Victor

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Puppy, shot at least three times, recovers while reward is offered for information

PORT TOWNSEND –– While a 6-month-old puppy recovers from gunshot wounds, the Humane Society of Jefferson County is…

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Quilcene fire district may seek tax increase to save round-the-clock protection

QUILCENE –– Jefferson County Fire District No. 2 commissioners are considering asking voters in November for a property…

Crew with Anchor Ventures LLC

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1st UPDATE: Relic anchor brought up for air after 222 years — now question begs: Was it Capt. Vancouver’s?

A salvage crew hoisted a 900-pound antique anchor from the bottom of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.…

Victor

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Puppy, shot at least three times, recovers while reward is offered for information

PORT TOWNSEND –– While a 6-month-old puppy recovers from gunshot wounds, the Humane Society of Jefferson County is…

Wheel-In Motor Movie owner Rick Wiley shows off the new Barco PP2k-23B digital movie projector he has installed at the Port Townsend drive-in movie theater with the help of a Kickstarter campaign in which fans of the theater contributed more than $35

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Wheel-In Motor Movie pulls off down-to-the-wire fundraising bid to keep Port Townsend drive-in alive

PORT TOWNSEND — Like Indian Jones sliding just under a closing temple door, the Wheel-In Motor Movie got…

Victor

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Puppy, shot at least three times, recovers while reward is offered for information

PORT TOWNSEND –– While a 6-month-old puppy recovers from gunshot wounds, the Humane Society of Jefferson County is…

Wheel-In Motor Movie owner Rick Wiley shows off the new Barco PP2k-23B digital movie projector he has installed at the Port Townsend drive-in movie theater with the help of a Kickstarter campaign in which fans of the theater contributed more than $35

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Wheel-In Motor Movie pulls off down-to-the-wire fundraising bid to keep Port Townsend drive-in alive

PORT TOWNSEND — Like Indian Jones sliding just under a closing temple door, the Wheel-In Motor Movie got…

Scott Grimm

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222 years to the day: Pair plan this week to fetch old anchor that could be off Vancouver ship

PORT TOWNSEND –– Hoping to disprove decades of conventional wisdom, Doug Monk and Scott Grimm will lead an…

The Seattle-based Sound and Fury Morris & Sword traditional British dance troupe does a jig at Pope Marine Park in Port Townsend as part of the Brass Screw Confederacy’s third Steampunk Festival on Saturday.  —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

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Goggled visitors take over Port Townsend for steampunk fest; ends today

PORT TOWNSEND –– The streets of Port Townsend have been taken over by parasols, periscopes and a little…

A trio of vintage P-51 Mustangs flies in a “V” formation during a flyover of Port Angeles on Friday morning. The flight

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Vintage warplanes soar over Peninsula to mark D-Day anniversary [**Gallery**]

People gathered across the North Olympic Peninsula to watch a trio of vintage World War II fighter planes…

Albert Haller Playfields hosts a recent youth soccer gathering. —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

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Sequim soccer playfields expansion not without critics

SEQUIM –– Plans are in the works to upgrade the Albert Haller Playfields next to the city’s Water…

A masked figure is shown carrying a 4-year-old child across Carrie Blake Park in Sequim in this scene from a YouTube video two brothers made April 13.

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Remember the twin brothers who staged fake kidnapping in Sequim? Now they face a court date

SEQUIM –– Turns out “scaring the hell out of people” might be a crime. City Attorney Craig Ritchie…

Air Force veteran Thomas Knee

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‘The day when it all turned around’: North Olympic Peninsula veterans recall D-Day 70 years later

Whether they were sitting in the English Channel, on a mule in the Caribbean or working in a…

Ted Smithers

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Is that legal? Man in Grateful Dead bear suit advertises for medical marijuana on Port Angeles streets

PORT ANGELES –– Can a guy in a bear suit sell weed on the sidewalk? Local city and…

Albert Haller Playfields hosts a recent youth soccer gathering. —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

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Sequim soccer playfields expansion not without critics

SEQUIM –– Plans are in the works to upgrade the Albert Haller Playfields next to the city’s Water…

A masked figure is shown carrying a 4-year-old child across Carrie Blake Park in Sequim in this scene from a YouTube video two brothers made April 13.

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Remember the twin brothers who staged fake kidnapping in Sequim? Now they face a court date

SEQUIM –– Turns out “scaring the hell out of people” might be a crime. City Attorney Craig Ritchie…

A masked figure is shown carrying a 4-year-old child across Carrie Blake Park in Sequim in this scene from a YouTube video two brothers made April 13.

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Remember the twin brothers who staged fake kidnapping in Sequim? They will go to court after all

SEQUIM –– Turns out “scaring the hell out of people” might be a crime. City Attorney Craig Ritchie…

Dianne Mcintosh with the purse she carried as part of a $21 outfit she modeled during the Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild's annual luncheon fashion show at 7 Cedars Casino. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

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Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild gives more than $32,000

SEQUIM — Local health agencies will be able to train more nurses, provide free treatment and improve scanning…

Three conservation groups plan to try to stop a timber harvest in the West End that is planned for an area adjacent to habitat of the marbled murrelet

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Timber harvest dispute over West End units centers on threatened bird species

Three conservation groups intend to ask Jefferson County Superior Court Judge Keith Harper to stop a state-approved harvest…

One of Tse-whit-zen's greatest treasures: an intricately carved bone comb. Peninsula Daily News file photo

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Tse-whit-zen artifacts to be displayed on Peninsula (with photo gallery)

EDITOR’S NOTE — See related story today, “Tribe applies to National Register of Historic Places for Tse-whit-zen” —…