Letters

School District thanks voters for approving levy

Dear Community, Thank you, thank you! San Juan Island School District continues to be humbled by the amazing and overwhelming turnout to support our schools and most importantly our students. Because of your support on this…

Alvarado: Please vote yes for school levy

On February 11th our community will be voting on a replacement capital & technology levy for our schools. Vote YES for our schools! This is NOT a new tax, but a renewal of the one that…

Written by Martha Alvarado

Clark: Vote yes on School Levy Feb. 11

On February 11th our community will be voting on a replacement capitol & technology levy for our schools. Vote YES for our schools! This is NOT a new tax, but a renewal of the one that…

Written by Summer Clark

Thank you, San Juan Lions Club, for supporting the Parkinson’s Alert Dogs.

PADs for Parkinson’s of San Juan Island would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for a $1,500 grant from the San Juan Island Lions Club. These much-needed funds will be used to support the 20 dogs…

Written by Lisa Holt and Richard Lind

Ayers: Vote yes on San Juan Island School District levy

Dear Editor We encourage all eligible voters to join us and vote YES for our children, schools, and community in the upcoming election on February 11th. The renewal of the Capital and Technology Levy will help…

Written by Travis and Jennifer Ayers

Wilson: Vote Yes for San Juan School levy on Feb. 11

On February 11th our community will be voting on a replacement capitol & technology levy for our schools. Vote YES for our schools! This is NOT a new tax, but a renewal of the one that…

Written by Bob & Shannon Wilson

Lind: Thanks the San Juan Island community

Thank You, San Juan Island Community! On Saturday the 21st of December St. David’s Episcopal Church hosted a standing room only audience for a performance of A European Village Christmas, a concert of carols, hymns, and…

Written by Richard Lind

Drath: Giving thanks for the Land Bank

Dear Editor, This year has ended and now we embark on a new decade. Carrying the tide for me is the presence of our San Juan County Land Bank.

Written by Eileen Drath

Sturdivant: Opposes commercialization of local parks

One of the most appealing things about moving to San Juan Island, more than 40 years ago, was finding a place where commercial endeavors were not encroaching on every part of the island. The Town of…

Written by Lee Sturdivant

Evans: Vacationing in a Fools Paradise - Time for voter-imposed moratorium or ban

ISLANDERS! There is no better time than right now to save what all of us hold sacred about the beauty of the land, water, trees, mountains and shoreline of the San Juan Islands. It has now…

Written by Tom Evans

Town thanks generous utility customers, $5K donated to Friday Harbor Food Bank

On behalf of the Mayor, Council and Citizens of the Town of Friday Harbor I would like to sincerely thank those that donated in their November utility payment to our Harbor Life Ring program. Each year…

Written by Duncan Wilson Friday Harbor Town Administrator

Appel: A call for rational climate action

You attend lectures, subscribe to emails, newsletters and magazines, and buy books describing environmental degradation and the resulting death, destruction and misery suffered by all forms of life, and the sometimes heroic, sometimes illegal, and sometimes…

Written by Bill Appel