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Rower Ken Deem of Tacoma, who placed second in the Seventy48 race last weekend, took a picture just before he started the WA360 in Port Townsend Bay on Monday morning. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Weather conditions challenge racers

Half the field finishes weekend’s Seventy48

Team Bendracing — kayakers Daniel Staudigel and Jason Magness of Bend, Ore. — set out with the rest of the racers in the WA360, the 360-mile, human- and wind-powered event that began in Port Townsend Bay at 6 a.m. Monday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Racers paddle, harness wind to sail Puget Sound

Teams set off on 360-mile round trip from Port Townsend

Team Sail Like a Girl, listening to a sendoff song composed especially for them, includes, from left, Jeanne Goussev, Christa Bassett Ross, Lisa Cole, Laurie Anna Kaplan and Elisha Van Luven. The team will take off this morning on the new WA360 race from Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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The joy of sailing — and singing — like a girl

Freshly made song sends off WA360 team before race

Blues Is a Woman, one of the bands in the Juan de Fuca Foundation Season Concerts series, features, from left, Pamela Rose, Pat Wilder, Daria Johnson and Kristen Strom. photo courtesy Blues Is a Woman

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JFFA Season Concerts announced

Eight shows, flex pass offered

"I got it," said Seventy48 winner Carter Johnson as he carried his kayak onto shore just before 5 a.m. Saturday. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Kayaker slices from Tacoma to PT to win race

More racers coming in today

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Health officers: COVID still poses a danger

Tourist season, increase in variants cited

Shaelee Evans of Goodness Tea, an herb farm based in Sequim, is among the vendors at farmers markets in Sequim and Chimacum. The Chimacum market opens for the season this Sunday. (Photo courtesy of Whaleheart Productions)

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Chimacum Farmers Market opens Sunday

Fifteen vendors to start season

Linda Ward of Port Townsend is among several solo participants in the Seventy48, the 70-mile, human-powered boat race starting tonight in Tacoma. This will be her first time as a solo participant with her Winged Maas Aero rowing shell. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Racers of all stripes poised to challenge sea

‘Everyday heroes’ propel craft from Tacoma to Port Townsend

Team North2Alaska is among the stars of “The Race to Alaska,” this week’s Port Townsend Film Festival Pic available for online streaming. The team took a 25-foot Maryland fishing Sharpie on the 750-mile race, which began in Port Townsend and finished in Ketchikan. (Photo by Liv von Oelreich)

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Race to Alaska documentary online this week

Seventy48, WA360 coming up

Summer brings “smella-vision” to the Alpenfire orchard, co-owner Nancy Bishop says. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Alpenfire cidery to host Jefferson County historical program

First Friday series celebrates people who make things

Shawn Woodyard of Port Angeles talks with Juan de Fuca Festival street fair vendor Cholpon Djumabaeva, who with her husband Jon runs Kyrgyz-Konnection of Gig Harbor. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Festival, street fair return a relief

Our everyday talk equals poetry, Naa Akua told us. This was Saturday afternoon in a spoken-word poetry workshop,…

Ling Hui’s Dance students, from left, Jeannette Patric, Maeve Kenney, Anabel Moore, Maggie Emery and Matia Reimnitz, mark the end of the school year with a performance Friday in Port Townsend’s Chetzemoka Park. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Dance students gather for last-minute show

Shared COVID-19 experiences end with unique finale

A Washington State Patrol officer was seriously injured Tuesday morning when the driver of a stolen pickup struck his vehicle on U.S. Highway 101 at Discovery Bay. (Photo courtesy of the Washington State Patrol)

Crime

Authorities: Gas station fire, stolen pickup lead to crash on 101

State Patrol officer, truck driver airlifted to Harborview

Giving an outdoor concert at Dry Creek Elementary School in Port Angeles are, from left, Noah Geller, James Garlick, Efe Baltacigil and David Auerbach. The musicians came from Seattle, Minnesota and Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Live music delivered to Dry Creek Elementary, Stevens Middle schools

Concerts ‘better than choice time’

During the Juan de Fuca Festival in Port Angeles, the band Gus Clark and the Least of His Problems -- with Jonah Byrne, left, and Clark -- provided a Saturday night set of country music inside the Vern Burton Community Center. The festival included a street fair and live concerts plus 20 virtual performances, which are still available via the Juan de Fuca Foundation for the Arts website, JFFA.org/festival. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Juan de Fuca Festival highlights

During the Juan de Fuca Festival in Port Angeles, the band Gus Clark and the Least of His…

Micaela Kingslight, pictured at a 2019 Concert on the Dock, will bring her music to Tyler Plaza in downtown Port Townsend at 2 p.m. Monday. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Buskers on the Block last shows on Monday

PORT TOWNSEND — Buskers on the Block, the Port Townsend Main Street Program’s live music series, wraps up…

Artist Mike Biskup takes in the sun on Water Street in Port Townsend, where he sells his art from a vintage elevator cage. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Street artist looks for more to join in

Festivals always in reach, he says

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Jefferson Transit seeks comment on new route

Express bus to Kingston ferry

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Members of the Port Angeles High School Chamber Orchestra practice in class on Tuesday under the direction of instructor Nathan Rodahl, right.

Entertainment

Young musicians to play ‘Ode to Joy’

Orchestra members to gather Saturday

Dahlia expert Harold Jensen works with Cecile Culp on plant starts for the Quilcene Brinnon Garden Club's big plant sale Saturday and Sunday at the Brinnon Community Center. photo by Laurie Mattson

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Pancakes, flowers replace ShrimpFest

Plant sale supplants canceled festival