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Port Townsend moves to renegotiate interlocal agreements on affordable housing

PORT TOWNSEND — After a lengthy and sometimes contentious discussion about funding, the Port Townsend City Council voted…

Study looks at maritime trades impacts on Jefferson economy

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Study looks at maritime trades impacts on Jefferson economy

PORT TOWNSEND — A study to determine the effect of the maritime industry on the economics of Jefferson…

Wednesday farmers market opens in new location

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Wednesday farmers market opens in new location

PORT TOWNSEND — The Wednesday Farmer’s Market in Port Townsend has a new location and a new focus…

Grant Street Elementary students say farewell to school building

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Grant Street Elementary students say farewell to school building

PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend students have ended the school year with memories, hugs and tears of leaving…

Seventy48 teams congratulated on trek

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Seventy48 teams congratulated on trek

PORT TOWNSEND — After 70 miles of blistered palms and strained muscles, it was time to celebrate the…

Race to Alaska begins: First craft reach Victoria in first leg of race

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Race to Alaska begins: First craft reach Victoria in first leg of race

PORT TOWNSEND — About a half hour before sunrise Thursday morning, Port Townsend Bay was humming with activity…

Pride in the Park set for Saturday in Port Townsend

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Pride in the Park set for Saturday in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — The inaugural Pride in the Park, an event to raise awareness of LGBTQ issues and…

Race to Alaska begins today; sailors party, prepare

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Race to Alaska begins today; sailors party, prepare

PORT TOWNSEND — A fleet of sailors was making last-minute preparations Wednesday for today’s 5 a.m. start of…

Competitors gear up for Race to Alaska

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Competitors gear up for Race to Alaska

PORT TOWNSEND — The inside passage to Ketchikan, Alaska soon will be filled with dreamers set upon winning…

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Jefferson County recycling policy to change after China rejects material

PORT TOWNSEND — County residents have been accustomed to dutifully separating their recyclable materials into paper, plastics and…

Winners finish Seventy48 race in under 10 hours

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Winners finish Seventy48 race in under 10 hours

PORT TOWNSEND — Under a star-filled sky and on calm seas, Epic, a kayak team from Bellingham, won…

Crime

Two arrested for investigation of Kai Tah assault

PORT TOWNSEND — Two men have been arrested for investigation of an assault on a 60-year-old man in…

Swaziland youth’s attempt to come to U.S. rejected

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Swaziland youth’s attempt to come to U.S. rejected

PORT TOWNSEND — Efforts to bring Walter Maphalala, a 19-year-old student, from Swaziland to the Northwest have been…

Inaugural Seventy48 race draws chef, many others

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Inaugural Seventy48 race draws chef, many others

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson Healthcare’s Executive Chef Arran Stark is known for delivering oatmeal via paddleboard to the…

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, left, examines a steampunk-themed metal artwork created by Peninsula College welding students, from left, Ellis Henderson of Port Townsend, and Nathan Hofer and Matthew Weaver of Port Angeles during the governor’s tour of the college’s welding class on the Port Angeles campus on Thursday. The shop tour was part of a presentation on economic opportunities and partnerships in the maritime industries on the North Olympic Peninsula.

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Inslee focuses on maritime industry during tour of Peninsula

Gov. Jay Inslee visited the North Olympic Peninsula on Thursday to discuss the area’s maritime industry and celebrate…

Steampunk Festival to bring adventure, whimsy to Port Townsend

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Steampunk Festival to bring adventure, whimsy to Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — The Brass Screw Confederacy Steampunk Festival will take over downtown Port Townsend for its seventh…

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Jefferson County likely to sell sand, gravel pit

QUILCENE — A 30-acre gravel and sand pit that has not been used in 22 years will be…

Port Townsend Arts Commission studies public art

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Port Townsend Arts Commission studies public art

PORT TOWNSEND — Plans to develop an informational park plaza on a small triangle-shaped parcel of public property…

Port Townsend group protests for immigrant rights

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Port Townsend group protests for immigrant rights

PORT TOWNSEND — A group of 55 men and women stood with signs Tuesday to bring awareness to…

Puget Sound Pilots honored at ceremony marking 150 years of program

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Puget Sound Pilots honored at ceremony marking 150 years of program

PORT TOWNSEND — Elected officials joined Puget Sound Pilots officials, maritime advocates and educators in celebrating 150 years…