Daily Update Newsletter

Sachinmayi Menon plays Sandra in Allycea Weil’s Caged at 3 p.m. on Sunday. (Port Townsend Film Festival)

Port Townsend Film Festival event to feature work by Black filmmakers

Three-day gathering to cover range of topics

Sachinmayi Menon plays Sandra in Allycea Weil’s Caged at 3 p.m. on Sunday. (Port Townsend Film Festival)

The Hot Club to perform at Concerts in the Woods

The Hot Club of Port Townsend will perform at Concerts in the Woods at 3 p.m. Saturday. The concert will be at the… Continue reading

Woman flown to hospital after rollover collision

One person was flown to a Seattle hospital after a rollover collision on U.S. Highway 101 east of Forks. Wendy Miramontes Ayala, 37,… Continue reading

Alecsis Smith has been an inside force off the bench for the Peninsula College women's basketball team, averaging 11.5 points and 11 rebounds a game in the first two games of the NWAC Tournament. (Jay Cline/Peninsula College)

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: 31-0 Lane awaits Peninsula women in NWAC semis

This weekend will be a true battle of titans, both literally and figuratively. The Peninsula College women are back in the Northwest… Continue reading

Alecsis Smith has been an inside force off the bench for the Peninsula College women's basketball team, averaging 11.5 points and 11 rebounds a game in the first two games of the NWAC Tournament. (Jay Cline/Peninsula College)
Port Angeles Roughriders

PREP ROUNDUP: Port Angeles soccer opens season with dramatic win

The Port Angeles boys soccer team rallied for a pair of goals in the final six minutes of the second half to beat… Continue reading

Port Angeles Roughriders
Jeffrey Surtel.

DNA tests identify remains as BC boy

Surtel, 17, went missing from British Columbia home in 2007

Jeffrey Surtel.
David Brownell, executive director of the North Olympic History Center, top, takes a piece of ultraviolet-filtering window tinting from Ralph Parsons, Clallam County maintenance worker, in an effort on Tuesday to protect historic paintings on the stairway of the section of the county courthouse, including an 1890s depiction of Port Angeles Harbor by artist John Gustaf Kalling. The history center is working with the county to preserve the stairway artworks by adding the window coatings to reduce damage from sunlight and installing an electronic UV monitor to track potentially harmful rays. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Protecting artwork

David Brownell, executive director of the North Olympic History Center, top, takes a piece of ultraviolet-filtering window tinting from Ralph Parsons, Clallam County maintenance worker,… Continue reading

David Brownell, executive director of the North Olympic History Center, top, takes a piece of ultraviolet-filtering window tinting from Ralph Parsons, Clallam County maintenance worker, in an effort on Tuesday to protect historic paintings on the stairway of the section of the county courthouse, including an 1890s depiction of Port Angeles Harbor by artist John Gustaf Kalling. The history center is working with the county to preserve the stairway artworks by adding the window coatings to reduce damage from sunlight and installing an electronic UV monitor to track potentially harmful rays. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Chris Cain Band to play at Palindrome

The Chris Cain Band will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Palindrome at Eaglemount Wine and Cider, 1893 S. Jacob Miller… Continue reading

Cindy Taylor of Port Townsend, representing the environmental group Local 20/20, points to printed information available about the organization to an interested party while at the Jefferson County Connectivity Summit at Chimacum High School on Saturday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Connectivity summit

Cindy Taylor of Port Townsend, representing the environmental group Local 20/20, points to printed information available about the organization to an interested party while at… Continue reading

Cindy Taylor of Port Townsend, representing the environmental group Local 20/20, points to printed information available about the organization to an interested party while at the Jefferson County Connectivity Summit at Chimacum High School on Saturday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
William Flores.

Deputy to be assigned to West End detachment

Deputy William Flores has graduated from the Washington State Basic Law Enforcement Academy (BLEA), Class 905. Upon the completion of a 14-week… Continue reading

William Flores.

Evictions are at historic highs

Trends based on end of pandemic-era protections

North Olympic Library System to host mental health exhibit

The North Olympic Library System will host a reception for “Care and Custody: Past Responses to Mental Health” from 5:30 p.m. to… Continue reading

Operations scheduled at Bentinck range this week

The land-based demolition range at Bentinck Island will be in use from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, the Royal… Continue reading

PAT NEAL: The road report

IT TAKES A big man to admit you’re wrong. Unfortunately, I am not that man. While I’d never admit to being wrong, I have been… Continue reading

Public works director highlights plans for Port Townsend streets

Staff recommends de-emphazing redundancies

Tickets on sale for Ghostlight Productions fundraiser

Tickets are on sale for Ghostlight Productions’ April 11 Cabaret fundraiser. The event will be in the fellowship hall at Sequim Community Church,… Continue reading

West Boat Haven Marina master plan to take shape

Approved contract will create design, feasibility analysis

Neah Bay's Qwaapeys Greene was named the girls' MVP of the North Olympic League. (NFHS Network)

PREP BASKETBALL: Neah Bay dominates all-NOL teams

Greene girls MVP; Chambers, Swan co-MVPs for boys

Neah Bay's Qwaapeys Greene was named the girls' MVP of the North Olympic League. (NFHS Network)
From left, Mariah Disque and Kadence Greul of the Olympic Peninsula Rowing Club competed in the women’s Jr. U17 doubles boat at Vancouver Lake this weekend. (OPRA)

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: OPRA rowers bring home medals; top players, coaches named in boys basketball

The Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association competed in its first regatta of the season at Vancouver Lake Spring Sprints on Saturday, with Cooper… Continue reading

From left, Mariah Disque and Kadence Greul of the Olympic Peninsula Rowing Club competed in the women’s Jr. U17 doubles boat at Vancouver Lake this weekend. (OPRA)
Chuck Hancock of Tacoma raises a glass to toast the launching of his boat, Diana Lee, named after his wife, which was built by the students of the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building in Port Hadlock. The boat is a 24-foot one-off design by designer Jonathan Madison of Lummi Island and was trailered in and launched from the travel lift at Point Hudson Marina on Friday morning. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Boat launched

Chuck Hancock of Tacoma raises a glass to toast the launching of his boat, Diana Lee, named after his wife, which was built by the… Continue reading

Chuck Hancock of Tacoma raises a glass to toast the launching of his boat, Diana Lee, named after his wife, which was built by the students of the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building in Port Hadlock. The boat is a 24-foot one-off design by designer Jonathan Madison of Lummi Island and was trailered in and launched from the travel lift at Point Hudson Marina on Friday morning. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)