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Graceful as a sea lioness, Laura Rogers of Port Hadlock took the plunge off the dock on New Year’s Day 2021. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Plunging regardless: Swimmers, spectators gather at Nordland

Store will reopen, eventually, owner says

Lou Quevedo and Ann Carlson chose the Olympic Mountains as the backdrop for their October wedding.

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Pandemic changes ceremonies, but not vows

Couples wed despite restrictions

Builder Randy Welle holds up the new sign for the village of individual shelters near the Community United Methodist Church in Port Hadlock. Pastor Scott Rosekrans, left, and original project manager Peter Bonyun joined him in Thursday's blessing ceremony. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Pastor welcomes ‘community spirit village’

Volunteers build shelters in Port Hadlock for those in need

Wind snapped a stop sign post at Lawrence and Van Buren streets on Wednesday in Uptown Port Townsend. The powerful gusts knocked power out for nearly 1,000 Jefferson Public Utility District customers throughout the morning. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Storm barrels through Port Townsend area

Lights out for more than 2,000 customers

Vocal Masters instructor Elaine Gardner-Morales, also a bass player, has created an online Peninsula College course for singers to explore jazz, country and pop music. (Philip D. Lusk/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Vocalists still singing online despite it all

Vocal Masters Series class welcomes students, guest coaches

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Dove House distributes funds

Application deadline Jan.13

Tasting room lead Heidi Haney, left, and co-owner Karle Coppenrath await the day when the restored Port Townsend Vineyards Vintage Downtown building and plaza can host the gatherings it's designed for. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Restorations preserve public spaces

PT Vineyards, Worthington Mansion among 12 award winners

Ellie DiPietro of the Jefferson County Historical Society proposed the idea of Letters to 2020 and wrote one of her own. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Letters to 2020 project solicits reflections

‘Get lost!’ says one pre-paid postcard to past 12 months

Volunteers Mya Lindstrom, left, and Judy Robinett direct the carrots and scalloped potatoes through the assembly line during the Tri-Area Community Center's Christmas dinner on Friday. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Tri-Area Community Center cooks 328 meals

Christmas dinner curbside in Chimacum

Volunteer builder Randy Welle prepares to welcome people to the Bayside Housing village in Port Hadlock. The sky-blue shelter is named Beth's House in honor of cofounder Peter Bonyun's late wife Beth Lorber. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Shelter village arrives on Faith Way in Port Townsend

Project a ‘Christmas gift to the community’

Nurse Jess Cigalotti administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Jefferson Healthcare laboratory staffer Lindsay Laughlin at the drive-up site in Port Townsend. More than 750 frontline healthcare workers will have made their immunization appointments by the end of today.

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Jefferson Healthcare lab staffer chooses shot, says it’s ‘best gift ever’

Woman joins 800 frontline workers in taking vaccine

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COVID recovery plan approved

Plan start of new era

A hint of sunlight shines on a Washington State Ferry on Tuesday, the day after the winter solstice, as it sails into Port Townsend. The sun will rise a few more minutes earlier each day and set a few minutes later through the spring equinox on March 20. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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The days are getting longer

A hint of sunlight shines on a Washington State Ferry on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, the day after…

Joseph Molotsky swaddles an injured barred owl at Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue in Port Townsend. After two weeks of rehabilitation, the bird has begun to eat on its own. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/ Peninsula Daily News)

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Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue cares for feathered friends great and small

Acts of kindness deliver animals to Jefferson County center

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Jefferson Transit makes plans for new year

Additional buses could be added

Writer-illustrator Taylor Mermel of Marrowstone Island has published a pair of picture books to help children with stress and anxiety. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Grown-up child writes from own experience

Books provide resources for kids feeling overwhelmed

Escorted by his dog Zeke, volunteer Gabe Quintanilla brings a newly refurbished bike to the Port Townsend ReCyclery Christmas tree he built from castoff bicycle wheels. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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ReCyclery revamps bicycles as gifts

Volunteers, donations fuel program

Working the COVID vaccination drive-up station Thursday are, from left, Jefferson Healthcare staffers Jaimie Hoobler, Brandy Boyd, Jess Cigalotti and Lori Banks. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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‘Jumpstart phase’ of inoculation begins on Peninsula

Jefferson Healthcare begins drive-up clinic

Nurse Jess Cigalotti administers the North Olympic Peninsula's first COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday to Dr. Tracie Harris, an internist and hospitalist who cares for COVID patients at Jefferson Healthcare hospital. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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First vaccination on Peninsula at Jefferson Healthcare

Hospital staff cheers as doctor, nurse inoculated

Violist Richard O'Neill, who grew up in Sequim, will give an online performance Saturday of music that has won him a Grammy nomination.

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Online concert features Peninsula violist in Korea

Richard O’Neill is a classical music rock star