Cost to contest a building code decision will drop 400 percent
Their experience gives the girls confidence, and I have confidence in this team.
Three marijuana retail stores will be permitted in San Juan County, one each on Orcas, San Juan and Lopez islands, under regulations proposed Sept. 4 by the Washington State Liquor Control Board to implement Initiative 502, which legalizes marijuana production, processing and retailing.
Guardrails are scheduled to be installed during the week of Sept. 23 on San Juan Island.
Update: The Port of Friday Harbor and San Juan Island Fire Rescue announced Friday, Aug. 30, that the Aug. 17 fire that destroyed Downriggers Restaurant was caused by an electrical problem within a wall near the restaurant’s kitchen.
“I make everything from scratch,” chef Ricarda Burnett says. “I love cooking and I love changing the menu to take advantage of whatever growing season we’re in.”
A standing-room-only crowd urged the commission to advocate for the islanders who elect the commissioners and pay the taxes. Charles Richardson told the commission, “I need you to represent me with PeaceHealth.” Meanwhile, Island Hospital passed on a potential partnership with PeaceHealth
New eatery offers 60 varieties of cheese, 40 Pacific Northwest wines
Four businesses were displaced after fire swept through Downriggers restaurant in the early morning hours of Aug. 17, leaving a summertime crew of roughly 50 restaurant workers without a job, and three businesses based on the ground floor of the port-owned building, Friday Harbor Marine, San Juan Excursions and San Juan Safaris, without a home.
Under new appointment procedures for advisory committees, instituted in early spring by the former 6-person council, the tenure of veteran MRC members Tina Whitman, Jim Slocumb and Mike Durland — each having served more than two terms on the MRC — may be at an end unless no other qualified prospective appointees apply. The three had reapplied to serve an additional term.
A swimming and water polo player and coach for some 25 years, Mike Sheradin has been vacationing in the San Juan Islands for 30 years, finally deciding to open his showcase cafe in a totally remodeled building and former home of the Garden Path Cafe.
By the end of the Aug. 6 council meeting, and after an hour of public testimony lauding the “great work” of the conservation district, the council voted without dissent to decrease the district’s existing “parcel fee” to $4.95, and to impose an “acreage assessment” of seven cents an acre.
With perhaps 60 votes to be counted at 5 p.m. on Aug. 8, the turnout percentage may rise to 33 percent, but the “top two” is pretty well set.
