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Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News East Jefferson Rival Anson Jones rushes around Cougars Brayden Metcalf (50) and Torin Carpenter (51) during a Friday night game played in Memorial Field in Port Townsend.

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PREP FOOTBALL: Port Angeles, Forks, East Jefferson all romp

KINGSTON — Port Angeles’ Daniel Cable had 198 yards rushing and three touchdowns running and receiving as the…

The duo of beatbox-juggling keynote speaker Bronkar Lee, left, and tap dancer-percussionist Aaron Williams -- known as Collision of Rhythm -- will take the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center stage Sunday. photo courtesy Collision of Rhythm

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Collision of Rhythm arrives Sunday

PORT ANGELES — Pursue Bronkar Lee and Aaron Williams for an interview about the thing they call Collision…

Taking a break from setting up for the Olympic Peninsula Apple & Cider Festival, four Production Alliance crew members — from left, Danny Milholland, Shane Parish, Larry Lawrence and Damon Barlow — look out over the orchard at Eaglemount Winery-Cidery of Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Apple Cider Festival on tap this weekend

Outdoors entertainment at three venues

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Quinton Chastain of Olympia carries an insulated barrel on Thursday while setting up an outdoor kitchen for this weekend's Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival near the Port Angeles waterfront. The three-day festival begins today

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Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival begins near Port Angeles waterfront

Quinton Chastain of Olympia carries an insulated barrel on Thursday while setting up an outdoor kitchen for this…

Hank the hound gives Joy Brown a kiss from the agility equipment that she and her husband Cliff Brown built at WAG in Sequim. Vice President Deb Bemm stands behind Franco the hound. Both young dogs need lots of exercise, Brown and Bemm said. They have a dedicated dog walker as well as other volunteers who play and exercise them. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Dogtoberfest to raise funds for the Welfare for Animals Guild

Event virtual again in 2021

Black and white images from across and beyond the region, including this photo by Richard Kohler, are in the limelight this weekend at Studio Bob in Port Angeles. photo by Richard Kohler

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Crab dinners, art, music among weekend’s activities

While the Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival is the blockbuster on the Port Angeles waterfront, this weekend also…

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Port Angeles Farmers Market moves for CrabFest

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Farmers Market will temporarily relocate on Saturday to make space for the…

News

Forum set for Jefferson County administrator finalists

Three candidates to interview Friday

Volunteer corn cook Xavion Mason of Bakersfield, Calif., adds fresh ears to a boiler behind the scenes at the 2019 Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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CrabFest retools for 2021

Vendors, music and of course, dinners planned

News

Case rate decrease hitting plateau

One death in both Peninsula counties

Gov. Jay Inslee speaks Friday following an appearance at the Peninsula College campus in Port Angeles (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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State may consider measures implemented on Peninsula

As one option, Inslee cites health mandate for proof of vaccination

Irene and Chuck Lukey celebrated the 26th birthday of their twins Michael, second from left, and Mark Lukey in 1991. The Lukeys, who raised six children in Port Angeles, both died of COVID-19. (Photo courtesy of Mark Lukey)

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Lukey family loses both parents to COVID-19

Diseases contracted at care centers

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State ban on single-use plastic bags goes into effect Friday

OLYMPIA — A ban on single-use plastic bags that was originally scheduled to begin on the first of…

Life

Rain of Terror Haunted Hangar returns for October

FORKS — The Rain of Terror Haunted Hangar returns to Forks from 7 p.m. to midnight Fridays and…

Cuban pianist and composer Aldo López-Gavilán appears in “Los Hermanos,” the true story of two musician brothers separated by a geopolitical chasm. The Port Townsend Film Festival will stream a question-and-answer session with the filmmakers and a performance by Ilmar López-Gavilán free on Sunday evening. (Photo by Najib Joe Hakim for “Los Hermanos”)

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Weekend full of activities

Festivals, live music, art and tours

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Business

Best of the Peninsula 2021 winners announced

Special section, online ballots showcase top businesses and services

Mackenzie Grinnell, the First Friday Speaker Series presenter, will give an online talk about belonging to a culture and community. (Photo courtesy of Jefferson County Historical Society)

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October First Friday Speaker Series

Tribal member to speak about what it means to belong to land

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Forum teaches calming, de-escalation

Comments accentuate points of conflict

Signs mark the closure of the Waterfront Trail portion of the Olympic Discovery Trail at the Morse Creek trailhead east of Port Angeles on Tuesday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Trail repairs for Olympic Discovery Trail

Waterfront Trail portion

Joel Hoffman and Vicki Miller rehearse "A Facility for Living."

Arts & Entertainment

‘A Facility for Living’ opens at Olympic Theatre Arts in Sequim

SEQUIM — Olympic Theatre Arts Center’s comedy production of “A Facility for Living” by Katie Forgette is set…