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[caption id align="alignnone" width="3024"] A gingerbread example of what opponents of the city’s comp plan fear development would look like. City staff took time at the Dec 15 meeting to show how this model is unrealistic. Photo by Rachel Nutting [/caption] Opinion by
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Opinion by Dylan Quarles I’ve spent years writing about Port Townsend’s character for my “Secret History of Port Townsend” series—a paranormal anthology that explores the dark and mysterious forces lurking beneath the idyllic surface of our far-flung Victorian seaport town. Here’s what I know: character rolls
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="3024"] Amanda Milholland helps food insecure people navigate Farmers Market Programs at the market’s booth. Photo by Libby Pratt [/caption] Opinion by Amanda Milholland, Executive Director, Jefferson County Farmers Markets “There’s nothing left on my card,” Andrea said, holding
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1536"] Photo courtesy of Naiome Krienke [/caption] Opinion by Naiome Krienke, Long House for the People founder November is Indigenous Peoples Month and a good time to reflect on who the first people of this land were. Here in Port Townsend
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Opinion by Crystie Kisler, Director of Nonprofit Services, Jefferson Community Foundation How can we live in communities where all are fed what they need? That’s always a critical question and one that became even more amplified last month when the government shutdown caused a suspension of SNAP food assistance
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="2316"] Oceana Sawyer and Cendre Hunt, The NBC team. [/caption] Opinion by Oceana Sawyer, Program Director, Nourishing Beloved Community What is food sovereignty? Particularly, what does it mean for people of the global majority to have agency in how we feed
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="2500"] Photo courtesy of Unsplash, Christopher Osten [/caption] Opinion by Gary B. Larson I drove on Saturday from the Kingston-Edmonds ferry dock to a restaurant in Seattle’s Fremont district for a family event. I took pleasant neighborhood streets instead of
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1248"] Photo Courtesy of witnessing firefighter [https://www.jeffcobeacon.com/caption] News Commentary by Mark Rose Last Wednesday, Border Patrol Agents detained two forest fighting crews on the Bear Gulch fire for nearly three hours. They forced them to produce IDs,
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="2216"] Photo by Heather J [/caption] Column by Heather Johnson It’s been about a year since I started transitioning. The metaphor of caterpillar to butterfly has been floating around in my head, especially the part about the caterpillar turning into
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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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Opinion by Gary B. Larson What does Independence Day really celebrate? Flags and patriotic music are part of it, sure. But behind the traditions and ceremony lies a quieter truth: the birth of a national community. The United States was founded on a bold promise: that out of many people,
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Dear Readers of the Jefferson County Beacon -- Three Port Townsend residents - Fred Obee, Mikki Porter, and Dylan Quarles - are taking the bold step and running for the open seat on Port Townsend City Council. Your local League of Women Voters-Jefferson County believes that everyone should have a