Kate McDermott, baker, author and pie-camp leader, will teach an online class from her Port Angeles home this Thursday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Life

Peninsula pie queen to host ‘Snowy Day’

Baker, author uses cameras to stream instructional videos

Key City Public Theatre's Brendan Chambers and Maggie Jo Bulkley engage in a little "zip zap zop," a theater game, in preparation for their youth theater classes in Port Townsend. The two are not wearing masks in this photo because they live in the same household. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Arts & Entertainment

Key City Public Theatre restarts youth program

Winter courses for children, teens

"And I, Pluto's Only Cactus" is among the many offbeat plays staged at the Chameleon Theater. Appearing in the 2012 production were, from left, Jeremiah Morgan, Rosa Davies and Michelle Hensel. photo courtesy The Chameleon Theater

Arts & Entertainment

Artistic director begins campaign to keep Chameleon alive

PORT TOWNSEND — The Chameleon Theater is changeable like its namesake: It can have 50 seats for a…

Louise Woehrle and her uncle, Air Force bombardier Charles Woehrle, co-created "Stalag Luft III: One Man's Story," about the B-17 flight that led to his capture and imprisonment by the Nazis during World War II.     photo courtesy of Whirlygig Productions

Arts & Entertainment

A POW lives to tell

‘Stalag Luft III’ depicts wartime camp, aftermath

News

Navy’s anti-terrorism force protection exercise starts Monday

PORT HADLOCK — Naval Magazine Indian Island is one of four Navy installations to conduct its annual “anti-terrorism…

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 A team of volunteers painted "Black Lives Matter" on Port Townsend's Water Street last summer.

News

Port Townsend City Council to consider street-painting permits

‘Black Lives Matter’ message spurred ordinance

Erin Reading is cofounder of the Port Townsend Psychedelic Society, which seeks the decriminalization of psilocybin mushrooms and psychoactive plants. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

News

Port Townsend woman seeks decriminalization of ‘magic’ mushrooms

Proponents say city could make possession a low priority

The Port Townsend Paper Co. recycles more than a third of the state's castoff cardboard and employs just fewer than 300 workers. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

News

Presentation to feature 100 years of mill history

Series of projects includes artwork, paper making

Poet Lauren Davis, also a bookseller and instructor at Imprint Books and the Writers' Workshoppe in Port Townsend, has published "The Missing Ones," a collection of poems about a woman who disappeared at Lake Crescent. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Love, loss and poetry at Lake Crescent

Port Townsend author transfixed by woman’s story

Cyclist Dave Thielk, struck by a tree on Olympic Hot Springs Road last month, is on the mend at home in Port Townsend. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

News

‘Luckiest unlucky moment’: Cyclist survives falling tree in ONP

‘I thought I was dead’

Hundreds turned out for the Womxn's March in Port Townsend, one of hundreds around the world in January 2017. (Peninsula Daily News)

News

Women’s march to be conducted virtually this year

Organizer: Port Townsend event to celebrate woman vice president

Kim Trenerry and Jason Mogi, who perform as Deadwood Revival, practice in their Port Angeles home on Thursday in preparation for a live-streamed concert for the Juan de Fuca Foundation's Winter Benefit on Saturday night. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Deadwood Revival to play in free live-streaming event

Saturday proceeds to go toward JFFA operating expenses

Doug Milholland of Port Townsend invites people to join him in ringing bells, playing instruments and singing at noon Friday in support of the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which enters into force that day. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

News

Port Townsend man celebrates weapons treaty

United Nations to declare nuclear ban prohibition

As motorists honked, Linda Abbott-Roe held up her message during the Inauguration Day celebration in downtown Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

News

Celebrants express relief, hope

Residents gather, bring signs in downtown Port Townsend and Sequim

Elin Kelsey, author of "Hope Matters," will discuss her science-based approach to hope amid the environmental crisis during an online program Thursday. Peninsula College will present Kelsey free of charge. (Photo courtesy of Agathe Bernard)

Arts & Entertainment

Environmental scientist to speak at students’ request

Online class to feature idea of hope

The author of “Crazy Brave” will give a Peninsula College Studium Generale talk Jan. 28 via Zoom.

Opinion

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Elusive poet to open up online

I TRIED TWICE to arrange a phone interview with Joy Harjo, the artist, musician and U.S. Poet Laureate.

Eowyn Reardon, 22 months, assisted parents Benjamin Reardon and Amy Johnson of Port Townsend at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day beach cleanup on Monday. Scores of people took to the shores at Fort Worden State Park for the event hosted by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

News

Fort Worden beachgoers pick up litter on MLK day

Cleanup event also at Boat Haven, state and county parks

Scores of people turned out Nov. 7 for a Port Townsend rally supporting President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. A celebration of the inauguration is planned for noon Wednesday the Pope Marine Plaza in downtown Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Politics

Inauguration rally set Wednesday in Port Townsend

Noontime event scheduled downtown

Alan and Karen Selig were among the gleaners volunteering at Joyce's Blueberry Haven last summer. (Photo courtesy of Sharah Truett/WSU Clallam County Extension)

News

Summer tastes are still alive

Volunteer gleaners share with schools, friends and family

Like many students across Jefferson County, Port Townsend High School student Devon Bennett-Anderson, 17, has been part of a hybrid-learning cohort. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

News

Students to begin heading back to classrooms

Changes start this week