Wednesday, March 12, 2025 FOLLOWING IS A STATEMENT BY SAN JUAN COUNTY The 2025 San Juan County “Point-In Time” (PIT) Unhoused Count identified 69 unhoused people who have no stable place to live. This is up from the 59 unhouse people identified in 2024. The Washington State-mandated count was conducted on Jan. 30, 2025, and…
Friday, February 14, 2025 FROM OLYMPIAby Jeff NoedelVideo by Jeremy Tyler “When we all help each other, we all rise together.” That’s the message Orcas Island resident Alex Callen shared with state legislators in Olympia Wednesday. Callen told state legislators his apartment is “real small… but it’s been a real game-changer for me… My health…
ORIGINALLY PRODUCED & STREAMED THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2025 Recorded this morning, San Juan Community Land Trust’s Amanda Lynn talks shop with Opal (“Of People and Land”) Community Land Trust’s Lisa Byers and Julie Brunner. This SanJuans.Today/CNL2 video is 73 minutes in duration.
Thursday, January 23, 2025by Jeff Noedelvideo by Jeremy Tyler A SanJuans.Today VIDEO FROM OLYMPIA IS BELOW OLYMPIA, WA–Suzanne Olson is the project lead for the Pea Patch Community Campus project on Orcas Island. She was in the Washington State Capitol complex Wednesday “doing some reconnaissance” in preparation for an Orcas Island delegation to visit the…
Saturday, January 18, 2025by Jeff Noedel SanJuans.Today wondered how much money was spent on lawyers involving two disputes between local governments and one affordable housing nonprofit. So we asked. In the Superior Court case styled SAN JUAN COUNTY v. TOWN OF FRIDAY HARBOR AND THE TOWN COUNCIL, on May 21, 2024, the County sued the…
Saturday, December 7, 2024 An amazing 60 percent of San Juan Island’s nearly 7,000 residents carry a library card in their wallets. The library has robust book checkouts and runs tons of popular community programs, but it has outgrown its building and parking is difficult. The library trustees bought 2-1/2 acres in a better location….
Wednesday, November 13, 2024by Jeff Noedel The Washington State Department of Commerce received 62 applications from cities, counties and public utility districts for the 2024 Connecting Housing to Infrastructure Program (CHIP), which closed on Oct. 31. One of the 62 applications is San Juan County requesting $340,000 for utility improvements at the site where 20…
A CNL2 VIDEO IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE Originally Published Sunday, September 15, 2024 Directed by Jeremy TylerWritten summary by Jeff NoedelProduced at SanJuans.Today Studios in Friday Harbor, WA Boxed Out host Amanda Lynn welcomes Lincoln Bormann, Director of the San Juan County Conservation Land Bank. The conversation investigates the ways that conversation…
A SANJUANS.TODAY VIDEO IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE Thursday, September 5, 2024Show produced by Amanda LynnDirected by Dave SchnuckelAudio Engineering by Jeremy TylerSummary written by Jeff Noedel Welcome to the second episode of “Boxed Out,” hosted by Amanda Lynn, executive director of the San Juan Community Home Trust! This is part 2 of…
A CNL2 VIDEO IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE State Representative Alex Ramel (he says it rhymes with “camel”) is a Democrat who lives in Bellingham. And he is one of the San Juans’ two state representatives in Washington’s 40th legislative district. Mr. Ramel is running for reelection unopposed this year, so there’s an…
A CNL2 VIDEO IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE The third and final part of our interview with the Family Resource Center’s Jennifer Armstrong starts with a discussion of homeless people on San Juan Island. About (5:00) minutes into part 3, Jennifer is asked if a person who has come to the island without…
A CNL2 VIDEO IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGETHIS VIDEO WAS AIRED LIVE ON TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2024 AT NOON This video is part 2 of 3 parts. Part 3 will be published tomorrow (Friday).Part 1 is here. Part 2 begins with Jennifer Armstrong, Executive Director, explaining how the Joyce L. Sobel Family Resource…
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FOLLOWING IS A STATEMENT BY SAN JUAN COUNTY GOVERNMENTTuesday, July 9, 2024 @ 6:35 p.m.The San Juan County Council today approved a series of steps in an effort to improve services from the Department of Community Development (DCD). The County will begin contracting out services in the land use division, and hire an additional code…
THE FULL EPISODE OF “HEY… WHAT’S GOING ON AROUND HERE” IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGEAmanda Lynn, who has led the San Juan Community Home Trust for three years and counting, is an incredible asset in the community. She is as committed to affordable housing as a human could be. She is articulate, well…
