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The Kennewick, a Washington State ferry, heads past Port Townsend’s Water Street on Friday afternoon. Service will stay at just one boat through June 5, unlike pre-pandemic years, when two boats sailed between Port Townsend and Coupeville starting in May. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Two-boat service delayed until June in Port Townsend

Shop owners adjust to lack of tourists during busy season

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Skaters make their way around the ice at the Port Angeles Winter Ice Village.

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Today last of the season for skating rink in Port Angeles

This year’s ice village conducted in spring

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Charges filed in massive pot grow

Not guilty plea expected at arraignment

Joan Quigley 
(courtesy of the Quigley family)

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Longtime Port Angeles music teacher remembered as inspirational

Joan Quigley taught hundreds

All-Star the red-tailed hawk, one of the non-releasable birds at Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue, will appear at the organization's fundraiser Saturday on the Wild Birds Unlimited patio in Gardiner. All-Star is held by Cynthia Daily, the center's director. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Wild bird center expands

Outdoor ‘baby bird shower’ set for Saturday

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Raw milk dairy reopens; one cow source of illness

SEQUIM — The Dungeness Valley Creamery is back in business after a massive recall and closure due to…

Amy Howard.

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Port Townsend City Council to discuss pay hike for its members

Goal is to spur more applicants

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Racial, violent graffiti found at Port Angeles High School

Police deployed

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Applicant pulls pot grow permit

Prosecutor: Charges are on the way

Kelly Doran takes her dog Sunny out for some fresh air at North Beach, one of several Port Townsend beaches included in Saturday’s Washington Coast Cleanup. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Washington coast cleanup set for Saturday

Volunteers to groom beaches in Clallam, Jefferson counties

After a long winter, kinetic sculptor Colin Bartle brings his machines out into the Port Townsend sunlight on Sunday. He’s among the builders hoping to join October’s Great Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Sculpture Race. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Kinetic sculpture planning is on for October

Parade, water and land races expected this fall

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Permit delays Serenity House expansion

City requiring additional bathrooms

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Jefferson County looking into leash law

Animal control code may be updated

Crime & Justice

Authorities estimate nearly $7 million in illegal drugs found west of Port Angeles

Cocaine, methamphetamine suspected

Shelley Leavens, left, and Sarah Vowell.

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‘This American Life’ writer Vowell to appear Monday night

Centrum hosts Communiversity lecture series

Adventuress Capt. Katelinn Shaw discusses steering and navigation with Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding students including Drew Harman, right, on board the schooner. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Boat school expands to Port Townsend Boat Haven location

Adventuress creates classroom opportunity for new students

This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness caused by this virus has been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

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WHAT WE KNOW: Coronavirus outbreak at a glance

The latest news on the pandemic, plus symptom information and prevention tips

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Peninsula overdose deaths seem to be on the rise

Investigations underway in Clallam, Jefferson counties

Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News

Tons of metal scrap are being hauled away from Midway Metals, avoiding enforcement action against its Port Orchard owner.

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Cleanup starts at Midway Metals

Questions linger over lasting impact

A GMC Sierra burned and two propane tanks exploded on Sunday on Kemp Street behind the IGS grocery store on U.S. Highway 101 east of Port Angeles. (Clallam County Fire District 2)

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Burning truck leads to propane explosions east of Port Angeles

Windows blown out from blast; no injuries reported