Curtis Salgado was living in Eugene when he heard a movie was being filmed in town. It was the 1970s and the night scene was hoppin’. Salgado was playing in a band and in the middle of the song, he heard the fated words, “Belushi wants to meet you.”
A local diver died after experiencing medical complications near Johns Island on Tuesday afternoon.
Subaru/Leave No Trace Traveling Trainers will be visiting Orcas, San Juan, and Lopez Islands for three days of Leave No Trace training for hiking, camping, kayaking and star gazing. Join us as we raise awareness about minimizing our impact on wild places.
The Spanish founded the island and named it Isla y Archipelago de San Juan. That is our history. We speak the words almost every day, “The San Juans.” But the first ones did not come in a ship from Europe. They were an ancient people who traveled here on foot after the great ice sheet thawed. More than 8,000 years ago they made their homes on the shores of the islands. They fished for salmon off the coast and gathered oysters and mussels. If you have ever appreciated the pretty purple flowers that bloom in the San Juan national park, then you have seen a primary food source for the islands’ early people. They picked the camas bulbs and cooked them in the earth like potatoes.
Two Minnesota men were found dead on a beach on Lopez Island last week. In the wake of their murder-suicide an even darker story has emerged: the couple were allegedly involved in the sexual abuse of a 16-year-old-boy.
It is your final chance to see “Romeo and Juliet” this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8 p.m. at 1062 Wold Rd, Friday Harbor.
Megan Christine Mackinnon, 27, of Arlington, Wash., is charged with malicious mischief in the first degree.
The Republican National Party booth at the San Juan County Fair was vandalized last night. When Volunteers Carl and Alison Jablonski showed up for this shift on Saturday morning they were shocked to find signs ripped up into small pieces, remnants of several eggs thrown around the area and a sign that read, “Screw Donald Trump.”
Chauncey Cox placed first in Island Rec’s 8.8k Fair Fun Run on Saturday, Aug. 20 with a time of 35 minutes and 16 seconds. He was followed by Max Haenel at 36:19 and then Andrew Moffatt at 38:13.
As residents of the McDonald Street neighborhood in Friday Harbor, we would like to congratulate the Friday Harbor Town Council, Town Manager Duncan Wilson, Public Works Director Wayne Haefele, and the entire crew of Mike Carlson Construction on the completion of the Tucker Phase l Project.
Francis Mainard Skidmore, 95, went to be with his Lord and Savior on July 21, 2016 at Aegis of Lynnwood in Lynnwood, Washington. He was born May 5, 1921 in Seattle, WA to Mainard and Catherine (Woods) Skidmore. He had a long career as a fire fighter, based at the Fire Department Headquarters in Seattle. He was the driver for Chief Vickery in the 1960s. “Skid,” as he was known, was also a veteran of WWII and the Korean War, spending the majority of his service in the Aleutian Islands as a radioman in the Coast Guard and the Navy. He graduated from Queen Anne High School and spent one year at the UW before enlisting in the Coast Guard in 1942.
(Warning: This story contains disturbing details about alleged sexual assault against a child.)
A jury found 59-year-old Orcas Island High School teacher Gerald Grellet-Tinner guilty of two counts of Sexual Misconduct in the First Degree.
