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Young theater students read and direct each other in creating the factory machines that create candy, in preparing “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” for April 9 performances. (Sarah Tucker and Marissa Meek)

Arts & Entertainment

Young thespians prep ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’

Show is two nights only at Olympic Theatre Arts

Phina Pipia of Port Townsend, pictured in spring 2021, is one of the multi-instrumentalists returning to the Buskers on the Block series of free performances this month and next. Tyler Street Plaza in downtown Port Townsend, with Nora Kingsley’s wings mural, is the setting. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Buskers on the Block returns to Port Townsend

Free outdoor shows begin Thursday at Tyler Street Plaza

Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group Port Angeles' Eve Burke earned all-state honors after guiding the Roughriders back to the Class 2A state tournament. Burke is the Peninsula Daily News' 2021-22 All-Peninsula Girls Basketball MVP.

Sports

ALL-PENINSULA GIRLS BASKETBALL: MVP race all about Eve Burke

Port Angeles senior posted 20 points, 9 rebounds, 4.5 steals per game

Traffic waits at a temporary stoplight controlling a one-lane temporary bridge that bypasses a construction zone on U.S. Highway 101 at Indian Creek west of Port Angeles on Saturday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Temporary bridge open at Indian Creek

Alternating traffic in place on US 101 through late fall

I like you by Susan Trisko can be seen at Blue Whole Gallery in Sequim.

Arts & Entertainment

Blue Whole Gallery celebrates natural world

Original artwork on display through April

An aerial photo shows the Caswell-Brown Village on Mill Road at the edge of Port Townsend. The site, purchased by Jefferson County and operated by the Olympic Community Action Programs, has the potential for expansion to serve more families and single people who are homeless. photo courtesy Olympic Community Action Programs

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Update: Unhoused find homes

Caswell-Brown Village encampment expansion before county

Tom Nall of Crusty Crumb Bakery, pictured in 2021, is among more than a dozen vendors of prepared foods participating this year in the Port Townsend Farmers Market, which takes over Tyler Street in the Uptown district starting this Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend Farmers Market to open Saturday

Welcoming ceremony to mark event’s 30th anniversary

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Free, guided walks Sunday at Fort Worden

Forest reslience, climate change topics

Clair Dunlap, youth services librarian with the North Olympic Library System, installs a placard with a poem by Raymond Carver along the Living Forest Trail behind the Olympic National Park visitor center in Port Angeles on Tuesday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Poems bloom in the spring in Olympic National Park

Poetry Walks add more inspiration to five popular trails

Zorro, a soon-to-be adopted resident at Center Valley Animal Rescue in Quilcene, allowed staff member Cody Maxwell to hold him while she spoke about the organization’s fundraising celebration this Saturday at Port Townsend’s Northwest Maritime Center. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Center Valley fundraiser in person this year

Online auction to precede gala event on Saturday

Arts & Entertainment

Music, art offered in Friday entertainment

It’s going to be a big weekend for art shows and live music on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Crime & Justice

Former naturopath sentenced for false COVID-19 cure

Third federal conviction for introducing misbranded drugs into commerce

Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group Longtime Sequim Irrigation Festival volunteer Jean Wyatt receives the 2021 Sequim Citizen of the Year honor from Terry Ward, publisher of the Peninsula Daily News and Sequim Gazette, on Tuesday at 7 Cedars Resort.

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‘Quiet hero’ receives Sequim Citizen of Year award

Wyatt lauded for efforts to bolster Irrigation Festival

Inside the remodeled playhouse in Port Townsend, "Around the World in Less Than 80 Days" playwright and actor David Natale cracks up Denise Winter, the artistic director of Key City Public Theatre. The two, along with the cast and crew, have just opened ticket sales for the show's world premiere. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Arts & Entertainment

Key City Public Theatre to reopen with ‘Around the World’

Renovated facility to welcome audiences with world premiere

Interim County Administrator Mark McCauley decided, instead of retiring, to accept the county commissioners' appointment to full county administrator. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Jefferson County hires experienced administrator

‘No need to disrupt the progress we’ve made’

Fran Howell.

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Port Angeles Chamber Community Awards set for Saturday

Video presentation to highlight top volunteers, businesses

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Goodbye, but not for long

This is the last Sunday visit you will have from the Peninsula Daily News.

Bee Redfield

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New marine science center leader to begin Friday

Enthusiasm for community impressed board

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Big change on Monday

Monday’s Peninsula Daily News won’t arrive in time for breakfast.

Peninsula College.

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Peninsula College names finalists for next president

All four candidates slated for community interviews