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Washington State Department of Transportation bridge inspectors Jim Patton, left, and Mitch Stone examine the bridge supports of the U.S. Highway 101 bridge over the Elwha River on Tuesday after it was closed Monday amid concerns about possible storm damage to the footings. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Flooded roadways cut off West End

Jefferson PUD restores power to thousands

Poet and teaching artist Gary Copeland Lilley, a North Carolina native who has lived in Port Townsend for 13 years, is the new artistic curator of Centrum’s Port Townsend Writers Conference. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Poet named artistic curator of writers conference

Aims to encourage more diversity in poets, authors

A fisher from Alberta, Canada, is released into a new home in Olympic National Park.

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Transplanted fishers released into park

Effort aims to increase genetic diversity

Jenny Westdal, Jefferson County Historical Society board president, admires one of Adeline Willoughby McCormack’s paintings in the “Women Outdoors” show at the Jefferson Museum of Art & History. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Women Outdoors displays work of early artists

Treks to scenic areas made in corsets, long skirts

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Christmas Cottage returns for three-day weekend

The holiday bazaar season kicks off this weekend with a return of the popular Christmas Cottage, which showcases…

Flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny will join the David P. Jones Trio for a jazz concert at Peninsula College this Saturday evening. photo by Steve Korn

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Music, improvisation, fossils on tap for this weekend

A worldwide Broadway-style musical revue, a youth-oriented dinosaur exhibit and a chance to watch a play unfold on…

Abby Sanford and Aidan Butterworth portray the couple at the center of "Into the Woods," the Stephen Sondheim musical opening tonight at the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Angeles High School to perform ‘Into the Woods’ in-person, online

PORT ANGELES — “Into the Woods” is a quest, a jumble, a dark comedy — “basically, just life,”…

Some of the staff at WorkSource Clallam County stand in the resource lab where locals will soon be able to work on resumes, send emails and more as they seek new work. Pictured staff, include, from left, Claire Weaver, trade act, WIOA adult and dislocated worker for Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap counties; Jon Ferguson, veterans employment specialist, with Professor the dog; John Krouse, strategies for success instructor; and Brandino Gibson, supervisor. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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WorkSource moves to Sequim office

Supervisor: This is a re-employment office

The elderly Lombardy poplars, slated for removal, stand near the boatyard and the power lines along Sims Way in Port Townsend. (Port of Port Townsend)

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Local officials, public wrangle over future of Port Townsend’s poplars

Town hall not last meeting on topic

Beth Pratt

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Sequim chamber hires new director

Beth Pratt to begin work Monday

Dennis Bauer at an Aug. 17 court hearing. (Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News)

Crime & Justice

Jury pool packs Burton center

More than 100 appear for questioning

The Field Arts and Events Hall in downtown Port Angeles is yet to be complete as it’s waiting funding to finish the interior of the structure. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Gift to fuel Field Hall fundraising efforts

Focus in 2022 will be to resume work

Sandy Tweed and the “safe park” team at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Port Townsend hope to turn their parking lot off 22nd Street into a refuge for women living in their cars. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Unitarian Universalists plan park for women living in cars

Overnight stays would be secure; online meeting set for Tuesday

On the job now as city manager for the City of Sequim, Matt Huish said he is interested in getting to know people he’ll be interacting with in the coming weeks and months. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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New Sequim city manager to attend first council meeting

Huish: Making connections within community a priority

The M/V Coho leaves Port Angeles Harbor on Monday morning on its way to Victoria for the first time since March 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic shut down travel between the two countries as both land and sea borders had been closed. For more on the reopening, see Tuesday’s print editions. (Scott Gardinier/Peninsula Daily News)

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Coho returns to sailing route to Victoria

Passengers to Canada required to have negative PCR test

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Nick Anderson, ship's oiler for the MV Coho, performs a topside inspection of the starboard engine on Friday in preparation for the resumption of ferry service from Port Angeles to Victoria on Monday.

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Hail the Coho’s clarion call

Get ready for the Canadians

Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News Dennis Bauer at an Aug. 17 court hearing.

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Bauer murder trial starts Monday

Testimony begins Nov. 15

Jim Stoffer

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Four honored for community service

Volunteers presented awards in virtual ceremony

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Festival of Trees tickets go on sale today

PORT ANGELES — Tickets go on sale today for the Festival of Trees Gala, Sr. Breakfast and Family…

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First Friday Art Walk celebrates fall in Sequim

SEQUIM — The Blue Whole Gallery is one stop on the First Friday Art Walk in Sequim tonight.