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Builder Bliss Morris is preparing the "Stop and Smell the Rhodies"-themed float for Saturday's Rhody Grand Parade. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Rhody parade, Cake Picnic blooms Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — Saturday’s forecast calls for warm weather, a Rhododendron Festival Grand Parade, live music and 1,500…

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National juried exhibit opens at Port Angeles Fine Arts Center

PORT ANGELES — “Resilient & Creative,” a national juried exhibition, opens today at the Port Angeles Fine Arts…

Jefferson County Fair staffer Laurie Hampton is organizing the garage sale that opens today and runs through Sunday in the fairgrounds' 4-H Cat Building. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Jefferson County Fair brings garage sale, free live music

PORT TOWNSEND — The 2021 Jefferson County Fair is a hybrid animal. Starting today and running through Sunday,…

Vehicles make their way down Laird Road west of Port Angeles as a layer of smoke shrouds the Olympic Foothills and the surrounding lowlands on Thursday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Wildfire smoke getting in our eyes and lungs

Forecasters hope levels will begin to diminish Saturday

Martha Washington (Jane Ritchey) and George Washington (Vern Frykholm Jr.) meet with a young visitor at the Northwest Colonial Festival in 2019. The pair return this year today thorugh Sunday for daily visits with guests. Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group

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Colonial Fest returns to George Washington Inn

Event shares takes of life during the Revolutionary War

Adrienne Wilson will perform alongside Bill Evans in this Saturday’s “Bill Evans 81!” concert at Fort Worden’s Wheeler Theater. (Photo courtesy Auburn University)

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Thoughts of Port Townsend kept returning dancer going

After contracting COVID-19, professor to perform Saturday

Siblings Sequoia Mitchell, 9, and Coco Mitchell, 6, both of Sequim, attempt to catch tadpoles in a side channel of the Dungeness River at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim on Tuesday. A spell of hot weather forecast for the next several days will likely send many people on the North Olympic Peninsula seeking heat relief near the water. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Heat wave hitting Peninsula

Area not expected to bake with temperatures like June

Jeremy Denk, a MacArthur “genius” grant winner, is among the guest artists at this month’s Music on the Strait festival. His performances will be available for free via live streaming. (Photo courtesy of Music on the Strait)

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Festival is live, online, indoors, outdoors

Six concerts set for hall in Port Angeles, farm in Quilcene

Lauren Ehnebuske, pictured during a rehearsal Friday, is among the performers in “Bill Evans 81!,” the celebration of Port Townsend-based dancer and educator Bill Evans’ career. The concert is set for Saturday evening in Fort Worden’s Wheeler Theater. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Dancer-choreographer marks 81st birthday

Olympic Mountains inspire pieces in Saturday’s concert

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Doc Reiss, left, talks with Kathi Pressley in Port Angeles. Pressley will take over as the U.S. contact for the Dignity Toilets for Togo project that Reiss started while he is in African beginning an off-shoot business.

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Dignity Toilets project expands

Profits to be brought back to African villages

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New record for COVID in Clallam

Jail, OMC clinic report staff positives

Eleanor Corey Guderian

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A family’s saga, told by mother and daughter

Begun in Joyce, story extends across Peninsula

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Slices of pie await purchase by Joyce Daze Wild Blackberry Festival visitors during the 2019 event.

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Wild blackberry pies to be festival star

Joyce Daze offers a parade, music, vendors on Saturday

Austin Fahrenholtz was a two-time state diving champion for Port Angeles High School. He will be inducted into the Port Angeles High School Athletic Hall of Fame during a dinner and ceremony at Civic Field on Aug. 21. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP SPORTS: Rider greats set for Port Angeles High School Athletic Hall of Fame induction

PORT ANGELES — Tickets still remain for the Port Angeles High School Athletic Hall of Fame Induction dinner,…

Expeditionary artist Maria Coryell-Martin includes some of her equipment in “Witnessing Climate Change,” the new show highlighting the art she has made during and after traveling to the North Slope of Alaska. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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‘Witnessing Climate Change’ exhibition in Port Townsend

Public programs are planned in coming months

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Berry: It feels like the dam is breaking

State help needed to keep up with contact tracing

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Field Arts & Events Hall hires director

Job to focus on fundraising

”The Cherokee Word for Water,” co-produced and co-directed by Charlie Soap, left, and starring Kimberly Guerrero as Wilma Mankiller and Mo Brings Plenty as Soap, is the August Port Townsend Film Festival Pic available for streaming throughout this week. (Photo courtesy Port Townsend Film Festival via cw4w.com)

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‘Cherokee’ film available for streaming this week

Story highlights ability to bring people together

Holding a piece of baleen from a bowhead whale, Port Townsend Marine Science Center exhibit and outreach specialist Mandi Johnson, left, and aquarium specialist Marley Loomis stand before the center’s newly acquired Flagship Landing building in downtown Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend Marine Science Center to move downtown

Water Street mall to become location for labs, exhibits

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Jefferson Healthcare relaunches nurse consult line for COVID-19 symptoms

Case numbers increasing in both Peninsula counties