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First prize in a Paws-N-Claws 4-H Club raffle at the Jefferson County Fair is a quilt. Shown with it are, from left, Katie Bailey, Layla Franson and Nadia Fisch.

4-H Club to raffle quilt, other items at Jefferson County Fair

Tickets will be available at the Jefferson County Fair for Paws-N-Claws 4-H Club’s annual fundraiser raffle. First prize is a quilt made… Continue reading

First prize in a Paws-N-Claws 4-H Club raffle at the Jefferson County Fair is a quilt. Shown with it are, from left, Katie Bailey, Layla Franson and Nadia Fisch.

Blues singer-songwriter to croon Saturday in Fort Worden concert

Canadian blues singer-songwriter Ray Bonneville will perform a concert at Fort Worden State Park on Saturday. Doors will open at 7 p.m.… Continue reading

Elwha fish by the numbers

More than 2,600 chinook salmon made it into the river in 2016, according to an estimate the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe… Continue reading

Free outdoor concerts set on Peninsula next week

Grab your sunglasses and lawn chairs and head outdoors for free music next week. The Caribe Steel Band will perform from 6 p.m. to 8… Continue reading

Hog Wild fundraiser set Saturday

“Hog Wild — A Night of Games, Suds and Grub” will raise money for the Olympic Medical Center Foundation on Saturday. Tickets… Continue reading

Olympic Music Festival offers concerts this weekend

Olympic Music Festival offers concerts this weekend

You can bask in classical chamber music and probe world-renowned artists this weekend. The Olympic Music Festival will present the first two… Continue reading

Olympic Music Festival offers concerts this weekend

Orchard Vibrations a two-day festival

Finnriver Farm &Cidery will host a free two-day reggae festival, “Orchard Vibrations,” this weekend. From 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Tacoma reggae… Continue reading

Betsy Wharton, Master Gardener and WSU Clallam Extension food preservation adviser, will demonstrate how to make fermented pickles Saturday as part of the Second Saturday Garden Walk at the Fifth Street Community Garden in Port Angeles. (WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners)

Pickle Jar Garden featured at Saturday walk

Home gardeners can get timely advice about vegetable and berry gardening from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday during a tour of… Continue reading

Betsy Wharton, Master Gardener and WSU Clallam Extension food preservation adviser, will demonstrate how to make fermented pickles Saturday as part of the Second Saturday Garden Walk at the Fifth Street Community Garden in Port Angeles. (WSU Clallam County Master Gardeners)

Salmon bake, drag races, English country dance coming up on Peninsula

EDITOR’S NOTE: This entry has been updated to revise the date of the Port Angeles Upper Race Street Extension Neighborhood Watch meeting. A salmon bake,… Continue reading

Tribute band to perform Beatles songs to benefit area organizations

Tribute band Creme Tangerine will perform “faithful versions but not carbon copies” of favorite Beatles songs today and Saturday at Olympic Cellars… Continue reading

Carrie Blake Park access road construction to begin this month

Work on a new access road into Carrie Blake Community Park will begin next week. The work will take place from 7:30 a.m.… Continue reading

NEWS BRIEFS: More Hood Canal Bridge closures scheduled through Saturday morning … and other items

Crews working for the state Department of Transportation are continuing a series of night construction closures of the Hood Canal Bridge to vehicular… Continue reading

Elwha River Bridge closure set for today

The Elwha River Bridge on U.S. Highway 101 west of Port Angeles will be closed to all traffic between 8:45 a.m. and… Continue reading

Port Townsend-Coupeville ferry service down to 1 vessel

Ferry service from Port Townsend to Coupeville has resumed with one vessel after the MV Salish struck bottom when docking in Coupeville… Continue reading

Midori Farm of Quilcene protected through land trust with community’s help

Midori Farm of Quilcene protected through land trust with community’s help

Farmers Marko Colby and Hanako Myers have permanently protected their 29-acre Quilcene farm, with the help of donations from the community, in a… Continue reading

Midori Farm of Quilcene protected through land trust with community’s help

Federal court sentences Kingston man for child molestation

A Kingston man will serve eight years in prison for molesting a young child. Gary Clyde Wellman Jr., 28, was sentenced in U.S.… Continue reading

NEWS BRIEFS: Elwha River Bridge to close Wednesday; Jefferson County burn ban upgraded

The Elwha River Bridge on U.S. Highway 101 west of Port Angeles will be closed to all traffic for roughly two hours… Continue reading

Searchers find Forks woman who disappeared picking mushrooms

Searchers find Forks woman who disappeared picking mushrooms

A rescue team on Saturday found a Forks woman who disappeared Thursday evening after going into the woods to pick mushrooms. Longtime Forks… Continue reading

Searchers find Forks woman who disappeared picking mushrooms
Navy exercise illustrates how it could help after major quake

Navy exercise illustrates how it could help after major quake

A U.S. Navy amphibious exercise might have been a catalyst for three North Olympic Peninsula emergency planning officials to reconsider how to supply… Continue reading

Navy exercise illustrates how it could help after major quake

Olympic National Park offers teacher workshop

Olympic National Park will offer teachers “Learning from a Distance,” a four-day summer workshop at the NatureBridge campus today through Thursday… Continue reading