"Ross Island Bridge" by Michael Stasinos is among 58 paintings in "Weather or Not," the plein air art show opening Friday at Jeanette Best Gallery in Port Townsend.

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Plein air exhibit opens Friday

PORT TOWNSEND — “Plein air painting carries a refreshing freedom. You are in the moment. Everything you know…

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Port Ludlow Art League hosts fair

PORT LUDLOW — The Port Ludlow Inn will host the outdoor Labor Day Art Fair sponsored by the…

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Entertainment set on North Olympic Peninsula

Music, art and a Revolutionary reenactment are offered on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.

News

PSP risk closes shellfish harvesting in many areas

The danger of potentially lethal paralytic shellfish poisoning has led to the closure of recreational harvesting of all…

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EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Budget, public health before county panels

Government meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula

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Quilcene’s Mason Iverson, left, fights for yardage during a Sept. 2022 game against Crescent. Iverson led the Rangers in rushing yards last season and returns at fullback for Quilcene.

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PREP FOOTBALL: Quilcene looking for return trip to state

Rangers becoming a 1B mainstay

Tony Furtado clowns around with instruments.

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Furtado, Price to perform in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — String wizard Tony Furtado and fiddle champion Luke Price will perform at The Palindrome at…

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Biotoxins close Sequim Bay to shellfish harvesting

SEQUIM — Sequim Bay has been closed to the recreational harvesting of all species of shellfish due to…

Personnel from East Jefferson Fire and Rescue (EJFR) and Port Townsend police investigate the scene where a Toyota driven by a Quilcene woman crashed into the doorway of Papa Murphy’s pizza shop at 1220 W. Sims Way in Port Townsend before noon on Tuesday. She was not injured, but she was shaken up by the incident that occurred when her foot slipped off the brake pedal and hit the accelerator, according to EJFR Chief Bret Black. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Accelerated instead of braking

Personnel from East Jefferson Fire and Rescue (EJFR) and Port Townsend police investigate the scene where a Toyota…

The Port Townsend City Council on Monday visited Mountain View Commons and the city golf course to get a first-hand look at the properties which are under consideration for alternative uses. Tim Caldwell, left, a member of the Port Townsend Golf Course stakeholder committee, describes the clubhouse and course layout. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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Stakeholders, council members discuss future of Port Townsend Golf Course

Testy exchange dealt with government action, alternate uses

Opinion

PAT NEAL: Back-to-school drugs

BACK TO SCHOOL. I wonder if any if any three words in the English language can shoot such…

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Wildfire danger high into October

Dry conditions will persist on Peninsula

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Fish passage project completed, but only one of many

Project is one of six in Sequim area, WSDOT reports

Eric Johnson, maker of this photo, is among the photographers teaching classes this fall at Northwind Art School at Fort Worden. Details can be found at NorthwindArt.org on the Courses page. (Eric Johnson)

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Northwind Art School offers classes

PORT TOWNSEND — A full slate of new art workshops and courses — for youngsters and adults —…

Artist and writer Mo Walrath will give a lecture at Port Townsend’s Grover Gallery on Tuesday. (Diane Urbani/Northwind Art)

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‘How I Hold You’ talk set for Tuesday

PORT TOWNSEND — Maureen “Mo” Walrath, a weaver and writer, will give a lecture Tuesday titled “How I…

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Dayton Brown, from Sammamish, aims for the bull’s eye in the PNWAXE cage during THING music and arts festival on the Parade grounds of Fort Worden State Park on Friday. THING continues today and Sunday.

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THING fling at Fort Worden

Dayton Brown, from Sammamish, aims for the bull’s eye in the PNWAXE cage during THING music and arts…

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Clallam, Jefferson joins 22-county lawsuit

DSHS won’t treat severely mentally ill when charges are dropped

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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…

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 a.m.…

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Wildfire smoke expected to begin clearing Sunday

PORT ANGELES — Smoke dirtied the skies and burned eyes and sinuses on the North Olympic Peninsula on…