The San Juan County Democrats held their endorsement meeting June 18 for the upcoming August primary, for which you will receive your ballot next month. We will send out a campaign flyer for the fall election,…

A small group of us on San Juan Island are thrilled, delighted, moved, awed, and impressed by our local community theater’s presentation of the New York Metropolitan Opera. We are so fortunate, that right here in…

To the residents of the town of Friday Harbor, On April 7th, our town fell victim to a senseless act of violence resulting in millions of dollars in property damage and the loss of some of…

April 7, 2022, is a day that will be remembered for a very long time. The fire that razed through a portion of Spring Street in Friday Harbor and destroyed several historic buildings was a grim…

Are there any doctors who actually give their patients an exam like they did back in the “good old days”? Back when I was growing up, going to see the doctor consisted of standard things like;…

There has been much discussion about tourism, overpopulation, exhaustion or abuse of natural resources in the San Juan Islands ranging from anguish at environmental degradation and changes imposed by crowding, noise, and destruction of community on…