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At the table where they first conceived their organization, Dying Matters Guild cofounders Carrie Andrews, left, Sarah Seltzer and Rhonda Hull talk about this weekend’s “Death, Grief and Ancestors” activities in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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‘Death, Grief & Ancestors’ event open to public

Weekend of activities planned in Port Townsend

Author Ward Serrill and his dog Dolly Parton, 7, share a moment at the Starlight Room, where Serrill will give readings of his new memoir, "To Crack the World Open: Solitude, Alaska and a Dog Named Woody." Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Author tells true wilderness tale

Like a wild creek in early spring, “To Crack the World Open: Solitude, Alaska and a Dog Named…

Jeanné Sparks, pictured at a recent Tale Spinners event, will cohost the Out Loud Story Slam at Sequim's Olympic Theatre Arts Center this Friday. (Photo courtesy Out Loud Story Slam)

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First in-person Story Slam offered since February 2020

Story tellers to speak on stage

A Coast Guard rescue swimmer escorts multiple people who were evacuated from their residences during a flood near Forks, WA, Monday, Nov. 15. The crew evacuated a total of 10 people, including several children, after receiving a request for assistance from Clallam County emergency responders. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Sector Columbia River)

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Coast Guard rescued 10 from floodwaters

None hurt in Monday’s feat

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Children’s clinic sees opposition; nearly 200 get vaccine

PORT TOWNSEND — Nearly 200 children received their first dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday, Department of…

Poet and teaching artist Gary Copeland Lilley, a North Carolina native who has lived in Port Townsend for 13 years, is the new artistic curator of Centrum’s Port Townsend Writers Conference. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Poet named artistic curator of writers conference

Aims to encourage more diversity in poets, authors

Jenny Westdal, Jefferson County Historical Society board president, admires one of Adeline Willoughby McCormack’s paintings in the “Women Outdoors” show at the Jefferson Museum of Art & History. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Women Outdoors displays work of early artists

Treks to scenic areas made in corsets, long skirts

Local artist and author Dana Sullivan will teach classes for adults and youngsters in early 2022. His courses are among 52 offerings from the nonprofit Northwind Art School. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Northwind offers winter catalog of art classes

PORT TOWNSEND — The Northwind Art School, formed after the merging of the Port Townsend School of the…

Flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny will join the David P. Jones Trio for a jazz concert at Peninsula College this Saturday evening. photo by Steve Korn

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Music, improvisation, fossils on tap for this weekend

A worldwide Broadway-style musical revue, a youth-oriented dinosaur exhibit and a chance to watch a play unfold on…

Abby Sanford and Aidan Butterworth portray the couple at the center of "Into the Woods," the Stephen Sondheim musical opening tonight at the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Angeles High School to perform ‘Into the Woods’ in-person, online

PORT ANGELES — “Into the Woods” is a quest, a jumble, a dark comedy — “basically, just life,”…

In honor of the Day of the Dead, Port Townsend High School students constructed decorations for the school's second-floor windows facing Benton Street. The students invite people to drive or walk past the windows as they're illuminated tonight and Monday night. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Day of the Dead images light up windows

Tributes also in high school library

At the Veterans Day event at Port Townsend's American Legion hall Thursday, Post Commander Kathryn Bates called on attendees to remove the stigma around asking for help with post-traumatic stress and depression. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Veterans Day: ‘Their service matters’

Speaker says suicide prevention top priority

The elderly Lombardy poplars, slated for removal, stand near the boatyard and the power lines along Sims Way in Port Townsend. (Port of Port Townsend)

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Local officials, public wrangle over future of Port Townsend’s poplars

Town hall not last meeting on topic

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Port Townsend water rates likely to rise

New system, contract with mill in works

From left, Patricia Bolen, Geoff Fong, Anne Ficarra, Walter Vaux, Debbie Littlejohn and Terri Alexander ride on the Ukuleles Unite float, preparing for the August 2021 Rhody Parade in Port Townsend. The ukulelists are part of Bolen’s support system as she recovers from a difficult series of events. (Ukuleles Unite)

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Therapist knows from experience how to cope

Friends help her through spouse’s death, cancer surgeries

Guest soloist Anna Petrova and conductor Jonathan Pasternack take their bows following Saturday’s Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra concert. The ensemble returned to the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center this past weekend for the first time in 20 months; its next concert is set for Dec. 11. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Taking a bow

Guest soloist Anna Petrova and conductor Jonathan Pasternack take their bows following Saturday’s Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra concert.

Sandy Tweed and the “safe park” team at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Port Townsend hope to turn their parking lot off 22nd Street into a refuge for women living in their cars. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Unitarian Universalists plan park for women living in cars

Overnight stays would be secure; online meeting set for Tuesday

David Grisman, beside his artist and musician wife Tracy Bigelow Grisman, has contributed a private mandolin lesson to the Northwind Auction online now. Grisman, known as the "Paganini of the mandolin," includes his music books, "Dawg Grass," "Dawg Latin," "Dawg Jazz" and "Dawg Roots." Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Northwind auction raising money for art

New classes, shows offered

Mark Elbroch of Panthera provided images such as this one for Saturday's Puma Catwalk, a family activity at Robin Hill Park just outside Sequim. photo copyright Mark Elbroch

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Cougars, music, art, books highlighted this weekend

Pumas cannot roar, but they can and do purr.

Pat Burns, left, at 102 the oldest member of the Marrowstone Island emergency response community, and her friend, Cheryl Brunette, attend the groundbreaking Thursday for the island’s new fire station. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Shovels break ground for Marrowstone Fire Station

Self-reliance epitomized by 102-year-old volunteer