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PENINSULA PROFILE: She fills many roles as WSU Extension director

PORT ANGELES — Like a centerfielder who catches questions instead of fly balls, Clea Rome sees a lot…

Cammie Watson of Victoria peruses the Community Plein Air Contest entries on display Friday at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. The contest is part of the Paint the Peninsula festival

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Peninsula impressions on display at today’s en plein air festival in Port Angeles [ * Photo Gallery * ]

PORT ANGELES — The art’s been all over the place. Paint the Peninsula, the new Port Angeles Fine…

Carol Swarbrick Dries and Paul Martin portray a journalism professor and a New York City fire captain

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‘The Guys’ to be performed on 9/11 anniversary

SEQUIM — The more she reads this one-act play, the more actress Carol Swarbrick Dries feels inspired. And…

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WITH WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL — Birds, boats alight on downtown Port Townsend during Gallery Walk

“Today” and “tonight” reflect Friday, Sept. 6. PORT TOWNSEND — Bird-watching and sailing are two of the options…

Port Angeles Fine Arts Center Executive Director Robin Anderson grapples with a Paint the Peninsula mural

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WEEKEND: Port Angeles center gets art out ‘en plein air’

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Aug. 6. PORT ANGELES — The new Paint the Peninsula festival…

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WEEKEND: Sequim’s art walk to embrace the colorful

“Today” and “tonight” reflect Friday, Sept. 6. SEQUIM — Live Celtic music, a surfer’s watercolors and a woman’s…

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WEEKEND: Contra dances resume at Black Diamond Community Hall south of Port Angeles

“Today” and “tonight” reflect Friday, Sept. 6. PORT ANGELES — With their summer recess over, contra dances with…

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WITH WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL — Birds, boats alight on downtown Port Townsend during Gallery Walk

PORT TOWNSEND — Bird-watching and sailing are two of the options for art viewers in downtown Port Townsend…

Rick Waites and Pamela Ziemann star in “Becky’s New Car

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WEEKEND: Play opening in Sequim examines midlife questions

“Today” and “tonight” reflect Friday, Sept. 6. SEQUIM — It’s hard to say which story turns out happier.…

Peter Greene and Pamela Ziemann star in “Becky's New Car

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Sequim comedy preview set tonight for discount

SEQUIM — “Becky’s New Car,” a modern comedy about women, men, cars and life, arrives at Olympic Theatre…

Historian Bob Bartlett of Spokane portrays York

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‘Forgotten hero’ of Lewis-Clark expedition brought to life in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — He was born a slave but lived as a free man, walking and canoeing some…

Robin Anderson

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Interest high for en plein air festival at Port Angeles arts center, organizer says

PORT ANGELES — Paint the Peninsula, a new festival at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, already has…

Aaron and Charlotte Elkins

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Sequim couple’s new mystery novel explores a Greek isle

SEQUIM — The view, down the plunging neckline of a Greek island, ogles the Aegean Sea. But on…

Volunteer receptionist Gerene Russell shepherds hundreds of patients at Port Angeles' free clinic. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Grateful on Labor Day: Volunteers enjoy working at Port Angeles free clinic

PORT ANGELES — Gerene “Lady Bug” Russell loaded and unloaded airplane cargo for 25 years. In the scorching…

Bex Marshall

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Musical adventuress to give concert in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — When Rebecca “Bex” Marshall was an 11-year-old girl, she was handed a Hummingbird. This was…

PENINSULA PROFILE: Couple mix music and medicine

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PENINSULA PROFILE: Couple mix music and medicine

SEQUIM — When he heard her singing, it clinched the crush. “That voice,” Kip Tulin said of that…

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Big weekend across the Strait in Victoria, too

VICTORIA — Festivals converge on British Columbia’s capital this weekend, bringing lots of live blues, classic boats and…

Polecat

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WEEKEND: Winery’s finale to feature ‘stomp-grass’ specialists Polecat

PORT ANGELES — “We are so lucky,” fiddler Cayley Schmid says of her band. The group is four…

Orville Johnson

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‘Mongrel folk’ music, satire set this Friday at Key City Cabaret

PORT TOWNSEND — The self-anointed “Kings of Mongrel Folk,” Orville Johnson and Mark Graham, will bring their musical…

The Rainforest Players include

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West End troupe rises from ashes of Forks fire

FORKS — In the catastrophic fire that burned the Rainforest Arts Center, all was destroyed — save two…