we have created a CD called "Christmas Memories" of some of our most memorable Christmas songs. It is available for sale at LoCo, the Lopez Co-op of Fine Craft Artisans, in the Village next to the Lopez Winery tasting room.
The Magmatics, shown above, played at the last Community Performance Night. Check out the next Community Performance Night on Friday, Dec.9, 7 p.m. at Lopez Center for Community and the Arts.
Ocho Pies Quartet ends their visit with a 5:30 p.m. dinner show at the Galley, with a portion of the proceeds helping support the ongoing “Lopez School Music Advocacy Foundation” effort to enhance music and the arts at Lopez School.
Stephen E. Adams writes a profile on Myrtle “Dovie” Ulmer, who says "Don't call me a damned artist."
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but because of the increased prevalence of impaired driving during the holidays, it can also be dangerous.
Rebecca Cook reviews “Jubliee Day” a novel written by Michael Sky
On Dec. 2, 5-7 p.m., Greg Ewert and Robert S. Harrison will host a photography opening at LoCo Gallery in the village.
A look at Gretchen Gruenke's life - from social work to moving to Lopez
Begin your special holiday season festivities with Islands’ A Cappella. The choir will be performing at Lopez Community Center for the Performing Arts, Saturday, Dec. 3, 4:30 p.m.
It’s that time of the years again... for the Lopez Cooperative Preschool’s Holiday Bazaar, held Saturday, Nov. 26, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. in the high school gym.
On Saturday, Nov. 19, Cohen, MFA, certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, presents the workshop “The Wisdom of Body Sensing,” 6 - 9 p.m., at the Heller Family Farm, 445 Paradise Rd. The fee is on a sliding scale $50 - $90
Q’we-ti, the trickster-hero of the Makah People, will paddle his magic canoe to Lopez Island on Thanksgiving weekend for the next performance in Northwest Puppet Center’s Lopez Season.
This is how Transition Fidalgo and Friends describes itself on its home page. Sponsored by the Islands Energy Coalition, Lopezians were treated to a discussion led by three women from this fledgling organization that grew out of Skagit Beat the Heat founded in 2006 to raise awareness of global climate change.
What did you eat for breakfast?
We think of sun, rain and soil being the basis of our food chain but the typical American diet is essentially dripping with oil.
According to University of Michigan’s Center for Sustainable Agriculture, an average of seven calories of fossil fuel is burned for every calorie of food we eat in the U.S.
On Nov. 1, the Rotary Club of San Juan Island presented Lopez Elementary third grade students with dictionaries designed especially for this grade level.
The Lopez Education Association, in partnership with the Lopez Public School Employees, and the Lopez School Board and Administration invite you to join them in a non-partisan “Day of Action” for Education. The Lopez “Day of Action” will be Nov. 28, which is the first day that the state legislature will be back in session to consider potentially drastic cuts to education. The event will also coincide with a statewide “Week of Action.”
When Phyllis Potter bought the bookstore in 1987 she thought that it would be an expression of her love of literature and a good story, her education as a librarian, or even her connection to the Lopez community but didn’t know that it would ultimately, go to the dogs.
Bats are the least studied animals, and much of their lives remain a mystery. Very little is known about the abundance of bats in the San Juan Islands, and researchers don’t really know if bat populations are healthy. For this reason, Kwiáht, a nonprofit scientific organization run by islanders and based on Lopez, has launched a “Lopez Island Baseline Bat Status Assessment.” The Status Assessment will map out where Lopez bats live and estimate population numbers to use as a baseline for future research.
Community Shakespeare Announces Fall Season The Community Shakespeare Company presents “The Laramie Project” at Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, Nov. 9-12.
Rita Larom writes about senior Don Langrock's life
Chelsea’s Agora Gallery in New York City will feature plein air artist, Steven R. Hill, in The Persistence of Form. The exhibition is scheduled to run from Nov. 2–23, 2011 (opening reception: Thurs., Nov. 3, 2011).
Keeping up with kiln-cast glass artist, Gerry Newcomb, becomes almost slapstick, running after him, notebook and recorder in hand, trying to catch (and eventually impart to the reader) just a fraction of his enthusiasm.
A group of Lopezians want to glean your backyard fruit trees
Thor Hanson’s book “Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle” explores how feathers have evolved to assist birds in flight and survival, and how feathers have affected humans.
Triana had to make an agonizing decision regarding time management, so the horoscope column is what has to go
A look at two public lands maintenance projects, attended a bird watch and tide-pooling activity, and participated in talks on the Chadwick settler family, eelgrass in Watmough Bay, and the Watmough wetlands.
Lopez Island Conservation Corps recently wrapped up its fifth annual summer youth program. The crew spent nine weeks working hard, learning and having fun outdoors as they helped to maintain and improve public lands in the county.
Lopezians are invited to join the residents at The Hamlet at 3 p.m. the second Monday of every month to sing old time songs.
On Saturday, Oct. 8 at 2:30 p.m. the Garfield High School Jazz Ensemble with director Clarence Acox, returns to Woodmen Hall for their fourth annual performance.
Word on the street as seen in the Oct. 4 print edition of the Weekly
This week's story features Margie Wissert Roe
May Palmer comes to the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, Sept. 24 at 7 p.m.
Barsh and Murphy describe the islands' native orchids and how they affect other species
Triana's weekly horoscope
Triana explains how we are "Hurtling toward the equinox"
When art and animals collide
A look at the the Carter Family Puppet show
