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EYE ON JEFFERSON: County to consider lodging tax grants

The three Jefferson County commissioners will consider 2021 lodging tax recommendations when they meet at 9 a.m. Monday.

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Vaccination clinics on hold this week

February plans are for more shots given than ever

Hundreds turned out for the Womxn's March in Port Townsend, one of hundreds around the world in January 2017. (Peninsula Daily News)

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Women’s march to be conducted virtually this year

Organizer: Port Townsend event to celebrate woman vice president

This screenshot from the Olympic National Park's webcam on a socked-in Thursday shows the view southwest from the Hurricane Ridge visitor center. The dark shelf on the right is the roof to the lower level. Next to it is a crevasse showing the depth of snow. Hurricane Ridge had 76 inches - more than 6 feet - of snow at its sensor.

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Robust snow sits atop Olympics

January storms pump up water for summer

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Port Townsend, Chimacum superintendent finalists to be selected

The Chimacum and Port Townsend school district boards of directors will hold a collaborative meeting Saturday to interview…

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State plans for mass vaccination sites

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Comments due today on Navy training plans

PT council, Jefferson County sends letters

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Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship announces adult learning programs

PORT TOWNSEND — Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship has announced its spring Adult Learning Programs.

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Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County offers grief support group

PORT ANGELES — Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County is offering a grief support group from 2 p.m. to…

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PDN publisher tells of struggles, charity during pandemic

PORT ANGELES — Peninsula Daily News publisher Terry Ward discussed on Wednesday the challenges and opportunities the pandemic…

Doug Milholland of Port Townsend invites people to join him in ringing bells, playing instruments and singing at noon Friday in support of the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which enters into force that day. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend man celebrates weapons treaty

United Nations to declare nuclear ban prohibition

As motorists honked, Linda Abbott-Roe held up her message during the Inauguration Day celebration in downtown Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Celebrants express relief, hope

Residents gather, bring signs in downtown Port Townsend and Sequim

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Clallam County Sheriff's Deputy Ray Cooper, left, anbd Detective Sgt. Eric Munger keep watch at the front entrance of the Clallam County Courthoiuse in Port Angeles on Wednesday to guard against potential disturbances triggered by the election of President Joe Biden. In response to the Jan. 6 storming of the White House in Washington, D,C., and threats of violence in state capitals across the U.S., county officials opted to increase security at the courthouse on Inaugaration Day.

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Safe and secure

Clallam County Sheriff’s Deputy Ray Cooper, left, and Detective Sgt. Eric Munger keep watch at the front entrance…

Steve Downer and Brian Grad, both of Sequim, wave to drivers on Jan. 20 as they celebrate the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris. “I’m relieved,” Downer said of the inauguration. He hopes their first steps will be to address COVID-19, the economy and environment. Matthew Nash/ Olympic Peninsula News Group

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Show of support

Steve Downer and Brian Grad, both of Sequim, wave to drivers on Wednesday as they celebrate the inauguration…

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Inslee vaccine plan raises concerns

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Peninsula vaccine shots expected to rise to 13,000 by end of weekend

Nine more cases in Clallam County; three in Jefferson County

Bruce Hanify

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West End District Court judge named

Forks High School graduate to take over in February

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Sequim City Council opens appointment application process again

Fourth time in past 12 months

FILE - This Aug. 19, 2015, file photo, shows a monarch butterfly in Vista, Calif. The number of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has plummeted to a new record low, putting the orange-and-black insects closer to extinction, researchers announced Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. A recent count by the Xerces Society recorded fewer than 2,000 butterflies, a massive decline from the millions of monarchs that in 1980s clustered in trees from Marin County to San Diego County. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

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Monarch butterfly population moves closer to extinction

SAN FRANCISCO — The number of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has plummeted precipitously to…

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PSP toxin closes beaches to shellfish harvest

The state Department of Health has closed Strait of Juan de Fuca beaches from Low Point/Lyle River east…

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