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Free concert on Monday — Air Force band performs in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — An extravaganza of jazz and patriotic music, courtesy of the Stardust Big Band and the Falconaires band from the Air Force Academy… Continue reading

Visit Emily Carr’s Victoria, where her art transports viewer beyond the gallery

VICTORIA -- Emily Carr sweeps you off your feet, then sets you down in another world. It's a fantastical scene: vibrating water below, infinite sky… Continue reading

Local businesses, residents invited to join Kiwanis Camp fundraisers

PORT ANGELES -- For the first time, sculptor and arts promoter Bob Stokes is hosting a pair of auctions to raise money for one of… Continue reading

PENINSULA WOMAN: A life in balance: Healing with a body’s energy

PORT ANGELES -- This is a story of metamorphosis, of new beginnings and of liberation from pain. And Kelmie Blake's story bears poetic parallels to… Continue reading

PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: ‘Rocky Horror Show’ comes to Little Theater at Peninsula College

PORT ANGELES -- The looming question about "The Rocky Horror Show," said Richard Stephens, "was not 'Should we do it?' but 'Why haven't we done… Continue reading

Teen novel writer to speak at Port Angeles library

PORT ANGELES -- Teenagers have an opportunity this afternoon to see how a writer goes about creating a novel. Holly Cupala, author of Tell Me… Continue reading

In race for Clallam treasurer, Barkhuis, Scott are both hopeful

PORT ANGELES — The race between Selinda Barkhuis, an attorney and planner challenging Clallam County Treasurer Judy Scott, was too close to call after the… Continue reading

Tense moment in race for Clallam community development director

PORT ANGELES — Challenger Sheila Roark Miller was well ahead of Clallam County Community Development Director John Miller after the first ballot count Tuesday night.… Continue reading

A community’s goodbye to Bob Boardman — victim, and hero, in mountain goat attack

PORT ANGELES -- The loss of Bob Boardman drew hundreds together Saturday for a sharing of music, tears, embraces and stories of a man whom… Continue reading

Halloween screaming starts tonight at Port Angeles High School

PORT ANGELES -- Spooky festivities begin in earnest tonight with "Boo! Thirteen Scenes from Halloween" in the Port Angeles High School auditorium at 304 E.… Continue reading

PENINSULA WOMAN: Behind the Mujeres de Maiz and its work in Mexico

CARLSBORG -- She started with an idea, plus six women. And then Judith Pasco, then a Spanish teacher at Sequim High School, gathered up her… Continue reading

History center to host family jamboree in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES -- A "Genealogy Boot Camp" seminar, "Got Canooks, eh? Searching for Canadian Ancestors," "Preserving Your Family Treasures" -- these are a few of… Continue reading

PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: It take four to Quartango; noted group to perform in Port Ludlow

MONTREAL, Quebec -- To Quartango's first Olympic Peninsula concert, Rene Gosselin suggests bringing a handkerchief. That's because tango music, in all its drama, has a… Continue reading

Man killed by goat in Olympic National Park was experienced hiker

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- Bob Boardman of Port Angeles, a devoted hiker, diabetes nurse and musician, was killed by a mountain goat on Klahhane Ridge… Continue reading

PENINSULA WOMAN: Getting her (and her students’) groove on

PORT ANGELES -- Sounds like there's a party going on, what with the chatter and quick bursts of laughter. It's just an odd place and… Continue reading

PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: Tales of oh! at Forest Storytelling Festival

This weekend-long party is not what you think. The Forest Storytelling Festival, aka the 16th annual gathering of entertainers from across the nation, is no… Continue reading

‘Casablanca’ coming to Sequim Elks Club for FM station fundraiser

SEQUIM -- A live version of "Casablanca" is coming to the Sequim Elks Club, courtesy of a pair of sweethearts. "Think of Rick's Cafe Americain,"… Continue reading

PENINSULA WOMAN: Moriarty gathers grants to keep marine life center afloat

PORT ANGELES -- Deborah Moriarty lives in an ecosystem of diverse organisms: federal grant-makers, fourth- and fifth-graders, and this weekend, Crab & Seafood Festival-goers. Her… Continue reading

10-10-10: Goal to plant 350 trees by this Sunday

Pat Milliren, a member of a small, interfaith group called the North Olympic Creation Care Alliance, heard recently about something called the Global Work Party.… Continue reading

PENINSULA SPOTLIGHT: ‘Here’s to the Ladies!’ opens tonight at Key City Playhouse

PORT TOWNSEND -- Baby, I'm cookin' with gas. Oh, I'm a gumdrop, A sweet lollipop, A brook trout right out of the brook, And what's… Continue reading