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Crowds jam the north dock at the 45th Wooden Boat Festival at Point Hudson in Port Townsend on Saturday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Wooden Boat Festival brings newcomers, old timers together

Festival back full force after two years

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Peninsula weekend entertainment includes art, music, rocks, garage sales

Festivals, art exhibits, concerts and garage sales are planned all across the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.

Arts & Entertainment

Olympic Music Festival finale this weekend

PORT TOWNSEND — Pianists Michael Stephen Brown and Julio Elizalde perform Piano Extravaganza! at the Olympic Music Festival…

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‘Death Trap’ begins run tonight in Port Anglees

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Community Players kick off their 70th Main Stage Season with Ira Levin’s…

Pottery by Brian and Wendy Fuller will be at One of a Kind Art Gallery in Port Angeles on Saturday.

Arts & Entertainment

Second Saturday Art Walk features variety

PORT ANGELES — Mixed-media artwork, pottery and fiber arts will be on display during the Second Saturday Art…

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Ceremony Sunday remembers 9/11

Monument rededication to honor public safety officials

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Red Flag warning issued for weekend

Smoke could affect Peninsula air quality by Saturday

Veteran, a 55-foot purse seiner built in Gig Harbor in 1926, is one of the featured wooden boats in the 45th Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend. The festival is at the Point Hudson Marina, starts today and runs until Sunday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Wooden boats crowd harbor for festival

Talk to owners, ride the boats, harbormaster urges

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Labor Day Weekend events lined up

A free Labor Day concert will cap this weekend’s offerings on the North Olympic Peninsula.

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Public employee strikes illegal in Washington

No penalties in place for such action

A customer enters Sears Hometown Store in Port Angeles on Monday after the store announced it will close following a clearance sale. Both the Sears Hometown Stores in Port Angeles and Sequim are closing, and their former owner said she wanted to keep one open but had disagreements with her corporate partners. (Peter Segall / Peninsula Daily News)

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Sears Hometown stores in Sequim, Port Angeles to close

Region’s shutdowns follow nationwide trend

Members of the Port Angeles Education Association and its president John Henry, right, rallied at the Port Angeles School District’s Lincoln Center administrative building Wednesday evening just hours before the union called for a strike to begin Tuesday if an agreement is not reached. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

Education

Port Angeles educators to strike Tuesday if no pact reached

School district would close its buildings

The Dekoboko Taiko drumming group will perform Sept. 24.

Arts & Entertainment

Port Townsend Film Festival returns in person

Nearly 60 films, special guest visits planned

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Sequim Art Walk to feature dancing, art, books

Variety of venues open late for visitors on Friday

Sterling Bradby lays out plants to line a new walkway. (Steve Murakami)

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Quilcene volunteers repurpose old bus barn

Outdoor learning center created for school

The Fulton Street Chamber Players — Rachel Swerdlow, Walter Gray and Cordula Merks — and guest artists highlight the Concerts in the Barn series this weekend in Quilcene.

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Fulton Street Chamber Players featured in Quilcene

Penultimate weekend of season’s Concerts in the Barn

A hot air balloon piloted by Captain Crystal Stout drifts over the Dungeness Valley west of Sequim in this 2012 file photo. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Air Affaire to showcase aviation industry

Saturday event includes last hurrah for balloon program

U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, a Democrat representing Washington’s 6th Congressional District, shakes hands with Chimacum School District Superintendent Scott Mauk in Port Hadlock on Wednesday. Kilmer visited the sites of two sewer projects his office is working on securing federal funding for. (Peter Segall / Peninsula Daily News)

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Kilmer tours infrastructure efforts in Jefferson County

Federal funding is lined up, but still has to pass Senate

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THING expected to draw thousands to Port Townsend

Businesses appreciate boost to tourism

To usher in the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe's Healing Clinic, from left, Dana Ward, tribal council member; Loni Greninger, council vice-chair; Elaine Grinnell, elder, and W. Ron Allen, chairman, cut the ribbon on the facility that aims to help locals overcome opioid use disorder. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Jamestown Tribe ushers in healing clinic

Facility a place to help those with opioid use disorder