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TRIP OF THE WEEK: Fort Worden hosts military vehicles large and small at encampment this weekend
PORT TOWNSEND — They are literally hands-on history, vehicles to the past that carry the observer back in…
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Future of historical Commanding Officer’s Quarters at Fort Worden under study
PORT TOWNSEND — On May 16, Bill Conklin sent out a letter to members of the Commanding Officer’s…
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This Model A surprise fits him to a T
MARROWSTONE ISLAND — Jake Johnson spent months planning a big surprise party for his father’s 87th birthday. He…
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Swing into yesteryear at Fort Worden on Friday
PORT TOWNSEND — The weather may have cooled down, but the music is heating up at Fort Worden…
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AAUW chapter in PT named ‘platinum’ group
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend American Association of University Women — already the largest AAUW branch in…
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Students give Ichikawa visitors warm welcome
PORT TOWNSEND — Konichiwa. Arigato. Tomodachi. The Japanese words for welcome, thank you, and friend were heard frequently…
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PT boating season opens with a parade
PORT TOWNSEND — How do you declare that boating season is officially open? You invite everyone in town…
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Scouts hold Freedom Camporee
MARROWSTONE ISLAND — They followed a compass course, lashed a flag pole, learned about the fur trade and…
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Grange turns 90, expands support for food growers
CHIMACUM — When O.C. Musgrove founded the Chimacum Grange in 1918, the United States was entering a time…
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Native American Sunday brings message home
PORT TOWNSEND — When Terri McCullough was growing up, she sometimes overhead conversations she wasn’t meant to hear.…
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Jefferson County plans first e-waste collection event
PORT TOWNSEND — Bring them your tired, your broken, your unwanted appliances yearning to be recycled. But not…
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Panel moves to give Indian Island County Park more identity
PORT HADLOCK — Peace Park? Lions Club Park? Second Beach? To different people, parts of the two-mile strip…
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Legion transfers deed to park so that log cabin can rise again
PORT TOWNSEND — With the signing of names on a document, the resurrection of a log cabin for…
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In the footsteps of Betty MacDonald: New owners take on rural life with Egg and I Farm
CHIMACUM — If you had asked Phil Vogelzang a year ago if he’d ever heard of Betty MacDonald,…
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Friends of parks spring into being
QUILCENE — It’s a daunting job for one person, going out to a rural property in the spring…
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Blended family tree branches to Port Townsend
PORT TOWNSEND — Seven years ago, Joleen Siyaka packed up the car and her four children and drove…
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Woodworking school sets up shop at Fort Worden landmark building
PORT TOWNSEND — The Old Power House at Fort Worden State Park is again creating a buzz —…
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Historians seek information about unusual stage backdrop
PORT TOWNSEND — The colors are still bright and the letters as sharp as the day they were…
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Port Townsend Community Read to cross Islamic cultural barriers
PORT TOWNSEND — In T.C. Boyle’s 1990 novel, East is East, the reader is introduced to the central…
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Pews in the courthouse? Aging courtroom chairs to be replaced
PORT TOWNSEND — They have been silent witnesses to courtroom dramas for more than a half-century. Now, the…