Torrid romance plays out on Port Townsend stage starting this week

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Torrid romance plays out on Port Townsend stage starting this week

PORT TOWNSEND — A new rock opera titled “Murder Ballad” exploring the complications of love, the compromises we…

Aspiring world-class quartet on view at Saturday performance

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Aspiring world-class quartet on view at Saturday performance

PORT TOWNSEND — After teaching a weeklong musical workshop, the award-winning Miró Quartet will perform at 7:30 p.m.…

News

NEWS BRIEFS: Hood Canal Bridge closures planned tonight and Saturday night … and other items

SHINE — One-hour closures of the Hood Canal Bridge are planned between 11:59 tonight and 4 a.m. Saturday.

Bodgers create strange objects for steampunk festival

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Bodgers create strange objects for steampunk festival

PORT TOWNSEND — Homemade creations big and small will be on display at this year’s Bodgers Hall for…

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Port Angeles police identify man in apparent suicide

PORT ANGELES — Police this morning identified longtime Port Angeles resident Paul Gerald Sutherland as the 49-year-old man…

Olympic National Forest will hold a fee-free day Saturday in recognition of National Get Outdoors Day. (National Forest Service)

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Fee-free day in Olympic National Forest on Saturday

OLYMPIA — The U.S. Forest Service is waiving fees at day-use recreation sites on the Olympic National Forest…

LEFTIES: Port Angeles win series, flirt with pair of no-hitters

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LEFTIES: Port Angeles win series, flirt with pair of no-hitters

By Pierre LaBossiere

ALL-PENINSULA GIRLS GOLF: Sequim’s Alex McMenamin earns MVP honor for fourth straight season

Sports

ALL-PENINSULA GIRLS GOLF: Sequim’s Alex McMenamin earns MVP honor for fourth straight season

SEQUIM — In her four seasons at Sequim, Wolves girls golfer Alex McMenamin piled up the individual and…

Officials: Federal program for air service unlikely for Port Angeles

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Officials: Federal program for air service unlikely for Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — It would take either an act of God or an act of Congress for commercial…

Jefferson Healthcare surgical units get air handler upgrade

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Jefferson Healthcare surgical units get air handler upgrade

PORT TOWNSEND — The surgical units at Jefferson Healthcare hospital have received an upgrade from a new air-handling…

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Port of Port Townsend: Point Hudson development strategy needed for jetty replacement

PORT TOWNSEND — The city council heard of the need to quickly come up with a development strategy…

Clallam’s ‘Strait Shot’ bus service to Bainbridge Island on track for June 17 start

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Clallam’s ‘Strait Shot’ bus service to Bainbridge Island on track for June 17 start

PORT ANGELES — Getting to Bainbridge Island will be as easy as 1-2-3 starting June 17.

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NEWS BRIEFS: Wanted sex offender arrested in Port Hadlock … and other items

PORT HADLOCK — Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies have arrested a wanted sex offender from Clallam County who failed…

Glass art movement pioneer talks about struggles with mental health

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Glass art movement pioneer talks about struggles with mental health

By Gene Johnson

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: As in the Bible, media are the false prophets of yesteryear

In the Bible, 2 Peter: Chapter 2, verses 1-2:

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: On Paris accords, remember first-world nations had head start on exploiting fossil fuels

When President Donald Trump told us June 1 of his decision to pull out of the Paris climate…

Opinion

PAT NEAL: Dreamer, bureaucrat and scammer: That’s me

WHILE IT IS true that in describing the dissolution of the Hoh River Trust in my May 31…

Opinion

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: A breath of respite with Raymond Carver

THIS PAST MONTH has been rough on the heart. Reading my newspaper and, OK, my Facebook feed, I…

Port Townsend public works director finalists introduced to public

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Port Townsend public works director finalists introduced to public

PORT TOWNSEND — City officials are seeking a new public works director and have narrowed the field to…

Brass Screw Confederacy Steampunk Festival to open in Port Townsend this weekend

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Brass Screw Confederacy Steampunk Festival to open in Port Townsend this weekend

PORT TOWNSEND — This weekend, downtown Port Townsend will be a place for people-watching as costume-clad steampunkers take…