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Chef Wyatt Park, pictured in this file photo, shapes his sushi creations at the Jefferson County Farmers Market in Uptown Port Townsend on Saturdays. Along with dozens of other food and artisan vendors, Park mans his stand from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Tyler and Lawrence streets. For those who prefer to shop for fresh produce by computer or mobile device, JCFmarkets.org keeps its online market open for orders till 1 p.m. today. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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How he rolls

Chef Wyatt Park shapes his sushi creations at the Jefferson County Farmers Market in Uptown Port Townsend on…

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Jefferson County Commissioners eyeing $600K grant for affordable housing project

Money to finish funding needs for Seventh and Hendricks project

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Health officers concerned about vaccination hesitancy

Aim is to reach herd immunity

Professor Matt Toerey.

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Studium Generale presents ‘Zen and the Art of Chickenman’

PORT ANGELES —Peninsula College English Professor Matt Teorey will present his study, “Zen and the Art of Chickenman,”…

Kelly Doran takes her dog Sunny out for some fresh air at North Beach, one of several Port Townsend beaches included in Saturday’s Washington Coast Cleanup. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Washington coast cleanup set for Saturday

Volunteers to groom beaches in Clallam, Jefferson counties

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Everyone 16 and older now eligible for COVID vaccine

State confirms more ‘breakthrough’ cases

After a long winter, kinetic sculptor Colin Bartle brings his machines out into the Port Townsend sunlight on Sunday. He’s among the builders hoping to join October’s Great Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Sculpture Race. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Kinetic sculpture planning is on for October

Parade, water and land races expected this fall

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Registration deadline for Seventy48 race Thursday

Event to run from Tacoma to Port Townsend in June

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Jefferson County looking into leash law

Animal control code may be updated

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J&J vaccine on pause

Alternative dates, vaccine offered on Peninsula

Shelley Leavens, left, and Sarah Vowell.

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‘This American Life’ writer Vowell to appear Monday night

Centrum hosts Communiversity lecture series

Adventuress Capt. Katelinn Shaw discusses steering and navigation with Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding students including Drew Harman, right, on board the schooner. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Boat school expands to Port Townsend Boat Haven location

Adventuress creates classroom opportunity for new students

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Clallam County returns to high-risk category; Jefferson County up to moderate

Ninth death on North Olympic Peninsula confirmed

Ariel Speser

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Port Townsend City Council member announces she will not run again

Ariel Speser will not seek re-election

OPEN board members and volunteers are full of smiles after a recent anonymous supporter asked how she could help. She paid the veterinarian’s fee to fully exam four horses,  float the teeth on three and ended up taking home two of them, agreeing to provide them a forever retirement home in her ample pastures. (Karen Griffiths/for Peninsula Daily News)

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HORSEPLAY: Olympic Peninsula Equine Network offers new chances for abused, discarded horses

SARGE IS A horse who took charge of his own fate after his owners no longer wanted him…

Shayna Wiseman is the delighted owner of a tiny cedar house she and volunteers constructed at the Community Boat Project in Port Hadlock. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Port Hadlock’s Community Boat Project addresses affordable housing

Homes built for those who lack them

"Seahorse," by Pat Herkal is among the textile artworks on display at the Northwind Art Grover Gallery.

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Undersea exhibit showcases textile arts

PORT TOWNSEND — Textile artists’ varied views of the Salish Sea are on display now at the Northwind…

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Vaccination clinic workiers Jack Harmon, front, and Jeramey Johnson check in motorists and direct traffic during Saturday's clinic at Port Angeles High School.

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Appointments available for vaccination clinics

All 16 and older eligible on Thursday

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Discovery Bay closed to recreational shellfish harvesting

Discovery Bay is closed to all species for recreational shellfish harvesting, the state Department of Health has announced.

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Peninsula overdose deaths seem to be on the rise

Investigations underway in Clallam, Jefferson counties