By Hay­ley Day, San Juan Update At 5 p.m., Wednes­day, Feb. 24, the San Juan Island School Dis­trict Board of Direc­tors will hold a meet­ing on Zoom. The board will vote on whether to approve the start dates for ath­let­ic sea­sons.  View the entire agen­da here. To access the meet­ing, vis­it https://sjisd.zoom.us/s/87220019428. Or call to join:  Con­tin­ue Reading

By Hay­ley Day, Suan Juan Update At 5 p.m., Wednes­day, Feb. 10, the San Juan Island School Dis­trict Board of Direc­tors will hold a meet­ing on Zoom. The board will review a pre­sen­ta­tion on the draft plan for “sec­ondary in-per­­son instruc­tions.” View the entire agen­da here. The board will also hold a closed meet­ing in exec­u­tive  Con­tin­ue Reading

By José Domenech, San Juan Island School Dis­trict Finance Direc­tor, and Liz Var­varo, San Juan Island School Dis­trict Food Ser­vice Direc­tor San Juan Island School Dis­trict is able to pro­vide a dai­ly meal pack with break­fast and lunch to any child in our com­mu­ni­ty between the ages of 1 and 18 years of age for  Con­tin­ue Reading

By Fred Woods, Super­in­ten­dent, San Juan Island School Dis­trict As we move into the final week before the schools’ win­ter break, I would like to take a moment to express my grat­i­tude for your sup­port dur­ing this unprece­dent­ed and dif­fi­cult time for our stu­dents and fam­i­lies. I also want to wish you the hap­pi­est of  Con­tin­ue Reading

By Car­rie Unping­co, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, San Juan Island Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion As many fam­i­lies in our com­mu­ni­ty have been adverse­ly impact­ed by COVID-19, these impacts are mag­ni­fied when chil­dren don’t have a safe and sup­port­ive place to go to while their par­ents are at work. Please con­sid­er a gift to the Head Start build­ing expan­sion project, right  Con­tin­ue Reading

By Fred Woods, Super­in­ten­dent, San Juan Island School Dis­trict On Thurs­day, Nov. 5, Fri­day Har­bor Ele­men­tary School begins in-per­­son instruc­tion for kinder­garten stu­dents. One week lat­er, the first-grade stu­dents will join them. Then on Nov. 19, the sec­ond grade will begin. We are excit­ed and look for­ward to see­ing the faces of young chil­dren in school  Con­tin­ue Reading

By San Juan Islands Com­mu­ni­ty Net­work Join San Juan Coun­ty school lead­ers to dis­cuss respons­es to the COVID-19 cri­sis and address ques­tions about stu­dents, staff and com­mu­ni­ty safe­ty at 1 p.m., Sun­day, Nov. 8, online via Zoom and YouTube. Reg­is­ter at www.SJICN.org. Sub­mit your ques­tions via email to info@sjicn.org. The forum is capped at 100  Con­tin­ue Reading

By San Juan Island Com­mu­ni­ty Fund As we enter the eighth month of help­ing to mea­sure and off­set the impact of COVID-19 in our com­mu­ni­ty, the San Juan Island Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion remains focused on bring­ing ideas and fund­ing togeth­er to meet the needs of San Juan islanders. Look­ing ahead to the fall, SJICF is antic­i­pat­ing the  Con­tin­ue Reading

By San Juan Island School Dis­trict On Wednes­day, Oct. 28, the San Juan Island School Dis­trict Board of Direc­tors will hold a reg­u­lar school board meet­ing at 5 p.m. as a Zoom meet­ing. Click here to join the webinar.

By Travis Ayers, Fri­day Har­bor High School Grad Night Com­mit­tee Chair The Fri­day Har­bor High School senior class of 2021 and the PTSA is now tak­ing orders for their annu­al hol­i­day wreath and pie sale. Get a beau­ti­ful, aro­mat­ic, long-last­ing, 24-inch North­west Noble Fir wreath with pinecones, berries and a hand­made bow in one of three col­ors  Con­tin­ue Reading

Coun­ty Coun­cil Can­di­dates Youth Forum on Octo­ber 12, 2020 The Envi­ron­men­tal Sys­tems class at Spring Street Inter­na­tion­al School will be hold­ing a Youth Forum on Octo­ber 12th from 1–2pm. They will ask the Coun­ty Coun­cil can­di­dates from Orcas and San Juan Islands ques­tions about the envi­ron­ment and cli­mate change. All are wel­come to join this webi­nar!  Con­tin­ue Reading

On Wednesday,Sep 30, 2020, the San Juan Island School Dis­trict Board of Direc­tors will hold a reg­u­lar School Board Meet­ing at 5:00 pm as a Zoom meet­ing.     https://sjisd.zoom.us/s/83455678355 Or join webi­nar with the fol­low­ing meth­ods Phone one-tap Phone one-tap: US: +12532158782„83455678355# or +16699006833„83455678355# Join by Tele­phone For high­er qual­i­ty, dial a num­ber based on your cur­rent loca­tion. Dial: US : +1 253 215 8782 or +1 669 900  Con­tin­ue Reading

Dear Fri­day Har­bor com­mu­ni­ty, I have always loved the month of Sep­tem­ber. Many years ago, when I decid­ed to make edu­ca­tion a life-long career I saw an oppor­tu­ni­ty to broad­en my world, allow­ing me to extend beyond the lim­its of the lit­tle town where I was raised. Choos­ing edu­ca­tion as a career even­tu­al­ly led me  Con­tin­ue Reading

Skag­it Val­ley College’s Con­tin­u­ing and Com­mu­ni­ty Edu­ca­tion pro­gram (CCE) is pleased to announce new online work­shops for Fall Quar­ter. CCE allows you to engage, con­nect, learn, and grow from the com­fort of your home in short-term, non-cred­it cours­es. Vis­it the CCE Fall 2020 Course Cat­a­log for more infor­ma­tion. Cours­es are designed for peo­ple who would like to  Con­tin­ue Reading

Spring Street Inter­na­tion­al School would like to thank the San Juan Island Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion for host­ing, coor­di­nat­ing, and includ­ing us in the SJICF Fair Match­ing Grant Pro­gram. The Fair Match­ing Grant Pro­gram helped us raise $4,605 that went towards prepar­ing our school to open up safe­ly this fall and pro­vide our stu­dents with an inno­v­a­tive  Con­tin­ue Reading

The San Juan Island School Dis­tric­t’s Food for Thought Pro­gram is back at it! Though most of the staff was fur­loughed, Chef Andy, Ash­ley Spen­diff and Ker­ri Starr are work­ing hard to pro­vide health­ful FROM SCRATCH meals to all chil­dren in San Juan Coun­ty ages 1–18 FOR FREE. Check out the school web­site for cur­rent menu options  Con­tin­ue Reading