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Clallam County Health Officer Dr. Allison Berry updates the status of COVID-19 during the last scheduled weekly briefing on Friday at the Clallam County Courthouse in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Woman in her 80s dies of COVID-19

Whole family unvaccinated, health officer says

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Donation-only yard sale to benefit Brinnon Food Bank

Pay what you want within reason

Port Townsend STEM Club members are working to garner submissions for their KPTZ radio talent show and digital time capsule of music and verbal poetry of residents 21 and younger in Jefferson County. The include, standing from left, Everest Ashford, ninth grade homeschool student; Logan Flanagan, Port Townsend High School Class of 2019; Nathaniel Ashford, 11th grade homeschool student; Adeline Gellert DePalma, 10th grade PTHS student; and, kneeling from left, Ella Ashford, class of 2019 NW STEAM Academy; and Rachel Doan, PTHS Class of 2020. The club members posed for a photo Wednesday afternoon at their lab in Port Townsend. (Zach Jablonski/Peninsula Daily News)

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Club collects digital music, poetry produced during pandemic

Submissions from those 21 and younger due by June 6

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Jefferson Transit seeks comment on new route

Express bus to Kingston ferry

Dahlia expert Harold Jensen works with Cecile Culp on plant starts for the Quilcene Brinnon Garden Club's big plant sale Saturday and Sunday at the Brinnon Community Center. 
photo by Laurie Mattson

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Pancakes, flowers replace ShrimpFest

Plant sale supplants canceled festival

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Candidate files for Brinnon Water District

PORT TOWNSEND — A candidate filed Thursday for the Brinnon Water District commission, leaving seven positions still open…

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Memorial Day remembrance set for Sunday at Captain Joseph House

The Captain Joseph House Foundation will conduct a memorial service at 2 p.m. Sunday.

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Policing topic of Port Townsend, Jefferson County meeting

Body cams, drug laws among topics

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Peninsula jobless rate drops to 7.4 percent

Record unemployment a year ago

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Eight Jefferson County seats remain without candidates

PORT TOWNSEND — No candidates filed for any of the eight positions open on the first day of…

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Another COVID death reported on North Olympic Peninsula

Fourth death in Jefferson County; 15 total in two-county region

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Anglers chapter to meet in person in June

PORT TOWNSEND — The East Jefferson Chapter of Puget Sound Anglers will return to in-person monthly meetings on…

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Hoodsport area to open for shellfish harvesting

The Associated Press

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Injured hiker rescued after fall down 300-foot ice chute

OLYMPIC NATIONAL FOREST — A search and rescue team from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island negotiated an 800-foot…

Vocalist Val James will bring her band to Trinity United Methodist Church in Port Townsend for an online Candlelight Concert this Thursday at 7 p.m.  Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Gershwins by candlelight: Online concert Thursday

Classics to be presented in 50-minute set

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Employers chafe over lack of workers

Issues cited: Child care, housing, ‘funemployment’

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More beaches open for shellfish harvesting

Recreational shellfish harvesting is open on Strait of Juan de Fuca beaches from Lyre River east to Discovery…

Search and Rescue team members used the Dosewallips State Park’s field as their command post for the multi-agency rescue of two hikers who had fallen down the Brothers Mountain on Sunday afternoon. Teams from Jefferson Search and Rescue, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Search and Rescue and Olympic Mountain Rescue responded to the emergency. (Jefferson Search and Rescue)

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Seattle hiker dies during Brothers Mountain hike

Woman lost footing, fell into crevasse

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Travel major source of new infections on Peninsula

Pop-up vaccination clinics scheduled

P.E. teacher Logan Stegner and life skills teacher Jennifer Kruse co-created a Wednesday library program to help Port Townsend High School students deal with pandemic-related challenges. For their efforts, they received the Howard Learned Award for Community Education Engagement. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Pair of Port Townsend teachers honored for their dedication

Duo work to connect with students during difficult circumstances