Kirk Boxleitner is a Reporter and Photographer at The Marysville Globe, The Arlington Times, and the North County Outlook. With over 12 years of experience in the Puget Sound region, he covers a variety of topics including arts and entertainment, film and cinema, and photography, while also delving into local government and multicultural issues. Boxleitner's work has been featured in the St. Maries Gazette Record, Comic Book Resources, and The Jefferson County & Port Townsend Leader.
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By: Kirk Boxleitner
This summer saw Port Ludlow’s David Myhre mark 59 years in the bookbinding business. Myhre runs his own business, Duckabush Book Bindery, out of his home, and has been doing business in Jefferson County since 1978, although the business is still named after his previous home in the Duckabush Valley. “I moved house in 2000,” said Myhre, who started his […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
A Chimacum man, who was convicted on July 6 of the rape of a child, was sentenced July 31 to life in prison without parole, after tearfully insisting at his sentencing that his trial had been subject to “sensationalism” and “hearsay.” Daniel Patrick Griffin, 57, was convicted of the rape of a child in the first degree and other sexual […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
Port Townsend author and translator Barbara Sjoholm is excited to share her work, and to share more of the Sámi indigenous cultures inhabiting parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Sjoholm plans to attend the Port Townsend Public Library’s Book Club for a discussion of her 2025 novel, “The Reindeer of Chinese Gardens,” on Thursday, Sept. 3, at 2 p.m. […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
“The Man Will Burn” is a four-part documentary miniseries —that I somehow missed when it started streaming on HBO Max earlier this summer — about the four-decade-long “Burning Man” celebration and community that has sprung up since 1990 from the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Although the Burning Man event originated as a small summer solstice observance on Baker Beach […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
When Port Townsend’s Starlight Room screened Valerie Veatch’s documentary on artificial intelligence, “Ghost in the Machine,” Aug. 15, Rose Theatre and Starlight Room co-owner George Marie also interviewed Veatch while taking questions from screening attendees. Veatch, who hails from the Puget Sound area, recalled how her disenchantment with AI first stemmed from a friend signing her up for an artist […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
“Diligent” is perhaps the least sexy descriptor one could apply to a movie whose subject might already seem excessively esoteric — in this case, artificial intelligence, or AI — but filmmaker Valerie Veatch’s “Ghost in the Machine” deserves to wear its diligence as a badge of honor. The 110-minute documentary was written, directed and produced by Veatch, then released Jan. 26 […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
The doors to the Uptown Theatre on Lawrence Street are currently closed, but the venue’s new owner plans to restore and reopen it, albeit as a different variety of theater. Stewart Wilson acquired the Uptown from previous owners Sharon and Rick Wiley, after Rick, the third generation of his family to run the theater, oversaw the renovation of its interior […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
The owners of Port Townsend Vineyards have announced that they’re entering their final season. Karle Coppenrath and Jens Coppenrath, owners of the Port Townsend Vineyards, posted an open letter to the community on the business’ website and social media accounts, noting that Port Townsend has been their home for more than 30 years, while they started their vineyards a dozen […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
Port Townsend resident Hendrik Taatgen’s first novel, “In the Hands of the Other,” spins fictional possibilities from an already fascinating real-life story, based on true events in Gaza during 2005 and 2006. Taatgen was a university anthropologist who worked at American national and international schools in the Middle East from 2001 through 2013. “People who know I’ve written about my […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
A fire that closed State Route 104 Aug. 27 was “100% contained” over the weekend, according to East Jefferson Fire Rescue. Just before 1 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 27, a brush fire was reported along SR 104, west of South Point Road and about three miles west of the Hood Canal Bridge in Jefferson County, according to Robert Wittenberg, community […]
