In the first of what may become many legal battles about the Gateway Pacific Terminals Cherry Point coal port proposal, RE-Sources for Sustainable Communities settled in U.S. District Court its lawsuit claiming that Pacific International Terminals illegally cleared, bulldozed, drilled and filled 1.2 acres at the site of the proposed coal port.
The unappetizing red foam seen floating on the surface of inshore marine waters in San Juan County (and in the photo that accompanies this story) is not related to the organism that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning.
Lopez voters will be asked to approve a .13 percent increase in the local property tax to partially fund operations of the Lopez dump in 2014, a proposition that will be on the November, 2013, general election ballot.
Agritourism is the latest buzzword for economic development and tourism professionals in San Juan County.
The San Juan County Critical Areas Ordinances took a beating during three days of hearings before the state Growth Management Hearings Board on June 23, 24 and 25.
San Juan County parks bagged more than half of the Public Facilities Financing Assistance Program funds allocated for 2014 by the County Council.
The Growth Management Hearings Board has scheduled 20 hours of “Hearings on the Merits” of appeals of the county Critical Areas Ordinances, approved by the San Juan County Council in late 2012.
San Juan County Sheriff Rob Nou on Tuesday presented the County Council with more than 20 pages of documents and almost as many reasons why the council should approve obtaining a new boat for law enforcement, firefighting, EMS and marine rescue purposes in San Juan County.
“Like pieces for a gigantic erector set,” thousands of steel beams, connectors, supports and fasteners have already arrived and are being assembled into a temporary bridge to replace the collapsed I-5 bridge over the Skagit River in Mount Vernon.
Controversy over a contract for high-tech aerial photographs of San Juan County clouded the final meeting of the six-person council on May 7.
Seven years after the former County Commission decided the code enforcement ordinance needed work, the Planning Commission presented a new draft ordinance to the County Council at a special meeting of the council on April 8.
With roughly 4,400 ballots returned to the elections office for the April 23 election, fundraising and spending has slowed for all candidates.
It looks like voters in 2013 won’t have the chance to change the number of county council members from three to five.
Declaring themselves surprised by negative voter reaction, Councilmen Rich Peterson and Marc Forlenza withdrew their proposal to increase the size of the council and a companion proposal to elect the council members by district rather than countywide.
