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News by Angela Downs Homelessness has always been a difficult and expensive social issue to solve, and despite the biases, it is largely not caused by drugs and mental health problems. Most drug and mental health disorders appear as a result of experiencing homelessness. For most, chronic homelessness starts at
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News by Nhatt Nichols The Port Townsend Food Co-op employees will have the opportunity on Wednesday, Feb. 19, to vote on allowing representatives from Local 3000 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union to collectively bargain on their behalf. This opportunity to unionize comes after months of difficult
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Arts reporting by Carolyn Lewis Tucked away in the backyard, Laura Hamje’s workspace is one of the most private and peaceful setups she has ever had. With big garage doors that open up to nature, she gets the best of both worlds—fresh air and solitude, perfect for letting
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Alexa MacAulay and Alexa Helbling co-manage Goosefoot Farm with a passion for increasing food security. “If you care about good food, you have to care about everything it's connected to, including the many systems of oppression.” Said MacAulay. Deeply supported by Jefferson County and its people, Goosefoot Farms
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A monthly ethnobotany column by Eden Blooms. Growing up in Cascadia, I took for granted the abundant diversity of edible berries that grow around us. It wasn’t until I got older that I realized how blessed we are to live in a place that has been stewarded for thousands
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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,