By Vincent Shu I am saddened anytime someone commits suicide, especially when…
We want to thank San Juan County Undersheriff Brent Johnson for 50…
By Ralph Hahn San Juan Island School District board member position 3…
Submitted by Stephanie Buffam Executive director, Friends of the San Juans The…
Submitted by Stand Earth, Friends of the San Juans and Crag Law…
We have been truly appalled by the actions of our state government…
By Kathleen Bartholomew After every school shooting, this fearful question echoes in…
We sang Celine Dion at the top of our lungs with the…
By Michael Riordan In a brazen attempt to suppress public access to…
Submitted by Danna Diaz San Juan Island School District Superintendent This letter…
When a Cooke Aquaculture net pen holding more than 300,000 invasive Atlantic…
Captian Hobbes organizes for whale protections
Valentine’s Day is traditionally thought of as a holiday to celebrate romantic…
Submitted by the San Juan Island School District Superintendent Danna Diaz There…
Investing in a community’s children is promoting future leaders, voters, laborers, thinkers,…
By Yasmine K. Kasem Featured artist at San Juan Islands Museum of…
Submitted by SAFE San Juans By exploring the dating process, teenagers gain…
By Stephanie Buffum Executive Director of Friends of the San Juans The…
By Monica Harrington Former San Juan Island Public Hospital District Commissioner (Editor’s…
EMS is in trouble. Its management is in chaos. In the span…
By Dave Halloran San Juan County Department of Emergency Management If you…
In the last five years, crime stories we report on are indeed becoming more disturbing. In the last six months we have seen a slew of crime involving sexual assaults.
By Amy Herdy This message is for all you millennials out there,…
This is what I know for sure | Guest column
By Stephanie Prima Skagit Valley College is offering a new approach to…
In a perfect world, the Southern resident killer whales would be thriving.…
By David Foutch Lopez Island Thank you for the informative article on…
By Bob Friel SeaDoc Society Half a century into the Digital Age…
In the first quarter of the new year, your island papers are…
Submitted by Danna Diaz, Ph.D. San Juan Island School District By proclamation…
By John Brantigan Shaw Island In my Jan. 1 editorial in the…
Ground school scholarships now open to island teenagers
Submitted by Jim Waddell, damsense.org, and Ken Balcomb, whaleresearch.com We, the undersigned,…
It’s been another rough year. The divisiveness of the 2016 presidential election…
Drunk driving is the number one cause of death on our roadways.…
Naming criminals or alleged perpetrators in our community is a necessary role…
Like telephone and power, Americans should have access to the internet without…
As 2017 comes to a close, I am excited to share some…
By Victoria Compton Director, San Juan County Economic Development Council I was…
(Editor’s note: Since the publishing of this letter, Melissa Alspaugh has retracted…
