Off Track! The Log of the Roberto
By Doug Edelsein
In Port Townsend, when you buy your first boat, you get a lot of advice – almost all of it good.
“Don’t buy...
Becoming a Citizen Scientist
Citizen scientists brave a hailstorm. Photo by Wendy Feltham.
After a career as an elementary school principal, I moved to Port Townsend and surprised myself...
One Small Fire, Thousands of Seabirds
This summer, as in countless summers past, Protection Island became a colossal daycare center for tens of thousands of seabirds.
Glaucous winged gulls laid their...
Crab season: Your Handy Guide
Crab season starts Thursday. Insider tip: There’s a secret way to consistently get Dungeness crabs here in Port Townsend. You can’t miss. Here it...
What Goes Around Is Coming Around
Here in Port Townsend, we have seen the future. It’s round, runs counterclockwise, and forces us to turn right. So it’s going...
WA360: The Race to Alaska Comes Home
By Ross Anderson
Try this for a business plan: Invite people to pay $550 each to enter a race that requires them to row, paddle...
Housing: Here’s Something We Can Do
What if we told you that we can’t solve the homeless crisis by building houses? That’s a pretty counterintuitive statement, especially coming from an...
Akeyla’s Excellent Adventure: Let’s Finish!
Sixty miles into the Seventy-48 race, Akeyla Behrenfeld decided she was done. The 14-year-old Port Townsend middle schooler had rowed her home-built, wooden boat...
A ReBorn Leader?
Pick up the latest Port Townsend Leader and chances are Brian Kelly will have written the lead story. And usually ten more on topics...