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In a late-night budget session, lawmakers cut funding for the Dairy Stabilization Program from about $8.9 million to $4.5 million.

In a late-night budget session, lawmakers cut funding for the Dairy Stabilization Program from about $8.9 million to $4.5 million.

In a late-night budget session, lawmakers cut funding for the Dairy Stabilization Program from about $8.9 million to $4.5 million.

Five seal pups may not have realized it, but Oct. 21 was to be their last morning in the Wolf Hollow rehabilitation pools. Skipper, Marble, Arctic, Nymph and West Coast Lady had gained enough weight and showed they could hunt and feed for themselves, and it was now time for them to begin their new lives in the wild.

Sun and calm waters made for the perfect day for the third annual witchs’ paddle. Approximately 30 dressed in hats and capes, and accompanied by pumpkins and dogs met at Shipyard Cove Saturday, Oct. 28 and paddled to the Spring Streed dock. Many paddledboarded but some kayaked, canoed, others rowed, and at least one sailed.

Oct. 13 was Homecoming at Friday Harbor High, and the community got into the school spirit cheering the high school classes on during the Homecoming Parade that went up Spring Street, ending at Friday Harbor High.

Ledyard Edmanuel Rivera, 32, of Holyoke, Mass., was charged Saturday with assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, failure to drive in the e...

By Heather Spaulding, Journal Editor and Colleen Smith, Publisher.

DEAR SUN SPOTS: The Hartford Heritage Society is holding an indoor yard sale July 1 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Hartford Town Hall. Please contact one of our members if you have items to donate. All proceeds will go toward the upkeep and restoration of the J & O Irish Museum on […]

The DEC is hosting events around New York state to educate citizens about invasive species, and what they can do to protect local ecosystems.