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    Leaning green: Mayoral candidates say ‘no’ to campaign yard signs
    Leaning green: Mayoral candidates say ‘no’ to campaign...
    August 19, 2009 9:29 am

    The campaign for Friday Harbor mayor is leaning green. Mayoral candidates Carrie Lacher and Bob Low have committed to no-yard-sign campaigns.

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    Top photo: Carrie Lacher
    Q&A: Carrie Lacher and Robert Low, candidates for...
    August 18, 2009 8:34 pm

    Carrie Lacher and Robert Low, candidates for mayor of Friday Harbor, participated in separate Q&As at The Journal booth during the San Juan County Fair. The election is Nov. 3. The mayor is paid $148 per meeting, with a maximum of four meetings per month (council members receive $85 per meeting). The mayor is the chief executive of the town. The mayor has ultimate hire and fire authority, although most of that responsibility is delegated to the town administrator. The mayor has the authority to appoint members of town commissions and committees, although the mayor has traditionally sought the endorsement of the Town Council. The mayor works with the town administrator and town treasurer to write the budget, but the budget is approved by the Town Council. The mayor also presides over Town Council meetings, but can vote only to break a tie. Here are highlights of what the candidates had to say.

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    Elsa Prieto-Lopez and Carrie Unpingco have fun together in the Family Resource Center Mentor Program.
    Carrie Unpingco and Elsa Prieto-Lopez | Mentor of...
    August 18, 2009 5:08 pm

    Mentor of the Month is a monthly feature. To learn more about the Family Resource Center’s mentor program, call 378-5246.

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    Richard F. “Dick” Conley
    Massachusetts man who died after bike crash loved...
    August 18, 2009 3:38 pm

    The Massachusetts man who died one day after his bicycle crashed on Tucker Avenue near Larson Street enjoyed the outdoors and skiing, had homes in Woburn, Mass., and Bridgton, Maine, retired after 20 years with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, and most recently was an electric power engineer with the engineering firm HNTB.

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    Update: Bicyclist died from ‘trauma’; crash ruled accidental
    Update: Bicyclist died from ‘trauma’; crash ruled accidental
    August 17, 2009 7:52 pm

    A 69-year-old Massachusetts man died Sunday from “blunt force injury to his head and trunk,” presumably after his bicycle crashed on Tucker Avenue at Larson Street.

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    J. Jerry Inskeep Jr. | Passages
    August 17, 2009 6:56 pm

    J. Jerry Inskeep Jr. of Montecito, Calif., and Friday Harbor, Wash., passed away Aug. 16, 2009 as a result of liver cancer. He was 78.

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    Massachusetts man crashes on his bike on Tucker Avenue, dies Sunday; cause of death not yet known
    Massachusetts man crashes on his bike on Tucker...
    August 17, 2009 4:44 pm

    A 69-year-old Massachusetts man died Sunday after crashing on his bicycle a day earlier on Tucker Avenue at Larson Street. The bicyclist was identified by the Sheriff’s Department as Richard Conley, 69, of Woburn, Mass. Sheriff Bill Cumming said the incident is not believed to have been caused by road conditions or traffic. “He fell down inexplicably,” Cumming said.

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    Sheriff's officials say this is the boat in which two people were found dead Wednesday off Orcas Island. The deaths are being investigated as a murder-suicide.
    San Juan County Coroner: Murdered woman died from...
    August 14, 2009 6:27 pm

    Rhan Rha, the Sammamish woman found dead on a powerboat off the west side of Orcas Island on Wednesday, died from strangulation, San Juan County Coroner Randall K. Gaylord said today.

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    Sheriff's officials say this is the boat in which two people were found dead Wednesday off Orcas Island. The deaths are being investigated as a murder-suicide.
    Murder suspect’s text to friend: ‘I have done...
    August 14, 2009 7:37 am

    A Bellevue man identified as 39-year-old Albert Beutler was found dead onboard a boat in President Channel off Orcas Island Wednesday in an apparent murder-suicide. San Juan County Sheriff’s Office reported finding Beutler’s body along with an apparent female murder victim, 39-year-old Rhan Rha from Sammamish.

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    Missing diver was ‘very experienced,’ believed to have been a Navy diver
    Missing diver was ‘very experienced,’ believed to have...
    August 13, 2009 11:35 am

    A diver reported missing off Orcas Island Wednesday has been identified as Michael Scherner, 40, of Bellingham, the San Juan County Sheriff’s Department reported today. “Mr. Scherner is described as a ‘very experienced diver’ and is believed to have been a diver in the U.S. Navy,” Sheriff Bill Cumming reported today in a press release. “Family members were notified of his disappearance by the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office.”

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    Sheriff's officials say this is the boat in which two people were found dead Wednesday off Orcas Island. The deaths are being investigated as a murder-suicide.
    Deceased identified in apparent murder-suicide off Orcas Island
    August 13, 2009 10:03 am

    The U.S. Coast Guard, including a HH-65C Dolphin Helicopter from Port Angeles and vessels from Station Bellingham, and the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report from the Bellevue Police Department that a possible murder suspect was traveling in the San Juan Islands. Bellevue Police reported that friends of the suspect had been notified by the suspect by text mail that he had killed his girlfriend and he was planning on killing himself. Bellevue Police approximated his position by “pinging” his cell phone.

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    Coast Guard suspends search for missing diver near Orcas Island
    Coast Guard suspends search for missing diver near...
    August 13, 2009 9:46 am

    The Coast Guard suspended its search for a missing diver east of Orcas Island at 9:32 p.m., Wednesday. The Coast Guard and the San Juan County dive team ended their efforts after searching an area about 46 square nautical miles for more than five hours.

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    Rep. Rick Larsen
    Full house at Larsen’s meeting on veterans issues;...
    By Scott Rasmussen • August 11, 2009 9:07 am

    His latest appearances in Northwest Washington have been dominated by discord over the effort to reform the nation’s healthcare system. But on Monday in Friday Harbor, Congressman Rick Larsen got a break.
    For the better part of an hour, Larsen, D-Bellingham, and regional Veterans Administration officials were able to talk to and listen to local military veterans regarding issues that matter most to them, and about the new services and initiatives that the federal agency has in store.

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