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Coho ferry service still on hold

Owners awaiting details after Canadian decision

Tom Skerritt, star of “East of the Mountains,” will be honored during the Port Townsend Film Festival this September. A screening of the new movie is among the festival’s planned in-person events in downtown Port Townsend. (Photo courtesy of Jane Charles, “East of the Mountains”)

Arts & Entertainment

September festivals coming back with ‘joyful caution’

Wooden Boat, Film events to return to in-person functions

An excavator moves dirt and sand on Ediz Hook on Friday at the former site of the Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association’s boat house at the edge of Port Angeles Harbor. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Lower Elwha restoration project in progress

Work is to improve wildlife habitat, recreation

Dave Neupert.

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Clallam County mental health court favored

Plan expected for fall approval

Weiling Tu of San Francisco cuts lavender with her daughters Josephine, 14, and Kelly Anne, 12, last week at Purple Haze Lavender Farm. Weiling said they were on a road trip to the Olympic National Park and wanted to see a lavender farm. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Lavender festivals in bloom this weekend

Many farms bring back extras following 2020 provisions

Crime & Justice

Delayed kidnapping, rape case in Jefferson court

Victim allegedly former girlfriend who picked him up from prison

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Guilty plea in hate crime

Sentence Aug. 19 for Clallam Bay man

The late Stanley Cummings is pictured hiking in a photograph provided by his widow, Sigrid Cummings.

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Former Northwest Maritime Center director dies

Community leader leaves legacy in Port Townsend

Peter Johnson, human resources manager for the McKinley Paper Co. mill in Port Angeles, talks about his company during Wednesday’s Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce luncheon. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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McKinley Paper Co. tells of successes

Mill aims to hire additional 20 workers

Dave Finney caught this hatchery chinook while fishing Midchannel Bank off Port Townsend on opening day in Marine Area 9 (Admiralty Inlet) in July of 2019.

Sports

OUTDOORS: Anglers set to rob Midchannel Bank

It may well be a blink-and-you-miss-it type of fishery, but salmon season will open Friday in the waters…

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Berry now health officer for both Jefferson, Clallam

Appointment made Thursday afternoon

Housing Solutions Network director Justine Gonzalez-Berg will moderate Saturday’s housing forum at the Cotton Building in Port Townsend. (Photo courtesy of Justine Gonzalez-Berg)

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Housing topic of Port Townsend forum

City Council candidates to answer questions

Crime & Justice

Penalty ordered in drug fatality

Prison sentence set at 12½ years

Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Nichols, left, talks about a proposed mental health court program accompanied by District Court Judge Dave Neupert on Tuesday at the Clallam County Courthouse in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Mental health court proposed

Clallam County prosecuting attorney leads effort

Firefighters respond to an early morning fire at Olympic Ambulance early Tuesday. (Clallam County Fire District 3)

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Early morning Sequim fire destroys ambulances, structure

Damage estimated as likely to exceed $500,000; none hurt

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Peninsula heat deaths investigated

Sports announcer, homeless man among the four

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COVID claims 19th victim on Peninsula

Clallam County woman in her 30s

Klahhane Ridge south of Port Angeles is shown Thursday with little snow on the north face. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Snowpack depleted in Olympics

No water shortage now, but situation could change

Historian Nathan Barnett of Olympic Peninsula Steam and Port Townsend Mayor Michelle Sandoval unveil a guide to the new “Hidden History” signs Thursday afternoon at Washington and Taylor streets. Fourteen interpretive signs, each revealing a facet of the city’s past, are being posted around Uptown and downtown Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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New sign series revealed in Port Townsend

Fourteen stops on walking tour from downtown, Uptown

Peppino D’Agostino will appear at the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center as the Concerts in the Woods resume this Saturday night. (Photo by Jarek Pepkowski)

Arts & Entertainment

Concerts in the Woods return to Coyle

Pair of guitarists to appear at music series