Laura Flanigan, an organizer of the pet parade, informed The Leader that this year’s attendance was only “a bit lower” than last year’s, “but still a great turnout for …

Last weekend, The Rhododendron Festival marked it’s 90th year. 90 years of community parties and service. Rhody is unlike most modern events. It’s not to celebrate a corporation, or art, …

The council sat behind their three-foot-high protective walls while some of the public (those in non-virtual attendance) stood single file behind the podium. The wall no longer seems redundant as …

    The Kosec Funeral Home and Crematory in Port Townsend is under new management but its new owners remain native to the Olympic Peninsula. Married funeral directors David …

Short fiction writer coming to library Ballering grew up in Portland and holds an MFA in creative writing from Western Washington University. Her short fiction has appeared in Electric …

Thomas Mullen paperboy@vcn.com   “I was here at the start,” recalled Gunnar Joslyn, retired Commodore of the Washington State Ferry fleet, now living high up on the …

Doom, “death clad in all its hideousness” rode the decks of the steamer Pacific on its voyage in the fall of 1875, said James A. Gibbe in his book “Shipwrecks of the Pacific …

Anna Tallarico atallarico@ptleader.com Prepare for two months of detours as Port Townsend’s newest roundabout graces the East Sims Way and Kearney Street intersection. The Port Townsend …

The end of every outdoor concert should have a lantern parade and brass band play out the crowd. As my partner and I were leaving the Parade Grounds after Fleet Foxes’ performance Friday …