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Port Townsend residents Corbin Meyers, 5, and his mother Laura enjoy the Mountain View Pool in Port Townsend on Tuesday morning. The pool reopened to the public on Monday. (Zach Jablonski/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend pool reopens under YMCA management

Fours hour a day Monday through Friday

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Crime & Justice

Arson suspect will plead guilty

Prosecutor’s deal seeks nine years

Michael D’Alessandro, right, is the new executive director of Olympic Angels. With him on his porch in Port Townsend are his partner George Marie, center, daughter Sophia James, 17, left, and son Emile, 6, in his “Star Wars” stormtrooper costume. Not pictured is son Henri, 15. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Olympic Angels hires first executive director

Programs help provide care, match adult mentors with children

Marc Abshire, executive director of the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce, delivers a State of the Chamber address in January 2020. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Business

Small network for loans in works

Clallam program mirrors Jefferson’s

Kayleen McDonald of the Sequim unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula delivers bagged lunches to a waiting car as unit director Tessa Jackson, left, looks on during a drive-thru Halloween in front of the organization’s Sequim facility last year. Besides lunch bags, trick-or-treaters were offered hats, treats and coloring books. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Halloween to be celebrated on Peninsula

Events planned in Port Townsend, Sequim, Port Angeles, Joyce and Forks

Jim Stoffer, incumbent for the District 3 position on the Sequim School District Board of Directors, speaks during a League of Women Voters forum Sunday. (Jesse Major/Peninsula Daily News)

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Sequim School Board delays vote to censure member

Resolution under consideration also calls for resignation

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Deadline nears for comment on code change plan

Port Angeles Planning Commission to present ideas to council next month

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Politics

Position 1 council hopefuls discuss housing, diversity

Goals similar, perspectives differ

Educator Carrie Walker works with students in Quilcene at the school garden, one of the locations supported by the Jefferson County Community Wellness Project. The project, which has its dinner-and-a-movie event Thursday, connects local schools, gardens and farms.  photo courtesy Community Wellness Project

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Dinner and a movie to benefit wellness project

Project aims to provide youngsters locally grown food

Crime & Justice

Vehicular homicide trial date set

Former director of maritime center died of injuries

Pleasant weather held as Fall Fest entertained big crowds at Extreme Sports Park on Saturday. The festival included an Extreme Timber Sports Show, a Zombie Run and a Lawnmower Derby where people cheered on their favorites. (Scott Gardinier/Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Fall Fest

Pleasant weather held as Fall Fest entertained big crowds at Extreme Sports Park on Saturday. The festival included…

Conductor Tigran Arakelyan rehearses Friday night with the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra before a small live audience at the American Legion Hall. Today the ensemble will give its first public performance since early 2020; the 2 p.m. concert is sold out, but the orchestra plans another one on Dec. 4. Information can be found at PTsymphony.org. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Arts & Entertainment

On with the show

Conductor Tigran Arakelyan rehearses Friday night with the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra before a small live audience at…

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Rachel Storck, community outreach coordinator for the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, left, and executive director Christine Loewe look over pumpkins to be available for carving during this weekend's Celebration of Shadows Fall Festival.

Arts & Entertainment

Arts center to host fall festival Saturday

Pumpkin carving contest, display

Oboist Anne Krabill will appear tonight and Sunday with the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra.  photo by Deja Webster

Arts & Entertainment

Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra welcomes public

Dress rehearsal open tonight

Arts & Entertainment

Timber sports, other events offered at Fall Fest

Zombie Run, Jeep rock crawling, lawnmower demo derby and more

Three Dash Air Shuttle Cessna 403C aircraft sit parked at William R Fairchild International Airport on Aug. 31 as they await entering into scheduled service between Port Angeles and SeaTac Airport. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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For now, PA-Sea-Tac flights dashed

Hope is to offer flights by Christmas

Ham radio operator Kathleen Reiter, training coordinator for Amateur Radio Emergency Services, relays radio messages outside the county courthouse during Thursday’s Great ShakeOut, an international drill to practice how to drop, cover and hold in the event of an earthquake. In Clallam County, numerous schools and other agencies practiced what to do in an emergency. Included in the drill was the sounding of tsunami sirens across the state. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Great ShakeOut

Ham radio operator Kathleen Reiter, training coordinator for Amateur Radio Emergency Services, relays radio messages outside the county…

Arts & Entertainment

ShrimpFest planning meeting today

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Crime & Justice

Forks woman accused of shooting her husband

Bail set at $500,000; charges expected Monday

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Arts & Entertainment

Sequim City Band starts campaign for rehearsal space

‘Fill the Tuba’ effort has raised 80 percent of its $1 million goal