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A GROWING CONCERN: Gardening fun in the summer sun

SUMMER HAS OFFICIALLY begun, school is out, for a couple weeks the barbecue grill is positioned and the…

News

Port of Port Townsend commissioners approve Short’s Farm plan

‘Master blueprint’ provides details on how to organize land

“Blue Lightning” is one of the artworks by Shirley Scheier, who will give a free artist talk on Thursday at Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery in Port Townsend. (Shirley Scheier)

Arts & Entertainment

Art conversation Thursday in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — “Below the Equator,” “Low Tide” and “Sweet Slumber” are among the titles of artworks by…

Arts & Entertainment

Weekly free outdoor concerts presented across Peninsula

Free outdoor summer concerts will continue on the North Olympic Peninsula next week.

Arts & Entertainment

Sekiu Fun Days, Day of Play set this weekend

The annual Day of Play, plus plays and Sekiu Fun Days will take place across the North Olympic…

Life

ISSUES OF FAITH: Living honorably is a marathon, not a sprint

THE OPENING CEREMONY of the Paris Olympics is a week away. The entry parade of athletes and lighting…

The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith.

News

Unity in Port Townsend planning for Sunday services

PORT TOWNSEND — The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith will present “Maintain Peace of Mind” at 11 a.m. Sunday.

The QFC grocery store and pharmacy in Sequim is one of three North Olympic Peninsula groceries scheduled for divestment by The Kroger Co. under terms of a merger between Kroger and Albertsons Companies, Inc. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

News

Three QFC locations could be part of sale

Kroger, Albertsons release statewide list

News

Hood Canal bridge closures canceled

SHINE — Overnight closures of the Hood Canal bridge on state Highway 104 that had been rescheduled for…

Opinion

PAT NEAL: The joy of camping

IT’S THE SIMPLE things that I enjoy most about camping, like the smell of burning driftwood and watching…

Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler, left, and Democrats Patrick DePoe, center, and Kevin Van De Wege, all candidates for state Commissioner of Public Lands, met before the Port Angeles Business Association on Tuesday to discuss their priorities for leading the Department of Natural Resources. (Peter Segall/Peninsula Daily News)

Politics

Fires are top priority for Commissioner of Public Lands hopefuls

Candidates want to increase state harvests

News

Girl taken to hospital following wreck on Highway 19

CHIMACUM — A 13-year-old girl was transported to Jefferson Healthcare hospital and a second passenger was injured after…

News

Jefferson County to start crafting short-term rental rules

Recommendations expected this summer

Sturtz, a Colorado-based acoustic quartet, will perform at the Palindrome on Saturday.

Arts & Entertainment

Colorado-based quartet to perform at Palindrome

PORT TOWNSEND — Sturtz will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Palindrome at Eaglemount Cidery, 1893 S.…

Arts & Entertainment

Bill Evans dance concerts set this month

PORT TOWNSEND — Bill Evans will present dance concerts at 7 p.m. Sunday, Monday and July 21.

A trio, Canto a Mi Tierra of Veracruz, Mexico, with Osiris Ramses Caballero Leon, left, Bernabe Hernandez Orozco, center, and Fernando Hernandez Orozco, play a set of traditional Mexican music originating in the six states of northeastern Mexico in McCurdy Pavilion on Saturday in one of the final concerts to close out the week of Fiddle Tunes presented by Centrum at Fort Worden. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Fiddle Tunes

A trio, Canto a Mi Tierra of Veracruz, Mexico, with Osiris Ramses Caballero Leon, left, Bernabe Hernandez Orozco,…

News

Heat advisory through mid-week

Temperatures likely to peak today

News

Weekly flight operations scheduled

COUPEVILLE — There will be field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey…

News

Port Angeles man dies in wreck on Highway 101

BRINNON — A Port Angeles man died when the vehicle he was driving struck a guardrail as he…

News

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…