ORIGINAL: Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 4:15 p.m.UPDATED: 5:25 p.m.by Jeff Noedel The “Mosquito Fleet Act” (HB 1923) has passed the Washington State House Transportation Committee by a wide margin, 20 yeas and 7 nays. All Democrats on the committee — including 40th District Rep Alex Ramel (D-Bellingham) — voted for the bill, as well…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
