The Orcas Island Recreation Program would like to thank the United Way of San Juan County for helping support three…
Readiness to Learn/Orcas Island School District is a program whose state-funded mandate is to serve school-children in grades K-12 and…
To the Editor: There is a petition being circulated on Orcas Island that supports the concept of island specific waste…
Last weekend, after the Pet Parade, the school held an Open House for four hours to tour community members through the…
I am excited about the Park and Recreation District’s plans! These people really have good ideas! One of the best ones…
As some of you know, Salon Mir Toi has busily been moving from our location in the Eastsound Square to…
Several years ago, I giggled when I came across Mark Twain’s famous quote regarding school boards. At the time, it…
I am writing this letter to thank Vance from Shinola Jewelry on behalf of the Orcas Island High School Applied…
I want to commend you and thank you so much for publishing not only the information regarding David Schermerhorn’s courageous…
Thank you for reporting on the WSF. I started riding in the early ’60’s, living in Edmonds and coming to…
Quite a number of years ago I spent a long afternoon with an encyclopedia salesman. He was polite and persuasive. As a young parent I thought it my duty to hear him out and to consider the potential benefit of an encyclopedia set for my children. After all, it could influence their education. Or so said the salesman, using many more words than necessary to define the myriad virtues of a set of encyclopedia. The price of the books was staggering by any measure, but the availability of the easy payment plan, rolled out in force, was the salesman’s answer to that.
Thank you to all the people in the Deer Harbor community who helped make our May 30 dock fundraiser a…
I don’t know who came up with the idea 20 years ago to march children and their pets through Eastsound,…
