News

EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Port Townsend City Council to consider appointing new member

Meetings across Clallam and Jefferson counties

Life

A GROWING CONCERN: Your dirt needs air, can you dig it?

NOW WE ARE in the month of August, almost into the last trimester of summer.

Business

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…

Business

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

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

News

Fort Worden Public Development Authority may dissolve

PT council must approve; state parks would take over

News

ISSUES OF FAITH: Find beauty in God’s creations

IS THERE ANYTHING cuter than the baby deer we see this time of year? The white-spotted fawns are…

The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith.

Life

Unity in Port Townsend planning for Sunday services

PORT TOWNSEND — The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith will present “Practice Certainty of Purpose” at 11 a.m. Sunday.

Kaimerata Concerts, from left, Kai Gleusteen, Catherine Ordronneau, Dan Scholz and Beth Root Sandvoss, will finish the Concerts in the Barn Series with concerts on Saturday and Sunday.

Arts & Entertainment

Kaimerata Concerts to play in Quilcene this weekend

QUILCENE — Kaimerata Concerts will perform at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Concerts in the Barn, 7360…

Cellist Pamela Roberts and pianist Sung-Ling Hsu will perform a benefit concert at the Port Ludlow Community Church on Saturday. (Thomas and Elena Sandall)

Arts & Entertainment

Cellist, pianist to perform benefit concert for Rwanda

PORT LUDLOW — Cellist Pamela Roberts and pianist Sung-Ling Hsu will perform in a benefit concert at 6…

Arts & Entertainment

Concerts, artists highlight Peninsula’s weekend events

A benefit concert, artist receptions and a car and bike show highlight weekend events on the North Olympic…

Arts & Entertainment

Weekly free outdoor concerts presented across the Peninsula

Free outdoor summer concerts will continue on the North Olympic Peninsula next week.

The former steam tug Elmore, built in 1890 by Elmore and Sanborn Fisheries in Astoria, Ore., sits on the hard at the Port Townsend Boat Haven Marina. The Elmore had several owners over the decades, the last being Henning Heinemann, who died recently, leaving the boat abandoned and claimed by the Port of Port Townsend as a derelict to be put up for auction. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

News

Century-old vessel to go up for auction Monday

Diesel engine, brass hardware and glass portholes part of historic boat

News

Derelict vessels present problems for ports

PORT ANGELES — Although the age and historic relevance of the tugboat Elmore that the Port of Port…

News

Motorcycle rider airlifted to Seattle hospital

QUILCENE — One motorcycle rider was airlifted to a Seattle hospital after she went into a ditch along…

“Nature’s Tapestry” by Merrie Jo Schroeder is on exhibit at Wilderbee Farms during September.

Arts & Entertainment

Peninsula Fiber Artists to open exhibit on Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — Peninsula Fiber Artists will open its exhibit, “Colors of Summer,” on Saturday.

Wendy Higgins of Port Townsend is among the five new artists exhibiting work at Northwind Art's Jeanette Best Gallery. image courtesy Wendy Higgins

Arts & Entertainment

‘The joy of letting go’: new artists arrive at Northwind gallery

PORT TOWNSEND — Wendy Higgins used to stand before her easel in Santa Fe, N.M., making still life…

News

Jefferson County fires destroy travel trailers

SHINE — East Jefferson Fire Rescue responded to two fire incidents involving travel trailers within a span of…

News

Mountain View Pool reopens in Port Townsend

Flooding had caused facility to be closed for more than a month

Opinion

PAT NEAL: Firewood fever is catching

WITH THE RECENT spell of rainy weather, firewood fever has hit the land. It’s time to cut firewood…

Clallam County Fire District 3’s newest probationary firefighters, from left, Madison Bowe, Steve Oberley, Matthew Aston and Nicole Simson, recent graduates of the State Fire Academy in Snoqualmie.

News

Firefighters graduate from state academy

SEQUIM — Clallam County Fire District 3 has announced the graduation of four firefighters from the State Patrol’s…