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Port Townsend city officials offer good news on hiring front

Work outlined for the year

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Agency defines consent

Dove House offers tea and information

Jack Dwyer, pictured on Tyler Street Plaza in Port Townsend, will play at the Keg & I in Chimacum during the early evening this Saturday. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Salsa dancing, music, comedy scheduled on Peninsula

This Easter weekend is relatively quiet in terms of live entertainment, but there will be some salsa dancing,…

The Lombardy poplars bordering the Port Townsend Boat Haven on Sims Way — along with the utility lines — continue to be the subject of debate. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Stakeholders, skeptics to talk poplars

Trees focus in project discussion

Novelist Jules Verne (David Natale) appears in the imagination of journalist-traveler Elizabeth Bisland (Maggie Jo Bulkley) in “Around the World in Less than 80 Days,” the play — penned by Natale — at Key City Public Theatre. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Actors take patrons ‘Around the World in less than 80 Days’

Adventure to take place in recently reopened playhouse

Clockwise from left are Eve, Tigerlily, Lea and Naiome Krienke, whose image is part of “Still Here: Portraits of the Chemakum,” a large-scale exhibit at Chimacum School. The public opening will be held Thursday afternoon. (Photo copyright Brian Goodman)

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Large-scale portrait exhibit celebrates the Chemakum

Exhibit on display at Chimacum School

Ben Casserd keeps his terrier Half Pint close by as he manages downtown Port Townsend’s Winter Welcoming Center. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Winter Welcoming Center continues into spring

Morning refuge offered through April 25

The Creative District art marker outside the Port Townsend Community Center is among the sculptures, installed around the city last year, that have become canvases for various viewpoints. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend’s art markers bear color, commentary

Expressions surface on wooden sculptures installed last spring

OlyCAP Executive Director Cherish Cronmiller

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New tactic for site at Mill Road in Port Townsend

County to invest more into homeless encampment

In the bucket of East Jefferson Fire Rescue's new ladder truck, firefighters Matt Sheehan, left, and Ben Richter demonstrate extension of the 95-foot ladder, along with firefighter Andy Dalrymple at the base. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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East Jefferson Fire Rescue adds 95-foot ladder truck

‘Quint’ does five jobs

Olympic Angels founder Morgan Hanna of Port Townsend, left, and Love Box volunteer Quinn Mitchell take a walk in Sequim, Mitchell’s home town, to talk about Olympic Angels’ expansion into Clallam County. (April Thompson/Olympic Angels)

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Support organization expands on Peninsula

Volunteers connect with foster children through Love Box

Dmitri Matheny is half of the duo called Beleza to appear at the Cellar Door in Port Townsend on Friday night. (Courtesy photo by Steve Korn)

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Jazz duo Beleza to perform in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — Beleza — Brazilian slang for “it’s a deal” — is the name of the duo…

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Cohousing topic of Saturday discussion

Port Townsend plans for new community

Several of the workers who built Meadow Manor, a tiny house destined for a farmworker village, celebrate its completion at the Community Boat Project last Friday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Tiny house on display in Port Hadlock

Prototype built for small affordable housing in Jefferson County

Mount Baker looms behind the Port Townsend Marine Science Center aquarium, now open for the season at Fort Worden State Park. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend Marine Science Center auction opens Friday

Travel packages and more highlight event, celebrating 40 years

Key City Public Theater’s Brendan Chambers, wearing his actor hat before rehearsal for KCPT’s forthcoming production “Around the World in Less Than 80 Days,” is also co-instructor of the youth theater programs starting next week in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Key City Public Theatre to host drama classes

Sessions at Quimper Grange open for youth through teenagers

Author Barbe Chambliss will discuss her book, “Women Peacemakers,” in an online talk Thursday evening. (photo courtesy Barbe Chambliss)

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Author to speak online about how to make peace

Definition of peacemaking: People treating each other with respect

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Finding grace in the face of tragedy

I can barely breathe when I think of it: A husband and wife, not unlike myself and my…

Vehicles pass a streatery on Lawrence Street, where patrons of Seal Dog Coffee stopped in Saturday morning. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Streateries provoke various comments

Majority in survey are opposed due to parking

Phina Pipia of Port Townsend, pictured in spring 2021, is one of the multi-instrumentalists returning to the Buskers on the Block series of free performances this month and next. Tyler Street Plaza in downtown Port Townsend, with Nora Kingsley’s wings mural, is the setting. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Buskers on the Block returns to Port Townsend

Free outdoor shows begin Thursday at Tyler Street Plaza