Arts & Entertainment

Saltfire Theatre to present ‘Robin Hood’ productions

PORT TOWNSEND — Saltfire Theatre will present “Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood” with shows at 4:30 p.m.…

Julio Elizalde, the artistic director for the Olympic Music Festival, will open the festival Saturday with a piano concert and present “The History of Classical Music” on Sunday. (Carlin Ma Photography)

Arts & Entertainment

Olympic Music Festival to open month-long series this weekend

PORT TOWNSEND — The Olympic Music Festival will open its summer season with concerts at 2 p.m. Saturday…

News

Weekly flight operations scheduled

COUPEVILLE — There will be field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey…

Business

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

• Port Angeles Business Association — Breakfast meetings with networking and educational programs are held at 7:30 a.m.…

News

EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Jefferson commission to consider ballot measure

Meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula

Business

Todd Ortloff Show guests this week

PORT ANGELES — Here is this week’s schedule for the 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Todd Ortloff Show…

Life

A GROWING CONCERN: Gardening in the midst of the mid

IT’S MID-MID-SUMMER (AUG. 1-10), a benchmark for you and the garden. Mid-mid of any season as a critical…

(Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

News

Peninsula Home Fund distributes $90,000 in grants

Fifteen nonprofits to use funding to make a difference

The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith.

News

Speaker set at Unity in Port Townsend for weekend service

PORT TOWNSEND — The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith will present “Mythos and Spirituality” at 11 a.m. Sunday.

Jefferson Healthcare Chief Operations Officer Jacob Davidson with the hospital’s new linear accelerator, which should be ready to use in October. (Elijah Sussman/Peninsula Daily News)

News

Jefferson Healthcare expansion to open in September

Ribbon cutting, tours scheduled this month

Arts & Entertainment

Joyce Daze festival tops list of weekend events

Joyce Daze, art walks and a livestock auction highlight this weekend’s events on the North Olympic Peninsula.

News

Campfires prohibited in national park, forest

PORT ANGELES — All campfires are prohibited in Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest beginning today.

Life

ISSUES OF FAITH: Vanity of vanities

Readings: Proper 13, Year C, Revised Common Lectionary

Arts & Entertainment

Acoustic Blues at Fort Worden this week

Music is about community, director says

Pat Herkal’s three-dimensional fabric birds will be featured at the Port Townsend Gallery during August.

Arts & Entertainment

Reception set for Port Townsend Gallery artists

PORT TOWNSEND — A reception for three artists will be conducted from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday…

The Tana Stobs canoe, a family memorial canoe with members from the Port Gamble and Suquamish tribes, arrived first to the beach at Fort Worden on Tuesday. The canoe, in its 25th year, honors the memory of paddler Nic Armstrong’s brother Santana Ives. Their trip from Port Gamble took 4 1/2 hours. (Elijah Sussman/Peninsula Daily News)

News

Tribal canoe journey lands at Fort Worden

Event upholds tradition, culture, with final destination Thursday

A watercolor sketch of a red-footed booby is part of “The Nature Journals of Carolyn Woods” on display at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center through Oct. 12.

Arts & Entertainment

Nature journals on view at Port Townsend Marine Science Center

PORT TOWNSEND — “The Nature Journals of Carolyn Woods,” watercolor studies of landscapes and wildlife, will be on…

Opinion

PAT NEAL: Finding blackberry heaven

I THOUGHT I had died and gone to blackberry heaven. It all started when I fell into a…

News

THIRD UPDATE: Tsunami advisory canceled

PORT ANGELES — The tsunami advisory that was in effect Wednesday following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Russia…

Arts & Entertainment

First Saturday Art Walk set this weekend

PORT TOWNSEND — A variety of artwork will be on view during the First Saturday Art Walk in…