Early county zoning (“damned socialism”) spawned first by the 1976 Shoreline Act and then protective land use goals in the ...

Why is it called Orange Shirt Day? Phyllis Webstad, of the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation in British Columbia, was taken to a residential school in 1973 at the age of 6 and was forced to remove the ...

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• San Juan deputies responded to a report of vandalism and theft of street signs. The deputies located the suspect vehicle ...

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San Juan County collects sales and use tax from the state tax for the PFFAP program. This program has the goal of providing ...

We are extremely excited about the 2024 volleyball season. We have 15 athletes that have signed up to play volleyball this ...

I am excited by Kari McVeigh running for county council. When I first heard her speak I was floored, first by her sheer energy, then by her vision for this county, and then by her decades of relevant ...

A balanced community life for us all in San Juan County depends on two things: preserving and improving our shared access to natural land—forests, mountains and shores—and creating and preserving ...

I am proud to live in a county with a citizen-founded Land Bank. The forward-thinking citizens of San Juan County voted in 1990 to establish the Land Bank real estate excise tax (REET), after helping ...

When I first considered moving to San Juan County over a decade ago, the first thing I did was go to every bit of public and protected land in the county that I could find. Along with a good library, ...