SJCT sends along news about the first per­for­mance of its 2022–23 sea­son. San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty The­atre begins its 2022–23 Sea­son with Mau­ri­tius, writ­ten by There­sa Rebeck. The play cen­ters around two estranged sis­ters who inher­it a valu­able stamp col­lec­tion, and their con­flict­ing ideas of what to do with it. Direc­tor Nathan Kessler-Jef­frey was inspired to take  Con­tin­ue Reading

Cold­well Banker San Juan Islands is look­ing for a year-round full-time Receptionist/Front Desk Man­ag­er. Learn more in the Island Jobs sec­tion of the San Juan Update.

The saga of the sunken Aleut­ian Isle fish­ing ves­sel con­tin­ues. After being raised to the sur­face over the week­end and hav­ing near­ly 800 gal­lons of con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed water removed, recov­ery crews deter­mined that inac­ces­si­ble pock­ets of water still on board the ves­sel made it too heavy to lift onto a recov­ery barge. Crews addi­tion­al­ly dis­cov­ered that  Con­tin­ue Reading

We moved to Fri­day Har­bor in 2017 and met Ron over cof­fee and street chats short­ly there­after. Through our con­ver­sa­tions we have got­ten to know Ron and have come to appre­ci­ate his pro­fes­sion­al com­pe­tence and as impor­tant­ly his love of com­mu­ni­ty and his gen­uine con­cern for peo­ple. Addi­tion­al­ly, we sense a fair­ness in lis­ten­ing and  Con­tin­ue Reading

Local vol­un­teers for the Statewide Health Insur­ance Ben­e­fits Advi­sors pro­gram share news about their upcom­ing infor­ma­tion­al ses­sion. If you turn 65 this year, you need to get ready to enroll in Medicare. Depend­ing on your cir­cum­stances Social Secu­ri­ty may enroll you auto­mat­i­cal­ly. Oth­er­wise you will have to sub­mit an appli­ca­tion to get Medicare cov­er­age. Our  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Ani­mal Pro­tec­tion Soci­ety of Fri­day Har­bor shares a look at the adopt­able ani­mals of the week — two younger chi­huahuas who came to San Juan Island by way of Bak­ers­field, Cal­i­for­nia. We’re Mox­ie and Tilly and we’ve been besties ever since meet­ing a few years ago in a cof­fee shop we both fre­quent­ed. We  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Town of Fri­day Har­bor is look­ing for two full-time Util­i­ty Work­ers for its Water and Waste­water depart­ments. Learn more in the Island Jobs sec­tion of the San Juan Update.

The Ani­mal Pro­tec­tion Soci­ety of Fri­day Har­bor shares news about their recent expe­ri­ences in East­ern Wash­ing­ton, includ­ing the ways in which APS-FH can work to sup­port ani­mal wel­fare in the region. On Sept. 6, Ani­mal Pro­tec­tion Soci­e­ty-Fri­­day Har­bor Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Cristin Fel­so and Shel­ter Man­ag­er Beth Ander­son were invit­ed to join a team of ani­mal  Con­tin­ue Reading

This past week, the world lost not only the longest serv­ing British monarch, but at 96 years old a woman who embod­ied longevi­ty itself. Queen Eliz­a­beth II had plen­ty of healthy habits. She start­ed her days with a pot of Earl Grey tea, a bowl of Spe­cial K cere­al, and a bag­pipe ser­e­nade. She rode  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Coun­ty Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Coun­cil shares news about an upcom­ing event. Com­mu­ni­ty lead­ers and mem­bers are invit­ed to join the con­ver­sa­tion on Future Focus: San Juan Islands Resilience at the 13th Annu­al EDC Eco­nom­ics Lun­cheon, held at Brick­works in Fri­day Har­bor on Wednes­day, Sept. 28 from noon to 1:30 p.m. Fea­tur­ing not­ed speak­er Louis  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Library sends along news about its upcom­ing in-per­­son Eng­lish class­es. The San Juan Island Library is excit­ed to announce the return to in-per­­son Eng­lish lan­guage class­es for adults begin­ning Thurs­day, Sept. 22. Class­es are free of charge and will take place in the Library from 6–8 p.m. on Tues­days and Thurs­days until Dec. 15. Stu­dents  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Mas­ter Gar­den­ers of San Juan Coun­ty share news about their upcom­ing speak­er series. Join the Mas­ter Gar­den­ers of San Juan Coun­ty in wel­com­ing the very pop­u­lar Dr. Lin­da Gilke­son — also known as the Gar­den Doc­tor — as the keynote speak­er at our annu­al Gar­den­ing Work­shop Series this Octo­ber. Dr. Gilkeson’s talk, Resilient Gar­dens  Con­tin­ue Reading