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Orchestra teacher Daniel Ferland works with his students at Port Townsend High School. About 75 musicians recently traveled to the Central Washington University Orchestra Festival in Ellensburg. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend High School symphony improvises

Students, parents rally after positive COVID test

Barbarian Fine Cuisine’s Chris Kauffman was among the numerous cooks working opening day of the Port Townsend market on Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Farmers Market opens

Barbarian Fine Cuisine’s Chris Kauffman was among the numerous cooks working opening day of the Port Townsend Farmers…

An aerial photo shows the Caswell-Brown Village on Mill Road at the edge of Port Townsend. The site, purchased by Jefferson County and operated by the Olympic Community Action Programs, has the potential for expansion to serve more families and single people who are homeless. photo courtesy Olympic Community Action Programs

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Update: Unhoused find homes

Caswell-Brown Village encampment expansion before county

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Marine Thrift shop reopens today in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — Marine Thrift, the Northwest Maritime Center’s second-hand store for sailors, builders and do-it-yourselfers, is reopening…

Touring flamenco performer Savannah Fuentes will alight at the Palindrome in Port Townsend this Monday night. photo courtesy Savannah Fuentes

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Spring days, nights fill with art, music

Activities set on Peninsula this weekend

Tom Nall of Crusty Crumb Bakery, pictured in 2021, is among more than a dozen vendors of prepared foods participating this year in the Port Townsend Farmers Market, which takes over Tyler Street in the Uptown district starting this Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend Farmers Market to open Saturday

Welcoming ceremony to mark event’s 30th anniversary

Shelly Leavens, executive director of the Jefferson County Historical Society, will welcome visitors to the new "Wood" exhibition — which includes Annalise Rubida's wooden lights — during an open house this Saturday evening. The Jefferson Museum of Art & History on Water Street in Port Townsend is the venue. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Art blooming on Peninsula

Roundup of weekend events

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Jefferson Transit names interim general manager

Fixed-route operations manager steps into role

After many months of masking, flutists Gabby Mattern-Hall, left, and Sibyl Finman got to shed their face coverings for band practice earlier this month in George Rodes’ band room. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Teens learning to make music together again

Orchestra director guest conductor for Sequim class

Zorro, a soon-to-be adopted resident at Center Valley Animal Rescue in Quilcene, allowed staff member Cody Maxwell to hold him while she spoke about the organization’s fundraising celebration this Saturday at Port Townsend’s Northwest Maritime Center. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Center Valley fundraiser in person this year

Online auction to precede gala event on Saturday

Port Townsend School District Superintendent Linda Rosenbury, left, and Main Street Program Executive Director Mari Mullen were among the people who came to the city’s streateries-and-parklets open house at the Cotton Building on Tuesday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Streateries discussion in progress

Port Townsend council expects to make decision in May

Doug Chin is the speaker this Friday in the Jefferson County Historical Society's First Friday Speaker Series, both in person at the Northwest Maritime Center and online. photo courtesy Jefferson County Historical Society

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Chinese American history in state topic of lecture

PORT TOWNSEND — In a hybrid presentation this Friday evening, writer, activist and historian Doug Chin will delve…

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Music, art offered in Friday entertainment

It’s going to be a big weekend for art shows and live music on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Inside the remodeled playhouse in Port Townsend, "Around the World in Less Than 80 Days" playwright and actor David Natale cracks up Denise Winter, the artistic director of Key City Public Theatre. The two, along with the cast and crew, have just opened ticket sales for the show's world premiere. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Key City Public Theatre to reopen with ‘Around the World’

Renovated facility to welcome audiences with world premiere

Interim County Administrator Mark McCauley decided, instead of retiring, to accept the county commissioners' appointment to full county administrator. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Jefferson County hires experienced administrator

‘No need to disrupt the progress we’ve made’

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Open house to explore future of streateries

Parklets also on city’s docket

Bee Redfield

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New marine science center leader to begin Friday

Enthusiasm for community impressed board

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Chimacum man sentenced in death of Cummings

Widow: ‘I lost my best friend’

Apple Martine.

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Public health workers to participate in retreat

Aim is to support workers in challenging times

Keltoi -- from left, Cameron St. Louis, Vienna Scheyer, Bill Woods, David Rivers and Rich Hill -- will bring their Celtic music to Port Townsend's Quimper Grange Hall this Saturday night. photo courtesy of Keltoi

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Sailboat regatta, music, art await this weekend

Live music — from Celtic to classical, blues to rock’n’roll — will flow freely this weekend on the…