Thank you from Port Townsend Sunrise Rotary to all who helped make the third annual Community Bowls and Soup Share a remarkable success.
First, thanks to our host, Finnriver Farm and Cidery. Their …
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12/16/22
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I’ll spill the beans. I’m the popcorn bumbler. I spilled the popcorn. George Marie and Michael D’Alessandro, the new owners of the Rose Theatre, crunched out of their seats because …
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12/15/22
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I’m writing to you all as a teenager myself who has lived in Port Townsend for 14 years of my life and who has spent many days at the local skatepark.
After completing my seventh-grade …
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In response to Cindy Jayne’s “Q&A about EVs” from Nov. 30. Your analysis (and that of the culture at large) that electric vehicles and lithium batteries are somehow …
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A huge thank-you to everyone involved in the Christmas festivities at the fairgrounds.
We love all the new kid-oriented happenings there, and the lengths to keep them free and accessible. …
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12/14/22
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If you need to see a couple of miracles, you might look us up. Last week, we went to six events, each with somewhere between 20 and 100 people.
One event had attendees safely scattered …
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Ned Luce
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12/14/22
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On Wednesday night the Forest Service proposed several ideas to create funds from forest land without chopping wood. Three of these included using carbon credits, tree thinning of overgrown forests, …
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12/11/22
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I am writing to comment on the article that was printed in your paper on Nov. 23 entitled “Let there be lights” in which you interviewed a young lady named Samantha Stromberg.
I …
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It is way past time for Christians to condemn anti-Semitism, as did Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s and early 1940s. He paid with his life. We are more fortunate (now), but …
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12/10/22
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The sounds of Christmas are echoing around the county again and not just from the ubiquitous radio stations and streaming services you hear in every public place.
The Christmas tree-lighting …
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Ned Luce
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12/10/22
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In response: Are city officials hallucinating?
I saw the article in The Leader about the “Raccoon Lodge” and was baffled by the city’s position. I’ve walked by that …
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Consumable gifts are the best.
I enjoy receiving homemade creations from my friends’ kitchens, especially fun stuff that I can use, over time, in my own dishes. Please give me …
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Sidonie Maroon
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12/8/22
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We are honored to represent two organizations that support the Port Townsend Library by raising money for library programs, collections, equipment, and furnishings.
These two nonprofit …
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This letter is to share the gratitude for the many people in our community who spend hours helping others; the paramedics who came to my home early one morning to check on my head …
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12/7/22
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It’s beginning to look a lot like … Hawaii. The 50th state is probably the second most popular winter destination for PT residents — after Borrego Springs State Park near Palm …
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Close to 400 people attended the recent EV Expo, hosted by the Chamber of Jefferson County. Attendees got a first-hand look at over a dozen different electric vehicles (EVs). The event was a great …
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Cindy Jayne
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12/7/22
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The Olympic Peninsula Amnesty International chapter invites everyone to join us in Write for Rights, writing letters to free prisoners of conscience from prisons around the world. Amnesty organizes …
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12/2/22
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I am writing in response to the guest opinion piece by Port Townsend’s new Planning and Community Development Director Emma Bolin in The Leader on Nov. 16.
I attended the Nov. 7 council …
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12/2/22
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What a shame. Whenever I drive up to the library, I like to glance over at the Raccoon Lodge. It’s such a wonderful, whimsical piece of art. It never occurred to me that it might be too close …
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12/2/22
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The Port Townsend Golf Course is a municipal golf course designed to serve its city and the neighboring communities.
It provides recreation for all ages, individual integrity, social skills, …
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12/1/22
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