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Veteran, a 55-foot purse seiner built in Gig Harbor in 1926, is one of the featured wooden boats in the 45th Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend. The festival is at the Point Hudson Marina, starts today and runs until Sunday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Wooden boats crowd harbor for festival

Talk to owners, ride the boats, harbormaster urges

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East Jefferson, Port Ludlow fire commissioners approve ballot measure

Merger to go before voters in November

Life

ISSUES OF FAITH: Processing your grief

GRIEF CAN BE so isolating. After a loss, friends and family often back away—either because they think we…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER:Supports Purser

After attending a few Clallam County Public Utility District commission meetings, Ken Hays must have taken a non-existent…

Laura Snodgrass of Port Townsend, an employee of the Port of Port Townsend, uses the sole of her boot to feel for protruding screw heads that might catch on anyone’s foot and cause an accident. Snodgrass was working to replace or tighten screws as necessary in advance of this weekend’s Wooden Boat Festival. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Finishing touches

Laura Snodgrass of Port Townsend, an employee of the Port of Port Townsend, uses the sole of her…

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This weekend, several riders from Lincoln Park BMX in Port Angeles traveled to Spokane to compete in the Washington State BMX Finals and earned their state plates, earning them the privilege to compete in the Pacific Northwest Gold Cup finals to be held in Port Angeles Sept. 16-18. From left, back row, are Cholena Morrison, Trinity Gather, Bradan Gray, Bennett Gray, Cash Coleman, Kameron Langdon, Mason Wilcox-Olton, Jackson Beal, Makaylie Underwood, Kylin Weitz, Teyah Elfoson-Cross. From left, bottom row, are Nyah Langdon, Logan Gray, Christian Snavely, Caleb Underwood, Toby Kreider Jr. Ryan Albin Jr.,  Gabriel Granum.

Sports

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: (Updated) Port Angeles to host BMX Gold Cup finals Sept. 16-18

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles Parks and Recreation and the Lincoln Park BMX Association in conjunction with USA…

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Do you agree with the Fed’s plan to continue to raise the short-term interest rate and keep it there for an extended period?

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A flock of Canada geese take off from Port Townsend on Tuesday morning heading south. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Flying south

A flock of Canada geese takes off from Port Townsend on Tuesday morning heading south.

Students change classrooms on Tuesday at Stevens Middle School as Principal Kristen Lunt, at left, looks on. An agreement between the Port Angeles School District and Port Angeles Education Association reached an eleventh-hour agreement that prevented a strike. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Angeles School District, union reach agreement; school resumes

Port Angeles Education Association members to get 5.5 percent raises

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel searches the area Monday near Freeland on Whidbey Island north of Seattle, where a chartered floatplane crashed the day before. The plane was en route from Friday Harbor to Renton. (Stephen Brashear/The Associated Press)

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Victims of floatplane crash included activist, winemaker

WHIDBEY ISLAND — A civil rights activist from Spokane, a business owner and the founder of a winery…

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Where do you think the Seattle Seahawks will finish this year within the NFC West?

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The Irick family — dad Chance, daughters Maeve, 4, and June, 18 months, and mom Sarah, all from Port Townsend — spend the last day of summer vacation at the beach at Fort Worden State Park on Monday. Maeve starts school today. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Sandy summer

The Irick family — dad Chance, daughters Maeve, 4, and June, 18 months, and mom Sarah, all from…

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Should a judge have granted a special master to review the documents found at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence?

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News

Port Angeles School District, education association resume talks Monday

Families expected to be told by 5 p.m. whether schools to open Tuesday

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Is the political divide in the United States causing a crisis when it comes to foundational Democracy?

Daily poll

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School to start on time in Port Angeles

Tentative agreement reached in negotiations

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Do you think the FBI has recovered all the classified documents missing from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence?

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Life

A GROWING CONCERN: Planting bulbs is a bright idea

HERE WE ARE, Labor Day at our doorstep, school starting and summer sun is waning.

Business

Todd Ortloff Show guests this week

Todd Ortloff Show slated

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How do districts compare?

Here are comparisons of three North Olympic Peninsula public school districts.