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Jefferson County fights gadfly who attempted commissioner recall

PORT TOWNSEND – Jefferson County is asking that a suit alleging commissioners violated the state Opens Meeting Act…

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Are you fuming over all that Christmas packaging foam?

PORT TOWNSEND – Wondering what to do with all the leftover Styrofoam from Christmas gift boxes but don’t…

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Key highway at Discovery Bay hit by slides twice in week

DISCOVERY BAY – A mudslide Monday on state Highway 20 between Eaglemount and Anderson Lake roads, and a…

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Urgent care clinic to be proposed to Jefferson Healthcare board

PORT TOWNSEND – A proposal for an urgent care fast track clinic within the emergency department at Jefferson…

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Port Townsend City Council to consider loan to itself tonight

PORT TOWNSEND – The City Council will consider loaning itself money from a fund that supports a water…

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Peninsula retailers rebound from bad-weather start to have good holiday season

Many local shop owners describe this holiday season as typical as they recover from reduced business during November…

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Departing Jefferson County commissioner looks back

BRINNON – Pat Rodgers hopes understanding of the need for development of the Tri-Area continues and regrets voting…

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4-H Club’s connection with ‘Charlotte’s Web’

PORT TOWNSEND – The Jefferson County chapter of 4-H is providing coverage on its youth-run news Web site…

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Judge denies motion to change training center ruling

GARDINER – Kitsap County Superior Court Judge Jay B. Roof has let stand his Nov. 1 decision that…

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Security lax in courthouse, Jefferson County commissioners told

PORT TOWNSEND — Unlike at some courthouses throughout the state and nation, entering the historical Jefferson County Courthouse…

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Advocate of recalling two Jefferson County commissioners pleads case in court

PORT ANGELES — Acting as his own attorney, Mats Mats resident Mike Belenski argued Thursday that two of…

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Latinos hold procession through downtown Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — She appeared again this year in Port Townsend — Our Lady of Guadalupe. Tuesday night…

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Port Townsend school levy measure on February ballot

PORT TOWNSEND — A four-year maintenance and operation levy for the Port Townsend School District will be on…

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Port Townsend school levy measure on February ballot

PORT TOWNSEND – A four-year maintenance and operation levy for the Port Townsend School District will be on…

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Latinos hold procession through downtown Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND – She appeared again this year in Port Townsend – Our Lady of Guadalupe. Tuesday night…

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Panel urges closure of Mountain View School in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — A Port Townsend School District long-range planning committee has recommended that Mountain View Elementary be…

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Jefferson County raises community development fees

PORT TOWNSEND –Jefferson County commissioners unanimously voted Monday to increase permit fees for the Department of Community Development…

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School of hard knocks involves shellfish for Quilcene students

QUILCENE — It’s a Tuesday afternoon in a Quilcene High School classroom, and students sit circled around their…

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Voters to weigh fire district levies in February

PORT LUDLOW – Voters in Jefferson County Fire District No. 3 will be asked to allow lid lifts…

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Tower reappears at Jefferson County Courthouse

PORT TOWNSEND – The scaffolding began coming down off the Jefferson County Courthouse on Friday. A large, portable…