In August 2024, the Library will ask for an operational levy lid lift. The Library has been frugal and strategic with its last levy lid lift reserves and annual funding but needs to ask for a new levy lid lift in order to sustain the current level of library services, programs, and collections. On May […]

Join us for an all-day celebration of comic books! We'll be having an all-day graphic novel read-in event complete with free comic books, snacks, and other giveaways. Bring your own comic or grab one of our graphic novels to read among company.   Check out our program offerings in celebration of Free Comic Book Day! […]

Please join us for SJIYC’s annual Opening Day Boat Parade on Sunday, May 5, in Friday Harbor. Entrants will gather near Shipyard Cove and parade their vessels in front of Spring Street Landing and past the Dignitary Boat and the Judges’ Review Boat to compete for prizes in one of five categories: Theme, Traditional/Nautical, Classic […]

Lopez Author Gene Helfman reads from his prize-winning novels. Lopez Islander Gene Helfman is a conservation biologist turned multiple prize-winning novelist. Beyond the Human Realm is an eco- thriller about killer whales. His second novel, FINS, A Novel of Relentless Satire, about sharks, combines the genres of eco-thriller, horror & comedy.