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Dear Editor,
I attended the July 17 five-hour City Council meeting with the future of the golf course on the agenda. I gave a public comment in support of the hybrid option for the golf course.
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Dear Editor:
I was delighted to see the recent recognition you gave to Janneke Peterson, local educator and recipient of the Edge Prize. As a representative of the Washington Native Plant …
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8/5/23
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Dear Editor:
When I was a kid, we had the recreation center. What a place. There we could could enjoy many activities where young people could hang out. OMG, parents knew where there kids were. …
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8/5/23
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Dear Editor:
At the July 17 City Council meeting, after sitting through hours of testimony mostly by users of the golf course, I was surprised, and happy to hear Mayor Faber encouraging the …
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Eleanor Ann Moller of Port Townsend has graduated cum laude from Linfield University with a bachelor of science in nursing.
Honors are determined once a student's final grades have been …
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8/5/23
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Last week divers and marine biologists spent a few days relocating invertebrates who had become quite attached to the south jetty at Hudson Point.
Their new home is a pile of submerged ballast …
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Tom Mullen
news@ptleader.com
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8/5/23
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On July 20, a seemingly ordinary day of pickleball drills took a bizarre turn when a woman brazenly stole a 3-gallon Coleman blue ice chest, packed with fresh organic produce, from under a tree in …
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Jack Olmstead
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8/5/23
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As a rural community, the ability to respond to emergencies and recover from disaster is dependent on knowing where and how to connect to information and resources before a crisis.
Build that …
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Keppie Keplinger
For The Leader
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8/5/23
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Summer is a vulnerable time for kids who rely on free or reduced-price meals during the school year, writes Erin Hawkins for the YMCA.
“At the Y, we know that children who receive daily …
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Leader News Staff
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In her attic studio, lined with bundles of willow, Mo Walrath builds “soul boats.”
They’re long caskets, vessels to hold loved ones. For this weaver, making them is an …
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Michael Vince Snyder Dubose
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8/4/23
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Youth Education in Arts (YEA) Music Camp round two is scheduled from Monday, Aug. 7 through Friday, Aug. 11 at Swan School in Port Townsend.
Students in grades entering 5 through 12 will …
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Leader News Staff
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Key City Public Theatre’s final weekend of Shakespeare in the Park brings a new play to the Chetzemoka Park stage: “Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea,” Julia …
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Anna Tallarico
atallarico@ptleader.com | 8/4/23 |
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Olympic Peninsula native Roger Ferguson has accumulated half a century of experience in bluegrass music, and estimates he’s played in Port Townsend and Jefferson County “countless …
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Kirk Boxleitner
kboxleitner@ptleader.com
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8/4/23
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Olympic Peninsula native Roger Ferguson has accumulated half a century of experience in bluegrass music, and estimates he’s played in Port Townsend and Jefferson County “countless …
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Maude Eisele for The Leader
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8/4/23
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I’m daydreaming of a world tour of cucumber salad as I water my garden. It’s on my bucket list to grow all thirteen cucumbers from my favorite seed company — “Renee’s …
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Sidonie Maroon
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8/4/23
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Jamestown S’Klallam elder Celeste Dybeck plopped, exhausted, into a chair when she arrived home last week from a day of Paddle to Muckleshoot events at Jamestown Beach. The 72-year-old would …
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Kathy Cruz
kcruz@ptleader.com | 8/4/23 |
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Personnel responded to a fire Friday morning in Port Townsend after a 10:03 a.m. call reported smoke drifting from the abandoned Tyler Street wharf at Tyler and Water Streets.
Jon Stuart, …
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Laura Jean Schneider
ljschneider@ptleader.com | 8/4/23 |
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So, this week is BJ’s birthday and we are looking forward to the challenge of deciphering the cursive writing ...
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Ned Luce
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8/2/23
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East Jefferson Fire Rescue Chief Bret Black told The Leader that his crews were about to change their tactics. The fire fight at Peat Plank Road …
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Mom passed away peacefully at San Juan Villa Dementia Care Facility in Port Townsend. she was 91. Daughter, Jeanie, and several staff members were by her side.
Mom was born in Forks, Wash. on …
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8/2/23
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