Even after the guns were drawn and the agent called out for him to get out of his vehicle and put his hands above his head, Michael Greene thought someone else was the subject of all the action.
The San Juans just got a little greener. OPALCO members recently received a surprise in the mail: an energy kit with five new-generation compact fluorescent lights, two low-flow shower heads, a kitchen and bathroom aerator, and energy saving tips.
Friends of the San Juans has been awarded a three-year support grant worth $5,000 per year from the ESRI Conservation Program. The ESRI Conservation Program is the non-profit support arm of the Environmental Systems Research Institute. This program has helped to create and develop spatial analysis, computer mapping and geographic information systems capability among thousands of non-profit organizations and individual projects of all sizes and types worldwide.
A 50-year contract to build and operate a hospital on San Juan Island. A possible new funding source for school sports. A search for a new superintendent. Annexation of 48 acres near the former gravel pit. Big decisions will be made this week. And meetings today and Thursday may be your last chance to provide input before those decisions are made.
A new contract gives the San Juan Preservation Trust and Skagit Land Trust an extended opportunity to buy Guemes Mountain. A new contract lowers the price by $600,000, from $2.8 million to $2.2 million.
The Friday Harbor Town Council meets tonight at 5 for a presentation by Steve Alexander, San Juan County solid waste manager, regarding the site recommendation and decision process. The meeting, in the Town Hall Council Chambers, is open to the public and the public will be allowed time to comment.
Kasey Rasmussen, 12, of Friday Harbor has qualified for the state Geography Bee in Tacoma for the second consecutive year. Kasey, a seventh-grader at Friday Harbor Middle School, is a daughter of Kris and Scott Rasmussen. She won her first Friday Harbor geography bee as a sixth-grader and lost in a preliminary round of the state bee.
County officials handed out layoff notices to a pair of employees at the Community Development and Planning Department as demand for building and land-use permits hit a four-year low. San Juan County Administrator Pete Rose on Tuesday acknowledged that permit coordinators Christopher Laws and Allen Shayo were notified that their employment at CDPD would soon end. Both were given a standard 10-day layoff notice, Rose said.
PeaceHealth Oregon Region, which provides hospital and health care services in an eight Oregon counties, announced Friday it will eliminate the equivalent of 70 full-time positions from its payroll in response to deteriorating economic conditions that have resulted in increased expenses for uncompensated care. Accounting for attrition and other factors, the actual reduction in force will involve 57 employees.
Madison Dillery, an eighth-grade student at Friday Harbor Middle School, wrote this composition about the sixth-graders’ Egypt Day in the Commons Feb. 11. Ben Troutman’s eighth-graders were asked to write a news story on the day of exhibits, models and informative posters on Egypt’s ancient civilization. Madison’s composition was determined by her teacher to be exemplary and was submitted for publication.
Michael Soltman says he’s coming home. Selected Monday night as Vashon Island School District’s new superintendent, Soltman lived on Vashon for 12 years before moving to San Juan Island to become that district’s top administrator.
Terrible. That is how State Transportation Commissioner Bob Distler sums up the current financial state of the state ferry system.
San Juan Island School District buses will run on snow routes this afternoon, Transportation Supervisor Terresa Sundstrom announced. The school schedule has not changed.
