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An employee of the Safe Harbor Recovery Center in Port Townsend arrived at work to find smoke coming out of the building on the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 7.
The employee immediately called 911 …
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Derek Firenze
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From getting food for the table, to a roof over their heads.
Local farmers raised a troublesome crop of issues during a recent roundtable discussion with U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer.
Kilmer, the 6th …
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Brian Kelly
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During an inspiring evening at the “Under the Tent” event, a city official asked us all to “not let perfect be the enemy of good” when offering solutions to our housing …
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This letter is in response to recent events at our local YMCA, and the subsequent fear-mongering and misinformation campaign that is occurring thanks to a few folks who think someone else’s …
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Anti-trans activists are trotting out old, discredited arguments, but using them against trans people instead of gays.
They say they’re protecting women, but it doesn’t take much …
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Art Frank is running for sheriff because your family deserves to be safer.
Under the current sheriff, 911 answers the phone, but too often Jefferson County deputies fail to help. Consider these …
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When I was moving here in 1980, I asked the Chamber of Commerce to send me info about the town.
One article said, even though Port Townsend was a small town, there was something fun to do …
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My friends and neighbors ask why I display two Art Frank for Sheriff yard signs. One word is the answer: CHARACTER.
I know Art only because he and I served a few years ago on the citizens …
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A driver crashed a vehicle into a home on Paradise Bay Road at East Boat Drive Friday night, and a child in the car received minor injuries.
No one in the home was hurt in the wreck.
The driver …
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Derek Firenze
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Port Hadlock’s Ajax Cafe has won the Mary P. Johnson Award for the eatery’s Galster House renovation project.
The Jefferson County Historical Society, responsible for handing out the …
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Leader News Staff
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Exploring the expanse of outer space as an interpretation in tones. This is the kind of ambient groove local musician, poet, and filmmaker Robin Lum Cheong has created under the name Robinicus for …
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Derek Firenze
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Faster. Stronger.
Wresters from the East Jefferson Rivals teams and Blue Heron Middle got back to the mat recently for two summer wrestling camps over the offseason with two major goals in mind. …
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Leader News Staff
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Pickleball just keeps continuing to grow.
It’s turning into a big dill.
Whether at the national level or locally, the paddle sport has been growing every day with the Port Townsend …
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Leader News Staff
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The Leader has repeatedly referred to the Press Conference held in support of Julie Jaman as an “anti-trans rally.” This characterization is grossly misleading at best and highly …
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COMMON SENSE ALONE MAKES IT OBVIOUS that Second Amendment conservatives make it up as they go—praising guns out one side of their mouth . . . then deploring them with totally untrue innuendo …
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George Walter Huntingford, 79, of Chimacum, Washington, passed away on Aug. 16, 2022, in his home, surrounded by his family, in Center, Washington.
George was born on Oct. 24, 1942 to George Harry …
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Lowell Jay Haskins was born in Indiana on Aug. 14, 1934, into a military family.
His father, George W. Haskins was an early pilot who taught aeronautical engineering at Purdue University where he …
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Thomas Teddy Cartmel, formerly of Port Townsend, was killed recently in a single-vehicle accident in Genesee Co., New York, along with his sister Deborah (Cartmel) Burrelli. Tom was born Sept. 20, …
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Deborah Jo (Cartmel) Burrelli, formerly of Port Townsend, was killed recently in a tragic, single-vehicle accident in Genesee County, New York, en route from Rochester, New York to a new home in …
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