Smoking no longer would be allowed in county parks or at the fairgrounds in Friday Harbor — or on any…
This time around, the state Shorelines Hearing Board was not so generous. In fact, the Hearing Board took San Juan…
The San Juan Islands’ Agricultural Guild has searched high and low for a suitable place for a year-round farmers market.
Now, with the help and financial muscle of the San Juan County Land Bank, the guild may have found its spot.
The Friday Harbor Wolverines got out of the gates looking a little wobbly and a bit uneven at times in the season opener Friday. But a rash of penalty flags, a fumble or two and a nagging case of first-game jitters early on couldn’t stop the Friday Harbor football team from claiming its fifth-straight Island Cup with a bruising 42-7 victory at home over the visiting Orcas Vikings.
On Sept. 3, Robert Nathan Benedict pleaded no contest in San Juan County Superior Court to one count of vehicular homicide, a Class A felony. Vehicular homicide carries maximum penalties of life in prison, a $50,000 fine, or both.
The coveted Island Cup will be up for grabs Friday when the Wolverines open the season at home, under the lights, against an Orcas Island squad which undoubtedly will come to town looking to settle the score.
The first leg of the San Juan Island solid waste transfer station replacement project is headed down the home stretch. But islanders can plan on at least six more months of “process” before the County Council decides which of the five sites under consideration, including 33 acres at the existing Sutton Road location, will be home to a new facility.
A downturn in the local economy has county officials bracing for a drop in revenue this year and the next.
A San Juan Island man faces a charge of felony assault for allegedly pointing a weapon at an officer who was responding to a late-night noise complaint at his Friday Harbor home.
Preliminary plans are nearly complete for the long-awaited reconstruction of the stretch of Cattle Point Road that’s destined to collapse into Haro Strait, according to National Park Superintendent Peter Dederich.
There’s no doubt about his skill. But it’s his judgment that’s in question as federal agents investigate why a pilot would land a 39-foot long helicopter on the southernmost tip of tiny Freeman Island.
It’s adding up to be a very scary Halloween for the San Juan Community Home Trust.
The National Park Service has the dough, the San Juan Island Trails Committee has the muscle. And San Juan County Parks will bring the two together.
