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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Big Quilcene River clean-up Thursday; Mitch Black Memorial Golf Tournament coming up at Port Ludlow

A community clean-up of The Big Quilcene River watershed is planned today. The river provides drinking water for much of Jefferson County including… Continue reading

Book signing Saturday in Port Townsend

Sculptor Sara Mall Johani will sign copies of her new book “Mine, Your, Nobody’s: My story of Wild Olympic Salmon” from 1… Continue reading

Caution urged on federal lands during dry conditions

Since July 23, fire officials have responded to five fires across the North Olympic Peninsula with about 25 acres burned on federal… Continue reading

Martha Washington (Jane Ritchey) and George Washington (Vern Frykholm Jr.) meet with a young visitor at the Northwest Colonial Festival in 2019. The pair return this year today thorugh Sunday for daily visits with guests. Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group

Colonial Fest returns to George Washington Inn

Event shares takes of life during the Revolutionary War

Martha Washington (Jane Ritchey) and George Washington (Vern Frykholm Jr.) meet with a young visitor at the Northwest Colonial Festival in 2019. The pair return this year today thorugh Sunday for daily visits with guests. Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group

Fundraiser dance at cidery Saturday

Kilombo Funk will perform for a global music dance from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. The fundraiser will be at Finnriver Farm… Continue reading

A sign at the entrance to Air Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles on Ediz Hook is shown Wednesday after it had been set afire. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Hate crime and arson suspected

Port Angeles deputy police chief: Could have been prevented

A sign at the entrance to Air Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles on Ediz Hook is shown Wednesday after it had been set afire. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Siblings Sequoia Mitchell, 9, and Coco Mitchell, 6, both of Sequim, attempt to catch tadpoles in a side channel of the Dungeness River at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim on Tuesday. A spell of hot weather forecast for the next several days will likely send many people on the North Olympic Peninsula seeking heat relief near the water. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Heat wave hitting Peninsula

Area not expected to bake with temperatures like June

Siblings Sequoia Mitchell, 9, and Coco Mitchell, 6, both of Sequim, attempt to catch tadpoles in a side channel of the Dungeness River at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim on Tuesday. A spell of hot weather forecast for the next several days will likely send many people on the North Olympic Peninsula seeking heat relief near the water. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

LEFTIES: Port Angeles can’t take bite out of Pickles’ playoff hopes

Playing out the string against a pack of Pickles, Port Angeles couldn’t play playoff spoiler in a 7-0 West Coast League loss… Continue reading

LETTER: Clallam County Fair

Clallam County Fair, 1895, was started to “relieve the doldrums” from the effects of the 1893 depression. It was the insight of civic leaders Michael… Continue reading

  • Aug 12, 2021

LETTER: Unvaccinated the problem

It seems increasingly clear to me that just about everyone who chooses not to get vaccinated is going to get sick with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.… Continue reading

  • Aug 12, 2021

Soroptimists to meet Friday in Port Angeles

Mark Lorentzen will address a meeting of Soroptimist International of Port Angeles at noon Friday. The public is invited to attend the… Continue reading

State ferry fares to increase 2.5 percent in October

Ferry fares in Washington state will increase 2.5 percent in October. The Washington State Transportation Commission approved the increase for walk-on passengers and… Continue reading

Adrienne Wilson will perform alongside Bill Evans in this Saturday’s “Bill Evans 81!” concert at Fort Worden’s Wheeler Theater. (Photo courtesy Auburn University)

Thoughts of Port Townsend kept returning dancer going

After contracting COVID-19, professor to perform Saturday

Adrienne Wilson will perform alongside Bill Evans in this Saturday’s “Bill Evans 81!” concert at Fort Worden’s Wheeler Theater. (Photo courtesy Auburn University)

Woman airlifted from Olympic National Park

A 24-year-old woman was airlifted Wednesday from Grand Valley off Obstruction Point Road because of possible heat-related illness. Two rangers had… Continue reading

Emergency alert test set Wednesday morning

The nation’s public alert system will be tested at 11:20 a.m. today. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will… Continue reading

Jeremy Denk, a MacArthur “genius” grant winner, is among the guest artists at this month’s Music on the Strait festival. His performances will be available for free via live streaming. (Photo courtesy of Music on the Strait)

Festival is live, online, indoors, outdoors

Six concerts set for hall in Port Angeles, farm in Quilcene

Jeremy Denk, a MacArthur “genius” grant winner, is among the guest artists at this month’s Music on the Strait festival. His performances will be available for free via live streaming. (Photo courtesy of Music on the Strait)

Free outdoor concerts presented this week

Free outdoor concerts continue this week on the North Olympic Peninsula. Today at 6 p.m., Backwoods Hucksters will perform Americana and blues during the Port… Continue reading

Laurel Moulton, program coordinator for the Clallam County Master Gardeners, will bring the hour-long Green Thumb Education Series lectures to Zoom on Thursday.

Green Thumbs series session set for Thursday

Secret lives of garden’s insects described

Laurel Moulton, program coordinator for the Clallam County Master Gardeners, will bring the hour-long Green Thumb Education Series lectures to Zoom on Thursday.

PAT NEAL: Let the rain keep coming

“Does it always rain like this?” my fancy friend asked recently while huddling under a refreshing morning shower that hit so hard the raindrops seemed… Continue reading