The Island Digest - News from San Juan County, Washington

Headlines from the week of May 21, 2025

    - Orcas ferry terminal contract to change hands

    - Perrine named ED of Orcas Center

    - Sawyer named new coroner

    - New trial for man charged with rape

    - Lopez track and field is in top form

    - plus excerpts from the Sheriff's Log  

Headlines from the week of May 14, 2025

    - Orcas dancer performs with New York troupe in Seattle

    - Fifth annual Gathering of the Eagles 

    - Federal cuts cripple Island Conservation Corps

    - plus excerpts from the Sheriff's Log  

Headlines from the week of May 7, 2025

    - Honoring the mother orca

    - Lindsey Saarie shares her adventures of motherhood

    - New exhibit on 50 years of restaurants at Historical Museum

    - plus excerpts from the Sheriff's Log  

Headlines from the week of April 23, 2025

    - Girls Soccer may return to Orcas High School

    - Health district levy lid lift approved

    - Amazon to move out of Lot C - two months later - possibly to the port

    - Lopez Golf headed to District play

    - San Juan County Conservation Land Bank opens Watmough Head Trail on Lopez Island

    - plus excerpts from the Sheriff's Log  

Headlines from the week of April 23, 2025

    - Soroptomist award 11 island women

    - SeaDoc’s ‘Salish Sea Wild’ earns EMMY nomination

    - Wren’s Berries and Native Plants is honoring the natural ecosystem

    - Shooting Stars, harbingers of spring

    - plus excerpts from the Sheriff's Log  

Headlines from the week of April 16, 2025

    - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ballet to open

    - Orcas Chamber shifting gears for July 4th

    - Newest J Pod calf, the fourth Southern Resident killer whale born in the last 12 months

    - Help support local grassroots efforts at Kenya orphanage 

    - plus excerpts from the Sheriff's Log  

Headlines from the week of April 9, 2025

    - First annual Trans Visibility gathering draws a crowd

    - Tipping his cap to passersby

    - Islanders packed the courthouse lawn to say ‘Hands Off’

    - Daily passenger-only boats, free emergency water taxis and barge services beginning soon for the San Juan Islands

    - plus excerpts from the Sheriff's Log  

Headlines from the week of April 2, 2025

    - Funhouse celebrates 25 years of nurturing island kids

    - Lightning strikes the San Juans

    - Wolverines’ and Vikings’ golf teams go head to head

    - Lopez track shines at La Conner

    - plus excerpts from the Sheriff's Log  

Headlines from the week of March 26, 2025

    - Orcas Fire hires new chief; more staffing news

    - The Whale Museum welcomes new executive director

    - Raccoons: Crafty night burglars

    - Lobos track is filled with expertise

    - Old and new faces for golf

    - plus excerpts from the Sheriff's Log  

Headlines from the week of March 19, 2025

    - Orcas Shelter rescues pregnant dog from California

    - Hospital district seeking levy increase on April ballot

    - Islanders become ‘indivisible’

    - Hybrid-electric conversion of ferries delayed

    - plus excerpts from the Sheriff's Log