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Wennstrom top favorite in council primary

Top vote-getter brings in 75 percent; Vega second

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PRIMARY ELECTION: Helmonds, Clemens vie for Port Ludlow Fire District seat

PORT LUDLOW — Incumbent Ron Helmonds and challenger Glenn Clemens will face off in the Nov. 2 general…

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PRIMARY ELECTION: Nicholas tops in Fire 3 race

Opponent may withdraw

Expeditionary artist Maria Coryell-Martin includes some of her equipment in “Witnessing Climate Change,” the new show highlighting the art she has made during and after traveling to the North Slope of Alaska. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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‘Witnessing Climate Change’ exhibition in Port Townsend

Public programs are planned in coming months

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Berry: It feels like the dam is breaking

State help needed to keep up with contact tracing

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Jefferson Healthcare restricts visitors because of COVID

PORT TOWNSEND — Due to the high number of COVID-19 infections in the community, Jefferson Healthcare hospital is…

Kate Kinney of Port Townsend turns in her ballot from the primary election at the dropbox in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse on Tuesday afternoon. Results of Tuesday’s primary election are posted online at cmg-northwest2.go-vip.net/peninsuladailynews and will be explored in depth in Thursday’s print edition. (Zach Jablonski/Peninsula Daily News)

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Kate Kinney of Port Townsend turns in her ballot from the primary election at the dropbox in front…

Darby Huffman of LaughinGnome Pottery, pictured at the Port Townsend Farmers Market, will welcome visitors to the new studio space he shares with partner Francie Loveall this Friday evening during the First Friday Speaker Series program. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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LaughinGnome to host Friday visit

Capacity of First Friday in-person program is 30

Melissa Bixby

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Beads, Batik featured at Port Townsend Gallery

Fiber and bead artist Pat Herkal and Batik artist Melissa Bixby are the Port Townsend Gallery featured artists…

A semi-truck got caught in downed power lines along U.S. Highway 101 at milepost 302 that are believed to have been pulled down by an overheight vehicle Wednesday afternoon.  (Photo Courtesy of Brinnon Fire Department)

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Fallen power lines block U.S. Highway 101 near Brinnon

BRINNON — Downed power lines blocked traffic for several hours Wednesday afternoon along U.S. Highway 101 at milepost…

”The Cherokee Word for Water,” co-produced and co-directed by Charlie Soap, left, and starring Kimberly Guerrero as Wilma Mankiller and Mo Brings Plenty as Soap, is the August Port Townsend Film Festival Pic available for streaming throughout this week. (Photo courtesy Port Townsend Film Festival via cw4w.com)

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‘Cherokee’ film available for streaming this week

Story highlights ability to bring people together

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Jefferson County primary ballots due by 8 p.m. Tuesday

More than 30 percent have already voted

Holding a piece of baleen from a bowhead whale, Port Townsend Marine Science Center exhibit and outreach specialist Mandi Johnson, left, and aquarium specialist Marley Loomis stand before the center’s newly acquired Flagship Landing building in downtown Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend Marine Science Center to move downtown

Water Street mall to become location for labs, exhibits

A fire on Protection Island is spotted from an aircraft on Tuesday. The state Department of Natural Resources was responding to the incident. (Photo courtesy of Jack Graham)

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Protection Island fire fills bay with smoke

Cause of blaze under investigation

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Makah Tribe strengthens its rules as COVID-19 cases rise

Businesses should consider remote work, official says

Libby Urner Wennstrom.

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PRIMARY ELECTION: Wennstrom, Vega appear to lead in Port Townsend City Council race

EMS levy passes

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Brinnon Group grant to monitor water quality in Hood Canal

Project also to focus on Duckabush River

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Port Townsend City Council race on tap for primary

Turnout so far second in state

Volunteer coordinator Debbi Steele, center, welcomes visitors to Saturday’s Community Build Project open house in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Community receives tour of tiny house village

Rental spaces come with rules, 90-day leases

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Peninsula residents named to dean’s list at Eastern Washington University

CHENEY — Eastern Washington University released its dean’s list for the 2021 winter quarter.