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Northwest Maritime Center Executive Director Jake Beattie acknowledged the past 16 months' trials during the Navigator Night Out. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Maritime Center event highlights teens’ successes

Students get involved in solo sail, boat project, jobs program

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Transit examines future plans

More routes, connections considered

Politics

Funds disclosed in primary election races

Port Angeles City Council seats top filings

Receiving a standing ovation from the audience at the Rose Theatre on Wednesday night, owner Rocky Friedman expressed his gratitude to supporters who waited 499 days for the downtown Port Townsend cinema to reopen. Friedman also introduced his mother Miriam, 101, during his speech before the showing of the film “The Truffle Hunters,” from Italy. The two-screen movie house is using a MERV-13 air filtration system and selling two-thirds of the seats for each screening. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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The Rose blooms again in Port Townsend

Receiving a standing ovation from the audience at the Rose Theatre on Wednesday night, owner Rocky Friedman expressed…

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Wennstrom outpaces fellow Democrat

Third opponent in race mini-filer like Vega

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Largest primary war chest in Port Angeles council race

Most of county’s hopefuls raise under $5,000

Among the entrants coming back to the Rhody Festival Grand Parade is the Cake Picnic Cadillac, pictured in the 2019 parade through Uptown Port Townsend. Flanking the float are bicyclist Tao Johnston, pedestrian Ryan Charrier and Meredith Milholland with daughter Gitte, then 1, in her stroller. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Rhody Festival parade now set for August

Entries sought for procession; bakers plan free dessert

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Crime & Justice

‘Vigilantism’ a fear in wake of new laws

Sheriff, legislator review police use-of-force limits

Atop the Holiday Inn Express and Suites in Sequim, co-owner Bret Wirta recently learned he’d be able to keep his hotel after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after the COVID-19 pandemic cut into tourism and his revenues. “I’m glad to have this cloud lifted from over us,” he said. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Holiday Inn owner retains hotel in bankruptcy case

More than $2M in penalties sought during pandemic

Trumpeter swans enjoy an evening on Kirner Pond. (Photo by Bob Phreaner)

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Community raises funds to save swans, bury power lines

Kirner Road project expected to finish in August, PUD says

Charles Alice of Port Angeles uses a level to line up pickets in a fence around the Generation II Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles on Sunday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Dream Playground II nearly ready for final phase

Artificial turf to be installed in August

Teaching artists Bry Kifolo, left, Brendan Chambers and Maggie Bulkley will lead two youth theater workshops -- one for 8- to 12-year-olds and one for 13- to 17-year-olds -- in Quilcene next month.  Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Port Townsend theater wins grant with community backing

KCPT renovating playhouse

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Now is the time to nominate your local hero.

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A truck makes its way around a curve on a newly-divided section of U.S. Highway 101 on Saturday as the road descends into Morse Creek Valley east of Port Angeles.

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Morse Creek curve work completed

Result is safer, says legislator

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Hundreds of area hospital workers unvaccinated

Peninsula rates still exceed that of general public

District 24 state legislature Rep. Steve Tharinger, left, and Cherish Cronmiller, Olympic Community Action Programs executive director, ceremoniously break ground for the newly dubbed "7th Haven" project during a celebration with about 100 attendees on Thursday afternoon at the site of the future housing facility. (Zach Jablonski/Peninsula Daily News)

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Ground broken for 7th Haven

Some 100 people attend ceremony

The Jefferson County Public Utility District is asking for voluntary conservation from the Bywater Bay water system, which affects 248 connections near Hood Canal.

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Water conservation urged in Bywater Bay

Seawater intrusion suspected

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Another delay for Coho sailings

Ferry co-owner: ‘We will survive’

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Comment period opens for Elwha River bridge project

Environmental assessment presented online

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Time to mask up again against COVID-19

Honor system ‘not working’