🌱 How much water Port Townsend is asking you to save now
Port Townsend, Washington Patch AM: a 4 min readHi Port Townsend! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How much water Port Townsend is asking you to save now
- How a Chimacum budget vote could shape Port Townsend school funding
- Which Port Townsend artists are lighting up Port Angeles’ Broadway cabaret?
Also on today's calendar: Summer Shakespeare! DACHA Dice: As You Like It — Key City Public Theatre and 5 more events.
Today's riddle: What kind of shoes do frogs wear? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Saturday: Low clouds may break, with a high of 68 and low of 57 degrees.
- Sunday: Periods of rain, temps: high: 65, low: 54.
- Monday: Low clouds, then some sun, with a high of 70 and low of 54 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Port Townsend asks for voluntary water conservation (peninsuladailynews.com) — Port Townsend is asking all water customers to voluntarily cut back usage as early snowpack depletion speeds up drawdown of the Lords Lake Reservoir, the city’s backup supply. The Port Townsend Paper Company is already tightening its water use and could face curtailment if the reservoir runs dry. Residents’ conservation efforts now can help stretch supplies until fall rains return. 
• Chimacum schools approve $17M budget (peninsuladailynews.com) — Chimacum schools have approved a $17 million 2026–27 general fund budget that trims costs, shifts to a single bus run, and deliberately spends down some capital funds to finish roofing and HVAC work. A Chimacum board member is also teaming with Port Townsend, Quilcene, and Brinnon directors on a shared legislative agenda to push Olympia for better school funding and relief from unfunded mandates. Their unified platform could influence resources available to Port Townsend students, too.
• Four more ‘Broadway at Sunset' performances set (peninsuladailynews.com) — Port Townsend performers Kat Agudo and Maggie Jo Chambers are starring in “Broadway at Sunset,” a new cabaret-style Broadway revue running multiple evenings at Field Arts & Events Hall’s Sunset Lounge in Port Angeles. Directed by Denise Winter of Port Townsend’s Key City Public Theatre, the show blends classic and modern musical numbers in three short acts. Tickets are available online and at the Field Hall box office.
📸 Around Port Townsend
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Upcoming Events in
Port Townsend
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★ Featured events ★
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Summer Bash 2026 →
Bishop Block Bottle Shop & Garden, 714 Washington St, Port Townsend
10:00 am
Sunday July 26
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Other local events
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Summer Shakespeare! DACHA Dice: As You Like It — Key City Public Theatre →
Taps at the Guardhouse, 300 Eisenhower Ave, Port Townsend
2:00 pm -
Young Writers Club Reading at Imprint Bookshop
Port Townsend Public Library 1220 Lawrence Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368
5:30 pm -
Scribbles Art Exploration: Window Pane Collages →
Port Townsend Public Library 1220 Lawrence Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368
1:00 pm -
Summer Garden Program →
Port Townsend Public Library 1220 Lawrence Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368
10:00 am -
Daring Greatly →
Pope Marine Park, 100 Madison St, Port Townsend
5:00 pm -
Port Townsend Farmers Market →
Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St, Port Townsend
9:00 am -
Art in the Park with Maria Coryell-Martin
Port Townsend Public Library 1220 Lawrence Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368
1:00 pm
Sunday July 26
Monday July 27
Tuesday July 28
Wednesday July 29
Thursday July 30
Saturday August 1
Wednesday August 5
📣 Port Townsend Shout Outs!
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Coupeville Farmers Market
Coupeville Chamber of Commerce Coupeville Village Green (behind the library), 788 NW Alexander Street, Coupeville, Washington, 98239
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Meerkerk Gardens - - Garden Tours
Coupeville Chamber of Commerce Meerkerk Gardens, 3531 Meerkerk Lane, Greenbank, Washington, 98253, United States
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Jr. Ranger Program: Fort Flagler →
Fort Flagler Historical State Park, Fort Flagler Hist'l State Pk, 10541 Flagler Rd, Nordland
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Whidbey Island Fair →
Coupeville Chamber of Commerce Whidbey Island Fair, 819 Camano Avenue, Langley, Washington
9:00 am
Saturday July 25
Sunday July 26
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- 21st Annual Port Townsend Artist Studio Tour!
3 days, 47 studios and 100+ artists. Info & Map www.ptstudiotour.art (Nextdoor North Beach) - Do you have a yard full of beautiful flowers?
Would you like to show some love to the tribal elders of the Canoe Journey? We'd love for you to bring a mason jar of flowers tomorrow to the office… (Nextdoor North Beach)
- Spar, Inc. posted a job opening for Part Time Retail Merchandiser in Port Townsend. Apply here.
- Jefferson Healthcare posted a job opening for Linen Distribution Tech (temp) in Port Townsend. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Port Townsend here.
🗞 Nearby News
Oak Harbor
- 532 SE Pasek Street, Oak Harbor, WA 98277 Property for sale (corcoran.com)
- Museum welcomes record 1,000th visitor in July (whidbeynewstimes.com)
- Was there a Whidbey Jimothy? (whidbeynewstimes.com)
Sequim
- Tidepool Prep is Sequim's newest option in K-5 education (myclallamcounty.com)
- Olympic Peninsula Brass Winds Festival set this weekend (peninsuladailynews.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Open-toad (Thank you Harold W. for sending it in!)
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