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[caption id align="alignnone" width="2500"] Photo courtesy of Jed Owen, Unsplash [/caption] News by Claire Carlson, The Daily Yonder When Carol Kolseth got her biopsy results back after a routine mammogram in October of 2024, she knew treatments for the cancerous lump in her breast
Performing Art
[caption id align="alignnone" width="4000"] On Monday, Dec. 8, Copper Canyon Press's doors were replaced with new ones by Centrum's Jim Guthrie (far right), and parks employees Eli Lederer (left) and Chris Guile (right). Guthrie said the state had the final
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News by Angela Downs City chambers were packed on November 24, with people standing along the walls, mostly in the 50+ age bracket, many of whom, according to their public comments, moved to Port Townsend after retirement. In the 30 minutes allotted for people to voice their opinions on the
opinion
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="2016"] Ben Casserd, Manager; Janet Dizick, monitor; Julia, and Lisa Anderson, former Center worker, now Host at the Emergency Shelter. Photo by Paul Heins [/caption] News by Scott France Port Townsend‘s downtown seaside Winter Welcoming Center for the unhoused can
Food
[caption id align="alignnone" width="3453"] Jane Hutcheson combines her skills as an organizer and a baker to help provide bread and energy cookies to Jefferson County Food Banks. Photo by Nhatt Nichols [/caption] News by Nhatt Nichols On a crisp Monday morning, dough is quietly
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="2400"] Sabrina McQuillen Hill crosses one of bridges on the North Olympic Discovery Marathon route in June 2024. photo courtesy of Sabrina McQuillen Hill. [/caption] News by Diane Urbani de la Paz Sabrina McQuillen Hill knows that feeling of “What am
school news
[caption id align="alignnone" width="792"] Image courtesy of Swan School [/caption] News by Kathie Meyer Katey Dwyer’s students in her Swan School Explorers class are gaining an understanding of hunger, of what it means not to be able to simply reach into their backpack
Editorial
[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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[caption id align="alignnone" width="1599"] Port Gamble S’Klallam elder and former tribal chair Ron Charles (Left) and anthropologist Josh Wisniewski. Photo courtesy of Empty Bowl Press [/caption] News by Angela Downs On Friday, November 14, at the Meeting House in Port Townsend, Empty Bowl
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="4512"] Supaman brought a message of joy and Indigenous pride to Port Townsend High School on Thursday evening. photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz [https://www.jeffcobeacon.com/caption] News by Scott France Port Townsend elementary, middle and high school
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[caption id align="alignnone" width="2268"] Scott Walker and Obsidian on one of the many trails of the system that Walker started almost 40 years ago. Photo by Scott France [/caption] News by Scott France The iconic Port Townsend city trails system was developed not through