FOLLOWING IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT BY SAN JUAN COUNTY GOVERNMENT San Juan County is pleased to launch an informational page to help assist residents and visitors navigate the Washington State Ferry System (WSF) by consolidating timely information, links to useful sites, answers to FAQs, and opportunities for feedback into a single, user-friendly location and all geared towards San…
Jonnie Welch kicked-off his radio show today at noon on CNL2. It streamed live.
Thursday, June 27, 2024 FOLLOWING IS A STATEMENT BY SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF ERIC PETER The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office is alerting the public to an ongoing ‘spoofing’ scam in our community. Islanders are getting calls from someone claiming to be the Sheriff’s Office, attempting to scam them out of money. These calls are…
Jon Tegnell, 67, passed away last night in the 8:00 p.m. hour. He had been living with Parkinson’s disease for 10 years. Jon was a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard and served Washington State Ferries for 30 years — most of that time as Captain — by the time of his retirement in 2017….
RE-POSTED Monday, June 24, 2024 With increased wildfires across Washington and British Columbia, including a larger wildfire last week on the Skagit/Snohomish County border near Darrington, we checked with the DNR to make sure San Juan residents can still request home inspections for wildfire risk mitigation on your property. You can. The information in CNL2’s…
The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community has won a $394.5 million trespassing lawsuit against BNSF Railway. In an eighteen-page ruling issued today, District Court Judge Robert S. Lasnik ordered that BNSF disgorge total trespass profits of $394,517,169 to the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. Specifically, the Court ordered that BNSF disgorge net profits of $362,267,169 attributable to…
Photos by Jeremy Tylerfrom Zylstra Lake area, Saturday, June 22 at 5:22 p.m.
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…
Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 12:25 p.m.by Jeff Noedel Members of the Community Water Taxi (CWT) and the owner-operator of Island Water Taxi, LLC sprang into action on Saturday, June 15th when the inter-island ferry went out of service until 5:45 p.m. The county faced the challenge of needing to move a lot of folks…
Wednesday, June 19, 2024Video Directed by Dave SchnuckelAudio Engineer: Jeremy TylerSummary Written by: Jeff Noedel A CNL2 VIDEO IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE The San Juan Community Theatre is an island gem. Nathan Kessler-Jeffrey, Executive Artistic Director, and Hanna Burke, Marketing Director, discuss the present and future of the theatre. Subjects discussed include:…
Saturday, June 15, 2024by Jeff Noedel What does San Juan County need from the Washington State Legislature in the next session? In Washington State government, each legislative session is two years long. The legislature convenes in early- to mid-January each year, but one of the two annual sessions is more consequential than the other. The…
UPDATED: 5:35 p.m. At 11:40 a.m. today, a plane crashed off the northeastern shore of Jones Island Marine State Park, which is located west of Deer Harbor on Orcas Island. Jones Island is a 188-acre park for campers, with no residents. FOX13 News in Seattle is reporting that retired Air Force Major General and NASA…
CNL2’s reporting of Friday night’s seven-hour ferry trip for Lopez children and minors started with a news tip from a regular viewer. We worked the story all weekend, and obviously it was a subject people want to know about. Visits to CNL2 quickly shattered all our records. In one day, our monthly unique visitors went…
UPDATED Saturday, June 1, 2024 at 1:36 p.m. CORRECTION: This article has been updated to reflect that the Lopez students arrived at the Lopez dock at 11:21 p.m., not approximately 9:00 p.m. as previously reported. The trip took more than seven hours, not five. Friday was a very challenging day for many people who rely…
The Washington State Department of Health has closed recreational shellfish harvesting at the beaches near Eastsound on Orcas Island due to unsafe levels of Paralytic Shellfish Poison (PSP). This closure includes all species of molluscan shellfish including clams, geoduck, scallops, mussels, oysters, and snails. This harvesting closure applies to the East Sound body of water…
