It was even a bigger crowd than expected. More than 130 people filled every seat and stood in doorways and along the walls to hear a wide-ranging discussion that touched on women’s health care rights, the state and federal constitutions and the Catholic Bishops’ Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care, among other issues.
Advocates of broadband expansion followed up on recent communications problems with renewed motivation to bring broadband technology to all San Juan County businesses and residents.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol will move into office space in the heart of downtown Friday Harbor sometime next year.
Cooperation between the two providers of emergency medical transport in San Juan County has become more difficult as of late.
If one of two packages of, say, frozen edamame on the supermarket shelf says “partially-produced with genetic engineering,” which of those packages would you buy?
San Juan County Assessor Charles Zalmanek thought he had found a way to give local farmers a three-year grace period to make enough money from farming to keep their land assessed as “farm and agricultural land” for property tax purposes.
Disagreement over strategies for deployment of broadband has prompted another resignation from the local power and light cooperative’s board of directors.
If you think that the critical areas ordinances took too long — seven or 10 years, depending on whose calendar you look at— more opportunity for outrage loom in the future.
PeaceHealth and University of Washington Medicine signed a 10-year “collaboration agreement” Sept. 12, under which PeaceHealth, which operates clinics and hospitals in Friday Harbor, Bellingham and other locations, will refer complex cases or high risk patients to University of Washington hospitals.
Three marijuana retail stores will be permitted in San Juan County, one each on Orcas, San Juan and Lopez islands, under regulations proposed Sept. 4 by the Washington State Liquor Control Board to implement Initiative 502, which legalizes marijuana production, processing and retailing.
Business owners ousted from the now-charred waterfront building that housed Downriggers restaurant asked for assurances at a special meeting of the Friday Harbor Port Commission that they will be permitted to reopen in the same location, whether in a rebuilt or completely new building.
Local public hospital districts that provide reproductive services or information must also offer access to contraceptive and abortion services and information consistent with the “fundamental rights” to birth control and abortion guaranteed by Initiative 120, according to a legal opinion issued Aug. 21 by state Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
A newly established policy that ushered in term limits to San Juan County’s numerous advisory committees could lead to a major overhaul of the Marine Resources Committee.
