OLYMPIA – If you’re wondering what to do with those unwanted TVs, computers and monitors stored in a garage or back-room, relief is here. E-Cycle Washington is a new program that started on Jan. 1. It allows free and convenient recycling of these electronic products.
BOSTON — While I’m aware that there’s no official inauguration for a first lady — no oath to take, no speech to make — we do manage to have an initiation rite. So, Michelle Obama, Princeton and Harvard Law grad, lawyer and mother, has been subject to the usual mix of mild hazing and wild admiration on her way to the East Wing.
Lopez benefits from an abundance of groups and volunteers that provide many of the services upon which we all depend. The Lopez Island Chamber of Commerce is one such entitiy. It is, however, unique among
Learn about the origins of the crisis…how the credit crunch led to increasing losses and general panic…what we learned or thought we learned from our experiences during the great depression…if our conventional policy tools will even stem this tide…and then participate in the discussion of these topics and in considering potential solutions.
On Tuesday January 13th at 7:00 p.m. Michael Ulrich from the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife will give a…
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After five years at the Islands’ Weekly, Colleen Smith Armstrong has been appointed Interim Editor of the Islands’ Sounder. Since then, Helen Sanders, who is the sports writer for the Sounder, has been managing the editorial content of the Islands’ Weekly since the beginning of December. When not covering sports and local happenings, Sanders enjoys playing her bagpipes and working on her novel. Armstrong still lives on Lopez and has been commuting to Orcas, where the Sounder is headquartered. To reach Helen Sanders, email her at editor@islandsweekly.net or call the Weekly at 468-4242 or drop by the office.
On Monday, December 29, Lopez Island experienced a high surge in winds that resulted in an unfortunate number of marine vessels being run aground, sunk, or split in half. The island community is all too aware of winter weather and what it can wreak. Below are photos that depict the storm and its aftermath.
Except for a few isolated patches of ice, most of San Juan County’s roads are clear of snow. Now the Public Works department has turned its attention to sand – 1000 cubic yards of it spread by County road crews during the storms. That’s nearly 3 million pounds of sand that has to be swept from the roads.
San Juan County Sheriff Bill Cumming announced today the launch of a new web-based program designed to enhance monitoring capacity of registered sex offenders in San Juan County and throughout Washington State.
OLYMPIA…If you want to put a citizen initiative on the ballot, you can take your first step starting on Monday, January 5. That’s the first day to file initiatives to the people. Petitions for such initiatives this year must be turned in by July 3. Under state law, initiatives to the people must be filed with the Secretary of State at least four months before the date of the General Election.
Happy New Year to fellow snowbound islanders and neighbors. Our very first fundraiser for the Odlin South Preservation Project, scheduled for Sunday December 14, 2008, was cancelled due to weather. As many of you know, Odlin South is the large parcel of land just south of and adjacent to Odlin Park which has been attracting media attention lately. Raiti Waerness teamed up with the local preservation group to organize this fundraiser art sale. Many artists from the Lopez Artist Guild donated lovely eight inch canvases for sale on behalf of this event, which will be rescheduled in the spring. Thank you to all our supporters…you can contact Heather Arps at 468-3163 or harps4@centurytel.net for info on Odlin South and this event. We will post notices once we have a new ‘WHO DUNIT’ date.
Lilly Ewert of Lopez Island, currently a Lopez High School student, has been accepted by Youth for Understanding USA (YFU) as an international high school exchange student. Lilly Ewert will travel abroad to live with a host family and participate in a cultural immersion experience on the 2009 YFU Semester to Germany.
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