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Washington State Patrol seeking applicants

OLYMPIA — The Washington State Patrol has announced that they plan to hire 60 trooper cadets and 24…

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PREPS: WIAA revises prep sport seasons, fall sports on deck

PORT ANGELES — Fall sports would be the first to return under an amended prep sports schedule announced…

Sports

Conservation common thread for new members of Washington State Fish and Wildlife Commission

AFTER SPEAKING WITH Port Townsend’s Lorna Smith, one of Gov. Jay Inslee’s recent appointees to the state Fish…

Bigfoot -- aka Kepler Stanley-Hunt of Port Townsend -- appeared recently with his family's Tesla on McCurdy Point Road. More Bigfoot sightings are forecast as the Taming Bigfoot 2021: Recovering Greener challenge gets underway.  photo by Laura Tucker

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Contest aims to lighten carbon footprint

Participants to register by Jan. 21; competition begins Feb. 1

Life

ISSUES OF FAITH: Answering the call inside of everyone

IN JANUARY, JEWS begin reading the book of Exodus again, which tells of the dramatic birth of the…

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Washington State health officials lay out next steps for COVID-19 vaccines

SEATTLE — Everyone over 70 years old and anyone over 50 who lives in a multigenerational household will…

Lorna Smith appointed to state Fish and Wildlife Commission

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OUTDOORS: Port Townsend’s Lorna Smith appointed to state Fish and Wildlife Commission

The North Olympic Peninsula once again has representation on the state Fish and Wildlife Commission, a nine-person citizen…

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D.C. actions condemned by local political leaders

Jefferson GOP chief questions election results

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Peninsula confirms 19 more cases by noon Thursday

Health officers: Most related to holiday gatherings

Cherish Cronmiller is the executive director for Olympic Community Action Programs. She announced this week OlyCAP has received more than $11 million from a state Department of Commerce grant to go toward the Seventh and Hendricks affordable housing project. (Brian McLean/Peninsula Daily News)

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Olympic Community Action Programs awarded $11.3 million for affordable housing

Complex will have child care, support services

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Port Townsend police chief hopefuls to meet public

Questions may be submitted until Thursday

Opinion

PAT NEAL: Steelhead season’s sinking feeling

EVEN WITH GLOBAL warming, January is the coldest month. When all the rabid chickens come home to roost.…

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Health officers: New state plan ties Peninsula from advancing

Clallam, Jefferson counties fortunes combined with Kitsap, Mason success

Piper Dunlap of Port Townsend rides the cold waves at North Beach County Park, where he and four other surfers stayed Sunday evening until it was too dark to see. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Catching some waves

Piper Dunlap of Port Townsend rides the cold waves at North Beach County Park, where he and four…

Twenty-two portraits of dogs are part of a display for the Read to Rover program. (Kim Pratt)

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Portraits of dogs in Chimacum reading program on display

Artist learned to paint for the project

Jefferson Community Foundation CEO Siobhan Canty is the American Association of University Women's 2021 Woman of Excellence. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Foundation CEO named Woman of Excellence

Siobhan Canty selected by American Association of University Women

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Sewer overflow spills into Port Ludlow Bay

Residents urged to stay out of the water

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North Olympic Peninsula COVID-19 cases cross 1,000 mark on Tuesday

Olympic Medical Center cuts back on surgeries

Gov. Jay Inslee speaks at a news conference Tuesday at the Capitol in Olympia. Inslee said some COVID-19 restrictions in Washington will be eased beginning next week and the state will change its reopening plan to move from a county-based oversight system to one focused on regions. (Ted S. Warren/The Associated Press)

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Governor announces new COVID-19 reopening plan

North Olympic Peninsula tied to Kitsap, Mason counties

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Power restored on Peninsula after massive outages

West End loses power Tuesday night