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Port Townsend acts on pool, traffic, utility fees

Shutoffs moratorium extended though December

Port Townsend Record Show organizer Chuck Moses, who works at Magpie Alley downtown, is preparing for the show Saturday at the American Legion Hall. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend Record Show returns

Vendors bringing wares from all over the state

Following the Takács Quartet’s performance Sunday in the barn at Trillium Woods Farm, Music on the Strait co-artistic directors Richard O’Neill, far left, and James Garlick, center, take a breather. With them are quartet violinists Harumi Rhodes and Edward Dusinberre and cellist András Fejér. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Music on the Strait finales in Port Angeles, Quilcene

Live performances will require proof of COVID-19 vaccination

Pianist Josu de Solaun, left, and Port Angeles Symphony conductor Jonathan Pasternack, pictured in Port Angeles in February 2020, pore over the music they will record this month in the Czech Republic. (Photo by Dorthe Grube Porter/Port Angeles Symphony)

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Music project in Czech Republic

Symphony director, solo pianist plan to record concertos

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Smilemobile in Port Townsend starting Monday

PORT TOWNSEND — The SmileMobile, a traveling dental clinic serving people of all ages, will be at the…

Ukuleles Unite! group strummed and sang its way down Lawrence Street in Saturday's Rhododendron Festival Grand Parade. The procession gathered 40 entries and hundreds of spectators to Uptown and downtown Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Rhody parade

The 85th annual Rhododendron Festival Grand Parade cruised through Port Townsend on Saturday afternoon. About 40 floats and…

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Peninsula-wide mask mandate starts Monday

Major surge in cases now; primarily younger people affected

Builder Bliss Morris is preparing the "Stop and Smell the Rhodies"-themed float for Saturday's Rhody Grand Parade. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Rhody parade, Cake Picnic blooms Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — Saturday’s forecast calls for warm weather, a Rhododendron Festival Grand Parade, live music and 1,500…

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Port Townsend pool to shut doors Monday

PORT TOWNSEND — The Mountain View Pool, Port Townsend’s municipal pool at 1919 Blaine St., will be shut…

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National juried exhibit opens at Port Angeles Fine Arts Center

PORT ANGELES — “Resilient & Creative,” a national juried exhibition, opens today at the Port Angeles Fine Arts…

Artist Sara Mall Johani, pictured outside her workshop in Chimacum, will present her new book, "Mine, Yours, Nobody's: My Story of Wild Olympic Salmon," at the Jefferson Museum of Art & History this Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Book tells of ‘Wild Olympic Salmon’

PORT TOWNSEND — Artist and community organizer Sara Mall Johani has a new book out: “Mine, Yours, Nobody’s:…

Jefferson County Fair staffer Laurie Hampton is organizing the garage sale that opens today and runs through Sunday in the fairgrounds' 4-H Cat Building. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Jefferson County Fair brings garage sale, free live music

PORT TOWNSEND — The 2021 Jefferson County Fair is a hybrid animal. Starting today and running through Sunday,…

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‘Bill Evans 81!’ dance concert postponed

Surge in COVID-19 cases led to decision

Adrienne Wilson will perform alongside Bill Evans in this Saturday’s “Bill Evans 81!” concert at Fort Worden’s Wheeler Theater. (Photo courtesy Auburn University)

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Thoughts of Port Townsend kept returning dancer going

After contracting COVID-19, professor to perform Saturday

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Port Townsend council approves funding seven projects

Tax increase comes from banked capacity

Jeremy Denk, a MacArthur “genius” grant winner, is among the guest artists at this month’s Music on the Strait festival. His performances will be available for free via live streaming. (Photo courtesy of Music on the Strait)

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Festival is live, online, indoors, outdoors

Six concerts set for hall in Port Angeles, farm in Quilcene

Port Townsend eighth-grader Peter Sanok, top, plays the title role in “Timon of Athens,” the movie to screen this week at Chimacum’s Finnriver Farm & Cidery. Costarring are, from left, eighth-graders Auden Darrock and Anna Munn and seventh-grader Sierra Douglas. (Photo by Maggie Kelley)

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Students act in 90-minute Shakespeare film

Show to be played Wednesday, Thursday

Sarah Rubenstein is the administrator of the Port Townsend School District’s new online program for first- through 12th-graders.

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Online programs to be offered in Port Townsend, Chimacum

Digital course work includes electives, languages, honors

Lauren Ehnebuske, pictured during a rehearsal Friday, is among the performers in “Bill Evans 81!,” the celebration of Port Townsend-based dancer and educator Bill Evans’ career. The concert is set for Saturday evening in Fort Worden’s Wheeler Theater. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Dancer-choreographer marks 81st birthday

Olympic Mountains inspire pieces in Saturday’s concert

Teaching artists Margie McDonald, at left on the porch, and Michele Soderstrom led a four-afternoon course on building superhero armor for youngsters at the Northwind Art school at Fort Worden State Park in July. Their graduates are Callum Johnson, 14, Kaladry Groenig, Satria McKnight and Owen Griffith, all 11, Reid Armstrong, 10, Caleb Armstrong, 9, Byron Eisele, 8, and Nigel Groenig, 13. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Students make art, armor in Northwind classroom

Pieces made with cardboard designs