Please take a quiet moment to read this. It is important if we want our Library to continue being funded… A little more on levy lids and lifts ~ a brief summary from AI: A levy lid is the maximum amount of money that a Washington State taxing district can collect …
Kwiaht will be joining the Museum on Saturday October 4th from 12:30-2:30 PM for their Third Annual Apple Tasting at the Museum! Come down and sample dozens of varieties of local apples, enjoy fresh-pressed cider, and learn about Orcas Island’s heritage orchards. Although apple tasting will end at 2:30, we …
If you’ve ever wanted to be a fly on the wall at the 3-day Imagine Festival that happens in Doe Bay in September, as I decided to be this year (Sept 5-7), here’s your chance. Overall thoughts on the festival: Thank you to all the people who made the festival …
They came to enjoy time together and the wedding of one of their friends, and I just happened upon them after working on a tiny little goal I’ve had this summer – doing one pullover on the bars at the public school. What’s a pullover? This… Pullovers used to be …
Tony and Jenna Moreno have lovingly and oh-so-generously hosted Día de los Muertos outside their house for the past two years, serving tamales, soup, Mexican sweet bread, and Mexican hot chocolate, providing DJ music, offering space for anyone in the community to make ofrendas (altars honoring the dead), and giving …
There is a new local book hot off the press called Mush, You Huskies, Mush! Author Barbara Humes and her husband, Bill, were longtime Orcas Island residents and founders/owners of Warm Valley Farm (50+ years!) after having homesteaded near a little town in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula called Hope, which is …
Happy 90th Birthday to Ken Speck this week! In celebration, our local radio station, 102.3 KIXP, is spotlighting Ken. Listen to an interview of Ken and Karen by clicking here and scrolling down to where you see the arrow to click play. It looks like this: (Remember, this is just …
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