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Meghan Mix of Hopscotch Farm is among dozens of vendors at the Port Townsend Farmers Market’s opening day Saturday. She had a busy day at her stand, selling salad greens, pickles and her popular beet relish. The market is on from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays at Tyler and Lawrence streets in Uptown Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Farmers market opens

Meghan Mix of Hopscotch Farm is among dozens of vendors at the Port Townsend Farmers Market’s opening day…

Jefferson Community Foundation CEO Siobhan Canty.

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Jefferson Community Foundation fund moves to second phase

COVID relief turns to look toward recovery

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Jefferson County agencies to provide meals to students, families over Spring Break

PORT TOWNSEND — Community agencies will provide five days of meals for students over Spring Break.

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State seeing ‘significant surge’ of virus variant

Health officials encourage masking, distance

Jim Hansen, left, stands with his mother Lorraine on Friday during a drive by celebration of her 104th birthday on Saturday at the Port Townsend Life Care Center. The local law enforcement, first responders, and friends and family of Lorraine drove through waving and wishing her well. (Zach Jablonski/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend woman marks 104th birthday

Well-wishers congratulate her in outdoor procession

Recovering from electrocution, Eduardo Garcia relearns his skills as a chef in "Charged," the Port Townsend Film Festival Pic for April. photo courtesy of Port Townsend Film Festival and Implement Productions

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‘Charged’ to stream this week from Port Townsend

Film about ‘flipping the script’

“Passing Cloud,” by Sydni Sterling, is featured in Artist Showcase 2021.

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Twenty-one artists featured in Artist Showcase 2021

PORT TOWNSEND — Northwind Art presents Artist Showcase 2021, the gallery’s first curated exhibit of new and returning…

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Virtual home tour tickets on sale now

PORT TOWNSEND — Tickets are on sale now for the 23rd Annual Home &Kitchen Tour, which will be…

Our weather here is idea  for all "Cole crops." Be it seeds, plants or ideally both — now is the time to plant. Our own Peninsula local greenhouse, Sunny Farms, also produces many of its own vegetable starts right here, helping to acclimatize these plants even further, which is a real bonus. Andrew May/For Peninsula Daily News

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A GROWING CONCERN: Get ahead with cabbages

SINCE I STRAINED the limits last week trying to connect the madness of basketball in March to vegetable…

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Fourth wave coming — but so is more vaccine

‘Big push’ for inoculations this month

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EYE ON JEFFERSON: County consider comprehensive plan amendments docket

The three Jefferson County commissioners will consider acting on the final docket for the April 19 hearing on…

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Peninsula in a race against variants

COVID-19 cases rising in state, nation

Pam Petranek pedals her Cape Cleare Salmon trailer down Lawrence Street toward the Port Townsend Farmers Market last year as she will do again when the market reopens Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Larger Port Townsend Farmers Market to open Saturday

Some 55 vendors are scheduled, and more will come

AmeriCorps service members Nathan Rees, left, and Anna Marchand will lead guided walks through Fort Worden State Park starting Saturday. (Zach Jablonski/Peninsula Daily News)

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Guided tours of Fort Worden to start Saturday

Botany, gun batteries topic of walks

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Peninsula counties have child care chasm

Deficit hurts in both Clallam, Jefferson

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COVID-19 tightens child care screws

Wages low for workers

Margaret Randall

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Poet, photographer, essayist, activist Margaret Randall to read works

PORT ANGELES — Margaret Randall — poet, essayist, oral historian, translator, photographer and social activist — will offer…

Keith Rasmussen is sprucing up The Keg & I in Chimacum for its reopening — with live music on the back deck — this Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Doyle and Dwyer set to enliven Keg & I deck

CHIMACUM — Dancing to the live, in-person music this weekend at the Keg &I isn’t allowed, but you…

The Rev. Mark Anthony Lord will speak at Unity in the Olympics on Easter Sunday.

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Triduum services offered in-person this weekend

FORKS — St. Anne Parish will conduct in-person services for Easter Triduum.

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Port Townsend School District tells of more schedule changes

Most Salish students to return to classrooms