Joe Smillie

The graffito on 43 million-year-old Tamanowas Rock near Chimacum. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Native Americans’ sacred Tamanowas Rock desecrated with an ‘I ♥’ tag

CHIMACUM — A display of affection has marred one of the Jamestown S'Klallam tribe's most sacred sites. Late last month, tribal officials learned someone had… Continue reading

The graffito on 43 million-year-old Tamanowas Rock near Chimacum. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
David Cummins

Services set for prominent Clallam GOP conservative David Cummins

SEQUIM –– Friends and political foes are remembering David Cummins, a land surveyor and stalwart of Clallam County conservative politics, as a man of loyalty,… Continue reading

David Cummins
Steve Markwell

Dog sanctuary director gets 20 days in Forks jail, fine for kicking car

FORKS –– Olympic Animal Sanctuary director Steve Markwell was sentenced to 20 days in jail and fined $500 on a third-degree malicious mischief conviction Monday.… Continue reading

Steve Markwell
Steve Markwell

Former dog shelter owner to be sentenced for kicking protester’s car

FORKS –– Steve Markwell, director of the defunct Olympic Animal Sanctuary, will be sentenced Clallam County District 2 court on a third-degree malicious mischief conviction… Continue reading

Steve Markwell
The graffito on 43 million-year-old Tamanowas Rock near Chimacum. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Native Americans’ sacred Tamanowas Rock desecrated with an ‘I ♥’ tag

CHIMACUM — A display of affection has marred one of the Jamestown S'Klallam tribe's most sacred sites. Late last month, tribal officials learned someone had… Continue reading

The graffito on 43 million-year-old Tamanowas Rock near Chimacum. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
Adam Stern

Audiences to weigh in on choice for Port Angeles orchestra conductor

PORT ANGELES –– This year's Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra season, each concert also will be an audition, with audience members asked to give their opinions… Continue reading

Adam Stern
The graffito on 43 million-year-old Tamanowas Rock near Chimacum. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Native Americans’ sacred Tamanowas Rock desecrated with an ‘I ♥’ tag

CHIMACUM — A display of affection has marred one of the Jamestown S'Klallam tribe's most sacred sites. Late last month, tribal officials learned someone had… Continue reading

The graffito on 43 million-year-old Tamanowas Rock near Chimacum. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
A crowd of more than 60 people waits for recreational marijuana store Sea Change Cannabis to open in Discovery Bay on Friday afternoon. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Peninsula’s only pot store sells out of stock within three hours

DISCOVERY BAY –– For the second consecutive weekend, the North Olympic Peninsula's only recreational marijuana outlet ran out of inventory before the end of business… Continue reading

A crowd of more than 60 people waits for recreational marijuana store Sea Change Cannabis to open in Discovery Bay on Friday afternoon. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

State: No process in place for appeal of Clallam County pot shop

PORT ANGELES –– Clallam County appears to have no say in a recreational pot shop an official said is sited too close to a gymnastics… Continue reading

The graffito on 43 million-year-old Tamanowas Rock near Chimacum. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Native Americans’ sacred Tamanowas Rock near Chimacum desecrated with an ‘I ♥’ tag

CHIMACUM — A display of affection has marred one of the Jamestown S'Klallam tribe's most sacred sites. Late last month, tribal officials learned someone had… Continue reading

The graffito on 43 million-year-old Tamanowas Rock near Chimacum. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
D.D. Wigley

WEEKEND: Port Townsend’s Key City Theatre in production overdrive with Shakespeare, Broadway stagings

PORT TOWNSEND ––The bard among the bark tradition as Key City Public Theatre kicks off the Shakespeare in the Park mini-season with “The Trojan Women.”… Continue reading

D.D. Wigley
Green Apple marijuana producers Brian Lavallee

Dozens of customers buy out Discovery Bay pot shop

DISCOVERY BAY –– The dozens of people who waited in line all day Friday to buy marijuana at the North Olympic Peninsula's only recreational outlet… Continue reading

Green Apple marijuana producers Brian Lavallee
Salem

WEEKEND: Author reads Saturday from her young adult novel set at Dungeness Schoolhouse

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Aug. 1. SEQUIM –– It sounds like a familiar tale. An author has a dream for the seed… Continue reading

Salem

WEEKEND: Art runs gamut during Saturday’s Port Townsend Gallery Walk

PORT TOWNSEND –– Bovine reproductions of some of history’s most famous paintings will mesh with Middle Eastern dancing and textiles during the city’s Gallery Walk… Continue reading

Alvin Youngblood Hart

WEEKEND: Centrum blues festival spills out into Port Townsend’s nightspots

PORT TOWNSEND –– The cure for the summertime blues may be, well, the blues. Centrum’s annual Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival is this weekend and… Continue reading

Alvin Youngblood Hart
Green Apple marijuana producers Brian Lavallee

Discovery Bay pot shop sells out

DISCOVERY BAY –– The dozens of people who waited in line all day to buy marijuana at the North Olympic Peninsula’s only recreational outlet likely… Continue reading

Green Apple marijuana producers Brian Lavallee
Steve Markwell answers a question from his public defender

Olympic Animal Sanctuary director convicted of third-degree malicious mischief in jury trial

FORKS –– Steve Markwell intentionally damaged the car of a protester outside the Forks warehouse in which he housed as many as 124 dogs, a… Continue reading

Steve Markwell answers a question from his public defender
Pamela Ziemann

WEEKEND: ‘Sequimprov’ takes stage tonight for Unusual Friday

SEQUIM –– Yes, and . . . Making it up as they go along, Olympic Theatre Arts will follow that classic rule of improvisational comedy… Continue reading

Pamela Ziemann

WEEKEND: Art runs gamut during Saturday’s Port Townsend Gallery Walk

PORT TOWNSEND –– Bovine reproductions of some of history’s most famous paintings will mesh with Middle Eastern dancing and textiles during the city’s Gallery Walk… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Author to read at First Friday lecture in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND –– A stand of ancient Douglas firs exposed to logging by bureaucratic map adjustments leads a young half-Makah man on a journey to… Continue reading