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JEFFERSON ELECTION — Port Townsend school levy passes in landslide vote

PORT TOWNSEND — Voters have overwhelmingly approved a replacement maintenance and operations levy for the Port Townsend School…

Blue Heron Middle School cook Denise Larson

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Port Townsend School District slimming down its menus to offer healthier choices

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend School District reconfigured its school lunch menus this month to offer fewer…

Port Townsend Film Festival Executive Director Janette Force views the recently installed giant screen

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Additions turn Port Townsend Film Festival office into screening room

PORT TOWNSEND — The addition of a giant television monitor and a powerful surround sound system has given…

Jefferson County Administrator Philip Morley

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Jefferson County commissioners extend pot moratorium, but window allows existing applicants to move forward with businesses

PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County Board of Commissioners has extended a moratorium on recreational marijuana-related operations in…

Blue Heron Middle School cook Denise Larson

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Port Townsend School District slimming down its menus to offer healthier choices

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend School District reconfigured its school lunch menus this month to offer fewer…

Port Townsend Film Festival Executive Director Janette Force views the recently installed giant screen

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Additions turn Port Townsend Film Festival office into screening room

PORT TOWNSEND — The addition of a giant television monitor and a powerful surround sound system has given…

Jefferson County Planning Commission members Cynthia Koan

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Jefferson County commissioners to look again at marijuana businesses moratorium at Monday meeting

PORT TOWNSEND — After declining to act Monday on a proposed four-month extension of a moratorium on marijuana…

Port of Port Townsend commissioners are considering whether to restrict access to Boat Haven’s bathrooms. — Charlie Bermant/Peninsula Daily News ()

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Port of Port Townsend mulls adding security to public showers at Boat Haven

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port of Port Townsend is facing a dilemma about the public bathrooms at the…

Primo Construction Superintendent Korey Smith

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Work begins on Memorial Field grandstand in Port Townsend; county hopes to be ready for Rhododendron Festival in May

PORT TOWNSEND — Work has begun on the Memorial Field grandstand with hopes that the $365,839 project will…

Robert Kinney of Sound Concrete Solutions of Port Townsend works on the replacement of a new Water Street sidewalk

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Water Street sidewalk project nearly finished in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — A $30,000 project to bury utility cables on a single downtown block is nearly complete…

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Jefferson commissioners take no action on pot moratorium, making Feb. 11 expiration a possibility

PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County commissioners took passive action Monday on a moratorium on recreational marijuana businesses…

Adventuress crew member Chris Fanchier

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$300,000 grant helps keep Port Townsend Maritime Discovery Initiative sailing on

PORT TOWNSEND — A major grant supporting Port Townsend School District’s Maritime Discovery Initiative has ensured the program’s…

Andy Cochrane of Power Trip Energy

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Businesses can get a charge out of car charging stations, entrepreneur says [Corrected]

PORT TOWNSEND — Businesses on the North Olympic Peninsula can promote themselves and increase tourism by installing free…

YMCA CEO Kyle Cronk

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Plans for new Jefferson YMCA building project coming into focus after meetings

PORT TOWNSEND — The plans to build a new Jefferson County YMCA facility adjacent to the Mountain View…

Andy Cochrane of Power Trip Energy

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Businesses can get a charge out of car charging stations, entrepreneur says

PORT TOWNSEND — Businesses on the North Olympic Peninsula can promote themselves and increase tourism by installing free…

Scott Walker

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WEEKEND: Civic project Saturday to fill in trail’s missing link in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — A work party to build one of the missing links in Port Townsend’s public trail…

Port Townsend High School students Colin Coker

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Mountain View Commons’ nonprofits juggle space as bond measure results awaited in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — As City Hall awaits the results of the Feb. 10 election on a bond issue…

Scott Walker

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WEEKEND: Civic project Saturday to fill in trail’s missing link in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — A work party to build one of the missing links in Port Townsend’s public trail…

City Manager David Timmons ()

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Port Townsend city manager gets new contract, says he’ll retire in 2018

PORT TOWNSEND — The City Council has approved an employment contract for City Manager David Timmons that is…

East Jefferson Fire-Rescue Chief Gordon Pomeroy connects a server in the department’s new location

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East Jefferson Fire-Rescue gains administrative breathing room with relocation

PORT TOWNSEND — East Jefferson Fire-Rescue has moved its administrative headquarters — without the use of a moving…