UPDATE 8:45 a.m. March 1
Colorful sails brighten Port Townsend Bay during the 25th annual Shipwright’s Regatta staged in light to moderate winds on Feb. 27. Photo by Steve Mullensky
A Swansonville man who strangled his girlfriend to death in July 2015 has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Something is growing in Chimacum.
All together now, citizens of Port Townsend, breathe a sigh of relief: Lords Lake is full again.
Published last year in March, Tara Austen Weaver's evocative memoir “Orchard House” is the story of rehabilitation and cultivation of land and soul, resonating with anyone who has ever planted something they wished would survive – or tried to mend something that seemed forever broken
In the middle of the Port Townsend High School cafeteria, a dozen students have gathered to practice. These are the second violinists and violists of the school's award-winning orchestra program, which last year received second place at a regional orchestra competition in Gresham, Oregon.
City library director Melody Sky Eisler thinks of this year's Community Read as a “paradigm shift.”
Clarinet ensemble Toot Sweet performs at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 25 at Trinity United Methodist Church’s monthly Candlelight Concert.
Luke Burbank, host of Live Wire Radio, kicks off the Port Townsend Film Festival's biggest fundraiser of the year: the Academy Awards gala, 4-9 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 28, featuring live jazz, appetizers and Champagne, dinner and dessert. Auctions and betting bottles of Champagne on the Oscar win…
Port Townsend's school bond received more voter support in the February election than any of the 27 other school bond measures floated across the state, save for a small district in Pierce County.
The Republican Party of Jefferson County calls its members to caucus this Saturday, Feb. 20, as the first step toward picking the state's GOP presidential choice.
Coming off their second failed effort in as many years, Chimacum school officials are hoping to build on the momentum of a $29.1 million bond request by putting it on the April ballot.
A special meeting has been set for Wednesday, Feb. 17 for the Chimacum School District 49 Board of Directors to consider returning a construction bond to voters on Tuesday, April 23.
Did somebody tell you that things were quiet here in the winter? There was a full East Jefferson Rotary Club lunch (EJRC) that included an app… Read more
Filling up, letting go, remembering when, and keeping it all under 450 words for your latest Port Townsend Observation Deck News Around Town. Read more
Articles
- Thompson gets 15 years for murder of La Push woman
- Chamber to honor 19 award nominees March 6
- Prosecutor pursuing case of white-collar crime
- Chimacum school bond headed for April 26 ballot
- Obituary: Timothy 'Tim' Allan Clouse
- ‘An honorable profession’
- Quilcene's first 'career' firefighters on duty; EMS levy on April 26 ballot
- Memorials: Monty McKennon & Ida McKennon
- UPDATE: ‘Megaship’ headed out of Seattle Tuesday morning
- Bottled-up art
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At a recent city parks board meeting, the topic of park names was kicked around. Again. Port Townsend has no naming policy but it is City Coun… Read more
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Freed from the strictures of 24/7 involvement in gainful employment 27 years ago, I often since have been able to enjoy the opportunity to pol… Read more
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