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Two Port Townsend City Council seats to appear on primary ballot

Fifty-one candidates step up during filing week

Jim Donaldson and Meg Snow enjoy popcorn from the Rose Theatre in downtown Port Townsend on Saturday. The theater has been popping corn on weekends for months while waiting for the day it can reopen. That day will come this summer.  Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Port Townsend art house theater prepared for summer opening

Pandemic has closed it for past 14 months

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Push for vaccinations continues

Health officers look ahead

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Port of Port Townsend, PT City Council candidates unopposed so far

Three races contested in Jefferson County

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Clallam County primary ballot blossoms

Former Port Angeles Mayor Karen Rogers files for hospital seat

MayBelle the pig is one of the larger residents at Quilcene’s Center Valley Animal Rescue ranch, where fundraising director Marshall Gooch and board director Sara Penhallegon will host an auction and celebration online Saturday evening. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Center Valley Animal Rescue to host auction

Saturday event expected to include video of adoptees

Past winners of the Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby grand prize gather at Swain's General Store with Wilder Toyota owner Dan Wilder to gaze upon this year's top prize, a 2021 Toyota Corolla, which is donated by Wilder. From left are Angeline Parrish, 2019 winner;  Kim Skerbeck, 1995; Mary and Harry Hebert, 2002; Tom Baerman, winner along with wife Jackie in 2011; Dan Wilder; Steve Zenovic (2018); Annette Wendell, 1992; Dan Sinnes, 1998 and Zenovic's wife Nina. All of the past 30 winners of the car have been from Port Angeles and Sequim, except for one.

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Duck Derby race on for Sunday

Tickets still available

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Cell tower at Jefferson County Fairgrounds gets approval

Lease to be considered next week

Mount Angeles View Manor, 323 E. Second St. in Port Angeles, is among the apartment buildings that will benefit from a $300,000 rehabilitation grant from the city of Port Angeles to the Peninsula Housing Authority. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Angeles City Council OKs housing funding

Peninsula Housing Authority grant approved for affordable living quarters

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Port Angeles mom avoids charges after son, 8, takes LSD

Child took four hits, was airlifted to Tacoma trauma center

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Clallam County to address recreational vehicles

Possible ordinance may limit living quarters based on lot size

Practicing their balance in a garden at Chimacum Elementary School are, from left, Violet Weidner, 10, fourth-grade teacher Kit Pennell, Brycen Christiansen, 10, and Cora Van Otten, 9. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Chimacum educator wins state prize for excellence

Former students credit teacher for sparking environmental interests

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Towering trees surround the site of the future Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles on Saturday. Fifteen trees at the site are slated for removal to make way for an updated playground.

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Trees to be cleared for Dream Playground

Erickson Playfield to be closed Monday, Tuesday

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Maskless on the Peninsula

Vaccine opens the door

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Inslee hopes to reopen economy by end of June

Move dependent upon vaccination rate

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Jefferson County settles social media lawsuit

Policy changes to follow allegation of First Amendment violation

Katy Bowman, author of “Grow Wild: The Whole Child, Whole Family, Nature-Rich Guide to Moving More,” will array pages of the book along a mile-long walking route at Chimacum’s Finnriver Farm & Cidery on Sunday afternoon. The “book walk” is free to the public. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Sequim author highlights new book with Chimacum walk

An unconventional approach to a tour in rural farm setting

Dash Air Shuttle hopes to fly the Cessna 402c out of William R. Fairchild International Airport in Port Angeles. (Dash Air Shuttle Inc.)

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Dash is firming up flight plans

Airline seeking pilots beginning this week

Jamie Schlichting of Sequim is one of many customers who say they will miss Sequim’s JCPenney store. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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JCPenney to close in Sequim on Sunday

Between Peninsula locations, retailer operated 101 years

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Clallam County approves $1.15 million in state housing funds

Fifteen programs, projects awarded grants