Offer enough good food, drinks, music and communal goodwill, and people will open up their wallets and give to a good cause. According to Jennifer Urquhart, treasurer of the Cross-Border Coalition to Stop the Towers, that's exactly what people did on March 5 at a fundraiser held at Kiniski's Reef Tavern on Gulf Road.

High wind, high tide and low atmospheric pressures combined late on March 9 and early March 10 to bring seawater and debris splashing over the seawall on Bayview Drive in Maple Beach. Gale winds of 35-45 knots and wave heights between 4 and 7 feet were forecasted by the National Weather Service for inland waters from the San Juan Islands north. 

You'll lose an hour of sleep this Sunday, but be rewarded with an extra hour of evening sunlight with the start of Daylight Saving Time.