Monday, December 16, 2019
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Festivity filled the plaza in the Village Center last week with the first annual Christmas Tree lighting. Santa Claus showed up to give the signal to turn on the lights and the Chimacum High School …
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Ned Luce
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12/11/19
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12/11/19
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JCIRA (Jefferson County Immigrant Rights Advocates) would like to express its gratitude and appreciation for two recent Leader articles detailing the immigration issues of Father Peter Adoko-Enchill, …
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12/11/19
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Recently I was informed by Mayor Stinson that “Council just passed an update to our Nuisance Code to prohibit the feeding of wildlife, with deer specifically called out. We recognize this is …
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The first time I met you
you were standing outside the Food Co-op next to Johnny,
holding a little cardboard sign that read:
“Anything Helps.”
How many pause to think: Who is behind …
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12/11/19
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While I was sitting at the Give Jefferson fair to promote our Interfaith Group’s Welcoming/Warming Center last month, a passerby had a question for me: What were we going to do about all the …
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12/11/19
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The holidays are upon us generating many interesting subjects for your humble columnist.
The six-year-old grandson was with us for a few delightful days last week. He did all the regular stuff …
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Ned Luce
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12/4/19
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Patience, tolerance, and kindness are all good ways to get through the holidays. We all have a lot of experience navigating the holidays but sometimes things go awry. So here are some scenarios that …
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Suzanne Jones
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12/4/19
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I once asked Gail Boulter, the owner of six retail stores in downtown Port Townsend, what she thought about “retail leakage” – the local business that is lost to big box stores out of town over …
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We’re in the throes of a national epidemic of certitude, which is a good time to think about the danger of assumptions.
Our brains like these mental shortcuts because they allow us to move …
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I have been disappointed by the direction of the youth services department at the City of Port Townsend Library for quite a while… but it’s only after losing yet another amazingly …
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12/4/19
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I have a story to tell. It happened at PT city library.One day we went in for storytime. Ms Jeanne Simmons was hosting it. She was going to tell a story about some baby mice and their mama mouse and …
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12/4/19
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