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Angel Colmenares with the camera he uses for wet plate collodion photographs. Submitted photo.

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Photographer and filmmaker Angel Colmenares discusses his growth as an artist with current show, “Perfect Imperfections”

For Angel Colmenares, photographer, cinematographer and San Juan Island resident, traveling around the world for his work is…

Islands Conservation Corps crew members plant trees to improve stream corridors in San Juan County Submitted photo

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Landowners show support for improving Crow Valley stream corridors

Submitted by San Juan Islands Conservation District

Contributed photo Back row: Charley Lawrence-Sampson, McKenna Clark, Mia Germain, Vera Schoultz, Sheya Welty, Bella Ross, Anna Gustafson Front row: Brandy Lawson, Caylee Morton, Sarah Cruz, Atziry Orozco Jimenez, Lili Carrillo

Sports

Wolverines’ girls’ basketball team has some fresh faces and loads of talent

By Maria Magana-Navarro

Contributed photo Contributed photo Top left to right, Assistant Coach Kyle Mapstead, JV Head Coach Bryan Germain, Mamadou Hoskins, Pierce Kleine, Cody Anderson, Chris Gustafson, Alden Carli, Jack Anderson, Head Coach Brandyn Pedersen Bottom row left to right Mason Smith, Zach Boyle, Wiley McCutcheon, Mateo Zappelli, Manager Julio Sanabria, Drake Goodrich Not pictured assistant Coach Jim McNary, Coach Coleton Cartmill

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This year’s Wolverines boy basketball team is tight-knit and ready to get to work

By Isabel Ashley

Contributed photo A derelict concrete structure located offshore of the San Juan Conservation Land Bank’s Judd Cove Preserve on Orcas Island. North Eastsound is one of five remaining herring spawning areas here in the San Juans Islands.

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Derelict structures removed to make way for wildlife

As part of ongoing efforts to safeguard critical eelgrass meadows and Pacific herring spawning grounds, Friends of the…

Contributed photo IOSA staff and volunteers lay out a boom around the sunken tug.

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Vessel sinks in Westsound

By Isabel Ashley

ferries

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Ferries awarded $4.8 million to extend lifespan of six aging vessels by up to a decade

Submitted by United States Senate

Heather Spaulding/Staff photo The Treble Makers Choir with a big flare finish

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Festival of Lights did not disappoint, despite rain

Islanders gathered around the Christmas Tree at Wells Fargo Dec. at 6 p.m. 1 to celebrate the Festival…

Contribute photo by Russel Barsh for Kwiaht One of the Garrison trout in bright spawning colors

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Masters of camouflage: the Coastal cutthroat

By Russel Barsh, Director of Kwaiht

Contributed photo by Ally Sandwith Chris Gustafson (left) and Alden Carli (right)

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Wolverine Spotlight: Chris Gustafson and Alden Carli

By Ally Sandwith,

Isabel Ashley/Staff photo Pierce Klein, Junior, prepares for a shot.

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Basketball season begins

By Maria Magana-Navarro, Journal intern

Contributed photo.

News

PeaceHealth reaffirms commitment to charity care

Submitted by PeaceHealth

Heather Spaulding Staff photos Heather Spaulding / Staff photo An attendee Nov. 15 holds up a sign for cease-fire

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Islanders speak out on the Middle East

Hearing the thousands of people, largely women and children, who have been killed during and since the Hamas…