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Traci and Spencer Hoveskeland make up The Bottom Line Duo.

A diverse Bottom Line: Port Angeles-bred duo to perform at college

PORT ANGELES — The two Port Angeles High School sweethearts are still playing, working and traveling together — and this Tuesday night, they're coming home… Continue reading

Traci and Spencer Hoveskeland make up The Bottom Line Duo.
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough of Port Townsend is the author of "The Healer's War."

Port Townsend author, Army vet to read from novel today

PORT ANGELES — Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, author of The Healer's War and many other books, will give a free reading at Wine on the Waterfront,… Continue reading

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough of Port Townsend is the author of "The Healer's War."

WEEKEND: New Old Time Chautauqua in town

PORT TOWNSEND — When the Juggling Jollies, the Pipia Sisters and a sword swallower known as Justin Credible join the Flying Karamazov Brothers, you know… Continue reading

Crystie and Keith Kisler hunker beside the barrels at their Finnriver Farm & Cidery in Chimacum

Vintners to host Harvest Winery Tour this weekend

The reds and whites are ready — and thanks to winemakers' creative juices, the scarecrows are diverse this weekend during the Harvest Winery Tour across… Continue reading

Crystie and Keith Kisler hunker beside the barrels at their Finnriver Farm & Cidery in Chimacum

WEEKEND: Art, rock live on with Second Weekend Art parties in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A diverse mix of Second Weekend Art parties gets under way tonight with rock, remembrance, art-making and dancing at Bar N9NE. There,… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Foote's funnies, for the festival

WEEKEND: Foote’s funnies, for the festival

By Diane Urbani de la Paz Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES — Norman Foote figures he was an embarrassment to his folks,and a mystery to… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Foote's funnies, for the festival

WEEKEND: Get in gift-giving mood at holiday bazaars

Aspiring Santas can find plenty of gifts at this weekend’s holiday bazaars — and please themselves with a few treats as well. From the annual… Continue reading

WEEKEND: New Old Time Chautauqua in town

PORT TOWNSEND — When the Juggling Jollies, the Pipia Sisters and a sword swallower known as Justin Credible join the Flying Karamazov Brothers, you know… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Other area events on North Olympic Peninsula

Swap your ski gear, attend a Marine Corps ball, find out more about the Clallam County Gem & Mineral Association at an open house or… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Port Angeles businesses to host Holiday Extravaganza

PORT ANGELES — A shopper at any of the participating 30 Port Angeles businesses could win a $3,000 shopping spree during the 2012 Holiday Extravaganza… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Santa Claus to arrive for photo opportunities

PORT ANGELES — Visitors to Necessities & Temptations gift shop can have photos taken with Santa while also benefiting Olympic Medical Center beginning at 10… Continue reading

Singers Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel Deardorff will do a rare performance together at this Sunday's Community SongFest in Port Townsend. Songwriting Works

WEEKEND: SongFest more than a lark

PORT TOWNSEND — However young or old you might be, wherever and whatever you've been in this life, you can yet have a song in… Continue reading

Singers Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel Deardorff will do a rare performance together at this Sunday's Community SongFest in Port Townsend. Songwriting Works
Sequim High School's Hailey Brock

‘Dramedy’ opens Friday at Sequim High School

SEQUIM — Sure, “Up the Down Staircase” is a comedy set in an inner-city high school — but with teenagers involved, you can be sure… Continue reading

Sequim High School's Hailey Brock

JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Give vote of thanks for multiple musical muses

THE VOTES HAVE been cast and counted, with no hanging chads demanding a recount. As we enter the holiday season, there will be more forms… Continue reading

Sara Richerts

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ HORSEPLAY COLUMN: Horse academy takes off in Sequim

TENDERFOOTS, TAKE HEART: Longtime Sequim resident and equestrian Sara Richerts recently opened Blue Ribbon Horse Academy, designed to teach greenhorn riders ages 17 and younger… Continue reading

Sara Richerts

Juan de Fuca Festival benefit set for Saturday

PORT ANGELES — Canadian singer and comic Norman Foote, a buffet dinner, the Dessert Dash and an auction of fancy hotel stays and getaways: It’s… Continue reading

Massachusetts playwright Constance Congdon's “Take Me to the River” will be given a staged reading Monday at Port Townsend's Key City Playhouse.

Topical tale of farm troubles in Key City play

PORT TOWNSEND — The future of family farms, the arrival of developers and the water of life all converge in “Take Me to the River.”… Continue reading

Massachusetts playwright Constance Congdon's “Take Me to the River” will be given a staged reading Monday at Port Townsend's Key City Playhouse.

WEEKEND: Putting bang back into big band

PORT TOWNSEND — In Bill Cunliffe’s hands, a big band isn’t what it used to be. It’s a rock ’n’ roll outfit, a Latin jazz… Continue reading

Allyson Kramer

Past recipients to play at scholarship benefit concert

PORT ANGELES — What goes around comes around: An array of players who have benefited from Monday Musicale scholarships years ago — and bloomed as… Continue reading

Allyson Kramer

WEEKEND Retelling of a classic: ‘Cotton Patch Gospel’ in Sequim

DUNGENESS — They call it “the greatest story ever retold”: Mary and Joe's boy Jesus, born in present-day rural Georgia and baptized in the Chattahoochee… Continue reading