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Juvenile elephant seal molting on Port Townsend beach

PORT TOWNSEND — A juvenile elephant seal has parked on a Port Townsend beach for a molting process…

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Victims of massive mail theft operation being notified

PORT TOWNSEND — Authorities are beginning the process of notifying the 1,223 victims of a theft operation that…

Blue Heron Middle School music teacher Bruce Cowan leads

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School funding public forum in Port Townsend today

PORT TOWNSEND — Public school funding in the wake of a court-mandated directive to provide adequate support for…

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Proposed net pen legislation dies in committee

PORT TOWNSEND — Proposed legislation that would allow coastal counties to forbid marine aquaculture net-pen facilities died in…

Chef Chris Harris

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New restaurants opening up in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — Three restaurateurs have decided to risk high failure rates and low profit margins in an…

Nina Odell

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Seamless transition promised in PUD electrical service takeover

PORT TOWNSEND — Officials of both Jefferson County Public Utility District and Puget Sound Energy promise a seamless…

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Everyone invited for Port Townsend’s community portrait

PORT TOWNSEND­­—The next Port Townsend family portrait, where everyone in town is invited to participate in a moment-in-time…

Jim Hammonds is on the construction crew building the new East Jefferson Fire-Rescue station in Chimacum. Charlie Bermant/Peninsula Daily News

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State-of-the-art fire station taking shape in Chimacum

CHIMACUM — Construction workers were framing East Jefferson Fire Rescue’s new $2 million station last week. The department…

Adam Lysiak

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Not-guilty plea in mail thefts

PORT TOWNSEND — A 38-year-old Port Townsend man facing charges connected with a series of North Olympic Peninsula…

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Tips no help in reported kidnapping case; authorities await DNA test results

CHIMACUM — Investigators have no leads on the identity of a man who a 16-year-old girl said kidnapped…

County Planning Manager Stacie Hoskins

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Jefferson County ‘getting closer’ to net-pen permits

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County commissioners heard about proposed restrictions on fish farming as they moved closer to…

Port Townsend Library Director Theresa Percy addesses the City Council on the ongoing renovations at the Carnegie Library. Charlie Bermant/Peninsula Daily News

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Port Townsend council weighs library bond issue

PORT TOWNSEND — The City Council is contemplating asking voters in August or November to approve a multimillion-dollar…

Monday will be Robert Birman's first day of work in Port Townsend.

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New Centrum director hired, was Louisville Orchestra CEO

PORT TOWNSEND — Centrum, a nonprofit arts organization located in Fort Worden State Park, has a new executive…

Washington State University's Jefferson County Extension Director Laura Lewis hangs a school banner at Cupola House in Port Townsend. Charlie Bermant/Peninsula Daily News

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WSU extension moving into Cupola House

PORT TOWNSEND — After 19 years in Port Hadlock, the Washington State University Extension Office will relocate to…

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Port Townsend merchants file bad-check complaints

PORT TOWNSEND — Five merchants have filed complaints saying they suspect they received fraudulent checks from a Port…

Heather Dudley Nollette

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CoLab venture to open doors in Port Townsend today

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend CoLab, which has its soft opening this morning, will be defined by…

The bottle.

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Port Townsend hairdresser’s invention to warm customers

PORT TOWNSEND — When Debi Hinton began her career as a barber, she wished that the water used…

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Alleged mail thief goes to court as 10,000 pieces show some from Sequim

PORT TOWNSEND — A man allegedly found with about 1,000 pounds of stolen mail from several counties —…

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WEEKEND: Port Townsend to catch disco fever in Rhody benefit

PORT TOWNSEND — The first fundraising event in this year’s Rhody Festival takes place Saturday with a benefit…

Heather Dudley Nollette

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Hastings project developers look beyond permitting

PORT TOWNSEND — The next step in the rehabilitation of a historical building and the construction of an…