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The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office received 340 calls for service between Friday, Feb. 3 and Friday, Feb. 10. Below are selected reports.
At 10:59 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 5 in Quilcene, a …
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Leader News Staff
news@ptleader.com | 2/16/23 |
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Today's cartoon is by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian.
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2/16/23
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Down home and high cultures combine in the original songs of violinist Kathryn Claire.
Renowned for both her violin and voice at her musical core, Claire weaves melodies and storytelling, rooted …
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Derek Firenze
dfirenze@ptleader.com | 2/15/23 |
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“I love to prune my roses … you can forget everything else while you’re doing it.” — Julie Andrews, actress, author, and rosarian
It’s time to prune our roses. …
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Barbara Faurot
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2/15/23
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With three East Jefferson Rivals wrestlers finishing in the top three of their weight divisions at Regionals, Jameson Henery, Mi Amada Lanphear Ramirez, and Devon Bennett-Anderson are headed for the …
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Leader News Staff
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The East Jefferson Rivals varsity boys basketball team was eliminated from the first round of the Nisqually League playoffs after losing to Vashon Island High School 57-43 on Saturday.
The boys …
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Leader News Staff
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The Quilcene Rangers ended the boys varsity basketball season with a pair of back-to-back losses against Pope John Paul II School and Northwest Yeshiva High School.
The Rangers first fell to …
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Leader News Staff
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Quilcene couldn’t find its range as the team lost to Pope John Paul II in girls varsity basketball.
The Rangers were outscored 37-15 in the tough test on the road.
Quilcene finished the …
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Leader News Staff
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April Bederman and Katy Morse will be the featured artists for February at Gallery-9, the home of the North Olympic Artist Cooperative.
Bederman is a fiber artist who is interested in functional …
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Leader News Staff
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A watercolor artist and a jeweler who specializes in gemstone creations have been named as the Port Ludlow Art League’s artists of the month for February.
Allyne Lawson is the artist of …
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Leader News Staff
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The Hippocratic oath for physicians is a useful tool for our thoughtful city leadership to evaluate the plan that GroundSwell drafts in the next few months.
The recent survey points to …
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2/15/23
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In Port Townsend/qatay we’re both tragically blessed and wonderfully cursed to be living with so many other creatures.
Raccoons and otters getting into where they shouldn’t. Crows …
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The Feb. 1 item, “Golf course survey puts spotlight on trails,” errs in describing the informal poll as “official” and as a “vote” — a word used four …
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2/15/23
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Who is going to pay?
We are thankful for the wonderful gift of Chetzemoka Park and that the city is funded to maintain it.
How are we going to pay for the published popular plans for …
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2/15/23
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Today's cartoon is by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com.
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2/15/23
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It’s not the waters that are troubled.
It’s the bridge. And then some.
The Washington State Department of Transportation has announced critical closures of the Hood Canal Bridge …
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Brian Kelly
bkelly@ptleader.com | 2/15/23 |
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It was a first for the Jefferson Healthcare Medical Center and it was a first for Center Valley Animal Rescue’s founder and director Sara Penhallegon.
“That was a new one and …
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James Sloan
jsloan@ptleader.com | 2/15/23 |
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AND I NOTICED A HEADLINE on page one of The Seattle Times the other morning that read: “Students of color now the majority in Washington Public Schools.” Simon also fills the bill in that …
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A new “Letter of Intent” is set and signed for the Port of Port Townsend’s purchase of the Short’s Family Farm.
With a price of $1.4 million, the deal is in line with an …
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Ballads return to the backcountry with another season of Concerts in the Woods.
For 14 years, music lovers have been traveling 14 miles of country road after crossing Highway 104 to get to the …
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Derek Firenze
dfirenze@ptleader.com | 2/15/23 |