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Another council unopposed

The council sat behind their three-foot-high protective walls while some of the public (those in non-virtual attendance) stood single file behind the podium. The wall no longer seems redundant as …

Local family purchase funeral home

    The Kosec Funeral Home and Crematory in Port Townsend is under new management but its new owners remain native to the Olympic Peninsula. Married funeral directors David …

Short fiction writer coming to library Ballering grew up in Portland and holds an MFA in creative writing from Western Washington University. Her short fiction has appeared in Electric …
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Recollecting a lifetime on the Salish Sea

Thomas Mullen paperboy@vcn.com   “I was here at the start,” recalled Gunnar Joslyn, retired Commodore of the Washington State Ferry fleet, now living high up on the …

Long-lost Gold Rush shipwreck discovered

Doom, “death clad in all its hideousness” rode the decks of the steamer Pacific on its voyage in the fall of 1875, said James A. Gibbe in his book “Shipwrecks of the Pacific …

Construction for new roundabout to begin

Anna Tallarico atallarico@ptleader.com Prepare for two months of detours as Port Townsend’s newest roundabout graces the East Sims Way and Kearney Street intersection. The Port Townsend …

Here's the THING

The end of every outdoor concert should have a lantern parade and brass band play out the crowd. As my partner and I were leaving the Parade Grounds after Fleet Foxes’ performance Friday …

Here's the THING

Officer buys unhoused man guitar

A police officer purchased an unhoused man a brand new guitar after he reported his stolen earlier this month.

A night for the light at the lighthouse

Nightfall at Point Wilson is usually a quiet affair. Visitors disappear from the path to the lighthouse. The breeze and the surf blur the day's footprints. The sky behind the lighthouse shifts to a …

Chimacum local shares history

The history of Chimacum is rich, textured, and now at our fingertips, thanks to author Nancy McDaniel.

National park burn ban in effect

If you are planning a trip south, be advised that beginning at midnight Friday, Aug. 18, Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest implemented a complete ban on all campfires, including charcoal.