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Zorro, a soon-to-be adopted resident at Center Valley Animal Rescue in Quilcene, allowed staff member Cody Maxwell to hold him while she spoke about the organization’s fundraising celebration this Saturday at Port Townsend’s Northwest Maritime Center. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Center Valley fundraiser in person this year

Online auction to precede gala event on Saturday

Port Townsend School District Superintendent Linda Rosenbury, left, and Main Street Program Executive Director Mari Mullen were among the people who came to the city’s streateries-and-parklets open house at the Cotton Building on Tuesday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

News

Streateries discussion in progress

Port Townsend council expects to make decision in May

News

Discovery Bay, Admiralty Inlet open for shellfish harvest

PORT TOWNSEND — The Department of Health has opened Discovery Bay from Diamond Point to Fort Worden and…

Doug Chin is the speaker this Friday in the Jefferson County Historical Society's First Friday Speaker Series, both in person at the Northwest Maritime Center and online. photo courtesy Jefferson County Historical Society

Arts & Entertainment

Chinese American history in state topic of lecture

PORT TOWNSEND — In a hybrid presentation this Friday evening, writer, activist and historian Doug Chin will delve…

Arts & Entertainment

Music, art offered in Friday entertainment

It’s going to be a big weekend for art shows and live music on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Inside the remodeled playhouse in Port Townsend, "Around the World in Less Than 80 Days" playwright and actor David Natale cracks up Denise Winter, the artistic director of Key City Public Theatre. The two, along with the cast and crew, have just opened ticket sales for the show's world premiere. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Arts & Entertainment

Key City Public Theatre to reopen with ‘Around the World’

Renovated facility to welcome audiences with world premiere

Interim County Administrator Mark McCauley decided, instead of retiring, to accept the county commissioners' appointment to full county administrator. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Jefferson County hires experienced administrator

‘No need to disrupt the progress we’ve made’

News

FDA OKs fourth booster for over 50

Peninsula case rates creep up

Opinion

PAT NEAL: They clearcut the ‘Tunnel of Love’

SOME NIGHTS, I dream of rivers. Ones I have floated and others that exist only in dreams of…

Life

Friends of Fort Flagler to host lecture on elephant seals

MARROWSTONE ISLAND — Deisy Bach will discuss elephant seal sightings in the Puget Sound at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Arts & Entertainment

Washington Native Plant Society to host prairie walks in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — The Olympic Peninsula chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society will present “Introduction to Native…

Arts & Entertainment

Chinese American Voices topic Jefferson County Historical Society’s First Friday series

PORT TOWNSEND — Doug Chin will present “Chinese in Port Townsend and Washington State” at 7 p.m. Friday.

Volunteers stab through sheets of cardboard to plant shrubs to grow to shade out reed canary grass, an invasive species, along Tarboo Creek during the 16th annual Plant-A-Thon. (Northwest Watershed Institute)

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Volunteers plant trees to save Tarboo Creek habitat

Invasive reed canary grass knocked down by cardboard sheets

Crime & Justice

Investigators allege scheme to smuggle drugs into prison

Four people said to have been involved

News

Open house event slated

Study conducted for next two years

A line of sloops file past the committee boat, red flags, to start the 31st annual Shipwright’s Regatta on Port Townsend Bay on Saturday. The regatta, open to sailing boats of all sizes, is generally considered the official start of sailing season for Port Townsend mariners. (Steve Mullensky/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Regatta opens season

By Steve Mullensky

News

Three more Peninsula deaths as case numbers begin to creep up

Masks urged if case rates rise over 100 per 100,000 people

News

Open house to explore future of streateries

Parklets also on city’s docket

News

Applications accepted now for grants to help businesses

Allocations from American Rescue Plan Act funds

News

Goodbye, but not for long

This is the last Sunday visit you will have from the Peninsula Daily News.

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