Diane Urbani de la Paz

Teaching artists Margie McDonald, at left on the porch, and Michele Soderstrom led a four-afternoon course on building superhero armor for youngsters at the Northwind Art school at Fort Worden State Park in July. Their graduates are Callum Johnson, 14, Kaladry Groenig, Satria McKnight and Owen Griffith, all 11, Reid Armstrong, 10, Caleb Armstrong, 9, Byron Eisele, 8, and Nigel Groenig, 13. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Teaching artists Margie McDonald, at left on the porch, and Michele Soderstrom led a four-afternoon course on building superhero armor for youngsters at the Northwind Art school at Fort Worden State Park in July. Their graduates are Callum Johnson, 14, Kaladry Groenig, Satria McKnight and Owen Griffith, all 11, Reid Armstrong, 10, Caleb Armstrong, 9, Byron Eisele, 8, and Nigel Groenig, 13. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Eleanor Corey Guderian

A family’s saga, told by mother and daughter

Begun in Joyce, story extends across Peninsula

Eleanor Corey Guderian
Violinist Charles Wetherbee and pianist Cameron Bennett are the performers in this Saturday's Concerts in the Barn fundraising gala. photos courtesy of Concerts in the Barn



at PLU, Thursday, July 27, 2017. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU)

Fundraiser, free music at Concerts in the Barn in Quilcene

“A Fine Romance: Salut d’Amour” is the theme of the Concerts in the Barn fundraising gala coming to Trillium Woods Farm, 7360 Center… Continue reading

Violinist Charles Wetherbee and pianist Cameron Bennett are the performers in this Saturday's Concerts in the Barn fundraising gala. photos courtesy of Concerts in the Barn



at PLU, Thursday, July 27, 2017. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU)
Lead singer Stephanie Ward arrives at the Coyle community center this Saturday with her band Great American Trainwreck. (Photo courtesy Great American Trainwreck)

Great American Trainwreck to perform in Coyle

Singing, said Stephanie Ward, is all about “grabbing your breath from way deep down.” That’s one thing she learned in voice lessons a… Continue reading

Lead singer Stephanie Ward arrives at the Coyle community center this Saturday with her band Great American Trainwreck. (Photo courtesy Great American Trainwreck)
The leaders of two Aug. 14-15 theater camps in Quilcene — for children age 8 to 12 and teens 13 to 17 — include teaching artists Maggie Bulkley, left, and Bry Kifolo of Key City Public Theatre. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Theater camps open in Quilcene

Grant makes scholarships available

The leaders of two Aug. 14-15 theater camps in Quilcene — for children age 8 to 12 and teens 13 to 17 — include teaching artists Maggie Bulkley, left, and Bry Kifolo of Key City Public Theatre. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
James Ray and Monique Mead are leaders of the Olympic Strings Workshop, whose students will give a free concert tonight in Port Angeles. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Tonight: free Olympic Strings concert

Tonight’s Olympic Strings Workshop concert is an uncommon experience for at least two reasons. First, the 7 p.m. performance is live and… Continue reading

James Ray and Monique Mead are leaders of the Olympic Strings Workshop, whose students will give a free concert tonight in Port Angeles. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News
Expeditionary artist Maria Coryell-Martin includes some of her equipment in “Witnessing Climate Change,” the new show highlighting the art she has made during and after traveling to the North Slope of Alaska. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Expeditionary artist Maria Coryell-Martin includes some of her equipment in “Witnessing Climate Change,” the new show highlighting the art she has made during and after traveling to the North Slope of Alaska. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Libby Urner Wennstrom.

Wennstrom top favorite in council primary

Top vote-getter brings in 75 percent; Vega second

Libby Urner Wennstrom.

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Rosita, Rita and the Rose

When I saw “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It” was screening during the Rose Theatre’s reopening weekend, I too decided… Continue reading

Darby Huffman of LaughinGnome Pottery, pictured at the Port Townsend Farmers Market, will welcome visitors to the new studio space he shares with partner Francie Loveall this Friday evening during the First Friday Speaker Series program. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

LaughinGnome to host Friday visit

Capacity of First Friday in-person program is 30

Darby Huffman of LaughinGnome Pottery, pictured at the Port Townsend Farmers Market, will welcome visitors to the new studio space he shares with partner Francie Loveall this Friday evening during the First Friday Speaker Series program. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News
”The Cherokee Word for Water,” co-produced and co-directed by Charlie Soap, left, and starring Kimberly Guerrero as Wilma Mankiller and Mo Brings Plenty as Soap, is the August Port Townsend Film Festival Pic available for streaming throughout this week. (Photo courtesy Port Townsend Film Festival via cw4w.com)

