Journal cartoonist Rob Pudim weighs in on San Juan County’s financial forecast.
Middle school students participate in Youth Leadership Initiative Summit
In 2010, Angela Bolger was the voice on the phone when you called the Sheriff’s Office offering comfort and help. You would not know this newly separated mother of two teenage boys had a dream from childhood of becoming a registered nurse. Bolger was not only awarded the Soroptimists’coveted $2,500 from our local chapter in 2010, she went on to be awarded the regional prize of another $2,500.
The news industry is clearly moving away from anonymous commenting, and we are proud to be in the vanguard.
As community members we have a choice. We can ignore the impact of domestic violence on children and leave children to fend for themselves or we can commit ourselves to providing the resources necessary to assist these children to live less traumatic and more productive lives.
The only way to temper greed is by uniting against it in thought, word and action. That is what I believe the Occupy Movement is attempting to do, and it is what I know we are trying to do here in our facet of the movement in Friday Harbor.
Only if Prop. 2 is approved will there be an option for the county, or another public or non-profit entity, to manage our self-haul facilities with any profits kept in the program for reduced customer costs and/or expanded services.
San Juan County voters get to decide every dozen years or so whether the Land Bank’s principal source of funding, an excise tax of up to 1 percent applied to local real estate sales — paid by the buyer — ought to remain in effect for 12 more years. We believe that it should, but not at 1 percent.
What’s in a name? Journal cartoonist Rob Pudim finds a lighter side of the pending retirement of King Fitch, administrator of the Town of Friday Harbor for 24 years, with eight months to go.
Sometimes it’s the little things that remind us of where we are — like license plates: Part II
At first glance, taking “party politics” out of local elections seemed like a reasonable decision. What we didn’t anticipate was that partisan elections had helped ensure healthy competition for these positions.
San Juan County Administrator Pete Rose maintains that the county’s new 35-foot boat offers the most bang for the taxpayers’ buck.
D.V. calls are the most frequent for sheriff’s office