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WEEKEND: ’25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ to lift spirits, vocabulary with humor, song starting tonight

Today and tonight signify Friday, July 31. SEQUIM — Meet Marcy Park, speaker of six languages, Catholic school…

Linda Dowdell

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WEEKEND: Music, stories in a pair of concerts at Sequim’s Olympic Theatre Arts on Saturday, Sunday

SEQUIM — Tell Elinore O’Connell she has “a pretty voice,” and she knows she’s missed the mark. Let…

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Fables come to life in Port Angeles play starting Friday

PORT ANGELES — “Aesop’s Foibles,” a comic treatment of the classic stories about hares, tortoises, boys, wolves and…

Cherie Trebon

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Port Angeles storyteller set to receive national award Saturday

PORT ANGELES — In her storytelling debut, Cherie Trebon stepped up to the lip of the stage —…

The Lincoln Theater in downtown Port Angeles. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Port Angeles forum set Wednesday on shuttered Lincoln Theater board formation

PORT ANGELES — As they strive to raise the remaining $60,000 to purchase downtown Port Angeles’ shuttered Lincoln…

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Port Angeles forum set Wednesday on shuttered Lincoln Theater board formation

PORT ANGELES — As they strive to raise the remaining $60,000 to purchase downtown Port Angeles’ shuttered Lincoln…

Nurse Julia Keegan

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Port Angeles group ready to tackle city’s meth, heroin problem

PORT ANGELES — Every day at work, Julia Keegan cares for heroin addicts. A nurse at the Clallam…

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WEEKEND: Jazz Port Townsend transforms Port Townsend — and concerts Saturday (afternoon and evening)

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, July 24. PORT TOWNSEND — In their voices, you can hear…

Margie McDonald —Photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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WEEKEND: Artist to display ‘primordial soup’ at Port Angeles Fine Arts Center; presentation Saturday

PORT ANGELES — Sometimes, when people walk into a Margie McDonald art show, they burst out laughing. “I…

Austin Jenckes

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ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFLY: Saturday night concert at Olympic Cellars . . . and other items you need to know about

Singer wears his soul on his sleeve PORT ANGELES — Country-soul singer Austin Jenckes, a performer in his…

One of the Enzio kits to be used by Clallam County Public Health.

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Peninsula’s first naloxone program tied to needle exchange starts today in Clallam County

PORT ANGELES — Beginning today, the scores of people who use Clallam County’s public health syringe exchange service…

Margie McDonald —Photo by Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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WEEKEND: Artist to display ‘primordial soup’ at Port Angeles Fine Arts Center; presentation Saturday

PORT ANGELES — Sometimes, when people walk into a Margie McDonald art show, they burst out laughing. “I…

Austin Jenckes

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ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFLY: Saturday night concert at Olympic Cellars . . . and other items you need to know about

Singer wears his soul on his sleeve PORT ANGELES — Country-soul singer Austin Jenckes, a performer in his…

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WEEKEND: Jazz Port Townsend transforms town today, Saturday

In their voices, you can hear the joy. These players and teachers, together at Centrum’s 41st Jazz Port…

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Clallam County health services to distribute brochure on collecting dirty needles

PORT ANGELES — When you see a syringe with a needle on the ground, take care to dispose…

Nurse Julia Keegan

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Port Angeles group ready to tackle city’s meth, heroin problem

PORT ANGELES — Every day at work, Julia Keegan cares for heroin addicts. A nurse at the Clallam…

The Associated Press

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Peninsula’s first naloxone program tied to needle exchange starts Friday in Clallam County

PORT ANGELES — Beginning Friday, the scores of people who use Clallam County’s public health syringe exchange service…

Terell Stafford is among the performers who'll appear in Jazz Port Townsend's Jazz in the Clubs lineup starting Thursday. — Jim Levitt

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Centrum’s Jazz Port Townsend to trumpet across three nights, eight venues starting Thursday

PORT TOWNSEND — Time to gather your strength for a lot of action. With three nights and eight…

Angie Gooding

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Port Angeles Citizen Action Network to meet Wednesday in effort against drug issues

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Citizen Action Network, aka PA CAN, will continue its efforts to address…

Elizabeth Austen

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WEEKEND: Washington poet laureate to lead ‘Hike and Write’ in Port Angeles on Saturday (and how you can sign up)

PORT ANGELES — What we often do, says poet laureate Elizabeth Austen, is move through space while our…