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I want to make a pitch for good government — and by that I mean, the belief that government can be a force for good.
Call me naïve — and I recently was called naïve …
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4/19/23
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To golf or not to golf seems to be the question regarding uses of the lovely chunk of open land in the center of our town.
I have followed, with interest, the opinions and ideas of others on …
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4/14/23
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Thank you for your wonderful article regarding the four exceptional students at Port Townsend High School who are building an outdoor basketball court for our community. So often, teens are looked at …
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4/14/23
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Recently, the Jefferson County Library District was awarded $35,000 of American Rescue Plan Act funding by the county commissioners to support our Digital Equity Navigator program.
Prior to that, …
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4/14/23
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Drive carefully as our new fawns are coming soon.
It is estimated that 120 humans are killed annually nationally by deer mostly running out in front of our cars.
Good to slow down …
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4/14/23
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In the March 29 issue of The Leader, an op-ed piece appeared which joined the words “extremism” and “tribalism,” both used in a pejorative sense to reflect the writer’s …
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Gabe Van Lelyveld’s letter on March 29 falsely claims a $42,000 average subsidy for the golf course.
If we assume he is right and given our population of 10,000-plus this works out to less …
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4/7/23
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I read with great interest your article about the guy who carved a cedar tree into a “Raccoon Lodge.”
Wow! Awesome!
I saw a tree stump to the right. This is a perfect …
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4/5/23
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Pop quiz: How much does the city subsidize the Port Townsend Golf Course every year? $5,000? $10,000? Or were you under the impression that the golf course actually generates money for the …
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Thinking about the trajectories historical events take us on can be uplifting and dispiriting. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Greenwich Village in 1911 that killed 146 people (mostly women) …
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Property owners responsible for right-of-ways?
I don’t understand. The city makes plans for plantings and then expects others to maintain them? Is this demand serving the community and …
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3/30/23
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All over the country, historic post offices have been made accessible.
The solution for ours is not complicated, as Jack McCreary of DASH noted. And unlike the grotesque, vertical …
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3/29/23
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I read with some alarm the suggestion that archers should patrol our streets to cull the herds of deer which would make it safe for geraniums while also supplying venison.
To be sure, the …
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Well it is pretty obvious after reading the Health and Wellness insert in the Feb. 1 Leader that we do not need a Health and Wellness Center because we already have one.
Our whole town is a …
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The Leader’s story, “Lawsuit over Southeast Alaska fisheries makes waves locally,” covered Wild Fish Conservancy’s (WFC) misguided lawsuit which has serious implications for …
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3/29/23
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Please, Leader, stop insulting people who speak up about the loss of biodiversity by publicly labeling them tree huggers.
Google the phrase and you’ll find it’s a derogatory jab meant …
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Some key points were omitted from the article published in the most recent edition The Leader.
A major one was the amount of appreciation expressed at the March 9 meeting for the 70-year …
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3/29/23
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As our elected officials and community members struggle to decide what to do with Port Townsend Golf Course, I suggest they look no farther than Sequim’s Carrie Blake Park to envision …
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3/29/23
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The new windows being installed at the main Port Townsend Post Office cast light on an old problem: Only the able-bodied can climb the 13 steep steps into the building. There are no ramps nor …
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3/22/23
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The plan to turn over streetside and roadside maintenance duties from the City to adjacent property owners, is positive in a number of ways but there is one major flaw: Adjacent property owners may …
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3/22/23
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