Young Artist Competition set for Saturday

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Young Artist Competition set for Saturday

PORT ANGELES — A new name, 14 competitors and a day of live music. All are part of…

Opinion

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Extravagance of our longing

WE’RE HUNGRY, WE humans, sometimes starving: for splendor, love, experiences that make us feel alive.

Opinion

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: The Advice Lady’s secret

I WAS CURIOUS about this woman, this traveler.

Opinion

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Another kind of year-end list

THE WORDS OF Salvadoran priest Oscar Romero (1917-1980) are a salve to me, a meditation to which I…

Symphony serves holiday fare on Saturday

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Symphony serves holiday fare on Saturday

PORT ANGELES — The “Snow Maiden Suite,” “The Adoration of the Magi,” an Overture on Hebrew Themes and…

Opinion

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Getting by with a little help from your friends — and fellow singers

AS WE NAVIGATE these rough times, I’m advocating an activity, one I believe builds health and community.

Opinion

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Taking care of ‘us’: It’s a matter of time

A QUESTION THAT has me thinking lately: When we talk about this community, who is “us”? Who are…

Guest soloist, Sibelius, Shostakovich presented at Port Angeles Symphony concert

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Guest soloist, Sibelius, Shostakovich presented at Port Angeles Symphony concert

PORT ANGELES — Her performances are deeply felt; dazzling. She plays — without histrionics — in the tradition…

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Listening, remembering, giving thanks

HUDDLING IN THE rental car, I heard something outside.

Opinion

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Crossing lines, coming together: Stories make it possible

WHEN YOU’RE THE messenger bearing another person’s story, you perform a sacred act. It begins, of course, with…

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Seeing new worlds via college program

I TOOK A seat beside John Lennon. As I marveled at my arrival here at last, he just…

Pops Picnic to open Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra’s 85th season

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Pops Picnic to open Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra’s 85th season

Come and join the jubilee

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Helping Clallam inmates breathe a little easier

SHOWING MY RED badge — which permits me to go without escort — I pass through six gates…

Sequim storytellers to spin tales at Story Swap

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Sequim storytellers to spin tales at Story Swap

PORT ANGELES — The first Story Swap of the new season is a mashup: part campfire tales and…

Opinion

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: To open the mind, close the eyes … and point

JANE JULIAN THOUGHT maybe she should apologize. Many of her choices for the Port Townsend Film Festival are…

Dance caller Abigail Hobart will teach the steps at the first community contra dance of the season Saturday at Port Angeles’ Black Diamond Community Hall.

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From punk to contra, dance caller makes debut in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A punk community in London made a dance caller out of her.

Paint the Peninsula festival to open Monday

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Paint the Peninsula festival to open Monday

PORT ANGELES — Just standing in the summer sunlight is a gift.

Opinion

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Journey into your personal province

THERE IS THIS place, this miracle, some call “the zone.”

Yong Hong Zhong gives a demonstration at last year’s Paint the Peninsula event. (Paint the Peninsula)

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Paint the Peninsula workshops open for registration

PORT ANGELES — Yong Hong Zhong, a Chinese-born artist who immigrated

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: New parents at ages 63 and 77

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to correct the vows Jean Stratton took in Zen Buddhism.