Friday Harbor News

Friday Harbor Postmaster Dan Fleming is being transferred to Oak Harbor, effective Saturday.

Fierce winds and heavy rain pushed through Western Washington overnight Wednesday, leaving thousands without power and a mess for crews to clean-up Thursday morning.

The annual No-Cost Turkey Dinner is Nov. 22, 2:30 p.m., in the Friday Harbor High School cafeteria.

Assistant Fire Chief Frank Chaffee estimates the tree in his front yard toppled over sometime after 11 p.m. last night, a casualty of the high winds that struck the island.

Griffin Bay Bookstore is celebrating 30 years of book selling in Friday Harbor with an open house Nov.

According to members of the Orcas Senior Center Songbirds, they may forget where they left their car keys, but remembering a favorite old tune is a breeze.

Congratulations to Mayor-elect Carrie Lacher. As the first woman elected mayor of Friday Harbor, she completes an important chapter in the town's history.

A commemorative page in Wednesday's Journal of the San Juan Islands honors the mayors of Friday Harbor a ' from Gene Gould to Carrie Lacher .

Russell Wayne Helmeid passed away Oct. 26, 2009 at Beacon Hill VA Hospital, Seattle, Wash.

San Juan County health officials say the H1N1 flu is now considered widespread on San Juan Island and the incidence of the flu is increasing on Orcas Island.

If only every other month this year had been like July. Friday Harbor has received $147,012.78 as its portion of sales tax revenue generated in town that month a ' the best month in town history.

UPDATES 2:47 P.M.: Sheriff's boat Guardian has arrived at Roche Harbor. Sheriff Bill Cumming reports one boat fully engulfed.

Greg Hertel was elected to a fourth six-year term on the Friday Harbor Port Commission tonight.

Most San Juan Island ballots have been received, the county elections office reported at 12:30 p.m. Ballots were expected to be received from Orcas Island later this afternoon, and from Lopez Island on Wednesday.

Orcas residents may not have heard about the storm water quality problems in Friday Harbor.

Witnesses attending the ceremonial naming of Orca calf J-45. Friday Harbor, Wash.

What iceberg? It must be true; it's on the Interwebs: A Friday Harbor blogger was forced to admit that a photo he had posted showing a sinking Steilacoom II ferry had been faked.

Bazoukis. Bagpipes. Fiddles and whistles. Add them up and it can mean only one thing.

This is not a story about just one woman; it is about an entire village. However, it takes one woman to tell the story, and that is exactly what Kitty Sorgen does.

Leslie Byron says it was a quiet summer for the Friday Harbor Animal Shelter. With a marmalade cat at her ankles and Halloween pumpkins at the door, the place does exude a certain peace.