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News Commentary by Ross Pruden Port Townsend is famous for its annual Wooden Boat Festival, but some kids have complained that it can be hard to find anything to do if you don't do maritime activities. High schoolers in Port Townsend spend their leisure time at The Nest—
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News Commentary by Tom Hodson, courtesy of The Athens County Independent On the first day of Donald Trump’s second term as president, he signed an executive order to halt birthright citizenship, a national precedent that has been in place for over a century. Birthright citizenship grants U.S. citizenship
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News by Angela Downs Though there has been a 7% decrease in American farms between 2017-2022, there has also been a steady increase in sustainable and community gardening in America. While the decrease in farms is alarming for our food systems, Food Bank Growers (FBG) are part of the silver
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Citizen Screen is a monthly column dedicated to film and film-related topics, sourced and curated by Port Townsend Film Festival. This month’s column is by filmmaker Rose Madrone, the Producer/Director of the Connectivity Project film. Working at the intersection of community building, filmmaking, sustainability, and education, Rose has
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Arts reporting by Carolyn Lewis Arriving at Karen Lené Rudd’s studio feels like entering a creative enclave nestled in the woods. After a tour of her home, which is filled with art she has collected over the years, we went out to her studio, which has recently expanded to
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News by Nhatt Nichols Enough workers at The Food Co-op in Port Townsend have signed union authorization cards to trigger a federally sanctioned unionization vote. Co-op employees cited a critical disconnect from upper management, including unexplained policy changes and a workplace climate where some workers feel unsafe, as principal reasons
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News by Angela Downs On Tuesday, Jan. 21, the Marrowstone Island Community Association (MICA) held an educational and informative meeting on the proposal of a stewarded Conservation Burial Ground on a Marrowstone privately owned north-end property. Led by Erik Kingfisher with the Jefferson Land Trust, the proposal naturally raised concerns,
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A Grief Column by Angela Downs My paternal grandmother had early onset dementia at around fifty years of age, which went uncared for until her eighties. I was twenty-four when I moved in with my cousin and uncle in LA to try and help the family with their transition needs,
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Editorial content by Liz Revord Dear Beacon Readers, As a community, we have been unaware of the true extent of the housing crisis. We’ve consumed news clips and heard stories of workers forced to leave due to a lack of housing, yet we’ve remained in the dark about
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Opinion by Beena Sarwar / Sapan News The third Monday of January, which falls this year on the 20th, is a federal holiday in the U.S., in honour of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Born on 15 January 1929, Dr King was assassinated on 4 April 1968.
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News by Derek Firenze Flyers and zines proliferate around Jefferson County with a warning of “Dollar Store Danger.” Quimper Resiliency Network (QRN), an activist organization publishing the materials, was founded in response to construction on the future Dollar Tree located in Port Hadlock. Construction on the Dollar Tree is slated
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News by Hudson Gardener Art is often an attempt to connect new or disparate ideas to something familiar and grounded. Centrum's new Local Artists Residency program at Fort Worden seeks to connect local artists with the very place they live—as well as giving them opportunities to interact