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A GROWING CONCERN: Summer chores, summer tips for gorgeous gardens

JULY IS OFFICIALLY here! It is now the beginning of mid-early summer.

Virginia Ashby spent the afternoon of June 23 painting at Grover Gallery in Port Townsend, where her art is part of the "Psychedelic Summer" exhibition. photo courtesy of Northwind Art

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Saturday Art Walk highlights PT artists

PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend downtown art galleries will stay open until 8 p.m. Saturday with special exhibits…

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Makah Museum show, storytelling, skating offered this weekend

Makah art, skating and storytelling are on tap this weekend on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Navy Region Northwest Rear Admiral Mark Sucato, far right, shakes the hand of Cmdr. Todd Galvin as he takes command of Naval Magazine Indian Island.

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New comanding officer takes over at Naval Magazine

PORT HADLOCK — Cmdr. Todd Galvin has assumed command of Naval Magazine Indian Island and Naval Munitions Command…

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Evensong service scheduled Sunday for Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — Katy Taylor will provide music for an Evensong service from 4 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.…

Port Townsend artists Eric Fanson, left, and Fred Videon are featured at the  inaugural show at Little Wing Gallery.

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Little Wing Gallery features two artists

PORT TOWNSEND — Little Wing Gallery invites visitors to its first show, “Metamorphic,” featuring Port Townsend artists Eric…

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Peninsula celebrates the Fourth

Among highlights: Navy in PA, days of events in Forks, collaboration in PT

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EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Gales Addition housing, public health before county boards

Government meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula

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Walking tours in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County Historical Society will lead walking tours of downtown Port Townsend on Saturdays…

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Surfing art on display Friday

PORT TOWNSEND — The “Third Occasional Surf Culture on the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Salish…

“Neah Bay Doves” is among Kerry Tremain’s photos in “Outside In,” the large-scale exhibition to open today at Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery in downtown Port Townsend. (Kerry Tremain)

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Show highlights nature photography, sculptures

Birdsong soundtrack accompanies art

Olympic National Park visitors, from left, Nelson Nunez, Mateo Sancho and Albert Martinez, all from New York City, look at an information board at Hurricane Ridge after the area was reopened to the public on Tuesday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Visitors flocking to reopened Ridge

Kilmer: Too early to tell about funds for new lodge

Scott MacDonald of Team Sporting Chance, left, and Stuart Sugden of Team Bella Bella and Beyond, seen near Fraser Reach, British Columbia, on Sunday, were the final two racers to complete the Race to Alaska on Tuesday. They were the 17th and 18th teams, respectively. (Northwest Maritime Center)

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Final racers complete annual Race to Alaska

Eighteen teams reach Ketchikan

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Consumer fireworks allowed beginning today

Legal only in certain areas as specific times

Alice Derry

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‘She Who Walks the Earth’ book launch Saturday

The maple leaves seem happy to feel

Olympic National Park Superintendent Sula Jacobs talks about the fire from a vantage point just below the day lodge, which burned May 7. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Hurricane Ridge reopening to public

Park aims to restore services after blaze

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International joke day feted in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Laughter Club will celebrate International Joke Day at 2 p.m. Friday.

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Cougar lecture scheduled

MARROWSTONE ISLAND — Nickoli Kallman will present “Cougar and Bear Conflict Management and Prevention” at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

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Jefferson County seeks DNR collaboration on forest lands

Board suggests parcels around Daybob Bay

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Book reading scheduled

PORT HADLOCK — Mitch Luckett will read from his new novel “Holy Roller Heart” from 5:30 p.m. to…