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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Little guide for parents takes the cake
WHICH CHURCH OFFERS free child care at a “Mom’s Time Out” from 9:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Monday…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Great-granddaughter visits family mansion
MARY LOUISE OLSON wasn’t a quitter. At the age of 15, after her brothers were lost at sea,…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Holiday tour opens window on childhood
SHE WAS THE youngest of the 14 cousins, but Phyllis Silva-Keith still remembers the big house on G…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Fashion writer turns silk into art
POLLY FISH WAS at work one day when she happened to spot it SEmD the most beautiful coat…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Teen’s turn-of-century journal goes home
HE LOVED MUSIC, being outdoors, going to the Rose Theatre and staying up late. He hated getting up…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Pies on the Run invests in passion
FOR THREE-AND-a-half decades, Nancy Fitch and Claudia Neva have played their own brand of western music. Fitch plays…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: A cup of joe and a show
WHILE THE JEFFERSON County commissioners consider how to regulate the location of adult businesses, Janet Emery has an…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Book lovers walk into pages of bitter and sweet
ON SATURDAY, COLLEEN Freidberg stepped onto the streets of Seattle and into the pages of a novel. The…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: This neighborhood walks on the art side
IN JUNE OF 2009, Anna Nasset-Glenn followed her dream and with only a few hundred dollars in the…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Pianists put the dynamic in duo
THEY SHARE THE same name. They grew up in the same area. They went to the same university…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Racing shells go back to the source
“BACK OF THE bread is the flour, and back of the flour is the mill. And back of…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: It’s Fun and Games for Volunteers
ASK BOB ROSEN what’s on his “to-do” list and he’ll have a ready answer. Rosen is the manager…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Eat, Stay, Work: It’s a Habitat habit
IN “EAT, PRAY, Love,” author Elizabeth Gilbert describes her yearlong attempt to rebound from divorce by immersing herself…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Though small, garden big on beauty
MOST PEOPLE TAKE it for granted: the small garden plot on the left, circumscribed by pavement, as you…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Plot thickens in this parish potboiler
WAS IT THE bishop who planted the seeds of the idea last fall? Or the deacon who sowed…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Father’s music path to Pennine Way
IT STARTS DRAMATICALLY with a clash of cymbals. Then the drums set the pace, echoing the tramp, tramp,…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Playing the King of Clowns
FOR THE PAST 17 months, Ron Campbell’s life has been a circus. Except for travel breaks, he has…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Woman living the purposeful, colorful life
JENELL DEMATTEO LIVES a busy, colorful life. From her house in Port Hadlock, which is painted a nonshrinking…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Ghost stories light up keeper’s house
WHEN LUCINDA EUBANK joined the Port Townsend Coast Guard Auxiliary, which conducts public tours of the Point Wilson…
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JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Turn left at Gunther the crocodile
YOU MIGHT NOT know it’s there. But turn off the main highway into town at Fredericks Street, then…