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Music on the Strait cofounders James Garlick, left, and Richard O’Neill, right, perform with New York City-based pianist Jeremy Denk and Southern California cellist Ani Aznavoorian, center, in the inaugural festival three years ago at Peninsula College’s Maier Performance Hall. The performers will reunite this August for the 2021 Music on the Strait. (Photo courtesy of Music on the Strait)

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Music on the Strait concerts lined up

PORT ANGELES — Less than a month from now, James Garlick and Richard O’Neill’s shared hope will at…

Port Townsend author Dana Sullivan, who will give a free, all-ages workshop Tuesday, draws inspiration from family members including Bennie the dog. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Graphic novelist to release fourth in ‘Max’ series

Keep writing your stories, says artist, comic book author

Novelist and Port Townsend Writers Conference Artistic Director Sam Ligon is among the authors who will give free readings online this week. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Authors, poets to provide free readings at Centrum’s Port Townsend Writers Conference

PORT TOWNSEND — A varied group of authors and poets from Washington state and across the country will…

The Rose Theatre in downtown Port Townsend is days away from reopening. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Rose Theatre will reopen after 499 dark nights

MERV 13 filters, space to spread out illustrate impact of pandemic

On a farm in Quilcene, the free Concerts in the Barn series will present classical music performances this summer, including Seattle Symphony violinist Elisa Barston, left, and her sister Amy Sue Barston, a cellist, on July 31 and Aug. 1. With pianist Jessica Choe joining them, the Barstons will become Trio Hava, performing music of Lily Boulanger, Ludvig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. photo courtesy Concerts in the Barn

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Series season begins this weekend

Classical music heard indoors, outdoors

Quimper Grange garden volunteer Jo Yount cultivates greens and flowers especially for the clients of the Port Townsend Food Bank. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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The Peddler delivers from garden to food bank

Trips also include groceries to paying subscribers in town

Housing Solutions Network director Justine Gonzalez-Berg will moderate Saturday’s housing forum at the Cotton Building in Port Townsend. (Photo courtesy of Justine Gonzalez-Berg)

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Housing topic of Port Townsend forum

City Council candidates to answer questions

Holly Hughes, editor of “The Madrona Project: Voices from the Heart of Cascadia,” visited Port Townsend’s Chetzemoka Park on Monday. She’s organized two in-person readings from the book in Chimacum and Sequim this month. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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New book gathers writers, artists from Northwest

Women contribute poems, images for ‘Madrona Project’

Swan School staffer April Thompson admires a feelings illustration kept inside Emily Gohn’s classroom, which has become a storage room since Swan went all outdoors. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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During pandemic, school takes learning outside

Heat, winter weather not obstacles for private organization

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Port Townsend City Council candidates’ forum video available online

PORT TOWNSEND — Voters who missed the July 1 Port Townsend City Council candidates forum — or who…

Historian Nathan Barnett of Olympic Peninsula Steam and Port Townsend Mayor Michelle Sandoval unveil a guide to the new “Hidden History” signs Thursday afternoon at Washington and Taylor streets. Fourteen interpretive signs, each revealing a facet of the city’s past, are being posted around Uptown and downtown Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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New sign series revealed in Port Townsend

Fourteen stops on walking tour from downtown, Uptown

Peppino D’Agostino will appear at the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center as the Concerts in the Woods resume this Saturday night. (Photo by Jarek Pepkowski)

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Concerts in the Woods return to Coyle

Pair of guitarists to appear at music series

Akeyla Behrenfeld rowed the Seventy48 solo this June. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Racing toward an adventure

Fourteen-year-old Akeyla Behrenfeld of Port Townsend wanted an adventure. It would be especially fun, she figured, to do…

YEA Music Camp instructor Mike McLeron leads the Band I ensemble in the end-of-camp concert at Fort Worden State Park on Friday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Young musicians delight listeners

Donation program to have two more summer sessions

Lynn Cohen and James Urbaniak play an unlikely pair in “Hello Lonesome,” the Port Townsend Film Festival Pic streaming this week. (Mark Rosenberg/Hello Lonesome)

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‘Hello Lonesome’ explores human connection

Port Townsend Film Festival Pic online through July 11

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Port Townsend City Council hopefuls debate

Housing, budget and deer addressed

The sign at the Courtyard Cafe in downtown Port Townsend tells the tale of restaurants in summer 2021. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Staffing shortages cramp businesses

Capacity restored, but service constrained

Multi-instrumentalist John Maxwell, left, and blues violinist Jon Parry will mix their music into the Red, White & the Blues event Sunday at the Old Alcohol Plant. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Fundraiser for Bayside Housing set for Sunday

PORT HADLOCK — Live American blues and ragtime, bossa nova, vintage standards and gypsy jazz will mix together…

Carol Swarbrick Dries portrays Lillian Carter in a new docudrama. photo courtesy CJR Films

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Swarbrick Dries presents Lillian Carter in film this weekend

SEQUIM — Carol Swarbrick Dries, the movie and stage actor who makes her home in Sequim, is appearing…

Uncle Funk and the Dope Six will play their first gig in nearly two years — a free, all-ages concert — this Saturday in the courtyard at Port Townsend’s Manresa Castle. The band includes, from left, singer Megan Hudson, guitarist Tim Halpin, percussionist Jesse Watson, bassist Kyle Dannert and drummer Tomoki Sage. Keyboardist Pete Lack was out of town but will soon return. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Free, all-ages concert Saturday at Manresa Castle

First performance set after two-year hiatus from public