Inside the remodeled playhouse in Port Townsend, "Around the World in Less Than 80 Days" playwright and actor David Natale cracks up Denise Winter, the artistic director of Key City Public Theatre. The two, along with the cast and crew, have just opened ticket sales for the show's world premiere. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Arts & Entertainment

Key City Public Theatre to reopen with ‘Around the World’

Renovated facility to welcome audiences with world premiere

Interim County Administrator Mark McCauley decided, instead of retiring, to accept the county commissioners' appointment to full county administrator. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

News

Jefferson County hires experienced administrator

‘No need to disrupt the progress we’ve made’

News

FDA OKs fourth booster for over 50

Peninsula case rates creep up

Opinion

PAT NEAL: They clearcut the ‘Tunnel of Love’

SOME NIGHTS, I dream of rivers. Ones I have floated and others that exist only in dreams of…

Life

Friends of Fort Flagler to host lecture on elephant seals

MARROWSTONE ISLAND — Deisy Bach will discuss elephant seal sightings in the Puget Sound at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Arts & Entertainment

Washington Native Plant Society to host prairie walks in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — The Olympic Peninsula chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society will present “Introduction to Native…

Arts & Entertainment

Chinese American Voices topic Jefferson County Historical Society’s First Friday series

PORT TOWNSEND — Doug Chin will present “Chinese in Port Townsend and Washington State” at 7 p.m. Friday.

Volunteers stab through sheets of cardboard to plant shrubs to grow to shade out reed canary grass, an invasive species, along Tarboo Creek during the 16th annual Plant-A-Thon. (Northwest Watershed Institute)

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Volunteers plant trees to save Tarboo Creek habitat

Invasive reed canary grass knocked down by cardboard sheets

Crime & Justice

Investigators allege scheme to smuggle drugs into prison

Four people said to have been involved

News

Open house event slated

Study conducted for next two years

A line of sloops file past the committee boat, red flags, to start the 31st annual Shipwright’s Regatta on Port Townsend Bay on Saturday. The regatta, open to sailing boats of all sizes, is generally considered the official start of sailing season for Port Townsend mariners. (Steve Mullensky/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Regatta opens season

By Steve Mullensky

News

Three more Peninsula deaths as case numbers begin to creep up

Masks urged if case rates rise over 100 per 100,000 people

News

Open house to explore future of streateries

Parklets also on city’s docket

News

Applications accepted now for grants to help businesses

Allocations from American Rescue Plan Act funds

News

Goodbye, but not for long

This is the last Sunday visit you will have from the Peninsula Daily News.

Bee Redfield

News

New marine science center leader to begin Friday

Enthusiasm for community impressed board

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…

Arts & Entertainment

Outdoor Storytime returns in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — Outdoor Storytime returns to the Port Townsend Public Library at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Stan Cummings

Crime & Justice

Chimacum man sentenced in death of Cummings

Widow: ‘I lost my best friend’

Photo by Karen Griffiths

Cutline:  At the horse trailer parking area off Happy Valley Road in Sequim, riders Teresa Crossley, left, Linda Morin and  Judy Dupree were all smiles after finishing up the BCH Peninsula Chapter’s March 13th ride at the Dungeness Trails, located just outside city limits off River Road.

Life

HORSEPLAY: Rides of March wander down Dungeness Trails

BEWARE THE RIDES of March. That was the phrase Back Country Horsemen Peninsula Chapter Event Coordinator Linda Morin…