Reminder! All vendors – artists and food, interested in participating in the 2014 season of the Friday Harbor Art market…“Artisans on the Plaza” need to contact Debbie Pigman at pigmansartworks [@] rock island [.] com or (360) 472-0216. The 2014 artisans market, a collection of art, crafts, music and food, will run on Fridays, 3:00-7:00pm,  Continue Reading

Here is our next entry in Sheila Harley’s firefighter introduction series… Brandon Baney has been on San Juan Island for 20 years, coming from Santa Rosa, California with his grandmother when he was five years old. He attended our school system all his life. Computer science was his favorite subject. He enjoyed the challenge. Brandon  Continue Reading

Here’s a press release from DSHS… The WA State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) Mobile Community Service Office is coming to Friday Harbor on April 14th and 15th. We will be there to do application interviews for Food and Cash as well as yearly reviews, and to answer any questions on active cases  Continue Reading

FHHS again impresses judges at the 41st Annual OSPI High School Art Competition. Seniors Alaina Scheffer, and Ellery Von Dassow submitted three of the seven art pieces selected to represent Northwest ESD 189. NWESD serves 35 school districts in five different counties, serving approximately 16 percent of the states K-12 public school students. These regional  Continue Reading

American Camp’s eagles are apparently tending an egg(s), according to visitor center staff. The nest, located above the employee parking area, is never without one of the nesting pair aboard, and they have been observed alternating duties, staff reports. Eagles usually lay one to three eggs, usually one day apart. As they are normally laid  Continue Reading

It’s just about that time again – Mark your calendars and get ready to enjoy some great food, good company, and support the School’s Food for Thought program while you’re at it. Check out this spread… Join us from 5:30 – 7:30 pm at the High School Commons on Wednesday, April 2nd! Thai Chicken Thigh  Continue Reading

Soroptimists Host Area Meeting On Saturday March 8, for the first time since its founding, Soroptimist International of Friday Harbor (SIFRI) hosted the Area Meeting for Soroptimist chapters in Skagit, Island and Snohomish Counties which fittingly was International Women’s Day. Braving the rain and ferry schedules, over 130 Soroptimists from twelve clubs gathered at the  Continue Reading

Litter-Free by the Sea Hey, everyone! It’s time for the 2014 Great Island Clean-Up… San Juan Island’s annual spring-cleaning! When: Saturday, April 5th. 9:00 am – noon Where: All island roadsides and beaches Rain or shine! Last year, 200 islanders collected over 3600 pound of litter from approximately 45 miles of roads and several beach  Continue Reading

Please join us for the next monthly meeting of the San Juan Island Garden Club, April 1st at 1:00 pm Mullis Community Center, 589 Nash Street, Friday Harbor The topic is: The Community Garden – a garden community How the Garden operates, why it exists and its continued success Explore with us the new life  Continue Reading

American Craft Distillers Association also Awards Silver to Spy Hop Barreled Gin Only three years after opening, San Juan Island Distillery has been honored with top awards by the American Craft Distillers Association at their annual craft spirits judging. This recognition for the Apple Brandy, for which the distillery was started, reflects the years of  Continue Reading

Thanks to a new “FANS Fund,” more San Juan Island families may now be able to receive financial help when signing up for programs at Island Rec. The new scholarship fund has been established by the nonprofit group, Families and Neighbors Support Island Rec (FANS), which was formed in 2012 to fill the gap between  Continue Reading

Tuesday Night Films at the Grange – Next week, April 1, Friday Harbor Film Festival presents a double feature: Eastern Rises, (48 minutes) is an avant-garde style documentary that follows a courageous band of fly fishermen who risk life and limb in one of the last wild places on earth – the remote Kamchatka Peninsula of  Continue Reading

Anna Maria from Coho sends this invitation to you… We have a special wine dinner coming up at the end of the month that we are really excited about. We all know Washington makes lots of wine – some, very good wines… and others, great wines. We will have the latter at our event on  Continue Reading

Hailey Loucks and Isabel Gabriel from the high school Community Projects class, are raising money to install beehives in the community garden out San Juan Valley Road. As part of their fundraising effort, they have organized a movie night for Friday, March 28th at the Grange, starting at 6:30pm and will be showing the moving  Continue Reading

It’s next Friday, Saturday and Sunday… Island teens take on witty dialogue, vintage costumes and farcical fun as they present Oscar Wilde’s classic play first performed in London in 1895. The play takes a satirical look at Victorian ways, the nature of marriage, the constraints of morality, hypocrisy vs. inventiveness, and essentially, the importance of  Continue Reading

Proud mom Diana Stepita sends this note over about her son Matt who’s in the WAS aerospace program… Friday Harbor High School junior, Matthew Stepita, has been selected as a Washington Aerospace Scholar for 2013-2014. Washington Aerospace Scholars (WAS), a member of NASA Johnson Space Center’s National High School Aerospace Scholars program, was founded in  Continue Reading