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Marine Thrift shop reopens today in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — Marine Thrift, the Northwest Maritime Center’s second-hand store for sailors, builders and do-it-yourselfers, is reopening…

Business

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

• Port Angeles Business Association — In-person meeting 7:30 a.m. Tuesday at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 DelGuzzi Drive (off…

Touring flamenco performer Savannah Fuentes will alight at the Palindrome in Port Townsend this Monday night. photo courtesy Savannah Fuentes

Arts & Entertainment

Spring days, nights fill with art, music

Activities set on Peninsula this weekend

Business

Jefferson Healthcare designated LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson Healthcare was designated a LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

Tom Nall of Crusty Crumb Bakery, pictured in 2021, is among more than a dozen vendors of prepared foods participating this year in the Port Townsend Farmers Market, which takes over Tyler Street in the Uptown district starting this Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend Farmers Market to open Saturday

Welcoming ceremony to mark event’s 30th anniversary

PHOTO BY Elizabeth Becker
Pictured, in the front row, from left to right, are Jordan Primus, Lea LeGardeur, Erika Ensminger. 

In the back row, left to right, Andy Politz, Martin Sulkosky, Scott Wielbicki, Kalika Elofson, Peter Dragula, Pualani Brown, Corey Largo, Brenna Franklin, Liam Rolfe, Ben Knight, Lauren Duehring, Brandon Garms, Steffen Brown, Wendy Apfel, Chris Dunn and Kevin Ritz.

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Marine systems technicians graduate boatbuilding school

The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding graduated a sixth class of marine systems technicians at a March 18…

Shelly Leavens, executive director of the Jefferson County Historical Society, will welcome visitors to the new "Wood" exhibition — which includes Annalise Rubida's wooden lights — during an open house this Saturday evening. The Jefferson Museum of Art & History on Water Street in Port Townsend is the venue. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Art blooming on Peninsula

Roundup of weekend events

News

Free, guided walks Sunday at Fort Worden

Forest reslience, climate change topics

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Jefferson Transit names interim general manager

Fixed-route operations manager steps into role

Life

ISSUES OF FAITH: Deeper and deeper into Lenten quiet

LAST MONTH’S COLUMN was a fairly giddy look at the custom of giving up things for Lent: things…

Pictured, from left to right, are Angela Cerna, executive director; Ellie Thornton; and Robert Cornell, dietary manager.

Business

Whatever It Takes award

Ellie Thornton received the Whatever it Takes Champions Award for the Northwest division of Life Care Centers of…

Debra Tesch

Business

Jefferson Healthcare hires new health information management/privacy officer

PORT TOWNSEND — Debra Tesch is the new health information management and privacy officer for Jefferson Healthcare.

Leslie Brooks.

Business

Physician assistants join staff at Jefferson Healthcare

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson Healthcare has announce three new members of its clinical staff.

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EYE ON JEFFERSON: County commissioners to review homeless project, school bond

Government meetings in Jefferson County

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Registration deadline looms for Beach Naturalist training

PORT TOWNSEND — Registration closes on Friday for Beach Naturalist training offered by the WSU Jefferson County Extension…

Zorro, a soon-to-be adopted resident at Center Valley Animal Rescue in Quilcene, allowed staff member Cody Maxwell to hold him while she spoke about the organization’s fundraising celebration this Saturday at Port Townsend’s Northwest Maritime Center. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Center Valley fundraiser in person this year

Online auction to precede gala event on Saturday

Port Townsend School District Superintendent Linda Rosenbury, left, and Main Street Program Executive Director Mari Mullen were among the people who came to the city’s streateries-and-parklets open house at the Cotton Building on Tuesday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Streateries discussion in progress

Port Townsend council expects to make decision in May

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Discovery Bay, Admiralty Inlet open for shellfish harvest

PORT TOWNSEND — The Department of Health has opened Discovery Bay from Diamond Point to Fort Worden and…

Doug Chin is the speaker this Friday in the Jefferson County Historical Society's First Friday Speaker Series, both in person at the Northwest Maritime Center and online. photo courtesy Jefferson County Historical Society

Arts & Entertainment

Chinese American history in state topic of lecture

PORT TOWNSEND — In a hybrid presentation this Friday evening, writer, activist and historian Doug Chin will delve…

Arts & Entertainment

Music, art offered in Friday entertainment

It’s going to be a big weekend for art shows and live music on the North Olympic Peninsula.