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A technician works on the monitoring equipment housed on the buoy onboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Henry Blake in the Strait of Juan de Fuca on Sept. 20. The buoy, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s network of weather monitoring stations, stopped transmitting weather data last year. Technicians replaced the monitoring equipment last week. (Peter Segall / Peninsula Daily News)

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Crews refurbish weather buoy in Strait

NOAA equipment had stopped its transmissions

Filmmakers Jerusha and Jared Hess are interviewed during the 23rd annual Port Townsend Film Festival. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Filmmakers look to go beyond ‘Napoleon Dynamite’

Jared, Jerusha Hess have work to do after first feature

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Filmmaker advice

Jared and Jerusha Hess have advice for would-be filmmakers:

Miles McRae, owner of Full Spectrum Projector and Sound and of the Airscreen, pulls the ropes to control the 15-foot by 30-foot screen as air is pumped into the screen to inflate it for use during the 23rd Port Townsend Film Festival, which started on Thursday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Outdoor screening

Miles McRae, owner of Full Spectrum Projector and Sound and of the Airscreen, pulls the ropes to control…

The Small Glories.

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Small Glories duo to open Juan de Fuca Foundation concert series Saturday

Canadian duo to perform at Elks Lodge

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Counties ask that DOT not close Hood Canal Bridge on tourist weekends

Clallam sends letter; Jefferson to consider it soon

Aba Kiser as Patsy Cline will star in the Key City Public Theatre in “Always … Patsy Cline.” (Diane Urbani De La Paz)

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Key City Public Theatre to show off newly remodeled playhouse

Fall season kicks off next week

A pair of construction cranes prepare on Tuesday to hoist the second of eight 177-foot, 200,000-pound concrete girders that will support a new bridge being constructed on U.S. Highway 101 over Indian Creek southwest of Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Girders arrive for Indian Creek fish passage project

Traffic on new bridge expected early next year

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Port Townsend Film Fest offers 60 films

Online version offers unique interviews

Clallam County Search and Rescue crews walk the beach at Dungeness Spit on Friday. The sheriff’s office suspects the remains found are from a seaplane crash near Whidbey Island on Sept. 4. (Clallam County Sheriff’s Office)

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Dungeness Spit torso suspected to be from seaplane crash

Discovery on beach under investigation

Fencing surrounds the playground at Shane Park in Port Angeles after parks department officials closed the equipment because of play surface tiles that are shrinking and becoming dislodged. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Shane Park playground closed for repairs

Dislodged tiles deemed to be a tripping hazard

Port Townsend Mayor David Faber, sixth from the left, and other council members and port commissioners toss a ceremonial golden shovel of dirt to break ground on the Point Hudson jetty replacement project on Wednesday at the northern breakwater of the Point Hudson Marina. The marina will reopen in March 2023. After next year’s Wooden Boat Festival, the south breakwater will receive the same treatment. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Long-awaited Port Townsend jetty project begins

Marina slated to reopen in March 2023

Waterleaf Architecture created this latest rendering of the downtown Port Angeles hotel planned by the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe.

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Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe to start site work on Port Angeles hotel

Project manager expects minimal impact on downtown traffic

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Jefferson County PUD commissioners consider broadband loan

With concerns about debt load, commissioners look for funding options

Wind Child, skippered by Rudy Heessels, one of the perennial participants in the annual Reach and Row for Hospice, competes in a Duck Dodge race in August. Heessels’ crew in this race included Charlie Roberts, Mylo Hauptli and Leon Skerbeck. (Fran Thompson)

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Reach, Row for Hospice to set sail this weekend

Annual fundraiser to be conducted on Sequim Bay

Photo courtesy of Danni Breen Sequim resident Danni Breen and walking companion Mike Schefers are pictured on their second day of their Camino de Santiago adventure this summer, after staying in a monastery in Roncesvalles in Spain.

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Peninsula woman travels Camino de Santiago

Breen, 65, makes 500-mile pilgrimage to assess her life

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Events to converge on Quilcene

Fair, races and farm tour set for this weekend

Sequim City Band members break ground on the rehearsal hall expansion project. Pictured with ceremonial shovels are, from left, band president Debbi Soderstrom, band director Tyler Benedict and Neeley Construction superintendent Eli Collier. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim City Band breaks ground for expansion

$350K still needed to complete rehearsal hall construction

Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group Merrin Packer as Elaine Parker leans in for a kiss from self-absorbed Mortimer Brewster, played by Mario Arruda in OTA’s upcoming “Arsenic and Old Lace.”

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‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ to begin three-weekend run

Balusters, banisters, serial killers, a cellar and the Society of Deceased Gentlemen

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Agencies approve boat expansion plan

Project will underground power lines, require poplar removal