UPDATE2:  Shipyard Cove returning to normal after successful salvage of ‘Elsie M’ tugboat
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UPDATE2: Shipyard Cove returning to normal after successful salvage of ‘Elsie M’ tugboat

ORIGINAL: Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 5:25 p.m.UPDATE 1: Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 8:00 p.m.UPDATE 2: Friday, December 6, 2024 at 9:00 a.m.by Jeff Noedel UPDATE 2:The site of the sunken Elsie M 25-foot tugboat has been cleaned up. Most of the oil booms have been removed, and there is very little visible sheen…

LIVE-STREAMED: ‘Oil Spill Response: An Opportunity for Change’
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LIVE-STREAMED: ‘Oil Spill Response: An Opportunity for Change’

THE LIVE STREAM VIEWER IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE The ALERT Project and Friends of San Juans co-hosted:  “Oil Spill Response: An Opportunity for Change.” The in-person event was live-streamed to SanJuans.Today (CNL2.com). Dr. Riki Ott discussed the importance of public involvement in oil spill response planning, with a focus on the need…

PART 1 OF 3: Cindy Wolf Addresses DCD Changes, New County Manager, & Her Lived Experience as a Council Rep
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PART 1 OF 3: Cindy Wolf Addresses DCD Changes, New County Manager, & Her Lived Experience as a Council Rep

A CNL2 VIDEO IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE Thursday, July 11, 2024 @ 3:25 a.m.Directed by Jeremy Tyler This interview occurred Wednesday, July 10, 2024 at approximately 12:30 p.m. Cindy Wolf is 7/8ths into her four year term as San Juan County Council Representative, residency district 2 (Orcas). In this three-part interview, Cindy…

NEW TO CNL2 RADIO! Dave’s Marine Weather Conditions: Saturday, June 22 – Made Possible by Island Life in Eastsound
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NEW TO CNL2 RADIO! Dave’s Marine Weather Conditions: Saturday, June 22 – Made Possible by Island Life in Eastsound

A CNL2 PODCAST IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE Setting a new standard in local marine weather information! This marine weather update has been underwritten by ISLAND LIFE on Orcas in Eastsound.  Outerwear for the active islander. Here is San Juan Island’s own Dave Schnuckel delivering the first CNL2 Marine Weather podcast. This report…

Big Turnout on Blakely Island Friday Afternoon for New Marine Navigation Sign
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Big Turnout on Blakely Island Friday Afternoon for New Marine Navigation Sign

Friday, June 21, 2024 The Blakely Island Marina sign sits at the head of the channel into their small marina. The community worked together to mill and paint new signs that should last decades, just as the old sign did. On an island where not much changes and everything looks the same, much as it…

Lopez Island’s Russel Barsh Counts All the Little Fish in the Sea
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Lopez Island’s Russel Barsh Counts All the Little Fish in the Sea

A CNL2 VIDEO IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE Friday, June 7, 2024Video Capture & Writing by Jeff Noedel Video Editing by Jeremy Tyler For 18 years, Russel Barsh has been studying how the little things are changing — the bottom of the food chain — in the ecosystem of our archipelago. He calls…

OPALCO Pursuing a Bold Tidal Power Generation Project
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OPALCO Pursuing a Bold Tidal Power Generation Project

A CNL2 VIDEO IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE. In an exclusive report published recently in the Salish Current, reporter Toby Cooper makes a deep dive into a project Orcas Power & Light Cooperative (OPALCO) is exploring in which a football field-sized machine would be tethered to the sea floor at a point between…