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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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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 Analysis by Nhatt Nichols If you spend any time on social media, you’ll notice that every post about the city spending money on something is met with a myriad of comments asking why they did X instead of fixing the potholes. Somewhere in those comments, you’ll probably
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News By Nhatt Nichols Port Townsend Food Co-op board chairman Owen Rowe resigned from his position on December 31, citing the repeated failure of Co-op management to address community equity concerns and a hostile work environment. “I felt like I was being put up as a shield, rather than trusted
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By Nhatt Nichols Jefferson County Sheriff Joe Nole has resigned early from his post, ending a 34-year career with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. There wasn’t any one thing that spelled retirement for Nole; he simply realized it was finally time. “I've been with the sheriff&
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By Nhatt Nichols Last Saturday, humans of all types flocked to Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue to meet owls, hawks, and other feathered creatures. Open for the first time in six years, the facility was finally ready to showcase the improvements it made to its medical and education facilities, as
Editorial
Dear Readers, For my entire childhood through my 20s, Thanksgiving was my favorite holiday of the year. I love food, especially celebration food. I want funfetti cake on my birthday, hotdogs on the fourth, and pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce straight from the can on Thanksgiving. Please withhold your judgment
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By Nhatt Nichols Jefferson County will no longer be able to collect glass bottles for recycling at the end of this month. The county transfer station reached holding capacity on Oct. 1 and has been shipping the collected glass to the landfill at a monthly loss of about $10,000.
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By Nhatt Nichols, photos by Andrew Wiese Last night, every table at the Old Whiskey Mill was filled with Jefferson County Democrats eating dinner and nervously staring at the election coverage as presidential results came in from around the country. “The nerves kick in, the votes are being counted, we’
Arts & Culture
I Sing the Salmon Home with its shiny new sticker. [https://www.jeffcobeacon.com/caption] By Nhatt Nichols On the ridges above salmon-filled Chimacum Creek sits Empty Bowl Press, a small publisher that has brought home the prestigious Washington State book award for poetry with their anthology, I Sing the
Editorial
By Editor Nhatt Nichols The Beacon isn’t in the business of telling people how to think, and in that vein, we’re also not interested in telling you how to vote. There are a million great voter guides out there that do that. One thing I have noticed is
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By Nhatt Nichols The Quilcene School Board on October 16 once again discussed a proposal to remove books from the Quilcene School District Library that include LGBTQ+ content. This discussion has been ongoing since it was raised at the July board meeting. The issue raised by board member Jim Hodgson