NEWS BRIEFS: State Highway 20 reopens early … and other items

PORT TOWNSEND — State Highway 20 in Jefferson County has reopened to traffic ahead of schedule.

A section of the roadway had been closed to all traffic since Monday, June 19 to allow contractor crews to replace a leaking culvert under the highway.

The highway reopened to traffic at 8 a.m. Sunday, according to a state Department of Transportation press release.

The roadway, which had been closed from the intersection of state highways 20 and 19 in Port Townsend to the intersection of highways 20 and U.S. Highway 101 in Discovery Bay, had been scheduled to reopen this morning.

Software group

SEQUIM — The Olympic Peninsula Software Development & Data Network, a meetup.com group, will gather at 6 p.m. Thursday.

The new group, formed for technical professionals working on the North Olympic Peninsula, will meet at Clallam Coworking, 502 S. Still Road, Sequim.

The meeting, which is free, is for professionals and those interested in developing software; analyzing or predicting data; automating business or engineering processes; learning about these or having a career in doing so, according to a news release.

The aim is to support each other, share insights, explore cutting-edge technologies, develop more local technology, meet local colleagues and bring more technology and business onto the Peninsula.

Contact the group through www.meetup.com or Steve Bearman at sxb@xemaps.com.

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