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  • The Wait

    The Member meeting to vote on the recall or retention of all seven EWUA Directors happened on Saturday, September 28, 2024.  The Election Inspector and his assistants are validating and tabulating the approximately 450 proxies and ballots right now.  They will announce the results once they are confident that they have it correct.  We do…

  • Letter to Editor | A Cascade of Management Failures by Michael Riordan, Fred Klein, & Robert Austin III The Orcasonian editor has identified the identity thief (posting under the name of “Mike Douglas”) as a liar and banned the imposter from commenting.

  • During my college years of pursuing a teaching degree, I was a volunteer instructor and counselor at a Job Corps facility. Many of the kids were from low-income families who were there to learn a trade. As I understood it, some were given a choice between juvenile detention or Job Corps.  As humans do, the…

  • Michael Riordan’s comment on Director Carol Anderson’s Letter to the Editor: My jaw dropped when I read the title of the Sounder article, declaring that Carol Anderson and Ron Claus had broken the law by telling the truth. As a long-time author of many, many articles in the regional and national press (see my website),…

  • Carol Anderson’s Response to Nigretto is published as Letter to the Editor.

  • Here’s an excerpt from the response to EWUA from Mike Parnell (for Farm to Market): “The EWUA board agreed that the 2023 ballot to elect new directors did not have the correct number of seats to be voted on. EWUA refused to correct the error and, instead, went to Court to defend that error. “The…

  • Summary of major changes in the proposed bylaws: It will be much easier to remove Board members – Instead of there being a requirement of a unanimous vote of the Board to remove a Board member, the Board now only requires 5 of the 7 Board members to remove “undesirables” from the Board. The Board…

  • EWUA Scrambles

    The Eastsound Water Users Association Board has posted a response to the forensic accountant’s recommendations.  Available on the EWUA website.