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Tickets for three-day THING festival at Fort Worden on sale

Food vendors, parade and other activities featured Aug. 25-27

Toot Sweet will perform in Port Townsend on Thursday.

Toot Sweet to perform ‘At the Movies’

Trinity United Methodist’s Candlelight Concerts will host Toot Sweet, a local clarinet quartet, at 7 p.m. Thursday. The quartet will perform at… Continue reading

Toot Sweet will perform in Port Townsend on Thursday.

Weekly flight operations scheduled

There will be field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Complex this week. There will be… Continue reading

Fairview Grange to host pizza night

Fairview Grange will host Pizza Appreciation Night at 5 p.m. Tuesday. The free pizza party is at the grange hall, 161 Lake… Continue reading

Toastmaster coaching set online

Toastmasters Lindy MacLaine and Nitay-Yair Levi will assist district champions to prepare for the 2023 World Championship of Public Speaking during the Champions… Continue reading

Peabody Creek field trip planned

Feiro Marine Life Center will lead a field trip along Peabody Creek from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, May 24.… Continue reading

Ecology hike set Wednesday

Erik Kingfisher will lead “Forest Ecology Hike in the Olympic Rain Shadow” at 3 p.m. Wednesday. The hike will meet at the lower campground on… Continue reading

Alan Barnard, chair of Clallam County Disaster Airlift Response Team (DART) right, and David Woodcock, DART vice chair, cut the ribbon for the opening of the new DART Operations Center at Fairchild International Airport. (CLALLAM COUNTY DISASTER AIRLIFT RESPONSE TEAM )

Clallam DART moves into larger operations center

The Clallam County Disaster Airlift Response Team, known as DART, has moved into an expanded operations center at the Fairchild International Airport.… Continue reading

Alan Barnard, chair of Clallam County Disaster Airlift Response Team (DART) right, and David Woodcock, DART vice chair, cut the ribbon for the opening of the new DART Operations Center at Fairchild International Airport. (CLALLAM COUNTY DISASTER AIRLIFT RESPONSE TEAM )
Dan Wilder Jr. pulls the winning duck from a Wilder truck at the 34th annual Great Olympic Duck Derby on Sunday. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

Pluck nets 34 winners

Duck Derby breaks foundation records

Dan Wilder Jr. pulls the winning duck from a Wilder truck at the 34th annual Great Olympic Duck Derby on Sunday. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
Clallam 2 Fire-Rescue firefighters battle a blaze on Killer Whale Lane. (Clallam 2 Fire-Rescue)

No one hurt in Elwha reservation house fire

Clallam 2 Fire-Rescue fought back a house fire in the 100 block of Killer Whale Lane and all occupants managed to get… Continue reading

Clallam 2 Fire-Rescue firefighters battle a blaze on Killer Whale Lane. (Clallam 2 Fire-Rescue)

Scholarship trust named for Port Angeles pioneer comes home to Clallam County

A $600,000 scholarship fund benefiting Port Angeles High School students now will be administered locally after its recent transfer to the Olympic… Continue reading

PDN phones out of order

Peninsula Daily News phones are out of order on Sunday. To reach us, use email or cell phones. If you do not know the individual… Continue reading

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Larry Strohm sells a $7 Duck Derby ticket to Carl Alexander inside Swain’s General Store. Tickets will be on sale until Sunday, and for a limited time on Sunday at Pebble Beach Park, located at Front and Railroad streets in Port Angeles. The event will begin 11:30 a.m. there, with the Bub and Alice Olsen Very Important Duck (VID) Pluck just before the main event at 1:30 p.m. Ducks will be plucked from trucks for 34 prizes, including a 2023 Toyota Corolla from Wilder Auto. Proceeds go to the Olympic Medical Center Foundation.

Ducks to be plucked from trucks on Sunday

Ducks will be plucked from trucks on Sunday during the 34th annual Duck Derby organized by the Olympic Medical Center Foundation. Once… Continue reading

Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News 

Larry Strohm sells a $7 Duck Derby ticket to Carl Alexander inside Swain’s General Store. Tickets will be on sale until Sunday, and for a limited time on Sunday at Pebble Beach Park, located at Front and Railroad streets in Port Angeles. The event will begin 11:30 a.m. there, with the Bub and Alice Olsen Very Important Duck (VID) Pluck just before the main event at 1:30 p.m. Ducks will be plucked from trucks for 34 prizes, including a 2023 Toyota Corolla from Wilder Auto. Proceeds go to the Olympic Medical Center Foundation.
“Dappled,” a silk painting by Evette Allerdings of Port Angeles, is among the 40 works installed this week at Jefferson Healthcare Hospital. Image courtesy of Northwind Art

Northwind Art decorates Jefferson Healthcare

Paintings on silk, canvas and wood, mixed-media work, plein air art made with a tablet: All were installed this week at Jefferson… Continue reading

“Dappled,” a silk painting by Evette Allerdings of Port Angeles, is among the 40 works installed this week at Jefferson Healthcare Hospital. Image courtesy of Northwind Art
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Community Prayer Breakfast in Port Angeles set for Thursday

The 21st annual Community Prayer Breakfast will be conducted in the St. Anne Room at Queen of Angels Catholic Church from 8… Continue reading

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Rob Epstein

Doctor wins medical educator 2022 award

Dr. Rob Epstein has been named as the 2022 Family Medicine Educator of the Year by the Washington Academy of Family Physicians. Epstein,… Continue reading

Rob Epstein

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

Breakfast meetings with networking and educational programs are held Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m. at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 DelGuzzi Drive (off… Continue reading

Mike Healy

Healy named to permanent director of Public Works and Utilities post

Mike Healy has been appointed the permanent director of Public Works and Utilities in Port Angeles. Healy, who has served in an… Continue reading

Mike Healy
Skwim Toastmaster Lindy MacLaine

MacLaine honored by area Toastmasters

Skwim Toastmaster Lindy MacLaine has been named Toastmaster of the Year for Toastmasters’ District 32 The annual prize is voted for and awarded… Continue reading

Skwim Toastmaster Lindy MacLaine