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“Samish, B.C.” by Vivian Chesterley is among the new works in Showcase 2024, opening this week at Northwind Art’s gallery in downtown Port Townsend.

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Updated Showcase 2024 to be unveiled this week in Port Townsend

Show opens with 17 artists from across Peninsula

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Grants to help pay for housing

Trust fund awards $10M in Jefferson County

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Clallam County to commit ARPA funds by end of year

County has $2 million to allocate; projects must be finished in 2026

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Downed trees knock out power to West End

More than 5,000 were without electricity

Makah Fisheries Management staffers shifted to trapping year-round in 2023 for the European green crab due to its continued presence in the Neah Bay area. The crab was also discovered within Neah Bay for the first time late last year. Staff also plan to continue tracking the crabs with a new system that tags their muscles instead of their shells to better see their movements and growth. (Makah Tribe)

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Makah Tribe steps up green crab trapping

Dungeness Refuge sees its highest catch rate

Bruce Hattendorf.

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Peninsula College taps Hattendorf for vice president post

PORT ANGELES — Bruce Hattendorf has been appointed vice president for instruction at Peninsula College.

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Proposed STR regulations meet pushback from residents, commissioners

Planning commission urges amendments to 2017 code

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS A work crew from Lakeside Industries lays down a layer of asphalt to patch a sinkhole in the pavement at the intersection of Fifth and Lincoln streets in Port Angeles on Friday morning after the water from a broken 4-inch main collapsed the road surface on Wednesday morning. Port Angeles reopened the intersection on Friday afternoon. Ten customers lost water briefly but were back on the system and off a boil-water advisory by late Thursday.

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Intersection repaired in Port Angeles

A work crew from Lakeside Industries lays down a layer of asphalt to patch a sinkhole in the…

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Port Townsend Port $2.3 million grant to fund boat hoist

Federal money to provide 80 percent

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Jefferson Healthcare expansion on schedule

Completion expected June 2025

A Port Angeles Public Works crew examines the hole left at 11th and Oak streets after a water main break sent a geyser of water into the air Saturday morning, damaging the road surface. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Angeles Public Works patches third water main break in four days

Director says such blowouts common after pipes thaw

A tree trunk sculpture looks over the scorched site of what was once the main play structure of the Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Dream Playground build dates tentatively scheduled

Variety of fundraisers set to contribute to cost of new facility

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South jetty on time for March deadline

In-water work close; walkway is next in Port Townsend

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Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife technician found dead at Duckabush River

Autopsy requested for seasonal worker

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Forks agrees to increase pay for police officers

Raises will be in 2025 and 2026

Bruce Emery.

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Regulations on farms, tiny homes proposed

Clallam County DCD working on ordinances

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Clallam Fair royalty to be crowned Saturday

Silent auction to help raise money for girls’ college scholarships

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe/Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission Jamestown S’Klallam tribal fisherman Josh Chapman and Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe shellfish manager Liz Tobin measure Dungeness crab samples as part of the genetics project.

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Crab DNA study examines possible distinct populations

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe partners are considering genetics

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Port Townsend City Council calls for ceasefire in Gaza

Several cities passed similar statements

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Ballots to be mailed for special election

Voters asked to fund school, hospital levies

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