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A car picks its way through a field of rocks and other debris pushed by wind-driven waves and high tides over Ediz Hook Road in Port Angeles on Tuesday. The city Public Works Department has closed the road. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Winter storm blows its way onto Peninsula

Gusts cause outages, close Ediz Hook, but snow predicted for Hurricane Ridge

Marc Lassen A 1918 Cadillac Type 57 owned by Marc Lassen of Gardiner is on display at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Mich.

Life

Historic Cadillac featured at The Henry Ford

Gardiner owner features vehicle that served in WWI

Crime & Justice

Clallam Transit bus is stolen

Woman to enter plea on Monday

Evette Allerdings of Port Angeles created “Orangy,” a silk painting, for the “Burst of Color” show opening today at Port Townsend’s Jeanette Best Gallery. (Evette Allerdings)

Arts & Entertainment

‘Burst of Color’ opens at Northwind Art’s gallery

Exhibition shows work of 37 fiber artists

The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith.

Life

Unity in Port Townsend planning for weekend services

PORT TOWNSEND — The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith will present “Begin Anew: Annual Burning Bowl and Vision Quest Service”…

Life

Program planned for OUUF service

PORT ANGELES — Dianne Whitaker will present “Luminescence Service” at 11 a.m. Sunday.

Arts & Entertainment

Whodunit, prints, yarn circle among Peninsula entertainment

The first weekend of 2024 offers a host of activities to warm participants on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Michael Hale’s acrylics of Port Townsend buildings and boats are on view at Gallery-9.

Arts & Entertainment

First Saturday Art Walk of 2024

PORT TOWNSEND — A variety of artwork will be on view during the First Saturday Gallery Walk in…

From left, Matt McCoy, Kathy McCoy and Gary Brundige join Lorraine Eckard (not pictured) in hosting “Native Plants for Better Backyard Birding,” the next Backyard Birding series event scheduled for Jan. 6 at the Dungeness River Nature Center.

Arts & Entertainment

Lecture deals with improving property for backyard birding

SEQUIM — A quartet of presenters will look to help locals learn more about improving their yards’ flora…

Glo Lamson, left, and a fellow artist worked on projects at a Northwind Art School open studio last year. Lamson will host another free creative studio this Saturday. (Northwind Art)

Arts & Entertainment

Free open art studio Saturday in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — Northwind Art School will open its classroom from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday for…

Jamison Orr of Port Townsend tees off on the first hole during a demonstration round of disc golf at the Port Townsend Golf Park on Monday during an open house marking the change in management by the nonprofit Friends of the Port Townsend Golf Park. The disc course measures about 6,800 feet in length and is played over part of the same layout as the golf course. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Disc golf demonstration

Jamison Orr of Port Townsend tees off on the first hole during a demonstration round of disc golf…

Port Angeles Parks and Recreation Department worker Lukas Cox tosses a limb from the downtown Port Angeles Christmas tree into a truck for eventual recycling as the tree is dismantled on Tuesday. The tree, donated by the Port of Port Angeles, illuminated downtown at the Conrad Dyar Memorial Fountain since it was lit on Thanksgiving weekend. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Tree recycling

Port Angeles Parks and Recreation Department worker Lukas Cox tosses a limb from the downtown Port Angeles Christmas…

Participants in the New Year’s Day polar bear dip in Port Angeles run in and out of the chilly water of Port Angeles Harbor at Hollywood Beach as onlookers watch from the shore on Monday. More than 100 dippers took part in the annual ritual, which served as a fundraiser for Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Taking the plunge

Participants in the New Year’s Day polar bear dip in Port Angeles run in and out of the…

Sierra and Jeremy Springer of Sequim with children Poppy and newborn Fiona, who was the first baby born in Clallam County in 2024 at Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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It’s a girl! First baby of new year born in Port Angeles

Fiona Springer born just before 6 a.m.

Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighter/EMT Anaka Hughes makes her way up the stairs behind the Conrad Dyar Memorial Fountain in Port Angeles on Saturday to gather donations and pledges supporting the upcoming Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Firefighter Stairclimb on March 10 at the Columbia Center in Seattle. The North Olympic Firefighters Team consisting of firefighters from Fire District 2 and the Port Angeles Fire Department will join about 2,000 firefighters from across the region in the event, ascending 69 floors with 1,356 steps of Seattle’s tallest skyscraper benefiting blood cancer research and patient services. The North Olympic team plans another fundraising event with stairclimb machines on March 10 at Bourbon West, 125 W. Front St. in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Stairclimb donations

Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighter/EMT Anaka Hughes makes her way up the stairs behind the Conrad Dyar…

Clallam Transit driver Duane Benedict looks down at his fare box before departing The Gateway transit center in downtown Port Angeles on Saturday — the last day of collecting fares on most bus routes. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Clallam Transit provides free rides

One-year pilot program aims to boost ridership

The Center for Whale Research has received reports of a new calf with J pod on Dec. 26. (Maya Sears)

News

Researchers spot newborn orca in L Pod on the day after Christmas

Southern Resident population now at 77

Kate Dean.

Politics

Kate Dean drops out of race for Congress

Fundraising a challenge for Jefferson commissioner

Wreathes, personal notes and flowers adorn the fence outside the Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles on Tuesday after much of the playground was destroyed by fire last week. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

News

Rebuilding Port Angeles’ Dream Playground could start as early as this summer

As donations pour in, supplies, availability will remain hurdles

Crime & Justice

Juvenile, 14, charged with first-degree arson in park fire

Arraignment set in January