the scars that  Con­tin­ue Reading

Alche­my Art Cen­ter shares news about their upcom­ing art and music per­for­mance. Come see what Alchemy’s tal­ent­ed August/September artist cohort has been up to this sum­mer. This Tues­day, Sept. 27 from 6–9 p.m., Alche­my wel­comes you to their dome exhi­bi­tion space at 1255 Wold Rd. You will be able to pur­chase beau­ti­ful pot­tery, prints, and  Con­tin­ue Reading