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Habitat for Humanity job site supervisor Dave Weld of Sequim drives into Port Townsend to work with a crew of volunteers on a two-bedroom house he says will be filled with natural light. It’s one of several Habitat homes to be finished in 2022. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Crews from across Peninsula join forces on Port Townsend housing

Habitat for Humanity working to build affordable homes

Politics

Jefferson County elected officials to get raises

Union-exempt also to see hikes

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Five capital projects proposed for Fort Worden campus

Emergency generator made a priority after large-scale power outage last month

Business

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

• Clallam County Economic Development Council — Coffee With Colleen, hosted by Colleen McAleer, on Wednesdays at 8…

Business

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…

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COVID-19 case rates rise in Clallam, state

Rates fall in Jefferson

Lisa Anderson and Ben Casserd, along with Half Pint, their terrier mix, are the staff monitors at the Winter Welcoming Center. The center offers warmth, coffee, snacks, wi-fi and electricity for charging devices in the Pope Marine Building at Water and Madison streets in Port Townsend. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Winter Welcoming Center opens

Morning shelter offered in Port Townsend

Home Fund coupon

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Peninsula Home Fund going strong

The annual campaign for Peninsula Home Fund donations continues through the holiday season.

Life

A GROWING CONCERN: Get ready to break into snow business

I RETURNED HOME this last week after visiting my son, an Air Force staff sergeant and his wife…

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HORSEPLAY: A few thoughts on horses, weather and training

BRR! THE WEATHER outside is frightful, but the warm fire from my wood stove is just so delightful.…

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Scott Wood
An EA-18G Growler taxis down the airstrip on Naval Air Station Whidbey Island during the squadron’s welcome home ceremony in August 2017.

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Whidbey anti-noise group gets wins in Navy Growler lawsuit

Judge: Navy didn’t consider all environmental impacts

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EYE ON JEFFERSON: Temporary homeless facilities topic of hearing

Government meetings across Jefferson County

Arts & Entertainment

Big holiday fair in Chimacum this weekend

One of the largest holiday fairs on the North Olympic Peninsula returns this Saturday: The Chimacum Arts and…

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Port Townsend mulls buying land for housing

Development would add affordable, workforce quarters

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COVID-19 case numbers continue to edge up

Vaccine clinics being added

The Old Whiskey Mill’s tent on Water Street in Port Townsend is one of four “streateries” now permitted to stay up through Mother’s Day 2022. The outdoor dining enclosures, first allowed in mid-2020, have been given four extensions. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend extends streateries through Mother’s Day

Provision also affects food carts

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Teen on bicycle runs into car

PORT TOWNSEND — A 15-year-old girl was transported to Jefferson Healthcare hospital in Port Townsend as a precaution…

Author Corky Parker will give a talk on memoir-writing this Saturday. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Memoir author will sign books, talk about telling one’s story

Corky Parker to introduce “La Finca: Love, Loss and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island”

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Port Townsend City Council OKs budget of $45.3 M

Staffing, infrastructure priorities

Sarah Creachbaum. (Photo courtesy Olympic National Park Service)

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Olympic National Park chief to leave for Alaska

Acting superintendent not selected