Port Townsend residents Corbin Meyers, 5, and his mother Laura enjoy the Mountain View Pool in Port Townsend on Tuesday morning. The pool reopened to the public on Monday. (Zach Jablonski/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend pool reopens under YMCA management

Fours hour a day Monday through Friday

Tom Melancon

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Singer-songwriter slated for Candlelight Concert Online

PORT TOWNSEND — An evening of original songs is in store Thursday as Tom Melancon, a singer-songwriter from…

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Man hangs himself outside hospital

Man found hanging from tree behind Jefferson Healthcare

Volunteer nurse Karen Easterly-Behrens of Port Ludlow, left, talks with Eliana Rose of Port Townsend at Saturday’s Pfizer booster clinic at Quilcene School. The county Department of Emergency Management worked with dozens of volunteers to organize the clinic. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Long-term care facility resident dies of COVID-19

Woman in her 90s was in vulnerable population, health officer says

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Crime & Justice

Arson suspect will plead guilty

Prosecutor’s deal seeks nine years

Crime & Justice

Last of four men sentenced in kidnapping-torture case

All charged pleaded guilty

Michael D’Alessandro, right, is the new executive director of Olympic Angels. With him on his porch in Port Townsend are his partner George Marie, center, daughter Sophia James, 17, left, and son Emile, 6, in his “Star Wars” stormtrooper costume. Not pictured is son Henri, 15. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Olympic Angels hires first executive director

Programs help provide care, match adult mentors with children

Marc Abshire, executive director of the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce, delivers a State of the Chamber address in January 2020. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Business

Small network for loans in works

Clallam program mirrors Jefferson’s

Arts & Entertainment

Discussion series on Supreme Court wraps Thursday

PORT HADLOCK — Nils Pederson and Joyce Francis will finish up their four-part series, “The Supreme Court of…

Arts & Entertainment

Port Townsend Library to host astronomy lecture on Zoom

PORT TOWNSEND — Frank Petrie will present “Introduction to Astronomy and Telescopes” at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Kayleen McDonald of the Sequim unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula delivers bagged lunches to a waiting car as unit director Tessa Jackson, left, looks on during a drive-thru Halloween in front of the organization’s Sequim facility last year. Besides lunch bags, trick-or-treaters were offered hats, treats and coloring books. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Halloween to be celebrated on Peninsula

Events planned in Port Townsend, Sequim, Port Angeles, Joyce and Forks

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Politics

Position 1 council hopefuls discuss housing, diversity

Goals similar, perspectives differ

Educator Carrie Walker works with students in Quilcene at the school garden, one of the locations supported by the Jefferson County Community Wellness Project. The project, which has its dinner-and-a-movie event Thursday, connects local schools, gardens and farms.  photo courtesy Community Wellness Project

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Dinner and a movie to benefit wellness project

Project aims to provide youngsters locally grown food

Crime & Justice

Vehicular homicide trial date set

Former director of maritime center died of injuries

Arts & Entertainment

Woodworking group to meet Tuesday via Zoom

GARDINER — Strait Turners, a local woodturners group, will meet at noon Tuesday via Zoom.

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EYE ON JEFFERSON: County grant to PDA under consideration

The Jefferson County commissioners will consider a grant rather than a loan to the Fort Worden Public Development…

Conductor Tigran Arakelyan rehearses Friday night with the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra before a small live audience at the American Legion Hall. Today the ensemble will give its first public performance since early 2020; the 2 p.m. concert is sold out, but the orchestra plans another one on Dec. 4. Information can be found at PTsymphony.org. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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On with the show

Conductor Tigran Arakelyan rehearses Friday night with the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra before a small live audience at…

Life

A GROWING CONCERN: Autumn full of chores for yard, garden

OCTOBER IS ONE of my most favorite times of year as our deciduous trees become a rainbow of…

Back Country Horsemen of Washington Peninsula Chapter member Del Sage helps a Scout with Troop 1498 with his horse-riding skills at Layton Hill Horse Camp. (Courtesy of Linda Morin)

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HORSEPLAY: Scouts get help with horsemanship badges

“WOW! WHAT A weekend,” exclaimed Linda Morin, a member of Back Country Horsemen’s Peninsula Chapter, when she and…

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Bentinck range operations scheduled

ESQUIMALT, B.C. — The Royal Canadian Navy has announced that the land-based demolition range at Bentinck Island will…