On Saturday September 13 at dusk, join the fun with Island Rec’s free Movie in the Park: Second Hand Lions. A heart warming coming-of-age story about an awkward teenager left in the care of his two reluctant, cantankerous and eccentric old uncles.  In sharing the stories of their wildly adventurous younger days, the old men  Continue Reading

  Chamber Music San Juans artistic director and clarinetist Patricia Kostek says the group’s next concert “just might be the most diverse and delightfully appealing program” in CMSJ’s long history of performances on San Juan Community Theatre’s Whittier stage. The concert on Saturday, September 6 at 7:30 p.m., features familiar Northwest and internationally-acclaimed artists, including  Continue Reading

Art Hansen and David Ridgway share a love of the land, notably the farms of the Skagit Valley. While each artist paints the farm from an intimate close-up viewpoint and off in the distance, both Art and David’s vision convey that illustrious place farms hold in our imagination and the actual physical landscape. Farms represent  Continue Reading

Local farmer Bruce Gregory plans to head to Tajikistan in November as a participant in the Farmer-to-Farmer Program, a program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the NGO – VOCA/ACDI (Volunteers for Overseas Cooperative Assistance, Agency for Cooperative Development International).  In the remote area of Central Asia is a small country called Tajikistan  Continue Reading

If you haven’t driven out Beaverton Valley Road in a while it may be worth a detour to check out the new paint job on “The Rock” courtesy of local artist Mike Scott. Nice work Mike!

San Juan Island’s 10th annual Relay for Life event will be held at the Fairgrounds September 27th 3:00 – 11:00 pm. There will be a Survivor’s Reception at 2:00 pm. One More Time, the 40’s big band, will open the event at 3 pm with Duncan Wilson as MC and disc jockey. Already signed on are  Continue Reading

  Dr. Michael Horn and staff invite you to celebrate 11 happy years! Visit, have lunch, tour the office and enter to win one of two great prizes! Everyone who attends will be entered to win professional teeth whitening for life or family dental cleanings and exams for a year. The fun takes place Friday  Continue Reading

  Meet Bruce Martin, a new commercial loan officer at Islanders Bank. Bruce comes to Friday Harbor from Whidbey Island.  He brings over 30 years of banking experience with him. Bruce will be getting around to different places here in town to introduce himself and getting to know the needs of the community he and his wife now  Continue Reading

FRIENDS launched “this could be oil” wooden drift cards in the Salish Sea last week to simulate where an oil spill originating in the shipping lanes surrounding the San Juan Islands might end up.  If the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline in BC is permitted, shipping traffic from just that project will go from 5 ships  Continue Reading

Here’s this month’s history column, submitted by the SJI Historical Museum… School bells are ringing once again, just as they did in 1960 when teacher Winnie Sundstrom gathered her Friday Harbor third graders for their class photo. The San Juan Historical Museum hopes you can help identify all these smiling kids. Anyone see yourself here?

Head injury is finally being recognized as a major issue affecting our kids. While most attention has been paid to contact sports like football, soccer, basketball, rugby, and lacrosse, even more children suffer head trauma while bicycling and in auto accidents. There can be both short and long term effects of concussions in both adults and  Continue Reading

The Whale Museum’s Lecture Series: Highlights of NOAA’s Report on 10 Years of Conservation & Research on SRKW Presented by Brad Hanson, NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center  Friday Harbor, WA — The Whale Museum is pleased to welcome Brad Hanson as part of the 2014 Summer Lecture Series.  The talk entitled “Highlights of NOAA’s Report on  Continue Reading

Frank Mulcahy has given San Juan County notice that he will resign from his position as Public Works Director effective Sept. 30, 2014, citing family and career reasons.  Frank joined the County in late 2011.  During his tenure, Frank oversaw the county’s transition out of solid waste services, and was instrumental in developing new relationships  Continue Reading

The San Juan Island Library and San Juan Island Senior Services are teaming up to offer a workshop on living with the challenges of low vision and failing eyesight.  The workshop will take place on Thursday, September 11 at 10:00 AM at the Mullis Center. Resources will be available to people affected by low vision,  Continue Reading

Ghostbusters plays this week at Movies in the Park. Click the image above to enlarge.

Just when we thought kitten season was coming to an end we find ourselves with six of the most adorable kittens ever. They are from two litters and about nine or ten weeks old now. All of them are a bit shy but we’ve had staff and volunteers working with them regularly and they are becoming  Continue Reading