It’s time for you to get out­side & play — check the San Juan Cal­en­dar for all the stuff that’s going on (and to get ready to go to the bbq or the beach or the fire­works, or wher­ev­er your part of the tribe is col­lect­ing) — see ya there!

It’s time for you to get out­side & play — check the San Juan Cal­en­dar for all the stuff that’s going on (and to get ready to go to the bbq or the beach or the fire­works, or wher­ev­er your part of the tribe is col­lect­ing) — see ya there!

The Fourth of July on the island is one of my favorite days on the island (besides grad­u­a­tion & the Fair & soc­cer games & foot­ball games & bas­ket­ball games & Valen­tine’s Day & Sol­stice — both of ’em — and Cana­da Day.) You can get an idea of the stuff that’s gonna be hap­pen­ing by  Con­tin­ue Reading

Thurs­day after­noon the hard-luck soc­cer Wolver­ines pres­sured the goal through­out the game, but shot after shot lat­er the boys came up with a 0–0 draw with Cav­alero Mid-High School. The guys end the sea­son with a win and two ties to go with eight loss­es, and the sat­is­fac­tion of steady improve­ment through the sea­son. They  Con­tin­ue Reading

In Chica­go, they sched­ule Cubs games at Wrigley in the mid­dle of the day for two rea­sons: One, that’s when base­ball is sup­posed to be played, and two, then peo­ple can skip work & go watch ’em. Today, you can too — the Fri­day Har­bor Wolver­ines base­ball team plays at 2:45pm here against Orcas at  Con­tin­ue Reading

One of the tal­ent­ed stu­dents at Fri­day Har­bor High is senior Lau­ren Paulsen, who has been shoot­ing Sports Illus­­trat­ed-lev­­el pho­tos at soc­cer games — click here to see her port­fo­lio (com­piled by Cassie Ellis) from the Nook­sack Val­ley game last week, which was arguably the boys’ best played game at home so far this year. That’s  Con­tin­ue Reading

You know, it was cozy & warm & friend­ly hav­ing the Mar­ket at the high school in the din­ing hall/commons there, but the weath­er’s good enough to get out now…market man­ag­er Rosa Blair tells me the out­door mar­kets for Sat­ur­days (10am-1pm) begin this week­end and run till Octo­ber. They’re also plan­ning to get the Wednes­day  Con­tin­ue Reading

You know, it was cozy & warm & friend­ly hav­ing the Mar­ket at the high school in the din­ing hall/commons there, but the weath­er’s good enough to get out now…market man­ag­er Rosa Blair tells me the out­door mar­kets for Sat­ur­days (10am-1pm) begin this week­end and run till Octo­ber. They’re also plan­ning to get the Wednes­day  Con­tin­ue Reading

Quick notes: The base­ball express rolled on, as the boys thumped Gran­ite Falls Fri­day night 9–0 before sweep­ing two at Orcas on Sat­ur­day. The soft­ball girls lost their dou­ble­head­er at Orcas Sat­ur­day, while the soc­cer boys near­ly jumped Wash­ing­ton High in Taco­ma Fri­day night, rid­ing Conor Lan­phere’s goal to a 1–1 tie till the hosts  Con­tin­ue Reading

Ever since I saw the end of Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire, I’ve been wish­ing we could have every­body dance next to the fer­ry land­ing (since we don’t have a train sta­tion to dance in.) Great way to end a movie, or start things up on an island. In Antwerp, they have no such prob­lem — check it  Con­tin­ue Reading

The more things change, the more they stay the same… A cou­ple of new places opened in town, and a cou­ple moved. The Blue Water Bar & Grill (above) opened its doors on Mon­day this week. Locat­ed in the spot where the Front Street Café was locat­ed for a cou­ple of decades, and spread­ing into the  Con­tin­ue Reading

The more things change, the more they stay the same… A cou­ple of new places opened in town, and a cou­ple moved. The Blue Water Bar & Grill (above) opened its doors on Mon­day this week. Locat­ed in the spot where the Front Street Café was locat­ed for a cou­ple of decades, and spread­ing into the  Con­tin­ue Reading

Mar­ty Robin­son from the Ele­men­tary School says the kids did an awe­some job, help­ing their neigh­bors: Thanks to the awe­some gen­eros­i­ty of Fri­day Har­bor Ele­men­tary School fam­i­lies, more than 1000 food items were deliv­ered to the Fri­day Har­bor Food Bank on Mon­day. The two week food dri­ve was spon­sored by FHES stu­dent coun­cil whose enthu­si­as­tic  Con­tin­ue Reading

Here’s a work­shop that Kath­leen & Fiona are putting on this week­end that should be great…and tasty. Here’s more: LEARN A LITTLE, HIKE A LITTLE, EAT A LITTLE: Join us for the Eth­nob­otany and Edi­bles Work­shop Join lead­ing eth­nob­otanist Mac Smith, Fiona Nor­ris from the San Juan Nature Insti­tute, and Kath­leen Foley from the San  Con­tin­ue Reading

Here’s a work­shop that Kath­leen & Fiona are putting on this week­end that should be great…and tasty. Here’s more: LEARN A LITTLE, HIKE A LITTLE, EAT A LITTLE: Join us for the Eth­nob­otany and Edi­bles Work­shop Join lead­ing eth­nob­otanist Mac Smith, Fiona Nor­ris from the San Juan Nature Insti­tute, and Kath­leen Foley from the San  Con­tin­ue Reading

Jim Maya from Maya’s Char­ters says the tran­sient whales are nearby.…here’s more, from yes­ter­day: It was one of those days! We got news of Orcas right at the end of our first trip so I rushed in for my sec­ond group. We zoomed out but could­n’t find them, so we went down to Whale Rocks to  Con­tin­ue Reading