Wenatchee High School students are traveling across the state spreading happiness, cultural pride and hope for the future – all in the form of mariachi.
Last winter, Benjamin Nunez Marquez was preparing for his deportation out of the U.S. to his native country of Mexico. He was resigned to this fact – he had been preparing for this day ever since he was taken into custody by immigration enforcement in 2008.
After tough 12 rounds Benjamin Pollard said the magic letters, “j-u-r-i-s-d-i-c-t-i-o-n.”
Editor’s note: The Orcas Island Library is hoping to embark on an expansion of its facility. In the next year, there will be public meetings, design work and fundraising. The Sounder is running a series on the library’s staff in the coming months.
There will be singing, aerial silk performing, magic and a few surprises.
Nancy Knapp tells her students when they write to “leave your readers wanting more and wondering what happens next.”
Last week, the Sounder asked readers to share their hopes and dreams for the New Year. Your responses included health and happiness.
They are the vampires of the sea, roaming our waters at night and drinking blood. They feed off even the most formidable of ocean predators: sharks.
The lone Trumpeter swan seen on the shores, and on the waters, of Crescent Beach was found dead on Saturday.
After three years of traveling back and forth from Haiti to Orcas, Rosedanie Cadet has decided to spend the next year on just one island.
A lone Trumpeter swan has been seen on the shores, and on the waters, of Crescent Beach in Eastsound.
“It’s unusual,” said Shona Aitken education coordinator for Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center located in Friday Harbor.
The Fish Hatchery in Moran State Park had a busy night last week.
Hatchery staff helped sixty-two pairs of kokanee salmon spawn in one evening at Moran Creek.
Orcas Fire Chief Kevin O’Brien made it clear to islanders that his main priority is the safety of islanders and having numerous means of emergency transports help to make that possible.
