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Accepting a donation from Sound Community Bank are Port Angeles Symphony conductor Jonathan Pasternack, center, Adventures in Music producer Al Harris and symphony board member Kathleen Balducci, at right; Sound Community Bank's Laurie Szczepczynski is at left with Sequim manager Shelli Robb-Kahler. (Photo courtesy Sound Community Bank)

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Donations fund Adventures in Music

PORT ANGELES — Sound Community Bank has made a $4,000 donation to Adventures in Music, the Port Angeles…

Clarinetist Jonathan Doyle, complete with an aerosol-masking instrument cover, jazzed up the Haller Fountain in downtown Port Townsend in the first “Buskers on the Block” gig. The series will showcase local musicians Thursdays and Saturdays through May. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Free music series has begun in Port Townsend

Buskers scheduled through May in Main Street program

Ballet Victoria — whose dancers have included Julia Jones Whitehead and Tymin McKeown, seen in 2019 — is among the dozens of performing ensembles to appear in the 2021 Juan de Fuca Festival, a blend of in-person and virtual shows May 28-31. Passes for the virtual festival are on sale now. Tickets for in-person shows will be available later this month. For information about the festival and its COVID-19 safety protocols, see JFFA.org under the Festival menu; the Juan de Fuca Foundation office phone is 360-457-5411. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Festival passes on sale

Ballet Victoria — whose dancers have included Julia Jones Whitehead and Tymin McKeown, seen in 2019 — is…

Jefferson County Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour.

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Letter supports breaching dams

Jefferson County Commissioners encourage implementation of controversial proposal

Meghan Mix of Hopscotch Farm is among dozens of vendors at the Port Townsend Farmers Market’s opening day Saturday. She had a busy day at her stand, selling salad greens, pickles and her popular beet relish. The market is on from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays at Tyler and Lawrence streets in Uptown Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Farmers market opens

Meghan Mix of Hopscotch Farm is among dozens of vendors at the Port Townsend Farmers Market’s opening day…

Jefferson Community Foundation CEO Siobhan Canty.

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Jefferson Community Foundation fund moves to second phase

COVID relief turns to look toward recovery

Recovering from electrocution, Eduardo Garcia relearns his skills as a chef in "Charged," the Port Townsend Film Festival Pic for April. photo courtesy of Port Townsend Film Festival and Implement Productions

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‘Charged’ to stream this week from Port Townsend

Film about ‘flipping the script’

Pam Petranek pedals her Cape Cleare Salmon trailer down Lawrence Street toward the Port Townsend Farmers Market last year as she will do again when the market reopens Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Larger Port Townsend Farmers Market to open Saturday

Some 55 vendors are scheduled, and more will come

Keith Rasmussen is sprucing up The Keg & I in Chimacum for its reopening — with live music on the back deck — this Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Doyle and Dwyer set to enliven Keg & I deck

CHIMACUM — Dancing to the live, in-person music this weekend at the Keg &I isn’t allowed, but you…

Artist Peggy Smith-Venturi prepares to unveil “Unwrapped,” her new exhibition at the Jefferson Museum of Art & History. The downtown Port Townsend museum reopens Friday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Jefferson Museum of Art & History debuts three exhibits Friday

Historical society hopes to expand later this spring

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First Friday talk on art, electrochemistry

PORT TOWNSEND — Another virtual program in the “Art of Making” speaker series, this one focusing on jewelry,…

Wooden Boat Festival director Barb Trailer says the future is bright for the September event at and around the Northwest Maritime Center in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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2021 Wooden Boat Festival charts its course

Planned: Outdoor activities, indoor events, presentations

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Port Townsend Farmers Market opens online shopping

PORT TOWNSEND — In anticipation of the first Port Townsend Farmers Market of the season this Saturday, the…

Aaron Asis, installing his “Fort Words” paintings at Fort Worden State Park last September, is among the many artists who have received Port Townsend Arts Commission grants. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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New grants available for Port Townsend artists’ works

City commission reviews applications monthly

<strong>Diane Urbani de la Paz</strong>/Peninsula Daily News Paul Carter of Port Townsend makes the most of the day’s sunshine as he joins a Washington State Ferry on Port Townsend Bay. Monday was his first time out on his single MAAS 24 rowing shell.

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Out on the bay

Paul Carter of Port Townsend makes the most of the day’s sunshine as he joins the Washington State…

A group of bicyclists make their way down a section of the Olympic Discovery Trail near William R. Fairchild International Airport on the west side of Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Volunteers keep Olympic Discovery Trail in shape

Jefferson County secures land for additional path

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Collaborative ADO in the works

Port steps back; EDC in lead role

Volunteer Joan Coyne puts the icing on the cake for Jefferson County's Cake4Kids project earlier this month. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Cake4kids spreads the frosting around

Volunteer bakers mark special days

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COVID-19 cases rise among young

In week 55 of the pandemic — and week two of spring — COVID-19 cases are trending up…

<strong>Diane Urbani de la Paz</strong>/Peninsula Daily News Rachael Van Laanen and her son Quince, 5, care for the animals — including 40 American Alpine goats — at Mystery Bay Farm on Marrowstone Island.

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Mystery Bay Farm welcomes spring season

Farmsteading described on tours on Marrowstone