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Wearable Art Student Show set for Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend’s Wearable Art Student Show 2023 will be at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.…

Paintings by Shelly Gould will be on display at Gallery 9.

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Paintings, photography, wood relief on view during Port Townsend art walk

PORT TOWNSEND — Downtown art galleries will stay open late Saturday with special exhibits for the Port Townsend…

Northwest Watershed Institute Volunteer crew leader David Dunn and daughter, Willow, plant trees and secure tree protectors in a recent event.

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Restoration planting season underway along Tarboo Creek

Volunteers needed for upcoming events

A cougar was spotted swimming near Vancouver Island in 2020, and researchers have found that the cats can potentially swim up to 2 kilometers, allowing them to reach more than half the islands in Puget Sound. (Courtesy photo/Tim Melling, Panthera)

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Swimming cougars cast new light on cat movement

Researchers find cougars island hopping in Puget Sound

Singer-songwriter Jeff Plankenhorn will be on stage at the Palindrome.

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Plankenhorn to perform on Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — Austin-based guitarist and singer-songwriter Jeff Plankenhorn will perform at the Palindrome at Eaglemount Cidery at…

Life

Evensong service scheduled

Evensong service

The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith

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Service set for Unity in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith will present “Lent as Spiritual Practice” at 11 a.m. Sunday

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ISSUES OF FAITH: A meditation on death and new life

I WRITE THIS on Ash Wednesday of this year — the most somber day of the Christian church…

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EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Serenity House, opioid settlement funds before county boards

Government meetings across North Olympic Peninsula

Suzanne Ames.

Education

Peninsula College described as small but mighty

President speaks of building workforce

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Teaching artists exhibit open at Grover Gallery

PORT TOWNSEND — Grover Gallery, one of the two galleries nonprofit Northwind Art currently occupies downtown, has been…

Janine Kirby, EVS Tech II, prepares the machine for service. (Jefferson Healthcare)

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Robot zapping germs at Port Townsend hospital

Jefferson Healthcare uses UV light to destroy pathogens

With Whidbey Island as a backdrop, a flock of brants, small geese, turns into the wind before landing in the Salish Sea at Point Hudson. The brants winter along temperate zone seacoasts and breed in the high Arctic tundra. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Flight of the brants

With Whidbey Island as a backdrop, a flock of brants, small geese, turns into the wind before landing…

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Jefferson approves final rescue plan dollars

Commissioners allocate remaining $800K

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Story Slam planned in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — The Church of BuVu and Winter Texts will host PT Story Slam from 7:30 p.m.…

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South Jefferson County schools release students early due to weather

QUILCENE — Students were released early from the Quilcene and Brinnon public schools on Monday because of weather…

The schooner Sir Isaac rounds a marker with the sloop Underdog on its stern during the 32nd annual Shipwrights Regatta on Port Townsend Bay on Saturday. Twenty-two sailboats were on the water for the noon start. The regatta, hosted by the Port Townsend Sailing Association and supported by the Northwest Maritime Center, marks the beginning of the sailboat racing season in Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Racing season opens

The schooner Sir Isaac rounds a marker with the sloop Underdog on its stern during the 32nd annual…

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Bird flu a concern for health authorities

Flock owners urged to take precautions

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Port of Port Townsend updated on Short’s Farm, jetty construction

Acquisition depends on securing $1 million from state Legislature

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Online open house available for upcoming road projects

OLYMPIA — North Olympic Peninsula residents have an online tool to help them navigate a number of road…