Lockhaven Express - According to smithsonianmagazine.com, the photos in the magazine were shot by a man named William Townsend Clarke who came to logging camps near Galeton and Port Allegany in 1897 and 1898. The photos were discovered in a toolshed in Rochester, N.Y

Old ferries’ care found lacking
Everett Herald - Last year, nearly 767,000 passengers rode the Klickitat and other Steel Electric ferries between Keystone Harbor on Whidbey Island and Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula. When the crack was found in the Klickitat’s hull in March, ferry workers

Telling poems by their covers
OregonLive.com - From its home in Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, Wash., it publishes poetry by numerous Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winners, including Pablo Neruda, Ted Kooser, Maxine Kumin and W.S. Merwin and such leading American poets as Jim Harrison, Olga

Summer jazz and blues schedule
Seattle Times - Port Townsend Slide & Steel Festival , June 30, Fort Worden, Wash. ( 800-733-3608 or www.centrum.org ). Workshop and dances, but big Saturday concerts feature Laurie Lewis, Hannes Coetzee, the Birmingham Sunlights, others. Lopez Arts Fest , July 3, Lopez

LAVENDER RACE BRINGS OUT SMILES
Sequim Gazette - The sun may not have been shining, but the runners were simply beaming. After a year layoff, Sequim s Race for the Lavender 5k run/walk gave the nearby Olympic Game Farm a 200-runner salute, with Ian Fraser leading the way. The Port Townsend

7 injured in accidents near Granada
Sentinel - Chisick, 10, of Port Townsend, Wash., and Sarah E. Chisick, 13, of Port Townsend, Wash. were taken to Fairmont Medical Center with minor and non life-threatening injuries. In a second accident that occurred shortly after 5:30 p.m. on Highway 262

Rising sea, rising threat: What Puget Sound risks
Seattle Times - Whidbey Island, Port Townsend and Admiralty Inlet: Rising water and erosion could take out as much as 80 percent of current beaches. Particularly hard-hit would be western Whidbey Island. Snohomish Estuary and Everett: Dikes may withstand rising seas

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