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Maude Eisele (Mabel) and Brace Evans (Todd) become acquainted in an awkward matchmaking scene in "The People Downstairs" at Key City Public Theatre.

Special ASL production Sunday at Key City Theatre

Key City Public Theatre is incorporating American Sign Language into the final show of its latest production, “The People Downstairs,” by Natalie… Continue reading

Maude Eisele (Mabel) and Brace Evans (Todd) become acquainted in an awkward matchmaking scene in "The People Downstairs" at Key City Public Theatre.
Julia McCord

Unity speakers set for Sunday

The Rev. Eva McGinnis will present “The Healing Powers of LoveJoy!” at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. McGinnis is the guest speaker at Unity… Continue reading

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Bill Thorness

Yard and garden lecture planned

Bill Thorness will present “Veggies Year Round: Growing Edibles Through All Seasons” from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. Thorness’ presentation is part… Continue reading

Bill Thorness

Yoga workshop offered Saturday

Rho Sang will conduct a workshop in Pranyama from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. The free workshop is in Blue Mountain Yoga+.… Continue reading

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Workers for Hilger Construction, out of Tacoma, move parts of scaffolding that will soon encase the historic Post Office and Customs House in Port Townsend. The building, constructed in 1892, is undergoing a months long preservation project to replace aging and nonfunctioning windows.
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Port Townsend post office project

Workers for Hilger Construction, out of Tacoma, move parts of scaffolding that will soon encase the historic Post Office and Customs House in Port Townsend.… Continue reading

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Workers for Hilger Construction, out of Tacoma, move parts of scaffolding that will soon encase the historic Post Office and Customs House in Port Townsend. The building, constructed in 1892, is undergoing a months long preservation project to replace aging and nonfunctioning windows.
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Peninsula's Ese Onakpoma tries to avoid getting the ball wrestled away by Whatcom's Chase Calvin on Wednesday in Port Angeles.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Peninsula men seal North Region title with two games to spare

Pirates up record to 24-2

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Peninsula's Ese Onakpoma tries to avoid getting the ball wrestled away by Whatcom's Chase Calvin on Wednesday in Port Angeles.
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Peninsula's Ituau Tuisaula, center, finds herself surrounded by Whatcom defenders, from left, Neomi Davidson, Audrey Hansen and Shelby Lund during Wednesday's game in Port Angeles.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Peninsula women win, move into sole possession of first in North

Millie Long and Chasity Selden combined for 27 points, 16 coming as Peninsula seized control over Whatcom in the third quarter of… Continue reading

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Peninsula's Ituau Tuisaula, center, finds herself surrounded by Whatcom defenders, from left, Neomi Davidson, Audrey Hansen and Shelby Lund during Wednesday's game in Port Angeles.

AREA SPORTS: Baseball and softball registration and testing in Port Hadlock, Port Angeles

East Jefferson Little League will offer a last-chance skills assessment and registration session from… Continue reading

Sequim’s Jolen Vaara pushes the ball up the court with Jelissa Julmist trailing. The Wolves will play No. 1-ranked Ellensburg in the state regionals Friday night. (Emily Mathiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

PIERRE LaBOSSIERE COLUMN: It was a wild weekend of prep sports

And now the real fun begins. Five area prep basketball teams, four of them girls’ teams, begin regional play Friday and Saturday. It was quite… Continue reading

Sequim’s Jolen Vaara pushes the ball up the court with Jelissa Julmist trailing. The Wolves will play No. 1-ranked Ellensburg in the state regionals Friday night. (Emily Mathiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Snow, ice closes, delays school in many Peninsula districts

Thursday classes have been canceled in Port Angeles and the Crescent School District in Joyce due to snow, black ice and bad road conditions. Sequim,… Continue reading

Western Washington University Crescent graduate Raine Westfall competes in the indoor weight throw for Western Washington University. She holds the school record in the event and just won the Great Northern Athletic Conference championship. She is also a conference champion in the outdoor hammer throw.

COLLEGE SPORTS: Former Logger Westfall is two-time track and field champ for WWU

Joyce’s Raine Westfall added to her college accolades by winning the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field championship in the weight… Continue reading

Western Washington University Crescent graduate Raine Westfall competes in the indoor weight throw for Western Washington University. She holds the school record in the event and just won the Great Northern Athletic Conference championship. She is also a conference champion in the outdoor hammer throw.

Community Players open ‘The Dresser’

The Port Angeles Community Players will open its production of “The Dresser” by Ronald Harwood on Friday. The play will run Friday,… Continue reading

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Feds seek input on pilot grant program

Multi-year economic developmenmt program still taking shape, Kilmer says

Derek Kilmer.

Leadership awards ceremony set in Port Townsend

Jefferson County chamber hosting March event

Andie Spencer, a barista at the Lincoln Street Coffee Pot in Port Angeles, hands a drink order to a customer in a snow-covered car on Wednesday after the city received a dusting of snow overnight at sea level. Higher elevations reported up to 2 inches of snow. Areas across the North Olympic Peninsula, including in Forks and Port Townsend, received little snow overnight. Scattered periods of snow with cold temperatures are expected into early next week across the Peninsula. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Light snowfall

Andie Spencer, a barista at the Lincoln Street Coffee Pot in Port Angeles, hands a drink order to a customer in a snow-covered car on… Continue reading

Andie Spencer, a barista at the Lincoln Street Coffee Pot in Port Angeles, hands a drink order to a customer in a snow-covered car on Wednesday after the city received a dusting of snow overnight at sea level. Higher elevations reported up to 2 inches of snow. Areas across the North Olympic Peninsula, including in Forks and Port Townsend, received little snow overnight. Scattered periods of snow with cold temperatures are expected into early next week across the Peninsula. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Natural causes said to be likely cause of death for Sequim couple

Two died at same time, same place

Traffic stop leads to drug arrest

A routine traffic stop on U.S. Highway 101 in Agnew resulted in the arrest of two people, including one on several drug charges,… Continue reading

Victim says she was raped 70-80 times

Clallam County Judge Brent Basden has set a $25,000 bail for Nethaniel Montgomery, who remained in the Clallam County jail on Tuesday… Continue reading

Forks’ Keira Johnson looks for the hoop as Crescent’s Kaylen Mason defends in Joyce in late December. Johnson made the Pacific 2B League first team. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

PACIFIC LEAGUE BASKETBALL: Forks’ Johnson, Neel make first team all-league

Forks’ Keira Johnson and Kyra Neel, who were instrumental in leading the Spartans to their first league title in many years, were named… Continue reading

Forks’ Keira Johnson looks for the hoop as Crescent’s Kaylen Mason defends in Joyce in late December. Johnson made the Pacific 2B League first team. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)