Friday, December 6, 2024for a meeting held Thursday, December 5, 2024 FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY PREPARED BY THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE SAN JUANS’ OBSERVER CORPS Mayor Jackson was absent. Council member Geffen chaired the meeting. He presented a $15,000 check to the Friday Harbor Food Bank from Harbor Life Ring donations and…
Friday, December 6, 2024 FOLLOWING IS A STATEMENT BY ORCAS ISLAND FIRE & RESCUE The Orcas Island Board of Fire Commissioners requests citizen input. On December 2nd, OIFR Commissioners discussed potential processes for hiring our next permanent Fire Chief. As a part of this important work, the board would like community input on the search…
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…
Thursday, December 5, 2024by Jeff Noedel In a Wednesday, December 4 Seattle Times article entitled Struggling Rosario Resort looks to hotel experts, searches for cash, business reporter Paul Roberts inventories the challenges facing Chris Robison, owner of most of the Rosario Resort on Orcas Island. The Times reports that Robison has hired an expert hospitality management…
Thursday, December 5, 2024for a meeting held Wednesday, December 4, 2024 FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY PREPARED BY THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE SAN JUANS’ OBSERVER CORPS The executive director of Accountable Communities of Health (ACH) will be retiring, and they will be searching for a new director. They are still waiting for the…
Wednesday, December 4, 2024for meetings held Monday, December 2 & Tuesday, December 3, 2024 FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY PREPARED BY THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE SAN JUANS’ OBSERVER CORPS ON DECEMBER 2, the environmental stewardship department updated the Council on plans for replacing the temporary culvert on Killibrew Lake Road with a fish…
Wednesday, December 4, 2024for a meeting held Tuesday, November 26, 2024 FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY PREPARED BY THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE SAN JUANS’ OBSERVER CORPS The meeting opened with the Treblemakers Elementary School Choir leading the audience in the pledge of Allegiance and singing three songs to honor veterans and bring in…
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Community internet television and radio for the San Juans gained some strength in the past two days, as $1,602 more in donations have now arrived. That brings the recent total to $1,859. And the Mary See Foundation match has instantly turned that into $3,718! The Mary See Foundation leaders took a…
FOLLOWING IS A STATEMENT BY SAN JUAN COUNTY GOVERNMENT San Juan County’s Public Works Department will be performing limited repairs along MacKaye Harbor Rd between Agate Beach Ln and Flint Rd intermittently over the next several weeks. The repair is limited in scope to areas of coastal erosion and is designed to ensure the safety of…
A CNL2 VIDEO IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE Video directed by: Dave SchnuckelAudio Engineer: Jeremy TylerWritten summary written by: Jeff Noedel The San Juans are home to some of the most interesting people in the world. John J. Nance is one of them. This is the first of a three-part interview of a…
A CNL2 VIDEO IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE Video directed by: Dave SchnuckelAudio Engineer: Jeremy TylerWritten summary written by: Jeff Noedel The San Juans are home to some of the most interesting people in the world. John J. Nance is one of them. This is the first of a three-part interview of a…
A CNL2 VIDEO IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE Video directed by: Dave SchnuckelAudio Engineer: Jeremy TylerWritten summary written by: Jeff Noedel The San Juans are home to some of the most interesting people in the world. John J. Nance is one of them. This is the third of a three-part interview of a…
Sunday, December 1, 2024by Jeff Noedel Captain Ken Burtness had just one employer his entire adult life: Washington State Ferries. He joined the system in 1970, when he was 16 years old. He worked summers until 1978, when he went full-time with WSF. After a period of training early in his full-time career, he basically…
Saturday, November 30, 2024by Jeff Noedel In January, OPALCO announced details for an intended 2.7 megawatt solar array paired with 1 MW of battery storage on 19 acres on Bailer Hill at Douglas Road on San Juan Island. The project has been in planning since 2021, about the time the rural electric cooperative won a…
Tuesday, November 26, 2024for a meeting held Friday, November 22, 2024 FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY PREPARED BY THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE SAN JUANS’ OBSERVER CORPS The commissioners approved the Skytrails condominium lease for 10 years with an option to renew it for 15 years. The tenants will replace the roofing and siding…
