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“Soy Cubana,” one of the documentaries screening during the Port Townsend Film Festival, stars, from left, mezzo-soprano Koset Muñoa Columbié, soprano Ana Josefina Hernández Rosillo, contralto bass Maryoris Mena Faez and contralto Annia Del Toro Leyva. (Photo by Ivaylo Getov)
“Soy Cubana,” one of the documentaries screening during the Port Townsend Film Festival, stars, from left, mezzo-soprano Koset Muñoa Columbié, soprano Ana Josefina Hernández Rosillo, contralto bass Maryoris Mena Faez and contralto Annia Del Toro Leyva. (Photo by Ivaylo Getov)
L47 (Marina) pictured with her youngest son, L115 (Mystic) in 2011. (Center for Whale Research)

Southern Resident grandmother orca missing, likely dead

The Center for Whale Research has declared an orca in one of the Puget Sound’s endangered Southern Resident orca… Continue reading

L47 (Marina) pictured with her youngest son, L115 (Mystic) in 2011. (Center for Whale Research)
Ariel Speser
Ariel Speser
Sailor Vineyard’s Gene Africa and sons Owen, 6, and Eamon, 3, take a walk among the vines during Saturday’s farm tour. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Autumn brings color, crops to Port Townsend

Farm tour drew more than 1,200 over weekend

Sailor Vineyard’s Gene Africa and sons Owen, 6, and Eamon, 3, take a walk among the vines during Saturday’s farm tour. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Pianist Mike Carroll of Port Ludlow will give an online Candlelight Concert Thursday night to benefit Gatheringplace of Port Townsend. (Photo courtesy of Mike Carroll)

Musician to play romantic classical music

Candlelight Concert set for Thursday online

Pianist Mike Carroll of Port Ludlow will give an online Candlelight Concert Thursday night to benefit Gatheringplace of Port Townsend. (Photo courtesy of Mike Carroll)

State Patrol corrects details of fatal wreck

A collision killed a 70-year-old Forks woman after she turned into the path of a dump truck from Maxfield Road onto U.S. Highway… Continue reading

Jerren Fisher.

Backpacker airlifted from ravine

Hiker had been missing for several days

Jerren Fisher.
Jena Stamper

Candidate misidentified in PDN story Sunday

Stamper not the woman who asked businessman about defying vaccine proof mandate

Jena Stamper
Mourners gathered Sunday night at Duncan Field in Forks for a candlelight vigil for Saturday morning crash victims, from left to right, Ariel Morales Sandoval, Gyovanna Morales, Jaden C. Lohrengel, Shaiyann A. Cummins and Tyler J. Ellis. Lohrengel, Ellis and Cummins died in the wreck. (Lonnie Archibald/For Peninsula Daily News)

Forks vigil draws 300 to remember teens

Teachers say their doors open to grieving students

Mourners gathered Sunday night at Duncan Field in Forks for a candlelight vigil for Saturday morning crash victims, from left to right, Ariel Morales Sandoval, Gyovanna Morales, Jaden C. Lohrengel, Shaiyann A. Cummins and Tyler J. Ellis. Lohrengel, Ellis and Cummins died in the wreck. (Lonnie Archibald/For Peninsula Daily News)

Forks mourns deaths of three young people

Two others remain hospitalized following car crash

Busker Jonathan Doyle plays on Water Street in Port Townsend beside the Hidden History sign about smuggling during the 19th and 20th centuries. The series of Hidden History panels inspire twice-monthly walking tours around downtown. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Girls’ Night Out off, but history tours ongoing

COVID-19 concerns change plans for October gatherings

Busker Jonathan Doyle plays on Water Street in Port Townsend beside the Hidden History sign about smuggling during the 19th and 20th centuries. The series of Hidden History panels inspire twice-monthly walking tours around downtown. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer meets via Zoom with the Chamber of Jefferson County on Friday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Infrastructure bill coming

Congressman Derek Kilmer highlights child care, broadband

U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer meets via Zoom with the Chamber of Jefferson County on Friday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Paul Stutseman, on scaffolding, and Ardith Hansel, foreground, paint a house as part of a church project. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

Volunteers restore home in community project

‘It was miraculous,’ organizer says of church-led effort

Paul Stutseman, on scaffolding, and Ardith Hansel, foreground, paint a house as part of a church project. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)
Raincoast Farm co-owner Margaret Stoermer, right, talks with visitor Jessica Cunningham of Seattle outside the Raincoast Farms Food Bank Garden of Port Townsend on Saturday. The Jefferson County Farm Tour, with seven locations open for in-person visits, continues today. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Jefferson County Farm Tour finishes today

In-person, online experiences available

Raincoast Farm co-owner Margaret Stoermer, right, talks with visitor Jessica Cunningham of Seattle outside the Raincoast Farms Food Bank Garden of Port Townsend on Saturday. The Jefferson County Farm Tour, with seven locations open for in-person visits, continues today. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Three Forks teens dead after car crashes into tree

Two others in critical condition Saturday