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HELP LINE: Remember to be careful online

not because I think there’s something wrong with it, but simply because I don’t have… Continue reading

PENINSULA KITCHEN: Enjoy dinner for breakfast

IS THERE ANYONE out there who hasn’t heard about the importance of breakfast? Everyone from your grandmother to your neuroscientist is telling you that eating… Continue reading

Readers Theatre Plus calls it a show, disbands after 10-plus years

Readers Theatre Plus calls it a show, disbands after 10-plus years

After 10 years of shows, Readers Theatre Plus is disbanding. Since its inception, volunteers ranging from… Continue reading

Readers Theatre Plus calls it a show, disbands after 10-plus years
HORSEPLAY: Keeping water troughs from freezing is paramount

HORSEPLAY: Keeping water troughs from freezing is paramount

EVER FELT AS if you’re dying of thirst? It literally could happen. Water. All creatures great and small need it to survive. In general, both… Continue reading

HORSEPLAY: Keeping water troughs from freezing is paramount

‘Two Spirits’ screenings in Forks, Port Angeles explore gender, identity

A film depicting the life and death of a transgender Native American is planned Thursday in Port Angeles and Feb. 1 in Forks. “Two Spirits”… Continue reading

ISSUES OF FAITH: The foundations for our national faith

AS HAPPENSTANCE WOULD have it, my turn in the rotation of writers for these “Issues of Faith” columns falls on the day that our country… Continue reading

Nominations accepted for historic preservation awards

Nominations for the Jefferson County Historical Society’s annual Historic Preservation Awards are due Feb. 29. The awards honor individuals and organizations that… Continue reading

‘Be a Light’ performed today at Port Townsend’s Key City Playhouse

‘Be a Light’ performed today at Port Townsend’s Key City Playhouse

Key City Public Theatre and the Mandala Center for Change will join forces for “Be a Light: The Art of Taking Action!,”… Continue reading

‘Be a Light’ performed today at Port Townsend’s Key City Playhouse

A GROWING CONCERN: Here’s to a new year of gardening chores

JANUARY AND WINTER just keep rolling along. We are now 22 days into the season of cold (and wet), both of which we saw last… Continue reading

BACK WHEN: Josephine Yarr transitions into dairy farmer

BACK WHEN: Josephine Yarr transitions into dairy farmer

WHEN 48-YEAR-OLD JOSEPHINE Yarr returned to the family dairy farm in Chimacum in mid-1952, a few months after her brother Ned’s death, she was faced… Continue reading

BACK WHEN: Josephine Yarr transitions into dairy farmer

BIRD WATCH: Birds swoop into action as cold lingers but days lengthen

THE BEST PART of clear, cold winter weather is the bright sunshine and the lack of clouds or rain. That’s a given, but there is… Continue reading

HELP LINE: What to do if you miss open enrollment

THIS IS ONE of those columns, meaning it won’t touch all of us, so it’ll be easy to think “click” and move on. However, if… Continue reading

Volunteers needed for tree planting along Dungeness River

Volunteers needed for tree planting along Dungeness River

EDITOR’S NOTE: Because the ground is frozen, this event has been rescheduled for January 28. The time, date and place details will be the same,… Continue reading

Volunteers needed for tree planting along Dungeness River

Elvis evening, student play among weekend events

An Elvis dance and auction in Port Angeles and the performance of a student-written play in Port Townsend are among the weekend’s activities on the… Continue reading

ISSUES OF FAITH: Don’t lose sense of the days of our lives

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. (Psalm 90:12 ESV) IN 1522, THE journey begun by Ferdinand… Continue reading

Naturalist Ken Wilson will inaugurate a series of four natural history walks sponsored by the Friends of Fort Worden State Park on Sunday.

Natural history walks begin in Port Townsend

Naturalist Ken Wilson will inaugurate a series of four natural history walks sponsored by the Friends of Fort Worden State Park on… Continue reading

Naturalist Ken Wilson will inaugurate a series of four natural history walks sponsored by the Friends of Fort Worden State Park on Sunday.

A GROWING CONCERN: Remember the three tenets of pruning

SO ONCE AGAIN, happy New Year. We start a whole new gardening year and right now it is so perfectly cold, it’s ideal for the… Continue reading

BIRD WATCH: Bohemian waxwing sightings get 2017 off to a good start

CEDAR WAXWINGS ARE regular visitors and resident birds in Western Washington. They are unpredictable but they do show up at various times throughout the year.… Continue reading

HELP LINE: Resolution suggestions for the unresolved

HERE WE ARE on Jan. 8 and while some of us are actually succeeding in achieving our 2017 New Year’s resolutions (bravo), some of us… Continue reading

HORSEPLAY: Sol Duc Valley couple still on trails together

HORSEPLAY: Sol Duc Valley couple still on trails together

“YOU GETTING OUT to ride much?” It’s a question I’m asked all too frequently. I love to ride, but becuase I’m not riding as much… Continue reading

HORSEPLAY: Sol Duc Valley couple still on trails together