Why is the Orcas Island School district facing a $667,000 projected deficit for the coming school year?
It snowed Saturday April 19 on Lopez. That may have been appropriate for the day of the Conservation Summit which brought together at least a dozen local environmental groups and about 85 interested citizens. The environment and its supporters have been on-the-run in the San Juans lately, ironic in a political climate where supporters of environmental protection will likely make substantial political gains at the state and national level in the fall.
Guest opinion by Andrea and Hugh Hendrick
Time and money: a sense of urgency and restraint When Franklin Roosevelt firsttook office as President of the U.S., the…
BY GLENN HARRIS Special to the Sounder Having worked in public education for over 25 years, I thought I had…
Trail defenders miss point The recent spate of letters about the bicycle trail carved into Moran Park misses the most…
A helping hand Working together to accomplish goals – such as formulating a budget, (the School Board) devising a strategic…
By PATTY PIRNACK-HAMILTON
By SCOTT RASMUSSEN
The Orcas Island Fire District is not a democracy. It is a junior taxing district. The volunteer members of the…
The Fire Department needs to improve communications, especially within the department.
Consider this:
Since when did the hard-working immigrants become the bad guys? Consider the eight Mexicans who were stopped last month in the unprecedented domestic border checks while traveling from the San Juan Islands to Anacortes. One man, an Orcas resident for five years, was trying to get to the airport to pick up his wife and child who had been visiting family in Mexico.
