Artist Sara Mall Johani, pictured outside her workshop in Chimacum, will present her new book, "Mine, Yours, Nobody's: My Story of Wild Olympic Salmon," at the Jefferson Museum of Art & History this Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Book tells of ‘Wild Olympic Salmon’

PORT TOWNSEND — Artist and community organizer Sara Mall Johani has a new book out: “Mine, Yours, Nobody’s:…

Jefferson County Fair staffer Laurie Hampton is organizing the garage sale that opens today and runs through Sunday in the fairgrounds' 4-H Cat Building. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Jefferson County Fair brings garage sale, free live music

PORT TOWNSEND — The 2021 Jefferson County Fair is a hybrid animal. Starting today and running through Sunday,…

Vehicles make their way down Laird Road west of Port Angeles as a layer of smoke shrouds the Olympic Foothills and the surrounding lowlands on Thursday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Wildfire smoke getting in our eyes and lungs

Forecasters hope levels will begin to diminish Saturday

Crime & Justice

Second appeal of double-murder conviction fails

Man was sent to prison for double murder in 2014

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Masks required indoors in Clallam, Jefferson counties starting Monday

Health officer issued order on Friday

Arts & Entertainment

‘Bill Evans 81!’ dance concert postponed

Surge in COVID-19 cases led to decision

News

Caution urged on federal lands during dry conditions

PORT ANGELES — Since July 23, fire officials have responded to five fires across the North Olympic Peninsula…

Life

Book signing Saturday in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — Sculptor Sara Mall Johani will sign copies of her new book “Mine, Your, Nobody’s: My…

News

Fundraiser dance at cidery Saturday

CHIMACUM — Kilombo Funk will perform for a global music dance from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Adrienne Wilson will perform alongside Bill Evans in this Saturday’s “Bill Evans 81!” concert at Fort Worden’s Wheeler Theater. (Photo courtesy Auburn University)

Arts & Entertainment

Thoughts of Port Townsend kept returning dancer going

After contracting COVID-19, professor to perform Saturday

Siblings Sequoia Mitchell, 9, and Coco Mitchell, 6, both of Sequim, attempt to catch tadpoles in a side channel of the Dungeness River at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim on Tuesday. A spell of hot weather forecast for the next several days will likely send many people on the North Olympic Peninsula seeking heat relief near the water. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Heat wave hitting Peninsula

Area not expected to bake with temperatures like June

News

Masking mandate is likely for North Olympic Peninsula

Decision to be announced Friday

News

Emergency alert test set Wednesday morning

The nation’s public alert system will be tested at 11:20 a.m. today.

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Port Townsend council approves funding seven projects

Tax increase comes from banked capacity

Jeremy Denk, a MacArthur “genius” grant winner, is among the guest artists at this month’s Music on the Strait festival. His performances will be available for free via live streaming. (Photo courtesy of Music on the Strait)

Arts & Entertainment

Festival is live, online, indoors, outdoors

Six concerts set for hall in Port Angeles, farm in Quilcene

Gary Engbrecht has a hobby like no other. “Everyone needs a hobby,” he says. “Mine is picking up trash strewn around the town. I think I’ve emptied this bag about five times already and it is just 9 a.m.” During the weekend, Engbrecht, who is the production manager for the Port Townsend Film Festival, concentrated his efforts at the Point Hudson Marina in Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Keeping Port Townsend green

By Steve Mullensky

Port Townsend eighth-grader Peter Sanok, top, plays the title role in “Timon of Athens,” the movie to screen this week at Chimacum’s Finnriver Farm & Cidery. Costarring are, from left, eighth-graders Auden Darrock and Anna Munn and seventh-grader Sierra Douglas. (Photo by Maggie Kelley)

Arts & Entertainment

Students act in 90-minute Shakespeare film

Show to be played Wednesday, Thursday

Sarah Rubenstein is the administrator of the Port Townsend School District’s new online program for first- through 12th-graders.

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Online programs to be offered in Port Townsend, Chimacum

Digital course work includes electives, languages, honors

Arts & Entertainment

Free outdoor concerts presented this week

Free outdoor concerts continue this week on the North Olympic Peninsula.

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Olympic Peninsula hospital staffs to be vaccinated

COVID-19 case numbers continue to climb