Compass

This week on the Compass we talk with the developers of a newly unveiled plan for the future of Fort Worden’s Lifelong Learning Center.

This week on the Compass we meet some refugees who have recently moved to Port Townsend – climate refugees Matt and Susan Harder, Dillon Ibsen, realtor Teri Nomura, and award-winning journalist Dahr Jamail – and learn why we might soon expect many more.

This week on the Compass we visit Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue, where we find that Port Townsend’s recently-retired police chief has taken up a new career as his wife’s sidekick on a mission to save injured birds of every feather.

Final preparations are in full swing for this weekend’s Wooden Boat Festival, so we bring you two related stories – one about the joys and pains of wooden boat maintenance, and the other about a Port Townsend resident who is once again providing the festival with the benefit of his family’s generations of experience in building carousels.