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Brinnon Elementary and Salish Coast Elementary in Port Townsend are being recognized for performance growth by one or more of their respective student groups for the 2022-2023 …
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Special to The Leader
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7/10/24
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Valentine’s Day was months ago, but the nonprofit Northwind Art School has kept the spark alive this summer with its monthly two-hour “Date Night for Buddies and …
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Special to The Leader
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7/10/24
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What makes a classic summer salad shine at a backyard potluck? Visuals! Begin with a large low bowl because it’s easier to see the color and textures, tosses evenly to distribute …
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SidoIne Maroon
Kitchen to kitchen
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7/10/24
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Port Townsend is too visibly historic not to wonder what life was like in years past. I gleaned some answers during a tour of the Jefferson County Historical Society Research Center back …
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Meredith Jordan
MIXING METAPHORS/
DOUBLING ENTENDRES
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7/10/24
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It all started when the four smoothly running all-volunteer food banks hired an outsider with no personnel skills as executive director for $75,000 a year. Patricia Hennessy has wreaked …
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7/10/24
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In last week’s Leader, Mayor Faber presented himself as a champion of affordable housing. “I want to echo George Bush’s call for you, the community of Port Townsend, to …
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7/10/24
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In response to last week’s letter by Mayor Faber about my take on affordable housing on the golf course, I offer the following questions to clarify the City’s position:
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7/10/24
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So much is at stake in this election that it’s hard to look away from the race at the top of the ticket. But our vote makes a bigger difference the more local the office is, so …
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7/10/24
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We get it. Biden is old and looking frail. The press keeps harping on it. Yet he has worked with world leaders, is dealing with two fractious wars, and looks to the future of our planet …
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7/10/24
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What a wonderful evening spent at the 4th of July concert by the Summer Band and the Community Chorus. The national news on all sides has been so discouraging and so difficult to avoid. …
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7/10/24
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This letter is to acknowledge all the astonishing things in our community as we enter July! For me the returning long days of late spring and the greenery all around me.In spite of …
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7/10/24
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This pothole is a doozy! Located at the 800 block of Polk Street.
Michael Morrow
Port Townsend
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7/10/24
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As an elected city councillor, I don’t usually write to the newspaper editor. However, I think the recent article on John Mauro’s city manager work was misleading. Here …
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Monica MickHager
Guest Column
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7/10/24
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“We’ve returned radio to the underground,” smiled KPTZ board member Fred Flanzer as he gave me a tour of the new KPTZ studios in Fort Worden.
KPTZ’s vastly expanded …
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Bill Mann
Mann Overboard
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7/10/24
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If you don’t get over to Beaver Valley Road or route 104 or Port Townsend, you might think there aren’t many folks around enjoying the Olympic Peninsula. They are back, with …
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Ned Luce
Life in Ludlow
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7/10/24
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Every year, prices for things like food and housing go up. Every year, Washington workers get a cost-of-living adjustment to the minimum wage so they and their …
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By April Sims and Karen Long
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7/10/24
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Jefferson County Public Health has issued a statement warning the public that even moderate heat can have dangerous effects in typically cool places, such as Jefferson County itself.
As such, …
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7/10/24
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The members of the Colorado-based Sturtz acoustic quartet are no strangers to the Pacific Northwest, but this summer will mark their first performance in Port Townsend, as they’re …
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By Kirk Boxleitner
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7/10/24
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Healthy soil is the foundation of a flourishing garden. One of the best ways to build and improve soil is to encourage beneficial earthworms.
Earthworms can be surface dwellers, topsoil …
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Barbara Faurot
Garden Notes
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7/10/24
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Washington’s little brown bats are many things, but they aren’t bloodsucking fiends.
Those would be vampire bats and, I’m pleased to report, they don’t hang out …
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Scott Doggett
Wild Neighbors
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7/10/24
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