‘Cherokee’ film available for streaming this week

Story highlights ability to bring people together

”The Cherokee Word for Water,” co-produced and co-directed by Charlie Soap, left, and starring Kimberly Guerrero as Wilma Mankiller and Mo Brings Plenty as Soap, is the August Port Townsend Film Festival Pic available for streaming throughout this week. (Photo courtesy Port Townsend Film Festival via cw4w.com)
Holding a piece of baleen from a bowhead whale, Port Townsend Marine Science Center exhibit and outreach specialist Mandi Johnson, left, and aquarium specialist Marley Loomis stand before the center’s newly acquired Flagship Landing building in downtown Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Port Townsend Marine Science Center to move downtown

Water Street mall to become location for labs, exhibits

Holding a piece of baleen from a bowhead whale, Port Townsend Marine Science Center exhibit and outreach specialist Mandi Johnson, left, and aquarium specialist Marley Loomis stand before the center’s newly acquired Flagship Landing building in downtown Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Volunteer coordinator Debbi Steele, center, welcomes visitors to Saturday’s Community Build Project open house in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Community receives tour of tiny house village

Rental spaces come with rules, 90-day leases

Volunteer coordinator Debbi Steele, center, welcomes visitors to Saturday’s Community Build Project open house in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Detroit native Marion Hayden is part of the Jazz Port Townsend ensemble, which filled the air with music during Saturday’s long-awaited concert at Fort Worden State Park. The sold-out show, presented by Centrum, drew listeners inside and outside the fence around Littlefield Green beside McCurdy Pavilion. Centrum’s Acoustic Blues Festival concert, also on the green, is set for next Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Jazz concert

Detroit native Marion Hayden is part of the Jazz Port Townsend ensemble, which filled the air with music during Saturday’s long-awaited concert at Fort Worden… Continue reading

Detroit native Marion Hayden is part of the Jazz Port Townsend ensemble, which filled the air with music during Saturday’s long-awaited concert at Fort Worden State Park. The sold-out show, presented by Centrum, drew listeners inside and outside the fence around Littlefield Green beside McCurdy Pavilion. Centrum’s Acoustic Blues Festival concert, also on the green, is set for next Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Northwest Maritime Center Executive Director Jake Beattie acknowledged the past 16 months' trials during the Navigator Night Out. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Maritime Center event highlights teens’ successes

Students get involved in solo sail, boat project, jobs program

Northwest Maritime Center Executive Director Jake Beattie acknowledged the past 16 months' trials during the Navigator Night Out. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Transit examines future plans

More routes, connections considered

Amy Barston, left, and her sister Elisa Barston will return to Trillium Woods Farm in Quilcene this weekend for two free concerts with pianist Jessica Choe. photo courtesy Concerts in the Barn

Concerts in the Barn series continues with Trio Hava

The music of Lili Boulanger, a French composer whose talents became clear when she was a young girl, will fill the air at… Continue reading

Amy Barston, left, and her sister Elisa Barston will return to Trillium Woods Farm in Quilcene this weekend for two free concerts with pianist Jessica Choe. photo courtesy Concerts in the Barn
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Sarah Jane, gallery and program director of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, admires "Spoonful" by Lucy Congdon Hanson, a featured art installation on Saturday's guided tour of Webster's Woods Sculpture Park.

Guided tour Saturday of outdoor sculpture park

More than 100 pieces on display in Webster’s Woods

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Sarah Jane, gallery and program director of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, admires "Spoonful" by Lucy Congdon Hanson, a featured art installation on Saturday's guided tour of Webster's Woods Sculpture Park.
A corA corkscrew willow tree, a landmark at Port Townsend’s Gateway Park, collapsed Wednesday. A city Public Works Department crew later used straps to stabilize the high-risk portion of the tree that is still standing to reduce the risk of it falling farther into the East Sims Way-Kearney Street intersection. Working with an arborist, “our next step is to further evaluate the tree, on whether or not it can be saved. We will clean up the fallen portion of the tree now that it is stabilized,” Public Works Director Steve King said.  Old age and rot at the tree’s center caused the failure, King added. 

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Landmark willow tree falls in Port Townsend

A corkscrew willow tree, a landmark at Port Townsend’s Gateway Park, collapsed Wednesday. A city Public Works Department crew later used straps to stabilize the… Continue reading

A corA corkscrew willow tree, a landmark at Port Townsend’s Gateway Park, collapsed Wednesday. A city Public Works Department crew later used straps to stabilize the high-risk portion of the tree that is still standing to reduce the risk of it falling farther into the East Sims Way-Kearney Street intersection. Working with an arborist, “our next step is to further evaluate the tree, on whether or not it can be saved. We will clean up the fallen portion of the tree now that it is stabilized,” Public Works Director Steve King said.  Old age and rot at the tree’s center caused the failure, King added. 

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