The San Juan Coun­ty Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Coun­cil (EDC) announces that the Back-To-Busi­­ness Grant Fund has been fund­ed in the amount of $300,000, in order to sup­port San Juan Island busi­ness­es. This fund was cre­at­ed to address our busi­ness own­ers’ need to cov­er essen­tial busi­ness expens­es as they work to sur­vive the eco­nom­ic down­turn caused by  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Islands Vis­i­tors Bureau resumed its region­al adver­tis­ing cam­paign when Coun­ty offi­cials antic­i­pat­ed that we would be mov­ing to Phase 3 with­in a day or two. Many were sur­prised when the Coun­ty Health offi­cer post­poned the orig­i­nal appli­ca­tion to Phase 3, and then when the Gov­er­nor paused all requests for phase changes, includ­ing ours,  Con­tin­ue Reading

Mer­ri Ann Simon­son checks in with a Sec­ond Quar­ter Real Estate sum­ma­ry… The sec­ond quar­ter results, which com­plete the first half of the year, in San Juan Coun­ty were extreme­ly good when con­sid­er­ing the virus impact.   Per the NWMLS, the dol­lar vol­ume in San Juan Coun­ty was $118,381,567 with a total of 201 trans­ac­tions. The  Con­tin­ue Reading

Free Home Kits Now Avail­able for Those Who Qual­i­fy Dr. Gul­la and Liv­ing Med­ical Arts PLLC wants the com­mu­ni­ty to know that Lab­corp is now offer­ing test­ing that you can do in the com­fort of your own home, with­out need­ing a doc­tors orders. All you have to do is go online to this link and  Con­tin­ue Reading

Mer­ri Ann Simon­son has a new entry in her San Juan Island Lifestyle Video series. This one is about San Juan Island Real Estate and COVID

The last day to apply for the Pay­check Pro­tec­tion Pro­gram (PPP) is June 30th, 2020. As of today, June 26th, there is plen­ty of mon­ey in the pro­gram, and restric­tions which may have deterred some busi­ness­es have been loos­ened. To apply for this pro­gram, con­tact your banker. If your bank is no longer offer­ing these  Con­tin­ue Reading

A note from the Vis­i­tors Bureau… Fri­day Har­bor, WA — Sum­mer is here, and that nor­mal­ly means an increase in vis­i­tors to our Islands. While 2020 is redefin­ing what ‘nor­mal’ is, there are steps the tourism indus­try is tak­ing to safe­ly wel­come vis­i­tors back to the Islands. One of our most impor­tant goals is to  Con­tin­ue Reading

June 24, 2020: Fol­low­ing a rec­om­men­da­tion from San Juan Coun­ty Health Offi­cer Dr. Frank James, both the Coun­ty Board of Health and the San Juan Coun­ty Coun­cil approved sub­mit­ting an appli­ca­tion to the WA State Sec­re­tary of Health to enter a mod­i­fied ver­sion of Phase 3 of the Governor’s four-phased Safe Start Wash­ing­ton plan. The tim­ing  Con­tin­ue Reading