Freestyle partner dance at Brigid’s Loft. Come as you are, no partner or prior dance experience required. All ages are welcome. $10 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds). Snacks ...

A Writing Workshop where writing meets performance and inner worlds meet outer voice. Workshops will include prompts to generate new writing as well as time to practice with a microphone. All ages are ...

Winter solstice marks the shortest day and longest night of the year, and nearly 300 revelers turned out at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds on Dec. 21 to participate in Port Townsend’s annual ...

For the better part of a decade, living and working in Port Townsend has allowed me to spend the holidays with family for most of those years, a luxury I couldn’t take for granted in my previous ...

This Christmas, I find myself a little farther from home than usual. Life has a way of shifting the chairs. This year, I won’t be home with my family in Florida again — my mom, my three brothers, my ...

Firefighters with East Jefferson Fire Rescue, from left, Lieutenant Alex Morris, Bobby Grimm, center and Brennan Whiting right, respond to a smoke alarm call at the Water Street Hotel and Pacific ...

Many regions of the Pacific Northwest are endemic to a distinct broadleaf evergreen tree with thin bark that sloughs off in papery cinnamon colored strips revealing a smooth green-tinted bark ...

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office responded to a total of 374 calls for service from Dec. 10-16. Deputies conducted 130 traffic stops, of which four resulted in criminal (misdemeanor/ felony) ...

Olympic National Park is starting to plan a new facility for Hurricane Ridge. The reconstruction project is in the conceptual, predesign phase, and will involve Washington’s National Park Fund as an ...

From the dense gaseous atmosphere of Venus, 105 million miles from Earth, Groc reopened a conversation that he and Syvyt had had countless times. “You reckon they know how lucky they are?” Groc said ...

Italian documentary filmmakers plan to put a Jefferson County community service organization in the international spotlight, with inclusion of the group’s local investing efforts in an upcoming ...

The cozy scents of cinnamon, allspice and cloves filled the aisles of the Port Townsend Public Library this month as participants in the 31st Annual Uptown Gingerbread Contest turned in their edible ...