Daily Update Newsletter

Entertainment and events slated for weekend

Music, movies and a historic locomotive highlight a weekend of events on the Peninsula. • Concerts in the Barn will present a pre-season gala fundraiser… Continue reading

Port Angeles sends letter to governor

Requests a progressive tax code

Courtesy of Rep. Emily Randall's office

Rep. Emily Randall to hold town hall in Port Townsend

Congresswoman will field questions from constituents

Courtesy of Rep. Emily Randall's office
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS A pair of daffodil blooms poke up from a planter at Lincoln Street and Railroad Avenue on Thursday in Port Angeles. With the coming of spring, flowers are beginning to blossom and trees are taking on their familiar green of the warmer months.
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Signs of spring

A pair of daffodil blooms poke up from a planter at Lincoln Street and Railroad Avenue on Thursday in Port Angeles. With the coming of… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS A pair of daffodil blooms poke up from a planter at Lincoln Street and Railroad Avenue on Thursday in Port Angeles. With the coming of spring, flowers are beginning to blossom and trees are taking on their familiar green of the warmer months.
Spartan Landen Olson slides into third with a triple then scores on an overthrow.  Photo by Lonnie Archibald.

PREP BASEBALL: Forks sweeps Chief Leschi

Quilcene pitcher Allen fires no-hitter, strikes out 19

Spartan Landen Olson slides into third with a triple then scores on an overthrow.  Photo by Lonnie Archibald.
Joshua Wright, program director for the Legacy Forest Defense Coalition, stands in a forest plot named "Dungeness and Dragons," which is managed by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Currently, the DNR is evaluating Wright's claim that there is a rare plant community in one of the units, which would qualify the parcel for automatic protection from logging. Locating rare plant communities is just one of the methods environmental activists use to protect what they call "legacy forests." (Joshua Wright)

Activists answer call to protect forests

Advocacy continues beyond timber auctions

Joshua Wright, program director for the Legacy Forest Defense Coalition, stands in a forest plot named "Dungeness and Dragons," which is managed by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Currently, the DNR is evaluating Wright's claim that there is a rare plant community in one of the units, which would qualify the parcel for automatic protection from logging. Locating rare plant communities is just one of the methods environmental activists use to protect what they call "legacy forests." (Joshua Wright)

Concerts in the Barn to present gala concert

Concerts in the Barn will present a gala concert at 1 p.m. Saturday. The preseason fundraiser will be in the newly renovated milking… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS The Rayonier #4 logging locomotive on display at Chase Street and Lauridsen Boulevard in Port Angeles, is the focus of a fundraising drive to restore the engine and further develop the site.

Locomotive viewing event scheduled for Sunday

“Restore the 4” project underway

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS The Rayonier #4 logging locomotive on display at Chase Street and Lauridsen Boulevard in Port Angeles, is the focus of a fundraising drive to restore the engine and further develop the site.
Melody Sky Weaver, left, and Sally Franson at the Big in Sweden book launch at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, July 2024. (James Weaver)

Novelist to read from ‘Big in Sweden’

City staffer contributed to inspiring the book

Melody Sky Weaver, left, and Sally Franson at the Big in Sweden book launch at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, July 2024. (James Weaver)

Olympic Theatre Arts to host improv show

Imagined Reality Improv will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday. The improvisation troop will be on stage at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim… Continue reading

Port of Port Angeles talks project status

Marine Trade Center work close to completion

Port Angeles Roughriders

PREP SOCCER: Roughriders rack up another road win

Pyper Alton earns comeback tiebreaker tennis win

Port Angeles Roughriders

TRACK AND FIELD: East Jefferson boys win Nisqually League meet

The East Jefferson boys won a seven-school Nisqually League track and field meet at Klahowya High School, while the East Jefferson girls came… Continue reading

Drama workshops to be offered in Port Townsend

Saltfire Theatre will begin The Cauldron, a new series of drama workshops, Friday and Monday. The workshops will be conducted at the… Continue reading

Clallam County gets Legislative update

Property tax bills still in play

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Port Townsend High School culinary arts student Jasper Ziese, left, watches as fellow students Emil Brown sauces the dish and Raivyn Johnson, right, waits to box it up. The students prepared and served a free lunch from the program's food truck, Culinary Cruiser, for a senior project on Saturday.

Culinary Cruiser delivers practical experience for Port Townsend students

Part of Career and Technical Education culinary arts program

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Port Townsend High School culinary arts student Jasper Ziese, left, watches as fellow students Emil Brown sauces the dish and Raivyn Johnson, right, waits to box it up. The students prepared and served a free lunch from the program's food truck, Culinary Cruiser, for a senior project on Saturday.

Investigators find faulty fridge cause of trailer fire

A fire inside a fifth-wheel trailer that claimed the life of a 5-year-old was started by a faulty refrigerator, Clallam County Sheriff Brian… Continue reading

PAT NEAL: The life list

BIRD WATCHING IS my life. Some of my best bird-watching has been done with a chainsaw. Considered unethical by the same people who say it’s… Continue reading

PC’s enrollment rates show steady growth

Numbers reverse ten-year trend

Pink House will see repairs in 2025

Siding, deck planks, support beams on list