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Despite some camera outages, team member Nathaniel Ashford’s “photographic memory” allowed him to compensate in part for the loss of visuals.
Sea Dragons make top 10 in world championships
At their world championship last month, they struggled with technical problems, but came away with some valuable lessons, which is why the Sea Dragons have been the pride of Port Townsend, win or lose. more
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Class-elected speaker Cole Dotson offers high-fives to his fellow members of the Chimacum High School graduating class of 2019 during their June 8 commencement. Leader photo by Kirk Boxleitner
It’s not ‘just Chimacum’
Between an outgoing principal offering an impassioned plea for fair news coverage and several student speakers who exhorted their peers to dare to dream big, the Chimacum High School graduating class … more
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Hannah Bahls, 17, graduated from PTHS June 8. In August she’s headed to UC Berkeley where she is excited about the vast array of new opportunities.
She’s the amplifier
As the lunch bell rang out, 17-year-old Hannah Bahls stood at the flagpole outside her school with a megaphone, telling students to circle up to participate in the second climate action rally at Port … more
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Delana Horner loves basketball, poetry and sharks. She's headed to Hawaii for college and hopes to study Great White Shark migration.
Chimacum grad aims for shark waters
Chris McDaniel cmcdaniel@ptleader.com Coming from a family of diving enthusiasts, Delana Horner dreams of a day when she can study the migration patterns of Great White Sharks around the world. … more
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Braden Coleman, Chimacum High 2019 graduate, plans to become a teacher, sharing his love of math with students to help them get behind the scenes of physics and chemistry, where math helps explain what's happening.
CHS grad on the path to become a teacher
After discovering a love for high level math during his junior year, high school graduate Braden Coleman is hoping to earn a teaching degree so he can help … more
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Not every mortarboard decoration stayed put. Some had to be adjusted.
‘Like a family’: 20 Quilcene seniors graduate June 8
In the “green room,” also known as a classroom at Quilcene High School, a group of 20 graduates milled about, pinning their caps into their hair, layering … more
Port Townsend 2019 Valedictorian Raphael Bakin made the audience laugh by poking fun at common graduation speech cliches before reversing course and deciding they are the best way to go.
Small, but mighty
The McCurdy Pavilion at Fort Worden saw a packed house for the 125th commencement ceremony for Port Townsend High School on the evening of June 7. At 69, this graduating class was the smallest in … more
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Port Townsend High School graduating senior Rosalyn Salmon succeeds despite challenges.
PTHS: Salmon succeeds despite turbulent home life
Before she arrived in Port Townsend in eighth grade, Port Townsend High School graduating senior Rosalyn Salmon’s home life was somewhat turbulent. Her dad was a single father for much of her … more
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Nico Winegar is heading off to Pacific University in the fall, to play football and study finance.
PTHS: Winegar copes with father’s death
Nico Winegar was born in Littleton, Colorado, but since his family moved to Port Townsend six months later, the 18-year-old graduating senior at Port Townsend High School considers himself born and … more
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Washington State’s Seal of Biliteracy was earned by Chimacum students, from back left: Juniors Haley Morrison, Isabella Harvey, and Gisel Ramírez-Santos. Front: Spanish Teacher Reed Aubin, Junior Joel Cervantes, and Senior Braden Coleman.
Bilingual in two directions
Four Chimacum juniors and a graduating senior have earned the Washington State Seal of Biliteracy, a nationally-recognized award for proficiency in both English and another language. more
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The Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building’s aged and worn pilings, girders and seawall, above, were all replaced as part of its $1.5 million in recent upgrades, below.
Wooden Boat Building School marks progress
With $1.5 million in recent upgrades to its campus, the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building is whetting the community’s appetite for another $1 million in upcoming projects, all of which is funded. more
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Principal lambasts newspaper coverage of schools
Editor’s note: After the customary praising of faculty, staff, parents, students and his bosses on the school board, Chimacum High School principal Brian MacKenzie devoted three quarters of his … more
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