Dr. Tom Locke is the Jefferson County deputy health officer.

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Mandates may be ‘new normal,’ deputy health officer says

Vaccination rates are rising across the state and nationally, the deputy public health officer for Jefferson County told…

The Port of Port Townsend’s Herb Beck Marina in Quilcene was the subject of an outreach survey conducted this past summer. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Quilcene wants more of Herb Beck Marina

Changes needed, residents tell Port of Port Townsend

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Council, city manager talk parks, police car funding

Investing nearly $1.4 million of federal money

Lila's Kitchen owner Wendy Davis stops by the Batch Brothers window on a recent afternoon. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News.

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Outdoor restaurateurs find attractive recipe

Future expansion under consideration

Houlton Madinger of Port Townsend enjoyed the Mountain View Pool's brief reopening back in March. The facility, which closed again last summer, is set to open to the public Oct. 25. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Swimming pool, Starlight Room set to reopen in Port Townsend

Both resume the same week

Twyla Sampaco's photograph "Homesick for a Feeling" is one of the works in the "Chasing Shadows" exhibition at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. (Photo by Twyla Sampaco)

Entertainment

Storytelling, art, orcas all featured in events this weekend

Three days of storytelling, a fundraising art sale and a talk that dives into the ocean: This weekend…

Bulgarian-born pianist Anna Petrova, rehearsing with the Port Angeles Symphony the last time she came to the North Olympic Peninsula, will return to open the orchestra’s new season Nov. 6. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Entertainment

Symphony season tickets on sale

Five concerts planned, fall through spring

Connie Gallant, recipient of the 2021 Eleanor Stopps Environmental Leadership Award, is pictured with her late husband JD Gallant in 2019. (Photo courtesy Connie Gallant)

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Port Townsend Marine Science Center presents Stopps award

‘You have to be hopeful,’ says recipient

Beth Horner, a National Storytelling Network Oracle Award winner, will teach a master class and give livestreamed performances during the Forest Storytelling Festival this weekend. (Photo by Julie Curry)

Entertainment

Forest Storytelling Festival all livestreamed this weekend

Tall tales told from all over the nation in three-day event

Soon after dawn, clouds part to reveal the Olympic Mountains high above the Port Townsend Paper mill from the Washington State Ferry dock in Port Townsend. Sunrise will come about 90 seconds later each morning through the solstice on Dec. 21. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Olympic sunrise

Soon after dawn, clouds part to reveal the Olympic Mountains high above the Port Townsend Paper mill from…

Katie Franco, center, and Libby Palmer of Port Townsend demonstrate support for Haitian asylum seekers outside the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center on Sunday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Advocates protest outside Northwest Detention Center

Peninsula nonprofit pushes for fair treatment of Haitians

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COVID picture differs in counties

Clallam outbreak grows; Jefferson dips

Contractor Todd Armstrong is among the volunteer builders of the Pat’s Place tiny homes in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Tiny-home village permit gets green light

Port Townsend approves housing option for 180 days

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Politics

Port Townsend City Council hopefuls discuss visions

Bicycles, housing among policies

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Poet and Port Angeles Public Library staff member K’Ehleyr McNulty has organized an Indigenous Peoples’ Day Poetry Slam, scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday via Zoom.

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Indigenous writers compete in poetry slam

PORT ANGELES — A variety of indigenous writers from across the North Olympic Peninsula will partake in a…

The duo of beatbox-juggling keynote speaker Bronkar Lee, left, and tap dancer-percussionist Aaron Williams -- known as Collision of Rhythm -- will take the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center stage Sunday. photo courtesy Collision of Rhythm

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Collision of Rhythm arrives Sunday

PORT ANGELES — Pursue Bronkar Lee and Aaron Williams for an interview about the thing they call Collision…

Taking a break from setting up for the Olympic Peninsula Apple & Cider Festival, four Production Alliance crew members — from left, Danny Milholland, Shane Parish, Larry Lawrence and Damon Barlow — look out over the orchard at Eaglemount Winery-Cidery of Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Entertainment

Apple Cider Festival on tap this weekend

Outdoors entertainment at three venues

Black and white images from across and beyond the region, including this photo by Richard Kohler, are in the limelight this weekend at Studio Bob in Port Angeles. photo by Richard Kohler

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Crab dinners, art, music among weekend’s activities

While the Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival is the blockbuster on the Port Angeles waterfront, this weekend also…

Opinion

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: The transformation of a life

“I’m 30 days out today,” was the first thing Greg Steen said. As in out of prison —…

Django Lynge, 13, and Dustin Hines, 14, stand ready for Wednesday’s ReCyclery Mountain Bike Club ride around Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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The ReCyclery launching capital campaign to grow

Plumbing, electrical upgrades could be in future for nonprofit