The San Juan County Charter Review Commission has decided to roll back the clock – to the days when the county’s top elected officials were known as the board of county commissioners.
Protection of more than 1,000 acres of local land owned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management moved a step forward April 3, when the San Juan County Council authorized sending a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar seeking designation of the land as a National Monument.
Because of the passage of Initiative 1183, Washington state is getting out of the liquor business, but many of the current stores, including liquor stores on Orcas and Lopez, plan to stay in business.
