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Since 1990, Sandy Hershelman has worked professionally as a writer and photographer. Based in Port Hadlock, Washington, her byline has appeared in local, regional and national publications, including the Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader, the Olympic Peninsula Business Journal, the Olympic Business Journal and The Sequim Gazette.

Sandy's extensive writing, photography, marketing, Web design and desktop publishing skills benefit her numerous business and service organization clients.She was named the 2008 Business Leader of the Year by the Port Townsend Chamber of Commerce.

The Washington Newspaper Publishers Association honored Sandy with a number of "Better Newspaper Contest" awards for her reporting. They were in the categories of: "Best Comprehensive Coverage,""Government Affairs,""General News Stories" and "Best Humorous Feature."

The Jefferson County Fair's website was a First Place winner in the Washington State Fairs Association's 2007 and 2006 Web Page Contests.

Sandy presented "Effective HBA Websites" at the 2006 National Association of Home Builders' EOC Seminar in Connecticut.

Sandy's "Fort Worden Searchlight Tower" photo was chosen to grace the Gatheringplace's 2001 Port Townsend calendar. Her "Lone Oarsman" was "Best of Show" in Seafirst's 1995 "Faces of Washington" competition. (See photos.)

School Planning & Management magazine awarded the Chimacum School District its "1998 Community Relations Award" for its Chimacum School Matters district newsletter.

Sandy has written, edited, and done the layout of Chimacum School Matters, since its inception in January 1997. Since the mid-1990s, she has also created most of Chimacum Schools' bond and levy campaign informational brochures.

In 1998, when the brand-new Port Townsend television station, PTTV 47, needed an on-air interviewer, they called Sandy. Since PTTV's inception, she's covered numerous elections and co-hosted some Town Meetings, as well.