Lopez Fire & EMS is funded by the public through two levies: a Fire levy and an EMS levy. These funds go toward the costs of ...

To sustain current services, including Take It Or Leave It and free recycling, the Lopez Dump relies on several dependable ...

After 34 years in law enforcement, I thought my days of serving in uniform were behind me. But sometimes life presents an ...

Dismantling the Department of Environmental Stewardship and stalling the Jackson Beach restoration signaled that San Juan ...

That’s MPPACT: you try new things even if you don’t know what you’re doing and even if you’ve never thought about playing a certain instrument or singing in front of a crowd. Jesse and all your peers ...

The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office responded to the following calls (all Lopez calls and select from other islands).

Due to editing for space, there was some language change on the recent levy mailer that was inadvertently removed. This ...

I believe elected officials should understand what it means to walk in the shoes of the people they represent. That means ...

It’s a funny thing about islands. They tend to stay put. The trees stay put, too—quiet, hardworking citizens who ask for nothing except a little rain and the chance to stand upright for a century or ...

I am giving my enthusiastic support to our County Council candidate Katherine Bryant Ingman. As a thirty five year resident ...

At some point, we got onto Seattle’s P-Patches, and I shared one of my favorite little pieces of community garden history: ...

It’s easy to get lost in the drama that emerges during elections in small communities. Even without pots intentionally stirred, there’s an inherent mess that comes from running against your former ...