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Trial set in alleged hatchet attack

Woman: Spouse was ‘in a dream’

Poet and teaching artist Gary Copeland Lilley, a North Carolina native who has lived in Port Townsend for 13 years, is the new artistic curator of Centrum’s Port Townsend Writers Conference. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Poet named artistic curator of writers conference

Aims to encourage more diversity in poets, authors

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Troopers: Driver fell asleep before wreck

QUILCENE — A driver from Tonopah, Nev., fell asleep on U.S. Highway 101 at 8:21 p.m. Friday, ended…

The waters of Lake Pleasant flooded the Lake Pleasant County Park on Monday. The water runs over the West Lake Pleasant Road and into neighboring homes. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Flooding shuts down Highway 101, cutting off West End

Thousands without power at peak of Monday rainstorm

An etching, "Diary of a Little Girl," is among the artwork of Egor Shokoladov.

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Egor Shokoladov’s solo exhibition featured at Peninsula College

PORT ANGELES — Artist Egor Shokoladov’s solo exhibition, entitled “Semicolon),” will be on display in Peninsula College’s PUB…

A fisher from Alberta, Canada, is released into a new home in Olympic National Park.

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Transplanted fishers released into park

Effort aims to increase genetic diversity

Jenny Westdal, Jefferson County Historical Society board president, admires one of Adeline Willoughby McCormack’s paintings in the “Women Outdoors” show at the Jefferson Museum of Art & History. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Women Outdoors displays work of early artists

Treks to scenic areas made in corsets, long skirts

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Football team COVID-19 cluster reported

Ventilation concern in long-term care facility outbreak

"A Peek Inside" is among the colleges created by Carol Nielsen, who will be the guest speaker for the Port Ludlow Art League on Wednesday.

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Port Ludlow Art League speaker to discuss collage

PORT LUDLOW — Collage artist Carol Nielsen will be the guest speaker for the November meeting of the…

Local artist and author Dana Sullivan will teach classes for adults and youngsters in early 2022. His courses are among 52 offerings from the nonprofit Northwind Art School. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Northwind offers winter catalog of art classes

PORT TOWNSEND — The Northwind Art School, formed after the merging of the Port Townsend School of the…

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Port Townsend Farmers Market makes switch to winter hours

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Farmers Market will begin winter hours, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on…

In this April 2014 photo provided by Olympic National Park, a log cabin teeters on the eroding bank of the Quinault River in Olympic National Park in Washington. The cabin has been added to the state list of most endangered historical properties. Built in 1930, the chalet was used as a lodge, summer ranger station and emergency shelter. It's located in the southwest corner of the park, 13 miles up the Graves Creek trail in the Enchanted Valley. (AP Photo/Olympic National Park)

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Enchanted Valley chalet meeting Monday

PORT ANGELES — A virtual meeting on Monday will provide an update on the Olympic National Park’s plans…

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EYE ON JEFFERSON: County sets public hearing on ad valorem tax levies

Week’s meeting agendas across Jefferson County

Politics

Kilmer telephone town hall set for Wednesday

TACOMA — U.S. Congressman Derek Kilmer plans a telephone town hall meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny will join the David P. Jones Trio for a jazz concert at Peninsula College this Saturday evening. photo by Steve Korn

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Music, improvisation, fossils on tap for this weekend

A worldwide Broadway-style musical revue, a youth-oriented dinosaur exhibit and a chance to watch a play unfold on…

In honor of the Day of the Dead, Port Townsend High School students constructed decorations for the school's second-floor windows facing Benton Street. The students invite people to drive or walk past the windows as they're illuminated tonight and Monday night. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Day of the Dead images light up windows

Tributes also in high school library

At the Veterans Day event at Port Townsend's American Legion hall Thursday, Post Commander Kathryn Bates called on attendees to remove the stigma around asking for help with post-traumatic stress and depression. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Veterans Day: ‘Their service matters’

Speaker says suicide prevention top priority

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Quilcene board eyes school bond

Revenue would go toward new elementary school, other projects

The elderly Lombardy poplars, slated for removal, stand near the boatyard and the power lines along Sims Way in Port Townsend. (Port of Port Townsend)

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Local officials, public wrangle over future of Port Townsend’s poplars

Town hall not last meeting on topic

Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Northwest Commanding Officer Capt. Edward Miller, left, and Lt. Emily Wolff laid flowers on the grave of Construction Mechanic Third Class Petty Officer Marvin G. Shields during a Veterans Day ceremony conducted Wednesday morning at the Gardiner Cemetery. Shields is the only Navy Seabee to have received the Medal of Honor. (Zach Jablonski/Peninsula Daily News)

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Medal of Honor recipient honored with ceremony

Navy commemoration held in Gardiner

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