Elijah Sussman

Rhody Princess Lorelei Turner, left, and Rhody Queen Taylor Frank at the Washington State Apple Blossom Festival in Wenatchee, where they received the Golden Apple award. (Lori Morris)

Rhody festival celebrates 90 years

Four days of parades, races, events slated

Rhody Princess Lorelei Turner, left, and Rhody Queen Taylor Frank at the Washington State Apple Blossom Festival in Wenatchee, where they received the Golden Apple award. (Lori Morris)

Jefferson County discussion centers on fireworks

Potential future bans, pathway to public displays discussed

Natalie Maitland.

Port Townsend Main Street hires next executive director

Natalie Maitland will start new role with organization May 21

Natalie Maitland.

FEMA to reduce reimbursement eligibility

Higher thresholds, shorter timeframes in communities

Peninsula seeing pertussis clusters

Treatable with antibiotics, health officer says

Upper Hoh Road to reopen

Ribbon-cutting ceremony set Thursday

Participants in Monday’s missing and murdered indigenous people (MMIP) march wore red and walked from the Elwha Klallam Heritage Center to the Port Angeles Gateway Transit Center. (Elijah Sussman/Peninsula Daily News)

March honors missing indigenous people

Member of state cold case unit addresses crowd

Participants in Monday’s missing and murdered indigenous people (MMIP) march wore red and walked from the Elwha Klallam Heritage Center to the Port Angeles Gateway Transit Center. (Elijah Sussman/Peninsula Daily News)
Matt Butler performs for about 70 incarcerated people in the visiting room at Clallam Bay Corrections Center on Thursday afternoon. (Elijah Sussman/Peninsula Daily News)

Singer-songwriter plays concert at prison

Incarcerated concertgoers express appreciation

Matt Butler performs for about 70 incarcerated people in the visiting room at Clallam Bay Corrections Center on Thursday afternoon. (Elijah Sussman/Peninsula Daily News)

Volunteers contribute to marine stewardship

Jefferson County committee reports bull kelp surveys, rain garden work parties

Josh Peters, left, in conversation with two attendees at Tuesday night’s event in the Humphrey room at Jefferson County Library District. (Elijah Sussman/Peninsula Daily News)
Josh Peters, left, in conversation with two attendees at Tuesday night’s event in the Humphrey room at Jefferson County Library District. (Elijah Sussman/Peninsula Daily News)
Matt Butler performs at Camden County Correctional Facility in 2018 in New Jersey. (Mario Diurno)

Singer to perform at Field Hall, Clallam Bay Corrections Center

Butler has been performing at jails, prisons for nearly a decade

Matt Butler performs at Camden County Correctional Facility in 2018 in New Jersey. (Mario Diurno)

Poplars to be removed on Sims Way next month

Work to begin a multi-year project to expand port’s boatyard

Chimacum Ridge seeks board members

Members to write policy, balance values, chair says

From left to right, Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding students Krystol Pasecznyk and Scott McNair sand a Prothero Sloop with Sean Koomen, the school’s boat building program director. Koomen said the sanding would take one person a few days. He said the plan is to have 12 people sand it together, which will take a few hours. (Elijah Sussman/Peninsula Daily News)

Wooden boatbuilding school building ‘Twin Boats’

Students using traditional and cold-moulding construction techniques

From left to right, Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding students Krystol Pasecznyk and Scott McNair sand a Prothero Sloop with Sean Koomen, the school’s boat building program director. Koomen said the sanding would take one person a few days. He said the plan is to have 12 people sand it together, which will take a few hours. (Elijah Sussman/Peninsula Daily News)

Interfund loan to pay for Port Townsend meter replacement

City will repay over four years; work likely this winter

Jefferson County adjusts budget appropriations

Money for parks, coroner and substance abuse treatment in jail

East Jefferson Fire Rescue Chief Bret Black addresses a group of attendees at the Port Ludlow fire department on Wednesday. From left to right are Smokey Bear, Jefferson County Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour, Black, Jesse Duvall, the state Department of National Resources’ Community Resilience coordinator, and EJFR Community Risk Manager Robert Wittenberg. (Elijah Sussman/Peninsula Daily News)

East Jefferson department offers free wildfire mitigation visits

Forecasts predict high-risk summer; neighborhoods prepare

East Jefferson Fire Rescue Chief Bret Black addresses a group of attendees at the Port Ludlow fire department on Wednesday. From left to right are Smokey Bear, Jefferson County Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour, Black, Jesse Duvall, the state Department of National Resources’ Community Resilience coordinator, and EJFR Community Risk Manager Robert Wittenberg. (Elijah Sussman/Peninsula Daily News)

Port Townsend updated on city’s workplan

Forty-five of 61 projects on track, city manager says

Facilities district for pool paused

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