Transgender mariner Susan Brittain will give the Northwest Maritime Center’s “Ask an Expert” online talk this Thursday.

Entertainment

‘LGBTQ+ and Finding My Way’ to be presented online Thursday

Free ‘Ask and Expert’ program offers four speaks for program

“Wishtree” author Katherine Applegate will do a livestreamed talk Thursday evening via the Port Townsend Public Library website.

Entertainment

‘Wishtree’ author appears; actual tree awaiting slips

More Community Read activities planned

Opinion

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Novel follows paths of characters transformation

“Come As You Are,” a novel just unleashed into the world, starts out with two kids baptized by…

During the online Conservation Breakfast this Thursday, speakers — from left, David Brownell, Emma Brownell, Erik Kingfisher and Stormy Purser — will discuss how local tribes care for the land. The four are pictured last spring on Chimacum Ridge, one of the parcels the Jefferson Land Trust is working to preserve. (Tim Lawson/Jefferson Land Trust)

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Conservation Breakfast to highlight nature connection

Free event conducted virtually Thursday with panelists

News

In-person public meetings to return

Hybrid city, county, port sessions planned

Bridget Gregg, Master Gardener Program Coordinator and presenter of the "Growing Groceries" class starting this week, visited one of Chetzemoka Park's flowering trees on Friday. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Master gardeners offer guidance

PORT HADLOCK — The twice-yearly “Growing Groceries” class, a combination of in-person workshops and livestreamed sessions, is open…

Linda Rosenbury, superintendent of the Port Townsend School District, looks forward to the community-wide party Saturday at Blue Heron Middle School. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Education

Port Townsend School District to host free celebration

Games, arts and crafts featured in Saturday event

"Prehistoric" by photographer Marian Bodart is part of the show opening this weekend at Studio Bob in downtown Port Angeles. photo by Marian Bodart

Entertainment

Theater, science, photography, music scheduled this weekend

A pre-St. Patrick’s Day concert, a barn dance and a photography exhibition by six local women: They’re sharing…

Gallery director Sarah Jane, left, and exhibit co-curator Lucia Harrison of Tacoma arrange a display that will be included in the exhibition “Science Stories: A Collaboration of Book Artists and Scientists,” which opens Friday at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Entertainment

‘Science Stories’ brings together multiple worlds

New exhibition opens Friday at Port Angeles Fine Arts Center

Bassist Marion Hayden, pictured at Centrum’s Jazz Port Townsend concert last summer at Fort Worden, is among the teachers and performers returning for the in-person workshop this July. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Entertainment

Centrum swinging into a new, full season

Arts organization prepping in-person workshops, concerts

Muralist Danielle Fodor paints the newest tiny home, named Meadow Manor, at the Community Boat Project shop in Port Hadlock on Tuesday. The 160-square-foot home is an example of the housing to be built for farmworkers in Chimacum. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Rotary Club joins tiny home-building crew

Units destined for farmworkers in rich agricultural valley

Barber Beckie Tunstall cut some 14 inches of Liam Getzin’s hair during a lengthy appointment on Feb. 18. Getzin, a Port Angeles High School senior, later donated his locks to Wigs for Kids, an organization that gives wigs to children suffering health crises. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

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High school senior donates hair to charity

Teen gives his strands to Wigs for Kids

Entertainment

Port Townsend’s Chinese community topic of film

PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County Historical Society will host another look into Port Townsend’s past this Friday…

Opinion

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Being one’s own art therapist

IT GIVES ME great joy to write about other people’s art. Whether it’s painting or sculpture or choreography,…

Susan Brittain, with the schooner Adventuress behind her at the Port Townsend Boat Haven, is one of six storytellers in "She Tells Sea Tales," an online event this Saturday. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Entertainment

‘She Tells Sea Tales’ presents women’s true stories

Presentations aim to support dreams of sailing

Port Townsend Library Director Melody Sky Weaver is presiding over the 2022 Community Read, which includes two books this year: “Wishtree” by Katherine Applegate and “The House in the Cerulean Sea” by TJ Klune. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Two books the focus of Community Read events

Activities begin on Tuesday and continue throughout March

Politics

Retiree announces candidacy

Attorney challenging Brotherton for county commission seat

News

New group to analyze poplar plan

City to hire a consultant for work on Sims Way project

Projections of images are used in “Baskerville,” the Sherlock Holmes mystery opening tonight at the Port Angeles Community Playhouse. Among the players are Rick Mischke as Henry Baskerville, left, Peter Stone as Dr. Watson and Jessica Baskaran as Miss Beryl Stapleton. (Marissa Meek)

Entertainment

Music, theater and possibly a regatta set for this weekend

Entertainment across the North Olympic Peninsula

Featured soloist Pamela Roberts will play Astor Piazzolla’s Grand Tango with the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra this weekend. The dress rehearsal Friday evening and concert Sunday afternoon are free to the public, while reservations are necessary for Sunday. (Howard Gilbert)

Entertainment

Port Townsend cellist ready to speak jazz

Symphony Orchestra performs this weekend