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    Articles by Hayley Day
    San Juan employers learn how to apply new paid sick leave law
    San Juan employers learn how to apply new...
    By Hayley Day • February 5, 2018 6:06 pm

    Correction: This story originally said that full-time employees can accrue a maximum of 52 hours of paid sick leave if…

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    3.1-magnitude earthquake hits San Juan Islands
    3.1-magnitude earthquake hits San Juan Islands
    By Hayley Day • February 5, 2018 2:18 pm

    The United States Geological Survey website reports that a 3.1-magnitude earthquake struck near the San Juan Islands at 10:57 p.m….

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    Contributed image/San Juan County                                This chart shows the various outdoor recreation activities visitors said they participated in on the island.
    Study explains what draws visitors to San Juan...
    By Hayley Day • February 5, 2018 1:30 am

    The results of one San Juan County visitor survey are in and it’s the islands’ isolation that draws crowds.

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    Kelsey O’Day trial rescheduled
    Kelsey O’Day trial rescheduled
    By Hayley Day • February 2, 2018 5:12 pm

    The trial for Kelsey Lee O’Day, 27, of Friday Harbor, has been rescheduled for 9 a.m., Monday, April 16 in…

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    Elusive state capital budget passes, county funds secured
    Elusive state capital budget passes, county funds secured
    By Hayley Day • February 2, 2018 1:14 pm

    The state legislature approved the allocation of nearly $4 billion for construction projects across Washington on Jan. 18.

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    Staff photo/Hayley Day                                This slice of an older cable, which once ran from Decatur to Blakely to Olga, shows three conductors and two fiber bundles.
    OPALCO celebrates power cable replacement
    By Hayley Day • February 1, 2018 1:30 am

    A submarine power cable replacement, a decade in the making, was celebrated on Jan. 19 with the overseeing electrical co-operative’s…

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    Contributed image/San Juan County                                This map from San Juan County shows the part of the MacKaye Harbor Road that a county feasibility study suggests moving to protect it from rising sea level projections. The section runs along the southern tip of the road, starting near Aleck Bay Road, past Barlow and Outer Bays and the Agate Beach County Park, to Seth Road.
    County road to be relocated due to climate...
    By Hayley Day • January 15, 2018 1:30 am

    This is the second story in a two-part series about the effects of climate change on San Juan County.

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    Contributed photo/ Jeanne Hyde, of Spirit of Orca, and The Whale Museum’s Soundwatch                                Staff from the Soundwatch Boater Education Program are on the water every day during the summer, educating recreational boaters on the least intrusive ways to watch whales in the wild and monitoring all vessel activity near the whales.
    Vessel rules are a win for orcas and...
    By Hayley Day • January 12, 2018 9:53 am

    Regulations that force boaters to give local, endangered whales more space have protected the orcas and not hindered the whale…

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    Sea-level rise estimates could affect local real estate
    Sea-level rise estimates could affect local real estate
    By Hayley Day • December 27, 2017 8:15 am

    If scientists’ predictions are correct, hundreds of San Juan County’s most coveted waterfront properties may be damaged or unlivable within…

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    Staff photo/Hayley Day                                Kelsey Lee O’Day, 27, of Friday Harbor pleads not-guilty to three counts of child rape in the third degree on Dec. 14.
    Friday Harbor woman pleads not guilty to child...
    By Hayley Day • December 24, 2017 12:23 pm

    A San Juan Island woman pleaded not guilty to child rape with a teenage boy, who she knew but was…

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    Judge Eaton retires from San Juan County Superior Court
    Judge Eaton retires from San Juan County Superior...
    By Hayley Day • December 19, 2017 5:20 pm

    When Judge Donald Eaton moved to San Juan Island, almost 40 years ago, he was just starting to practice law….

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    San Juan Island woman charged with rape of a child
    San Juan Island woman charged with rape of...
    By Hayley Day • December 12, 2017 1:30 am

    Editor’s note: The accused is not named to protect the identity of the victim.

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    Staff photo/Hayley Day                                Islander Rob Ewers explains U.S. history to attendees.
    Locals take U.S. citizenship class at San Juan...
    By Hayley Day • December 5, 2017 9:53 am

    Quenia attends the library’s bi-weekly U.S. citizenship class to someday have the right to vote in America.

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