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Charcoal artist in spotlight at Harbor Art Gallery

Harbor Art Gallery is featuring charcoal artist Lance Snider for the months of March and April. Snider will be at the gallery… Continue reading

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HORSEPLAY: Arena owner’s passion includes kids, horses, dogs

HER ENTHUSIASM AND passion are catching. I’m smiling inside just thinking about my interview with the bubbly, spirited and compassionate Kari Payne as she showed… Continue reading

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At the Community First! village in Austin, Texas, resident Ernest chats with farmer Heidi Sloan. The village is the subject of a documentary streaming free this week from the Port Townsend Film Festival. photo courtesy Layton Blaylock/Inferno Films

No place like it: Home is theme of free film

Community First! explores a housing solution

At the Community First! village in Austin, Texas, resident Ernest chats with farmer Heidi Sloan. The village is the subject of a documentary streaming free this week from the Port Townsend Film Festival. photo courtesy Layton Blaylock/Inferno Films
“Soul Consoling Tower, Cemetery, and the Sierra Nevada”, photographed in 2015, is one of the few remaining structures left after the camp was dismantled, sold off and bulldozed. The oblisk monument in the camps cemetery was designed and built by incarceree stonemason Ryozo Kado and is inscribed with Japanese characters which translate to “Soul Consoling Tower”.

Peninsula College exhibit, lecture focuses on Manzanar

Photographer Brian Goodman will talk about his work documenting the remains of Manzanar, a Japanese concentration camp used in WW II, on… Continue reading

“Soul Consoling Tower, Cemetery, and the Sierra Nevada”, photographed in 2015, is one of the few remaining structures left after the camp was dismantled, sold off and bulldozed. The oblisk monument in the camps cemetery was designed and built by incarceree stonemason Ryozo Kado and is inscribed with Japanese characters which translate to “Soul Consoling Tower”.

Peninsula prosecutors weigh impacts of Supreme Court decision

They worry about drug court, oveddoses

National Geographic Photo Ark (natgeophotoark.org) founder Joel Sartore, seen here with a clouded leopard cub at Ohio's Columbus Zoo, is the speaker Monday night in Centrum's online Communiversity program. Copyright Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark

Photographer to tell about his global work

Project aims to picture the animal kingdom

National Geographic Photo Ark (natgeophotoark.org) founder Joel Sartore, seen here with a clouded leopard cub at Ohio's Columbus Zoo, is the speaker Monday night in Centrum's online Communiversity program. Copyright Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark

Sequim seeks input on redesign of downtown corner

Artists, surveys to help with public engagement

Coronavirus

About a quarter of Peninsula has had at least one vaccine shot

More clinics set this week

Julia Cochrane helped open the Winter Welcoming Center in downtown Port Townsend's Pope Marine Building this month. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Welcoming Center gives shelter from cold

Social distancing practiced in Pope Marine Building

Julia Cochrane helped open the Winter Welcoming Center in downtown Port Townsend's Pope Marine Building this month. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

EYE ON JEFFERSON: Port Townsend council to consider PDA change

The Port Townsend City Council will consider amending chapter 2.84 of the municipal code with regard to the Fort Worden Lifelong Learning Center Public Development… Continue reading

EYE ON CLALLAM: County to consider state COVID-19 response funding

Peninsula Daily News Clallam County commissioners will discuss a contract amendment with the state Department of Health which would add funding to the Health and… Continue reading

Sequim School District’s board of Directors voted on Feb. 23 to retain Dr. Jane Pryne as the district’s superintendent through June 2022. (Photo courtesy of Sequim School District)

Sequim school board votes to keep Jane Pryne

Superintendent to serve through June 2022

Sequim School District’s board of Directors voted on Feb. 23 to retain Dr. Jane Pryne as the district’s superintendent through June 2022. (Photo courtesy of Sequim School District)
Warming up for Saturday's "Chalk It Up!" event are Cate Chance, 11, left, Lucas Chance, 7, and Sarah Butterworth, 10, all of Port Angeles. (Photo courtesy Juan de Fuca Foundation for the Arts)

‘Chalk It Up! to turn parking lot into a canvas

Outdoor installation offers space, color and a place to be artistic

Warming up for Saturday's "Chalk It Up!" event are Cate Chance, 11, left, Lucas Chance, 7, and Sarah Butterworth, 10, all of Port Angeles. (Photo courtesy Juan de Fuca Foundation for the Arts)
Bruce Corbridge's painting of his dog, Sergeant, is among the pieces displayed in the Port Ludlow Art League exhibit.

Acrylics, gemstone jewelry on display in Port Ludlow in March

An artist who says he “over-tweaks” his acrylic paintings and a jeweler working in gemstones are featured in March by the Port… Continue reading

Bruce Corbridge's painting of his dog, Sergeant, is among the pieces displayed in the Port Ludlow Art League exhibit.

Area Briefs: Fun Color Run in Sequim; Men’s soccer tryouts Saturday

Registration remains open for the city of Sequim’s Sun Fun Color Run, set for Saturday, March… Continue reading

Linda Rosenbury has been named superintendent of the Port Townsend School District.

Chimacum, Port Townsend school districts choose new superintendents

Both set to begin work July 1

Linda Rosenbury has been named superintendent of the Port Townsend School District.

Court blocks release of records about Seattle cops in D.C. on Jan. 6

A court commissioner has granted an emergency order temporarily stopping the City of Seattle from disclosing records that would have… Continue reading

Hood Canal Bridge inspection to disrupt traffic

The Hood Canal Bridge draw span will open, closing the bridge to all traffic, multiple times during the next two weeks. Travelers should… Continue reading

ISSUES OF FAITH: Try to embrace the science of kindness

There is an embrace of kindness that encompasses all life, even yours. And while there is still injustice, callousness and cruelty in the world, through… Continue reading

LETTER: Trump, Trumpism

Trump and Trumpism will slowly fade into the dustbin of history. Trump, for a while, will still lie to his followers, giving them false hope… Continue reading

  • Feb 26, 2021