The San Juan County Council is considering building a new solid waste transfer station on six acres it owns — commonly known as the Sundstrom property — near the existing solid waste transfer
A student at Spring Street International School in Friday Harbor is clinging to life at Harborview Medical Center after an Easter morning crash that killed three young men in Ballard. The girl, who is described by the school as an international student and a minor, was a passenger in the car when it struck a steel pole, part of a restaurant sign, near N.W. 54th and N.W. Market streets, in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle.
Friday Harbor’s Kelsey Barnes put the shot 31 feet 8 inches and threw the discus 89 feet 7.5 inches to win those events at the Northwest A/B League meet, April 1 in Friday Harbor. “This was great effort on their parts as they were competing against 17 different schools, of which two were 4A schools and nine were 2A schools. Wow,” Friday Harbor Coach Darrin Scheffer said.
Pete Nelsen of Shaw Island leads the Frank Wilson Memorial Blackmouth Derby with a 20.95-pound catch that won him Week 8 honors and propelled him to the top of the leaderboard.
Friday Harbor’s Kasey Rasmussen will have one more shot at the state title. An eighth-grader at Friday Harbor Middle School, Kasey earned a third consecutive trip to the state Geographic Bee finals on the strength of a competitive written exam.
The maintenance building at the U.W. Friday Harbor Labs has a jolly atmosphere. The six men who use it as their base make their coffee, connect with the team, plan their schedules, and then set out on their daily task of maintaining one of the nation’s premier marine laboratories. (Research conducted here led to two Nobel prizes.)
Hey, want a good deal on a 1984 GMC tanker truck with a 2,000-gallon tank? How about a Cushman electric truck with a battery pack? Or perhaps you’ve been looking for a 5-horsepower Ingersoll-Rand air compressor. Or a 10-foot Livingston skiff. (Collect memorabilia from historic events? Here’s your chance to own five town centennial banners). The Friday Harbor Town Council on Thursday declared 23 items — vehicles, equipment and miscellaneous stuff — as surplus. The items can now be offered for sale to the public.
Jaileen Panger and Peace of Mind Pet Sitting are sponsoring the first annual Pet Poetry Contest. All poems must relate to pets. The pets may be living or deceased, or even imaginary pets, but the poems must be about a pet or pets.
It’s as if that pile of pretty cupcakes had Shelby Dunn’s name on them. The 5-year-old girl from Fremont, Calif. visited San Juan Community Theatre on Saturday with her family for Elegant Edibles, and wasn’t in the theater lobby for five minutes before picking the Easter goodies in the annual benefit bake sale.
The San Juan Islands lost power for more than three hours Friday after a Puget Sound Electric power line on the mainland went out, according to reports on KOMO news radio. The line feeds into a BPA station that sends electricity to the San Juan Islands. Power went out about 9:30 a.m. and was being restored by about 12:30 p.m. Power was still out in Olga at 1:45 p.m., The Islands’ Sounder reported.
All state-run liquor stores will be closed on Easter Sunday, April 4. Contract liquor stores may be open. Contact contract stores directly for their holiday operating schedules.
The San Juan County Communications Office issued the following press release regarding the Friday Harbor Town Council’s letter: A surprise decision by the Friday Harbor Town Council has re-opened the debate over siting the county’s San Juan Island transfer station and raised questions about how solid waste will be handled on the island in the immediate future.
Milo M. Smoots was born in Minnesota and his wife, Sadie, was born in Nebraska, but when it came to Friday Harbor life, the Smootses were as local as they come: He served as Friday Harbor’s first town marshal. Sadie gave birth to their son 13 days after the town was incorporated. Milo Smoots went on to serve as justice of the peace, and served as a Town Council member from 1940-45. At age 79, according to some local recollections, he died while giving the speech at a Friday Harbor High School graduation ceremony.
