Diane Urbani de la Paz

Northwest novel highlighted in Community Reads project

PORT TOWNSEND — We’ve a few weeks of winter still to come — so let’s curl up with a good book, ideally one that allows… Continue reading

Black Diamond Bridal employee Jesseca Larson stands next to a dress from Moonlight Bridal on Wednesday. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

WEEKEND: Trunk show offers samples of cake, flowers and chance to try on wedding dresses [ *** GALLERY *** ]

PORT ANGELES — Mermaids. Belles of the ball. Fit-n-flare. Strapless with sweetheart bodice, flowers, feathers and beads. This is the language spoken at a special… Continue reading

Black Diamond Bridal employee Jesseca Larson stands next to a dress from Moonlight Bridal on Wednesday. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

Port Angeles poet to host Romanian writer Friday

PORT ANGELES — In Liliana Ursu of Romania, Tess Gallagher of Port Angeles found a kindred spirit. It was 1990 when the two women met… Continue reading

New band wins Juan de Fuca Festival’s talent show

PORT ANGELES — Justin Scott Rivet, a singer-guitarist born and raised in Port Angeles, put together a band he calls the Riveters a little over… Continue reading

PENINSULA PROFILE: How Jeff Tocher went from homelessness to gallery artist

Messengers, one after another, have whispered two things to Jeff Tocher. Believe in your talent. Use it to start anew. One of the first messengers… Continue reading

Port Angeles Farmers Market wins top statewide award

PORT ANGELES — Reaching out to the community, connecting people with their local food farmers and “herding cats”: Those are three things the Port Angeles… Continue reading

Port Angeles, Sequim groups to host Oscar parties

A starry night is forecast. The big screen is bigger than ever before. And at “Hollywood Nights,” Port Angeles' Academy Awards celebration, and Sequim's “A… Continue reading

WEEKEND SPOTLIGHT: Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts Talent Show on Saturday

PORT ANGELES — Songwriters. Tango dancers. A comedian, a poet, more dancers, singers and players: They all add up to the second annual Juan de… Continue reading

Sea otter pup may get a Peninsula name

PORT TOWNSEND — The five-week-old sea otter pup at the Seattle Aquarium — a Facebook celebrity if there ever was one — could soon be… Continue reading

A PENINSULA PROFILE TRUE LOVE STORY: Couple show it ‘comes down to the simple things’

PORT ANGELES — He was, by his own description, a “long-haired, motorcycle-riding janitor.” She was an 18-year-old from Kansas. And from the day Paul and… Continue reading

Passion, gratitude mark winners of Young Artists Competition

PORT ANGELES — Every Monday night, 16-year-old Erin Hennessey drives to Tacoma and back. Hennessey spends an hour there with a doctor — Maria Sampen,… Continue reading

Sequim walk-in clinic to shutter soon

SEQUIM — With a heavy heart, Bridgett Bell Kraft is shutting down the clinic she opened here five years ago. Primary Care Sequim, in the… Continue reading

PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Playwrights’ Festival brings life to stage

PORT TOWNSEND — Inside the 66-seat Key City Playhouse, life is unfolding, in all its comic, work-in-progress glory. This version of life, distilled into performances,… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Peninsula Men’s Gospel Singers set to perform

PORT ANGELES — Be ready, Penny Hall says, to have a spring put in your step. Hall, accompanist with the 19-voice Peninsula Men's Gospel Singers,… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Power Animal Ball to fete Mardi Gras, help dancer with medical expenses

PORT TOWNSEND — The first-ever Power Animal Ball — replete with mask-making and an art den full of feathers, fake fur, face paint and sequins… Continue reading

WEEKEND: The Perfect Gentlemen to ‘shine’

PORT LUDLOW — “Java Jive.” “I Want You to Be My Baby.” “San Francisco Bay Blues.” That's a mere taste of what The Perfect Gentlemen… Continue reading

Comedy contest Friday in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — The Upstage Theater & Restaurant will be given over to stand-up comics — 10 of them — as the third annual Olympic… Continue reading

‘Love Letters’ chronicles relationship of a lifetime

SEQUIM — Melissa and Andrew are just kids, carefree kids, when they become sweethearts. Then they’re separated — but only physically. Over 50 years, they… Continue reading

Be a valentine: Romantic spots abound on North Olympic Peninsula [ *** GALLERY *** ]

When asked to name romantic local spots for Valentine's Day on Tuesday — or any day, really — the men as well as the women… Continue reading

PENINSULA WOMAN: Attorney brings energy to home, courtroom

Karen Unger comes across as fearless and flamboyant ­— a lioness seated beside her defendant. But of course there is more to this woman than… Continue reading