San Juan Island’s Bob Wilson, of San Juan Surveying, was interviewed for POB’s July 2013 edition of “Solo Notes”, a series that focuses on small business owners in the land surveying profession.
San Juan County’s Fairly Outrageous Trashion Fashion Show, heartwarming, homespun, inspired and somewhat absurd, and most appropriately named, is just such an event.
Historian traces mingling of cultures, what military men left behind on the western frontier
A self-taught vocalist, Seattle’s Greta Matassa, has released eight CDs over the course of her career
Hey, art lovers… just two hours of your time is all it would take to lend a helping hand at the Fine Arts Exhibit at the county fair.
It’s been about five weeks or so since a massive sixgill shark — a 12-foot long female — washed up on the beach at Argyle Lagoon. If you’ve been wondering what that was all about, well, The Whale Museum just may be the place to find some answers.
A Fulbright Scholar, DeBoer, daughter of Kerry and Beth Anderson of Friday Harbor, teaches fourth grade at Whitney Elementary School in Yakima, Wash., where she and husband Josh DeBoer make their home.
Where we’ve been, where we’re headed and, most importantly, how we can change… the state of the global environment revealed in this documentary narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
The 7th annual Concours d’Elegance is Sunday, Aug. 25, on the grounds of San Juan Island Vineyards.
For the past 20 years the former music teacher turned storyteller has toured the Pacific Northwest, as well as other parts of the country, as the star of a one-woman “living history’ program.
Urbach, perhaps best known as a gifted singer (One More Time Band) and actress (playing the part of Maria in the Community Theatre’s recent production of “The Sound of Music”) said her stint as a columnist had a direct influence on bringing her story to the page. “My main character, Claire, writes a blog that is interspersed among the chapters…”
Dr. Daniel Gonzalez-Socoloske, associate editor of the Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, will offer a summary of his research Wednesday, July 31, in a lecture entitled, “Hunger in Paradise? Seasonal Variation in Food Availability to Manatees in a Flooding Wetland”, starting at 7 p.m., at the Whale Museum.
Friday Harbor Animal Protection Society is seeking photos of island pets for a “San Juan Island Pets” 2014 calendar, the first step of a prospective fundraiser to benefit the animal shelter. Deadline is Aug. 19, so get snappin’.
