Spring is here, and it’s time to put on your gloves, get your shovel and start gardening. Whether a first-time…
Sean Michael Hunter, 24, was picked up for two counts of rape on Sept. 28 in Medford, Oregon at around…
The orca mother has pushed her deceased baby to the surface of the choppy sea and carried it on her…
Eric Kulp was taken into custody in the Marblemount area of Skagit County by the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office with…
The phone rang at 6 a.m. The voice on the other line only said a few words that Terry Mullan…
Ricardo Zanabria-Vargas, 25, of Friday Harbor, is charged with escaping in the second degree from a detention facility, also known…
The Center For Whale Research is taking action to increase public awareness of the Southern resident killer whales by taking…
Islanders say they are fired up and ready to go when it comes to equal rights for all.
James (Jim) Gallanger passed away December 26, 2017, in Anacortes. Jim was born March 25, 1936, on a small family…
San Juan Transfer Station Recycling no longer accepts co-mingled or mixed materials for recycling.
On May 10, John Gardener Fox, 46, of Lopez, was arrested for assault regarding a domestic disturbance that occurred May…
With the arrival of summer temperatures and the Fourth of July holiday, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources is…
After a year long battle with a brain tumor Nancy passed away peacefully at the Mira Vista Care Center in…
By San Juan County Noxious Weed Control Program
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our father, Larry Clark, age 92. After a long…
The DRAFT MacKaye Harbor Road Relocation Feasibility Study is now available for review at: (1) the Lopez Island Library, and…
Edwin Lloyd Walvatne
Printes Holmes
The Orcas high school teacher previously found guilty of sexual misconduct with a minor will not be going to trial…
Here is another San Juan Island lifestyle video by Merri Ann Simonson, managing broker for Coldwell Banker San Juan Islands…
There is a Lopez community meeting Saturday March 4, at the Grace Church Community Room.
If only pigs could fly, they wouldn’t have to swim.
By Cali Bagby
The following was submitted by the Sheriff’s Office.
By Cali Bagby
By Cali Bagby
In the race for San Juan County Council District 1, Bill Watson is in the lead against incumbent Bob Jarman….
A Canadian necropsy revealed that a Southern resident orca was killed by a fungal infection possibly caused by a satellite tag.
At 8:45 this morning, a Kenmore plane with four passengers went down in Cattle Pass off the shore of San Juan Island.
A local diver died after experiencing medical complications near Johns Island on Tuesday afternoon.
Two Minnesota men found in an apparent murder-suicide on Lopez were part of a criminal investigation involving a 16-year-old boy.
Imagine that a tanker crashes off Turn Point on Stuart Island; oil is gushing into the waters and a pod of Southern resident orcas are swimming straight into it. An oil spill in San Juan County is the stuff of nightmares for islanders. Fortunately, this time it is fiction. The book “Spill,” written by David Anderson, is an action-packed tale that features local organizations like the Center for Whale Research, Islands Oil Spill Association, The Whale Museum and Orca Network, based out of Whidbey Island. Anderson, a retired veterinarian, served on the board of Orca Network, as well as serving four years as a governor appointee on Washington’s Oil Spill Prevention Task Force. He will have a book reading on Aug. 31, time to be announced, at the San Juan Island Library, in an event co-sponsored by Griffin Bay Books.
A basking shark has been spotted near British Columbia’s Central Coast, according to Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
He was an older man and Susan had just turned 18. After he started physically and sexually assaulting her, she was ashamed and afraid that the community would not stand by her if she left him. When she thought he would actually kill her – seven years into their relationship – she ran away with nothing but a few clothes. She was free from bodily harm, but she had to face another obstacle: the people who did not believe her.
Albert Noel Miller, Jr., 45, of Lopez Island, has been charged with assault in the second degree domestic violence for strangulation and assault in the fourth degree. Bail has been reduced to $10,000. A omnibus hearing is scheduled for June 17 and the trial is set for July 18.
An influx of sexual assault crimes involving minors in San Juan County has islanders wondering what is happening to their communities.
(Warning: This story contains disturbing details about alleged sexual assault against a child.)
By Cali Bagby
Rep. Rick Larsen has his constituents questioning his choices after a recent endorsement on Facebook from the congressman.
With a massive body and a mouth that emerges from the deep blue like a man-made dungeon cell, the basking shark resembles a great and terrible monster.
