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Sergeant Herb Crowe retires

Submitted by the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office.

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Sowing Seeds of Hope for Survivors of Sexual Abuse

By Dave Dunaway

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Town Planning Commission crafting food truck ordinance

The Town of Friday Harbor Planning Commission is drafting an ordinance that would allow food trucks. Whether that…

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Top Left to Right Megan Mellinger, Georgia Keune, Ava Parsons, Sophia Ramirez, Alison Power Bottom Left to Right: Kira Clark, Josephine Lane, Ava Martin, Isabella VanderYacht, Meg Carrier Not pictured - Betty Furber, Ava Gamez, Norah Leighton, Lucy Marinkovich, Jem Mukundwa, Ellie Rollins, Lilli Turnbow

Sports

Girls tennis- excited to be back on the courts

By Kathryn WheelerJournal contributor.

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Right to left: Coach Jack Rice, Akira Tokunaga, Andrew Rezabek, Jack Hess, Finn Graham, Dylan Lawson, PJ Nixon, Sam Herda, Liam Coplay, Andy Quiroz, Fisher Goosman Alister Kinnaman, Ryan Rautenberg, Morgan Douglas, Reese Tagney and coaches Tim Clark and Gordy Waite.

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Golf: The team may be young, but they are not green

The golf team this year is young, with a large number of freshman and 8th graders, according to…

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Back Row from L to R: Dani McKay, Audrey Allen, Yaritza Plaza, Natalie Morton, Anna Gustafson, Kai Walen Middle Row: Cady Wilso, Coach Alexa Mora, Mia Germain, Ally Sandwith, Ella Raichlen, Grace Eltinge, Jillian Otis, Brandy Lawson, Bella Ross, Coach Michelle Stringer, Daniel McKay. Front Row: Rylee Drew, Nyla Pieples, Paige Carlton-Flierl, Nakayla Nibler, Sarah Cruz, Luca Pignietello, Paloma Waldron. Not Pictured: Charley Lawrence-Sampson

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Lady Wolverines are going to give this season everything they’ve got!

By Aiden Haines

Heather Spaulding \ Staff photo Track team includes: Elian Bayas, Gleb Caireac, Maiachi Cullan, Tristan Cullen, Adam Strasbouger, Aaron Orosco, Emilio Bayas, Aiden Clark, Mario Flores, Lewis Haws, Matthew Van Dyck, Dylan Mughal, Oscar Coffey, Neil Gresseth, Zachary Place, Mckenna Clark, Rose Jensen, Fela Andrews, Susana De Bruyn, Sierra Fitts, Jennifer Garfias, Hazel Nye, Francesca Otis, Georgia Vander Yacht, Lily Rock, Fiora Vaught, Ashley Hamlin, Chelsi Pittman and Mia Blackmon

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Track athletes head to the field

The Friday Harbor track team is a force to be reckoned with this year, full of returning athletes…

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San Juan Island sand and gravel quarry fined

Submitted by the Washington Department of Ecology.

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From L to R 
Coach Steve Schramm, Cody Anderson, Mason Smith, Geoffrey Volk, Jaxson Waldron, Nathan Posenjak, Pierce Kleine, Triston Bremer, Chris Gustafson, Gavin Garcia, Brady Johnson, Bryce Borquist, Elliot Samonas, Coach Rich Warin, Harrison Edge, Coach Justin Nibler
Not pictured: Max Field, Whiley Mccutcheon, Ben Baisch, Duncan Bogart, Floyd Holman, and Channing Kleine

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Baseball Team is ready to knock it out of the park!

By Aiden Haines

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Life

Melodious Notes performing March 25

Melodious Notes will be carried over the harbor again this spring for the 11th annual concert held March…

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The cylinder inside the lasers, arrows pointing toward where Luxel’s filters go.

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Steps toward fusion, and the island company that took part

For a brief instant, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory National Ignition Facility, NIF, in Livermore, California, created…

The Town of Sidney will have to explore all options for its waterfront property currently leased by Washington State Ferries for the Sidney terminus of the Anacortes, Wash. to Sidney ferry route, which they announced Tuesday (Feb. 28) will not resume until 2030. (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)

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Sidney ferry run unlikely to return until 2030

The Anacortes/Sidney, B.C. ferry run is unlikely to return to service until 2030, according to Washington State Ferries.

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A solo Townsend’s Big-Eared Bat found in a toolshed.

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The gentle curious Townsend’s Big-Eared Bat

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