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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1080"] Photo by Eden Blooms [/caption] A monthly ethnobotany column by Eden Blooms Summer is afoot, calling us together to defrost our worn winter bones in the sun's golden rays and dive into the snowmelt-chilled waters of Cascadia. It&
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1800"] "I Rode into Town One Day" is one of Tabitha Blackburn paintings in Northwind Art's Jeanette Best Gallery Showcase. Blackburn lives in Quilcene. [https://www.jeffcobeacon.com/caption] A Northwind Art Column by Diane Urbani Overheard
News by Angela Downs At Quilcene High School, 200 kids signed a petition asking for a skatepark in their area. After a series of well-attended community meetings with positive community involvement, the plans began to roll. Kai Dakers, Assa Cliford and Brady McDonald came together as a grassroots community coalition
Elections
[caption id align="alignnone" width="2040"] Candidates Fred Obee, Miki Porter, and Dylan Quarles (L-R) will appear on Port Townsend resident’s primary ballot next week. [https://www.jeffcobeacon.com/caption] News by Scott France In the only contested race this year for a Port Townsend
Performing Art
[caption id align="alignnone" width="960"] The ideal places to hear chamber music. Photo courtesy of Concerts in the Barn [/caption] Arts News by Nhatt Nichols For the past eight years, everyone from die-hard classic music fans to the chamber music curious has voyaged to Quilcene
Visual Art
[caption id align="alignnone" width="2048"] Photo by Robert Tagnoli, who currently has a show at the Grover Gallery [/caption] Arts reporting by Carolyn Lewis Robert Tognoli was first drawn to photography in high school when he volunteered as a photographer for the school newspaper. That
Editorial
Opinion by AJ Hawkins My “disability pride” isn’t always intuitive to my healthy peers. People often think of the disabled as pitiful bodies of burden, or infantilized objects of inspiration (if they even think of us at all). To be fair, sickness and disability weren’t part of the
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="640"] At Jumping Mouse Children’s Center, former therapist Jean Scarboro spends time with a youngster. Photo by Scott France [/caption] News by Scott France The therapists at Jumping Mouse Children's Center seek to transform lives one session at
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 Rachel Noll James of Emergence Films. [caption id align="alignnone" width="1024"] The 2025 cohort for the Emerging Filmmaker Program
Mental Health
News by Don Sapatkin, MindSite News June 24, 2025 As Trump administration cuts off the 988 Lifeline’s Option 3 for focused LGBTQ+ support, Hopelab and Born This Way Foundation release report showing great needs for LGBTQ+ youth in rural areas and their heavy use of digital tools to connect
Local Events
[caption id align="alignnone" width="4032"] Samuel Hughes works in the barn at the Quilcene Lantern, the venue for this weekend's Tarboo music festival. Photo by Angela Downs [/caption] News by Angela Downs It’s music festival season, and the opportunities abound. Coming right
Local Events
[caption id align="alignnone" width="3270"] To start the Free Fridays at the Fort series this past week, Voice Works performers Valerie Mindel, left, Flora Miller, 8, and Emily Miller sing to the crowd on the Commons lawn. Photo by Beacon staff [/caption] News by Beacon