From left are Hewitt Brooks, Deborah Wiese, Port Townsend Mayor Deborah Stinson, Micheal Cavett, D.D. Wigley, Doug Given, Mark Rose, Port Townsend Arts Commission Commissioner Lisa Wentworth and Key City Public Theatre Artistic Director Denise Winter.

Entertainment

Key City’s PlayFest 21 continues with one-act plays, workshops

PORT TOWNSEND — The 21st annual PlayFest, a production featuring one-act plays written by local playwrights, continues its…

Acclaimed indie folk duo to play Port Townsend on Saturday

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Acclaimed indie folk duo to play Port Townsend on Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — Seattle indie folk duo The Winterlings will perform in concert at the Unity Spiritual Enrichment…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: More important than ever to realize compromise is the ultimate goal

The framers of our Constitution were really brilliant when they started with the equal branches of government, not…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Supreme Court only supreme in its authority, not its judgment

Courts have the task of making judgments that interpret the law.

Navy fields photos of its four-legged neighbors in Indian Island wildlife survey

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Navy fields photos of its four-legged neighbors in Indian Island wildlife survey

INDIAN ISLAND — The U.S. Navy’s natural resource managers have been conducting a wildlife survey at Naval Magazine…

Cars make their way around a curve on U.S. Highway 101 at Lake Crescent west of Port Angeles on Wednesday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Start of Highway 101 work around Lake Crescent delayed until April

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The start of construction for the U.S. Highway 101 rehabilitation project around Lake Crescent…

Department of Transportation designing new Elwha River bridge for Highway 101

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Department of Transportation designing new Elwha River bridge for Highway 101

FORKS — The state Department of Transportation has started designing a new Elwha River bridge for U.S. Highway…

Bull trout lawsuit targeting Columbia Basin dams dismissed

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Bull trout lawsuit targeting Columbia Basin dams dismissed

By Keith Ridler

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NEWS BRIEFS: Sequim police credit Project Lifesaver for quick recovery of elderly man … and other items

SEQUIM — Police found a 77-year-old Sequim man less than 20 minutes after he was reported missing, and…

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Clallam commissioners join other boards in calling for longer halibut season

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County has joined the chorus of local governments asking the state Department of Fish…

Olympic Medical Center had to temporarily stop performing non-emergency and elective surgeries after a sterilization machine malfunctioned, but the facility is operating at normal capacity again. (Jesse Major/Peninsula Daily News)

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Olympic Medical Center back to normal operating room capacity

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center was back to performing non-emergent and elective surgeries Wednesday, days after the…

Airports, legal volunteers prepare for new Trump travel ban

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Airports, legal volunteers prepare for new Trump travel ban

By Gene Johnson

News

State spent $34,000 on flight for prisoners in 2014

The Associated Press

Court denies immediate hearing to release Seattle ‘dreamer’

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Court denies immediate hearing to release Seattle ‘dreamer’

By Gene Johnson

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Report: Washington’s most common crime shouldn’t be one

By Gene Johnson

Opinion

PAT NEAL: The seeds of our fishless halibut fishery

IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news for the diminishing breed of fishing-license buyers who insist on…

Port Townsend board gathers input for new school name

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Port Townsend board gathers input for new school name

PORT TOWNSEND — Chetzemoka Elementary is seeing some support as the name of Port Townsend’s planned new school.

Clallam sheriff details missing person response after man was trapped in car for five days

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Clallam sheriff details missing person response after man was trapped in car for five days

SEQUIM — A 69-year-old Sunland man was trapped in his car on the side of an embankment for…

Port official: Tests show no hydraulic oil spill at Port Angeles log yard

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Port official: Tests show no hydraulic oil spill at Port Angeles log yard

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles resident’s claim is “completely false” that log-yard operator Merrill &Ring has been…

AP-NORC Poll: U.S. teens disillusioned, divided by politics

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AP-NORC Poll: U.S. teens disillusioned, divided by politics

By Gillian Flaccus