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Show in Port Townsend to feature quilter who lost all fingers on right hand

PORT TOWNSEND — In an accident in her family’s grocery store, Charlie Petersen lost all five fingers of…

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Time to curl up and listen to a good book: Digital devices now at public libraries across North Olympic Peninsula

Miniature iPod-like devices — mp3 players — have infiltrated all four Clallam County public libraries to offer you…

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Joyce author Sims puts series heroine on Peninsula; writer gives talk before moving to Florida

PORT ANGELES — Our heroine, single mother and sometime actress Rita Farmer, is headed into another steamy adventure…

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Sequim couple to share ‘search for Shangri-La’ (**GALLERY**)

One day, Claire and Bob Rogers pedaled away from their house in Dungeness on a tandem bicycle named…

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Photographer, writer share the story of their book

PORT ANGELES — Maybe you haven’t time — or the small airplane — to go flight-seeing over the…

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PENINSULA WOMAN: Guardian of the songs, stories in LaPush

LAPUSH — Beverly Loudon has lived all her life in a place that lures people from around the…

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PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Event shows off Peninsula’s artistic wealth

DUNGENESS — “Opulent,” when you ask the dictionary, means “possessing or exhibiting great wealth.” As in really, blinging…

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Wedding feast gleans from local fields

PORT ANGELES — Justine Raphael is hurriedly hunting and gathering for an unusual wedding tonight. This journey began…

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True Love Stories: Contrasting personalities make for long, happy life

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is another in an occasional series of love stories spotlighting both newlyweds and couples celebrating…

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Port Scandalous Derby Dolls take off — yep, roller derby returns

PORT ANGELES — Angie “Tiny Tornado” Moore skims the blue rink, a blur in a frilly white miniskirt.…

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PENINSULA WOMAN: Shop owners put fashion to work for cancer support group

PORT ANGELES — For weeks now, it’s been marathon meets roller-coaster for these two women. Janee Lyster and…

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Peninsula rowers ready, set for Victoria regatta

PORT ANGELES — In a classic wooden boat that almost became a salad bar, four Port Angeles women…

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Westside Video reopens with a special request: ‘Park in the rear, not inside’

PORT ANGELES — This independent video store could be the set for a bittersweet comedy complete with car…

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Historical society throws garage sale

PORT ANGELES — This evening’s sneak preview of a giant garage sale should be one of the town’s…

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Update: Brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson’s a success

PORT ANGELES — A week after deep brain stimulation — DBS — ­ surgery, Charmaigne Dunscomb is on…

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PENINSULA WOMAN: D’Hemecourt helps save natural spaces from development

PORT ANGELES — The teenage Michele d’Hemecourt thought of herself as a bookworm, not an outdoorswoman. Afraid of…

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No shutdowns for Clallam County public libraries

PORT ANGELES — The four public libraries in Clallam County were set to close their doors this Monday…

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Let the Peninsula Senior Games begin

PORT ANGELES — This weekend is about how active, and how fit, a mind and body can get…

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PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Depth and range of passion

Handmade and passionate. That’s the kind of music David Jacobs-Strain is into — and it’s the sound that…

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Surgery today could alter Peninsula resident’s path with Parkinson’s disease

PORT ANGELES — When Charmaigne Dunscomb undergoes brain surgery this morning, she’ll mark a new, welcome curve on…