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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1760"] Port Townsend’s watershed. Photo courtesy of the City of Port Townsend. [/caption] News by Angela Downs The water out of a tap in Port Townsend travels 30 miles through the Olympic Gravity Water system (OGWS), from the Big Quilcene
Arts & Culture
[caption id align="alignnone" width="3024"] Studio photo by Carolyn Lewis [/caption] Arts reporting by Carolyn Lewis Sandra Smith-Poling decided to become an artist while watching her father paint at the beach, the moment felt like more than just admiration—it was destiny. "I
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1800"] Photo courtesy of Josh Peters [/caption] News by Scott France Josh Peters, appointed on April 30 as administrator for Jefferson County, sat down with the Beacon to discuss the role and responsibilities of the Jefferson County administrator, and to outline
opinion
Opinion by Gary B. Larson, board chair of the Jefferson County Beacon “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” That old saying was meant to toughen us up. But let’s be honest: It was never quite true. Words can hurt. They can intimidate.
opinion
[caption id align="alignnone" width="2500"] Photo by Redd Francisco, UnSplash [/caption] News Commentary by Donna Gordon Blankinship, Washington State Standard No one is certain yet how federal decisions under the Trump administration will affect both budgets and policies of Washington’s public schools. But educators,
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="3024"] Ulva Algea, a nuisance species, is being tested on local farms as fertilizer. Photo courtesy of the Puget Sound Restoration Fund [/caption] News by Angela Downs “Long kelp fronds waving through clear green waters evoke a strong sense of home
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1463"] The property that EFM manages and Microsoft has invested in is the Olympic Rainforest, a 68,000 acre property that spance Clallam and Jefferson Counties. Image provided by EFM [/caption] News by Nhatt Nichols “To participate in the carbon credit
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1536"] A tree sitter is currently preventing the harvesting of DNR land by. a plywood company. Photo by G. Dobyns [/caption] News by G. Dobyns Early on Wednesday, May 7, activists erected a tree-sit and blockade of a logging road
Columnist
[caption id align="alignnone" width="3072"] Photo and illustration by Eden Blooms [/caption] A monthly ethnobotany column by Eden Blooms Amidst the towering forests of Cascadia, a fleeting bloom is beginning to make its appearance in the understory - Western Trillium, Trillium ovatum. This gentle yet profound
Visual Art
[caption id align="alignnone" width="2444"] Heidi Tucker (L) and Claire Ragland in their future community print shop. Photo by Nhatt Nichols [/caption] “Over here is where our community meeting room and zine library are going, then in this room, we’ll have a darkroom space.
Environment
[caption id align="alignnone" width="716"] Image of Last Crocker forest courtesy of The Legacy Forest Defense Coalition website [/caption] News by Angela Downs The “Last Crocker Timber Sale”, Legacy Forest Defense Coalition of Washington vs. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) came before the court
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1874"] (L-R) Shona Davis, Jim Hodgson, Jon Cooke, and Vivann Kuehl at a meeting last month while they were discussing the resolution. Photo by Nhatt Nichols [https://www.jeffcobeacon.com/caption] News by Nhatt Nichols In a 3-2 vote