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Melissa Bixby’s batik paintings are featured during October at the Port Townsend Gallery.

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First Saturday Art Walk set in Port Townsend this weekend

Gallery-9, Jeanette Best Gallery, Port Townsend Gallery hosting exhibits

Jefferson Healthcare CEO Mike Glenn and COO Jacob Davidson observe as the top steel member is prepared to be installed on the new building. (Jefferson Healthcare)

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Design-build process helps Jefferson Healthcare building

Partners help reduce embodied carbon with local materials

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Man transported to hospital after collision near Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — One person was transported to a hospital following a collision at state Highway 20 and…

Casey Raiha, left, portrays the titular fugitive while Ricky Spauldng is Sheriff Giles Quimby in “Wild Man of the Wynoochee” at Key City Public Theatre in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz)

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‘Wild Man’ to premiere at Key City Public Theatre

Musical follows manhunt into the woods

Sculptor Jan Hoy will bring 10 of her works to Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery for a two-woman show opening Thursday. (Jan Hoy)

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Two-woman show opens this week at Northwind Art gallery

PORT TOWNSEND — One day, Jan Hoy watched her art have an effect on a man who was…

Denise Arey, owner of Expressions at 834 Water St. in Port Townsend, celebrates Girls’ Night Out during the 2023 event.

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Annual Girls’ Night Out event set for Thursday

PORT TOWNSEND — “Vino and Velvet” is the theme for the 20th Girls’ Night Out event, set for…

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Weekly flight operations scheduled

COUPEVILLE — There will be field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey…

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EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Clallam commissioners to discuss coroner services

Meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula.

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Todd Ortloff Show guests this week

PORT ANGELES — Here is this week’s schedule for the 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Todd Ortloff Show…

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EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

• Port Angeles Business Association — Breakfast meetings with networking and educational programs are held Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m.…

Life

A GROWING CONCERN: Don’t let frost leave you out in the cold

AS WE NOW complete our first full week of autumn and evening temperatures have dropped significantly, let us…

Photo by Karen Griffiths

Tackling the abandoned dog crisis, local business owners Shelby, left, and Martha Vaughan share their progress in getting the new non-profit Fox-Bell Humane Society, operating under OPEN’s 501c3 non-profit, up and running  in Clallam County. Very soon the doors on the new facility on Barr Road (on 3-acres behind the Fox-Bell Event Center) which will be  dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming horses, dogs, and other animals. Key to its mission is offering low-cost spay and neuter programs to dogs and cats in order curb crisis off too many unwanted animals overcrowding shelters across the nation.

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HORSEPLAY: A call to help those who help the community

I TIP MY hat to three passionate, action-orientated and strong women who are life-long animal rescuers and advocates…

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State preps for takeover

Parks will manage area if PDA dissolves

The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith.

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Unity in Port Townsend planning for Sunday services

PORT TOWNSEND — The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith will present “Being of Service” during services at 11 a.m. Sunday

Arts & Entertainment

Port Angeles, Port Townsend orchestras set for performances

Two orchestra performances, additional music entertainment and an electronics recycling event highlight weekend events on the Peninsula.

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Bless the beasts run scheduled at Port Townsend Golf Course

PORT TOWNSEND — The Humane Society of Jefferson County and the Church of BuVu will sponsor the “Bless…

Crime & Justice

130 cats seized at Brinnon property

Animals are being examined, receiving treatment

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Port of Port Townsend reviews draft budget for next year

Insurance, employee benefits among rising expenses

Life

ISSUES OF FAITH: Sometimes you have to give up good things for the best things

TOWARDS THE END of the prophet Jacob’s life in the Book of Mormon, he said, “Our lives passed…

A red-footed booby has been roosting on a daily basis on a piling at the Marine Science Center aquarium at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Tropical roosting in Port Townsend

A red-footed booby has been roosting on a daily basis on a piling at the Marine Science Center…