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 ...
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, ...