Daily Update Newsletter

The City of Sequim hosts 13 manufactured home/mobile home parks with 596 existing units and 786 approved dwelling units. City staff continue to look into zoning options that could protect those sites from redevelopment and help protect affordable housing options in the city. (City of Sequim)

Sequim extends pause on home parks

Planning commission sets hearing for Tuesday

The City of Sequim hosts 13 manufactured home/mobile home parks with 596 existing units and 786 approved dwelling units. City staff continue to look into zoning options that could protect those sites from redevelopment and help protect affordable housing options in the city. (City of Sequim)

Weekly free outdoor concerts presented across the Peninsula

Free outdoor summer concerts will continue on the North Olympic Peninsula next week. Black Diamond Junction will perform from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday… Continue reading

Peninsula College Jazz Ensemble to perform free concerts

The Peninsula College Jazz Ensemble will perform two free concerts next week. A midday concert is set for noon Tuesday in the… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS The Big Lots! store in the Port Angeles Plaza Shopping Center is among those being closed by the company for performing under expectations.

Big Lots at Port Angeles Plaza plans to close

The Big Lots in Port Angeles will close its doors soon. About 149 Big Lots stores across the nation revealed they are… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS The Big Lots! store in the Port Angeles Plaza Shopping Center is among those being closed by the company for performing under expectations.
The art to be featured at various locations during the First Saturday Art Walk includes “Koala” by Ann Arscott.

Artists’ work to be on display at First Saturday event

Oil pantings, woodworking and other forms of expression at various locations

The art to be featured at various locations during the First Saturday Art Walk includes “Koala” by Ann Arscott.
Cellist Pamela Roberts and pianist Sung-Ling Hsu will perform a benefit concert at the Port Ludlow Community Church on Saturday. (Thomas and Elena Sandall)

Cellist, pianist to perform benefit concert for Rwanda

Cellist Pamela Roberts and pianist Sung-Ling Hsu will perform in a benefit concert at 6 p.m. Saturday. The event will be at… Continue reading

Cellist Pamela Roberts and pianist Sung-Ling Hsu will perform a benefit concert at the Port Ludlow Community Church on Saturday. (Thomas and Elena Sandall)

Concerts, artists highlight Peninsula’s weekend events

A benefit concert, artist receptions and a car and bike show highlight weekend events on the North Olympic Peninsula. • Pamela Roberts and Sung-Ling Hsu… Continue reading

Fort Worden Public Development Authority may dissolve

PT council must approve; state parks would take over

Kaimerata Concerts, from left, Kai Gleusteen, Catherine Ordronneau, Dan Scholz and Beth Root Sandvoss, will finish the Concerts in the Barn Series with concerts on Saturday and Sunday.

Kaimerata Concerts to play in Quilcene this weekend

Kaimerata Concerts will perform at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Concerts in the Barn, 7360 Center Road in Quilcene. In addition to… Continue reading

Kaimerata Concerts, from left, Kai Gleusteen, Catherine Ordronneau, Dan Scholz and Beth Root Sandvoss, will finish the Concerts in the Barn Series with concerts on Saturday and Sunday.

PA committee recommends funding pier tower repairs

Members also hear proposal for annual funding for Field Hall

Secretary of State discusses election security, misinformation

Steve Hobbs reassures integrity of state, federal elections

The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith.

Unity in Port Townsend planning for Sunday services

The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith will present “Practice Certainty of Purpose” at 11 a.m. Sunday. Douglas-Smith is the pastor at Unity in Port… Continue reading

The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith.

Port Angeles woman arrested after alleged stabbing

A Port Angeles woman was arrested on investigation of first-degree assault after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend with a knife in the… Continue reading

The former steam tug Elmore, built in 1890 by Elmore and Sanborn Fisheries in Astoria, Ore., sits on the hard at the Port Townsend Boat Haven Marina. The Elmore had several owners over the decades, the last being Henning Heinemann, who died recently, leaving the boat abandoned and claimed by the Port of Port Townsend as a derelict to be put up for auction. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Century-old vessel to go up for auction Monday

Diesel engine, brass hardware and glass portholes part of historic boat

The former steam tug Elmore, built in 1890 by Elmore and Sanborn Fisheries in Astoria, Ore., sits on the hard at the Port Townsend Boat Haven Marina. The Elmore had several owners over the decades, the last being Henning Heinemann, who died recently, leaving the boat abandoned and claimed by the Port of Port Townsend as a derelict to be put up for auction. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
Wendy Higgins of Port Townsend is among the five new artists exhibiting work at Northwind Art's Jeanette Best Gallery. image courtesy Wendy Higgins

‘The joy of letting go’: new artists arrive at Northwind gallery

Wendy Higgins used to stand before her easel in Santa Fe, N.M., making still life paintings with great focus and passion. She… Continue reading

Wendy Higgins of Port Townsend is among the five new artists exhibiting work at Northwind Art's Jeanette Best Gallery. image courtesy Wendy Higgins

Car, bike show to benefit Masonic Temple

Masonic Lodge #69 will host its third car and bike show from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. The show will be… Continue reading

Derelict vessels present problems for ports

Although the age and historic relevance of the tugboat Elmore that the Port of Port Townsend will auction Monday makes it something… Continue reading

Pickleball players, clockwise from upper left, Richard Reed and Lucah Folden of Port Angeles, and Yukon Lam and Marike Nel of Sequim play on the courts at Elks Playfield in Port Angeles on Wednesday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Elks Playfield pickleball courts to receive upgrade

Surface expected to close for two weeks this month

Pickleball players, clockwise from upper left, Richard Reed and Lucah Folden of Port Angeles, and Yukon Lam and Marike Nel of Sequim play on the courts at Elks Playfield in Port Angeles on Wednesday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Joyce Daze pancake breakfast canceled

The Joyce Blackberry Daze annual pancake breakfast scheduled for Saturday has been canceled. Mike Hazelett, who organized the Crescent School District scholarship fundraiser… Continue reading

Lake Pleasant Community Beach County Park reopened four days ahead of schedule after repairs to the dock were completed.

Lake Pleasant Community Beach County Park reopens

Lake Pleasant Community Beach County Park has reopened for public use after the piling replacement project and repairs to the floating docks were… Continue reading

Lake Pleasant Community Beach County Park reopened four days ahead of schedule after repairs to the dock were completed.