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Port Townsend Public Library to offer craft kits

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Public Library will distribute craft kits for pre-school and elementary children on…

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Sing-a-ling at Port Townsend Public Library

PORT TOWNSEND — Keeth Apgar will present Sing-a-Ling from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday.

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Soroptimist International of Port Angeles to meet Friday

PORT ANGELES — Bertha Cooper will present “Women — We’re Only Old Once…” at noon Friday.

Duane Grego, left, and Dan Welden check the scales on Welden’s winning pumpkin at 166.2 pounds Sunday. A giant pumpkin contest is conducted each year at the Evergreen Country Estates neighborhood on Goss Road south of Port Angeles. Welden, who started the contest 14 years ago, gives each of his neighbors special pumpkin sprouts he has started from seeds from the Northwest Giant Pumpkin Growers Association. The growing season starts around May 1 and the neighbors gather for a weigh-in and to have a pumpkin potluck party this time of year. Only one pumpkin weighed more than 100 pounds out of the dozen entries. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Giant pumpkin contest

By Dave Logan

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North Olympic Library System to host discussion series on intentional aging

PORT ANGELES — The North Olympic Library System will host the monthly discussion group Intentional Aging beginning Tuesday,…

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Clallam County Conservation District taking orders for native plants

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam Conservation District is accepting large-quantity orders for its annual native plant sale until…

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Jefferson County Library to hold Tech Tuesday

PORT HADLOCK — The Jefferson County Library will host Tech Tuesday from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday.

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Gardiner Community Center will host garage sale

GARDINER — The Gardiner Community Center will host a community garage sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.…

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Port Townsend Marine Science Center to host lecture on marine microplastics

PORT TOWNSEND — Andrew Mason will present “Microplastics as Marine Debris” at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

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Port Angeles Friends of the Library to hold Bag of Books sale

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Friends of the Library will host its monthly Bag of Books sale…

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A GROWING CONCERN: Make use of the last sighs of summer

WELL, I CAN certainly see that the trees are beginning to change color.

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Olympic Theatre Arts’ ‘A Facility for Living’ cast, in rehearsal

Play to be stagged in early October

Photo by Katie Newton

Cutline: Ready for the Hunt seat class at the 4-H horse show at the Clallam County Fairgrounds are Lela Bankson, left, on Banjo, KK Pitts on Mikey and Lila Torey on Smokey.

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HORSEPLAY: Time to get 4-H, other groups going again

SMASH AND GRABS are on the rise at Olympic Peninsula trailheads. Recently, there were a number of break-ins…

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Friends of Library to hold book sale Saturday

SEQUIM — The Friends of the Sequim Library will conduct a book sale from 10 a.m. to 3…

Sisters Jenny Edwards, left, and Julia Ahrndt, both of Port Angeles, assemble flower bouquets that will be distributed to teachers and staff members of the Port Angeles School District at an assembly session with volunteers on Thursday at Hamilton School. The pair collected more than 4,000 flowers from their own flower farms, along with donations from other farms and area gardeners, that will be arranged in tin can vases and given out in the days to come to about 450 school district employees as a token of thanks for their hard work in tending to the needs of children. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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A bouquet of gratitude in Port Angeles

Sisters Jenny Edwards, left, and Julia Ahrndt, both of Port Angeles, assemble flower bouquets that will be distributed…

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Self-guided tour replaces final Garden Walk

PORT ANGELES — With COVID-19 cases in Clallam County skyrocketing, WSU Clallam County have canceled the final 2021…

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Rock, Gem & Jewelry Show returns to Port Angeles

After 2-year absence, show is back this weekend

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Yom Kippur services offered in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The Olympic B’nai Shalom congregation will celebrate Yom Kippur this week.

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Unity speaker set for Sunday

PORT ANGELES — The Rev. Larry Schellink will present “All Is Well With My Soul” at 10:30 a.m.…

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Party in the park benefit set for Sequim

SEQUIM — Buttercup Lane will perform at “Party in the Park II” from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.…