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Federal grant would increase employment

Coalition aims to reduce persistent poverty

Local resident Sheana Joy Walvatne uses an apple press at the Olympic Peninsula Apple and Cider Festival in 2022.

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Taste the season at weekend festival

PORT TOWNSEND — A tree-to-glass weekend is promised during the seventh annual Olympic Peninsula Apple &Cider Festival on…

Artist Carol Rawshanna Williams looks up at her newly unveiled installation, “Dragon Trash Guardian,” at the Jefferson County Transfer Station on Monday evening. As part of the county’s Artist in Residence and Education program, Williams seeks to connect people with art, upcycling and one another. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Sculpture now on display at Jefferson Transfer Station

Artist in Residence program celebrates its debut creation

Thomas Architecture Studios Principal Ron Thomas, left, and Associate Principal Amos Callender hold up a map of the proposed Evans Vista development in Port Townsend on Monday during a tour of the site with members of the Port Townsend City Council and the public. The project is in its final planning stages and a final plan will be determined at a Nov. 6 council meeting. (Peter Segall/Peninsula Daily News)

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Evans Vista gets ready for developer proposals

Port Townsend hopes to finalize plans next month

The Rev. Craig Vocelka of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church blesses 12-year-old Sweetpea, left, and Abner, 2, as their caregiver Danny Barnes of Port Hadlock looks on during Sunday’s Blessing of the Animals in Port Townsend. More than a dozen dogs came with their people to the labyrinth at St. Paul’s, where the spirit of St. Francis, a lover of animals, was invoked. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Animal blessings

The Rev. Craig Vocelka of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church blesses 12-year-old Sweetpea, left, and Abner, 2, as their…

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Jefferson to submit grants for housing

Each project could receive up to $2M

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Magnitude 4.3 earthquake rattles Puget Sound

Epicenter just east of Port Hadlock; impact felt from Seattle to Victoria

Founding musicians of the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series include, front row, from left to right: Mike McLeron, mandolin; William Walden, guitar; and Guy Smith, lute. Back row, from left to right: Marina Rosenquist, violin; Michael Carroll, piano; Joel Wallgren, clarinet; Pamela Roberts, cello; and Sung-Ling Hsu, piano and viola.

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PTSO Chamber Music Series hosted Saturday at Grace Lutheran Church

The Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series will continue at 3 p.m. Saturday at Grace Lutheran Church.

The young Brakenstein, a father/daughter team of Reed Lacy and Emily Lacy-Nichols from Corvallis, Ore., makes it to the finish line in the mud bog at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds during the Port Townsend Kinetic Skulpture and Race on Sunday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Pushing through the mud

The young Brakenstein, a father/daughter team of Reed Lacy and Emily Lacy-Nichols from Corvallis, Ore., makes it to…

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Creative district meetings set in Port Townsend

Input sought from artists, residents

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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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Native exhibit opens Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — “We Are One,” a curated exhibit of Native art, opens today at the Jefferson Museum…

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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…

Conner Bouchard-Roberts, the newly appointed Port Townsend poet laureate, is about to teach an Intro to Zine Making class starting Monday at Northwind Art School at Fort Worden.  photos by Diane Urbani de la Paz

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Newly appointed poet laureate to teach zine-making class

PORT TOWNSEND — Zines — small, folded and stapled books — can mix type and pictures, graphics and…

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EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Budget, housing grants before county panels

Government meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula

Life

A GROWING CONCERN: Still time to give your neighbors lawn envy

IT’S OCTOBER, THE bewitching month!

FILE - A U.S. Coast Guard boat and Kitsap, Wash., County Sheriff boat search an area, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022, near Freeland, Wash., on Whidbey Island north of Seattle where a chartered floatplane crashed the day before, killing 10 people. On Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed that a mechanical issue caused the seaplane to crash. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear, File)

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Failure of single component caused seaplane crash

Ten died in wreck off Whidbey Island

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Jefferson PUD approves 2024 budget

Decision made to not increase property tax

Phil Carriso's "Hurricane Ridge's Morning Gift" is among the artwork on display at Port Townsend Gallery.
Leah Leach

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First Saturday Art Walk slated for Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — Downtown art galleries will stay open until 8 p.m. Saturday with special exhibits for the…

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Quilcene Fiber Festival on Saturday

QUILCENE — The second annual Quilcene Fiber Festival: From Sheep to Shawl has more to offer this year…