We hear from Miles Crossen, San Juan Coun­ty Fair Pho­tog­ra­phy Co-Super­in­ten­dent… Atten­tion all you pho­tog­ra­phers out there! You have about 10 days left to enter your pic­tures in the First Ever San Juan Coun­ty Vir­tu­al Fair. Link to: Vir­tu­al Fair Online Entry

The San Juan Update is pleased to reprint this inter­view by Minor Lile with San Juan Coun­ty Pub­lic Health Offi­cer Dr. Frank James as pub­lished 7.30.2020 in Orcas Issues News & Views… As Pub­lic Health Offi­cer for San Juan Coun­ty, Dr. Frank James has played a promi­nent role in the com­mu­ni­ty response to the Coro­n­avirus  Con­tin­ue Reading

Be sure to get your bal­lot in the mail by August 4. You can also pop it in the bal­lot box by the cour­t­house by 8 pm August 4. Bet­ter yet, get your bal­lot in ear­ly. No postage is nec­es­sary. Need help? Link to the online Vot­ers pam­phlet (see link below) or to reg­is­ter go  Con­tin­ue Reading

Below are Wash­ing­ton State guide­lines for safe­ly recre­at­ing outdoors…

Great news from San Juan Preser­va­tion Trust! Record gift expends Turtle­back Pre­serve plus the pre­ce­­dent-set­t­ing dona­tion also returns land to the Lum­mi Nation. The San Juan Coun­ty Land Bank and San Juan Preser­va­tion Trust today announced the acqui­si­tion and per­ma­nent con­ser­va­tion of a 36-acre addi­tion to the Turtle­back Moun­tain Pre­serve on Orcas Island. Con­cur­rent­ly, an  Con­tin­ue Reading

A new flag is fly­ing over the Mullis Cen­ter. The flag is a gift to the Mullis Cen­ter from the fam­i­ly of Mar­gret Lack­ey in hon­or of their moth­er, grand­moth­er, and great-grand­moth­er. Not only has the Lack­ey fam­i­ly pro­vid­ed the Mullis Cen­ter with a new flag, they also gen­er­ous­ly over­saw long need­ed repairs to the  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Fri­day Har­bor High School Aero­space Team is at it again! The 2020 Inter­na­tion­al Space Set­tle­ment Design Com­pe­ti­tion just fin­ished, though with­out trav­el­ling to NASA as in the last two years. The Aero­space Team’s name this year is “Grum­bo” (think Grum­man mixed with Boe­ing) and the Fri­day Har­bor High School Team joined with teams from  Con­tin­ue Reading

OLYMPIA–Communities want­i­ng to con­serve forest­lands now have a state grant pro­gram to help, the Recre­ation and Con­ser­va­tion Office announced today. Begin­ning Sep­tem­ber 1, com­mu­ni­ties can apply for grants of up to $3 mil­lion in the new­ly cre­at­ed Com­mu­ni­ty Forests Pro­gram. The grants must be used to buy at least 5 acres of forest­land and the  Con­tin­ue Reading