Jefferson County

Best of the Peninsula 2025.

Nomination round open for Best of the Peninsula

Nominations are being accepted for the Best of Clallam and Jefferson counties and Best of the West End. Pick your favorites in… Continue reading

Best of the Peninsula 2025.

A GROWING CONCERN: Don’t let those pests rest

AS SPRING SLOWLY gives way to the approaching summer season (today is the beginning of late-late spring), most plants in your yard are growing rapidly.… Continue reading

“Adventuress Sunrise” by Mitchel Osborne is one of more than 50 artworks in Northwind Art’s online auction starting Monday. A pop-up gallery with all of the works on display is set for Tuesday and June 11 at the Cotton Building in Port Townsend. (Mitchel Osborne)

Art auction coming with Port Townsend pop-up gallery

Northwind Art will host its first Fundraising Art Auction and pop-up gallery next week with events online and in downtown Port Townsend.… Continue reading

“Adventuress Sunrise” by Mitchel Osborne is one of more than 50 artworks in Northwind Art’s online auction starting Monday. A pop-up gallery with all of the works on display is set for Tuesday and June 11 at the Cotton Building in Port Townsend. (Mitchel Osborne)
Northwind Art School teaching artist Meg Kaczyk, left, will host “Art Journaling through Change: In Community” on Sunday in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani/Northwind Art)

Art Journaling class to be conducted Sunday

Port Townsend artist and teacher Meg Kaczyk will host an informal class on Sunday called “Art Journaling through Change: In Community” at… Continue reading

Northwind Art School teaching artist Meg Kaczyk, left, will host “Art Journaling through Change: In Community” on Sunday in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani/Northwind Art)

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

Breakfast meetings with networking and educational programs are held at 7:30 a.m. Tuesdays at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 Del Guzzi… Continue reading

Jefferson PUD may raise its rates

Increase would address aging infrastructure

Todd Ortloff Show guests this week

Here is this week’s schedule for the 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Todd Ortloff Show on KONP 1450 AM, 101.7 FM in… Continue reading

Stage productions, festival kick off weekend events

Monthly art walks, stage productions and a Maritime Festival highlight weekend events on the North Olympic Peninsula. • The East Park Avenue Players Drama Club… Continue reading

The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith.

Unity in Port Townsend planning for Sunday services

The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith will present “Pentecost: Spirit of Love” at 11 a.m. Sunday. Douglas-Smith is the pastor at Unity in Port… Continue reading

The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith.
Rebekah Cadorette of Port Townsend will show her temari artwork at the Port Townsend Gallery during Saturday’s Art Walk and throughout June.

First Saturday Art Walk set for this weekend

The Alano Club, Gallery-9 and the Port Townsend Gallery will be among the venues to participate in the monthly Art Walk from… Continue reading

Rebekah Cadorette of Port Townsend will show her temari artwork at the Port Townsend Gallery during Saturday’s Art Walk and throughout June.

Restored lens to be celebrated at Point Wilson

Live music, tours, vendors to be on site Saturday

Lane Coney, who lives in Port Townsend, stops and looks at a flowering poison hemlock plant that extends over the sidewalk on Washington Street near the Port Townsend post office on Tuesday morning. Poison hemlock is a highly poisonous, flowering plant in the carrot family. All parts of the plant are toxic, especially when ingested. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Poison hemlock

Lane Coney, who lives in Port Townsend, stops and looks at a flowering poison hemlock plant that extends over the sidewalk on Washington Street near… Continue reading

Lane Coney, who lives in Port Townsend, stops and looks at a flowering poison hemlock plant that extends over the sidewalk on Washington Street near the Port Townsend post office on Tuesday morning. Poison hemlock is a highly poisonous, flowering plant in the carrot family. All parts of the plant are toxic, especially when ingested. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Albert Lee Band to peform for Rainshadow Concerts

The Albert Lee Band will perform for Rainshadow Concerts at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The concert will be in the Palindrome at Eaglemount… Continue reading

PAT NEAL: The camas are blooming

THERE’S A LITTLE piece of history blooming now right along U.S. Highway 101, a few miles south of Forks. The camas are blooming. In 1806,… Continue reading

Port Ludlow Players to stage ‘Nunsense II’

The Ludlow Village Players will reprise last year’s production of “Nunsense” with its new production, “Nunsense II: The Second Coming” during performances… Continue reading

RainShadow Chorale to present ‘American Folk’ concert

The RainShadow Chorale will present “American Folk,” its spring concert, at 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Both performances will be at First… Continue reading

Stephen and Christine Humphries of Nottingham, United Kingdom, spend part of Monday looking over the skeleton of Gunther, the 4-year-old Pacific gray whale that washed ashore and died on a beach in Port Ludlow in 2019 and is now an educational exhibit for the Port Townsend Marine Science Center located on the Union Wharf in downtown Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Visiting Gunther

Stephen and Christine Humphries of Nottingham, United Kingdom, spend part of Monday looking over the skeleton of Gunther, the 4-year-old Pacific gray whale that washed… Continue reading

Stephen and Christine Humphries of Nottingham, United Kingdom, spend part of Monday looking over the skeleton of Gunther, the 4-year-old Pacific gray whale that washed ashore and died on a beach in Port Ludlow in 2019 and is now an educational exhibit for the Port Townsend Marine Science Center located on the Union Wharf in downtown Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)