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Island journalThe Olga Symphony Brings Its Thanksgiving Show Home to Orcas Center, With Old Friends on Stage"The sweet thing was, right from the beginning, whenever we got paid for playing, we always gave the money away," Gordon Koenig told theOrcasonian in 2015. "It's…
Island journalThe Ferry Protections That Hold Up in a Disruption Are the Ones Orcas Riders Set Up Ahead"It's one of those tools you don't know you need until you need it." San Juan County Council member Kari McVeigh said that in September about WSF's medical loading…
Island journalThe Film Festival's Bonus Nights Are the Sea View's Last Screenings Before WinterThe 12th Orcas Island Film Festival runs Oct. 14 through 18. For the first time, it adds two more evenings of screenings at the Sea View Theatre on Monday, Oct. 19,…
Island journalOrcas Island's Crab Season Closed September 28. Catch Cards Are Due October 1.The last legal day of the summer season was September 28. Washington's Department of Fish and Wildlife lists the season for Marine Area 7 South, the water that…
Island journalFor One Sunday Morning, Eastsound Owned the Runway. Then the Real Schedule Started.Stand at the north threshold of Orcas Island Airport's runway and look south. Nothing comes back at you. No taxiing Cessna, no wind sock snapping toward a landing…
Island journalThe Apple Olga Made Famous Has New Company This FallIn 1905, in a ten-acre orchard in Olga, one branch on one Gravenstein tree started doing something the other forty-nine trees around it weren't. Instead of the pale…