On Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 23, 2019 at Fri­day Har­bor Mar­ket­place from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., San Juan Island Fire and Res­cue fire­fight­ers will be out in front of the store rais­ing funds for the 2019 Leukemia and Lym­phoma Soci­ety (LLS) Stair­climb. The fire­fight­ers are ded­i­cat­ing their LLS fundrais­ing climb in hon­or of for­mer San Juan  Con­tin­ue Reading

We hear from Alice Dean… The Third Sat­ur­day Con­tra Dance at the Grange will take place Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 16 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm.  This month our caller is Gwen Rousseau from Seat­tle, and the band is The Lud­dite Ram­blers, also from Seat­tle. The band fea­tures Lau­rel Stone on fid­dle, Jay Finkel­stien on gui­tar and Craig Shaw  Con­tin­ue Reading

Thanks to Chuck Dall­dorf for this snowy pho­to: A soli­tary fig­ure walk­ing down the hill on Nichols Street into Town…

MONDAY 4:30PM UPDATE: As most islanders have prob­a­bly noticed, it’s snow­ing heav­i­ly across the islands. Cur­rent fore­cast is for up to 8 inch­es of snow to fall, with many parts of the islands receiv­ing less, some pos­si­bly a bit more. Snow is pre­dict­ed to taper off as we head into Tues­day morn­ing, though there may  Con­tin­ue Reading

From San Juan Coun­ty Dept. of Emer­gency Man­age­ment…   As of 7am on Mon­day, Coun­ty Road Crews are report­ing the heav­i­est overnight snow on Orcas and the north and west sides of San Juan Island, with some loca­tions receiv­ing up to 8 inch­es of snow since late Sun­day.   Accord­ing to Coun­ty Pub­lic Works Direc­tor  Con­tin­ue Reading

Mon­day Feb­ru­ary 11: San Juan Island School Dis­trict is on a two hour delayed start sched­ule and bus­es will be on snow routes.

Thanks to John Miller for this drone shot at 300 ft ele­va­tion, of Roy Island and Dream Lake at Lakedale Sun­day morn­ing… click on pho­to to enlarge image.