Kirk Boxleitner is a Reporter and Photographer at The Marysville Globe, The Arlington Times, and the North County Outlook. With over a decade of experience in the Puget Sound region, he covers a diverse range of topics including arts and entertainment, music, film, theater, and sustainable agriculture, while also delving into local government and community issues. Boxleitner 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
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve grown more interested in subjects that failed to spark my interest in my youth, including architecture, geography and urban planning. Fortunately, there’s a whole corner of YouTube channels that caters to guys like me, but I was still surprised this weekend, when one of those YouTube channels premiered an episode about my hometown of Port […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office has been awarded a three-year traffic safety grant from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission to fund a dedicated DUI enforcement officer. Patrol Deputy Dylan Heck has been selected to serve in this role, by identifying and removing impaired drivers from the roadways. “The DUI deputy will be a dedicated traffic enforcement deputy,” Jefferson County Undersheriff […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
Going into “Michael,” this year’s biographical film on the early decades of pop music superstar Michael Jackson’s career, I expected something similar to Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 biopic “Elvis.” Director Antoine Fuqua and writer John Logan basically deliver on that front, since “Michael” is authorized by the surviving Jackson family, most of whom serve among its executive producers. Likewise, just as […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
George Orwell wrote “Animal Farm” to serve as an Aesop’s Fable allegory for a specific period of early 20th century history, so it’s perhaps inevitable that each of its three film adaptations have been progressively less faithful to its story. Orwell himself was not subtle about intending “Animal Farm” to reflect the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the subsequent Stalinist […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
Geologist Nick Zentner, known for the PBS program “Nick on the Rocks,” didn’t mince words when he spoke to the Quimper Geological Society about a theory that’s caused controversy in geological circles. “This is some wild (stuff),” Zentner told The Leader, before he entered the Chimacum Junior/Senior High School auditorium on the afternoon of Saturday, May 2, to ask the […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
After a hiatus in 2025, the Port Townsend Sunrise Rotary’s “Running of the Balls” is back in 2026, kicking off at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 16, just before the Rhododendron Festival’s Grand Parade in Uptown Port Townsend. After successfully weathering the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual event was forced to take a one-year pause last year, because as Lois Sherwood of […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
The Jefferson County International Airport received a new guest on the morning of Thursday, May 14, as visitors from across Western Washington greeted a painstaking replica of Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. Michael Payne, director of the Port Townsend Aero Museum, explained that John Norman of JNE Aircraft, who’d built the replica Ryan NYP aircraft, and his wife, Heather, […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
Nobody does horror onscreen quite like the Japanese, and “Exit 8” showcases so much of what makes J-horror work. From the “Ring” and “Ju-On” (“Curse Grudge”) film franchises, to a standalone anime miniseries such as Satoshi Kon’s “Paranoia Agent,” J-horror plays upon a more meditative, existential dread than many American slasher flicks, or even Italian giallo cinema. This is how […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
A Port Ludlow man had been scheduled for sentencing May 8, after being found guilty of two counts of child molestation in the first degree, but the Jefferson County Prosecutor’s Office told The Leader that sentencing has been delayed, as they seek to ensure he receives what they see as a fitting sentence. George Joseph Golay was found guilty in […]
By: Kirk Boxleitner
A 65-year-old Port Townsend man, who had been reported as a man overboard from his own 12-foot dinghy in the vicinity of Point Wilson on the evening of Thursday, May 21, was found dead on Whidbey Island on the afternoon of Friday, May 22. The Island County Coroner’s Office confirmed that the man was David Perelli, and that his cause […]
