(Feb. 19, 2009) The Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), the world’s largest organization of professional travel journalists and photographers, recently polled its members to come up with the “Top 10” most exciting ferry rides in the world.
BOSTON — I was going to give this a good leaving alone. But there I was flying home from a mellow family visit when El Rushbo filled — and I do mean filled — the screen before me, delivering what he called “my first ever address to the nation.” Who knew there’d been a coup while I was gone? Hail to the Chief?
Lopez Island
The Lopez Island School District announced that they have narrowed the search to three candidates who will be interviewed March 11-13 for their open K-12 principal position created by the retirement of Principal Roland MacNichol at the end of this school year. Chosen from an initial pool of twenty-six applicants, each of the three finalists will be interviewed in a day-long process on March 11, 12, and 13. The public, parents and students are invited to a public forum to meet each candidate on each of the three nights, at 5:30 p.m. in the school library. Participants will be asked to fill out a confidential rating sheet on each candidate to further assist the District in making a final decision about who will be the new principal.
A diverse collection of performers will take the stage for the 15th annual middle school talent show.
Lopez Fire & EMS Department Recruiting Volunteers!
Lopez Island
OLYMPIA – The Bremerton Marina, operated by the Port of Bremerton, has become the 40th marina to be certified as…
Last week a big package arrived by barge at Obstruction Pass landing: a twelve-ton transformer for Orcas Power & Light’s Olga Substation. The transformer was delivered to the substation, where it was met by a sixty-ton crane to lift it into place. OPALCO’s line crew, substation technician and engineers have been hard at work to upgrade the Olga Substation, bringing it up to current standards and improving system reliability for Orcas, Decatur and Blakely Islanders.
League of Women Voters hosts Dr. John Geyman March 9
OLYMPIA – Divers today confirmed that fuel tanks inside a sunken vessel in Orcas Island’s West Sound are empty.
Susan Wilson went out kayaking one day, as she is fond of doing, and as she was soaping up in the shower that night she found the mass in her breast, near her heart. Her pants had become loose over the last few weeks but at the time, she thought it was due to the paddling. Susan received a mammogram and ultrasound right away after telling her husband, Dr. Bob Wilson, what she had discovered. The technicians at the hospital could tell through the ultrasound that it was a cancerous mass.
