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.
Rosario Resort’s nearly 200 full- and part-time employees were given 60 days’ notice Thursday. The resort will be offered for sale by no-minimum-bid auction Sept. 30.
Skeletal remains found Wednesday on a remote part of Jones Island are those of a Des Moines boater reported missing July 3, 2007. Based on dental records, the Snohomish County medical examiner identified the remains as those of William Larry Hickman, 60. A more detailed investigation is expected today or Saturday to try to determine exact cause of death.
A local boy is coming home. Fred Sundstrom, oldest of the five Sundstrom brothers, has been living in an assisted living facility in Bellingham for a couple of years but returns to San Juan Island on Saturday to take up residence in October House.
The state departments of Community, Trade and Economic Development (CTED) and Ecology have asked the state Supreme Court to reconsider its recent decision in the Futurewise v. Anacortes case.
The Washington Secretary of State’s office issued this FYI on the Top 2 primary, which got its first test on Tuesday.
The “Supplemental Alternatives Analysis” for the San Juan Island Solid Waste Transfer Station replacement project will be completed and made public on Sept. 12, shortly before the Solid Waste Advisory Committee begins deliberations on selecting a new transfer station site.
The leaders in Tuesday’s primary election maintained their leads after the count of late ballots Wednesday. In the 40th Legislative District, County Councilman Kevin Ranker appeared headed to the general election and a chance of being the first San Juan Island resident in the state Senate in about 100 years.
Dolores (Dee) May (Vickers) (Nash) Estell passed away Aug. 16, 2008 in Mount Vernon, Wash., from complications of a stroke. She was born May 31, 1930 in Helena, Mont. She graduated from Lincoln High School in Seattle. She married Carleton Edward Nash in 1950.
Kevin Ranker is one step closer to being the first state senator from San Juan County in possibly 100 years. Ranker, a San Juan County Council member, and Steve Van Luven, a former state representative, advanced tonight to the Nov. 4 general election.
Come November, islanders will have a congressman named Rick. But which Rick … well, we’ll have to wait until the Nov. 4 election to find out. Republican Rick Bart and Democrat Rick Larsen were the two top vote-getters in the state’s first-ever Top 2 primary tonight, advancing to the general election. Under the Top 2 system, the top two vote-getters regardless of party advance to the general election.
South San Juan Island voters chose experience — one a long-time county planning commissioner, the other a former planning commissioner and freeholder — to advance to the general election in the race for County Council, District 1. Lovel Pratt and Gordy Petersen were the leading vote-getters in today’s primary and appeared headed to the Nov. 4 general election.
As of 8:17 p.m., with 4,694 ballots counted, Judge John Linde had received 2,831 votes, or 63.27 percent of ballots cast in Tuesday’s primary election. It would appear an insurmountable lead for his sole opponent, Prosecuting Attorney Randy Gaylord, to overcome without a major shift in the trend of initial election results.