Lopez Island News

Lopez Island residents may not have heard about the stormwater quality problems in Friday Harbor.

Today, 3:42 PM Tuesday's election was historic: Election of the first woman mayor of Friday Harbor.

The message of the first North Olympic Peninsula Farm to The Cafeteria Conference on Thursday was that the farmer and the food buyer should be friends.

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.

David Moseley, the chief of Washington State Ferries, will hold four meetings for ferry communities in Skagit and Island counties to reach out to customers and businesses affected by the state agency.

Six representatives of the Lopez Island Prevent Coalition : Alex Cook, Patience Taylor, Hanna Hobi, and Teddy McCullough, all Lopez High School students, and parent advisor, Georgeana Cook, will participate in the Washington State Prevention Summit to be held in Yakima, Wash., October 29-31. LIPC is currently building a community base coalition in ...

On Nov. 10 Lopez Island School District and Lopez School Music Advocacy Foundation will welcome two members of the Tuskegee Airmen.

Lopez Islanda s own Richard Carter has been orchestrating the beauty of Shakespearea s language for over ten years, adapting the Barda s plays to make them more accessible to school children and other organizations.

Capt. Gerral David, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island commanding officer, travelled to Lopez Island last week to talk with residents about flight operations and jet noise during a special meeting called by the San Juan County Council.

Flo Settles, much-loved and well-known Friday Harbor resident, passed away Wednesday, Oct.

San Juan County's Elections officials are asking local voters to check the return address on their ballot envelope.

By Today, 10:55 AM The Evergreen State pulled up to the ferry landing as Dave Jorgensen and Sonia Mattoon exchanged wedding vows on the Orcas Hotel lawn Aug.

Do you wonder where your hard earned money goes? Would you like help managing your personal and/or business finances? If you answered yes to these questions, you may want to sign up for one of two new financial literacy classes being offered by the Lopez Island Family Resource Center next month.

For the second time in three years, voters will decide the fate of countywide legislation.

SHARK REEFa s fall edition, its 15th issue, is online now at sharkreef.org. When the literary magazine was launched in June of 2001, it was seen by its Lopez Island founders as a new millenium online zine from a rural grassroots community, a place where serious local writers might see their work in print.

Jeffrey Stonehill, Lopez artist and performer, presented scenes from his Mark Twain interpretation at the Lopez Island Senior Hamlet on Sept.

The Friends of the Lopez Island Library need books in good condition to sell at the Friday, Nov.

Revolution October 16, 2009 through January 3, 2010. On opening day, Friday, October 16, at 11 a.m., there will be an exhibition walk-through with artist Michael Peterson.

Paul Berg at home on Lopez Island. Paul Berg grew up on a farm with his grandparents.

Carroll Lloyd Weeks of Lopez Island passed away quietly on Sept. 3, 2009 at Life Care Center in Mount Vernon, Wash.