Clallam County

Kellso maintains slight lead in Clallam parks district contest

The Clallam County Parks and Recreation District 1 race for the Position 3 seat remained close after a fourth counts of ballots Tuesday in the… Continue reading

Ugandan musician to perform Saturday; free event today

Field Arts & Events Hall is hosting Ugandan musician, actor and humanitarian Samite Mulondo during a short artistic residency that will culminate… Continue reading

Winterfest dinner, auctions on Saturday

Winterfest, the Hurricane Ridge Winter Sports Club’s annual fundraiser to support winter sports education at Hurricane Ridge, will be Saturday at the… Continue reading

The state Department of Transportation will be setting girders this week on the new Elwha River bridge. Traffic will be held up for 30 minutes at a time between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. through Thursday, and there will be one-way alternating traffic from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. on those days. (Jesse Major)

Girder placement disrupts traffic across Elwha bridge

New construction part of $36 million replacement effort

The state Department of Transportation will be setting girders this week on the new Elwha River bridge. Traffic will be held up for 30 minutes at a time between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. through Thursday, and there will be one-way alternating traffic from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. on those days. (Jesse Major)

‘Beauty and the Beast Jr.’ to open Thursday

The Port Angeles High School Thespian Society will produce Beauty and the Beast Jr. beginning Thursday. The show will be at the… Continue reading

A bridge section is unloaded at a Clallam County gravel pit facility. (Clallam County Public Works)

Ferry bridges delivered to Olympic Discovery Trail

Walkways to be used on future segments

A bridge section is unloaded at a Clallam County gravel pit facility. (Clallam County Public Works)
Brayden Shillington, 5, of Port Angeles carries a bag of donated food to a waiting van during Saturday’s Food Drive conducted by employees of Lakeside Industries in the parking lot of Swain’s General Store in Port Angeles. By mid-afternoon, the participants had collected about 1,200 pounds of food and about $3,400 in monetary and matching donations to benefit area food banks. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Food drive in Port Angeles

Brayden Shillington, 5, of Port Angeles carries a bag of donated food to a waiting van during Saturday’s Food Drive conducted by employees of Lakeside… Continue reading

Brayden Shillington, 5, of Port Angeles carries a bag of donated food to a waiting van during Saturday’s Food Drive conducted by employees of Lakeside Industries in the parking lot of Swain’s General Store in Port Angeles. By mid-afternoon, the participants had collected about 1,200 pounds of food and about $3,400 in monetary and matching donations to benefit area food banks. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Jane Austen Tea event slated for Saturday

The Port Angeles Community Players Theatrical Society will host its third annual Jane Austen Tea on Saturday in the Fellowship Hall of… Continue reading

Kellso takes lead in three-way parks district seat

Other contested races remain unchanged

Printmakers’ work on display at Field Hall Gallery

Field Hall Gallery has unveiled a new exhibition, “Impressions,” which celebrates the beauty and diversity of human experience through the artistry of… Continue reading

Gary Copeland Lilley will join a literary reading at Northwind Art’s gallery in Port Townsend on Tuesday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)

Former Port Angeles High School teacher, fellow poets to read this week

Maya Jewell Zeller, the recent winner of the New American Poetry Prize, will step into the spotlight alongside two of her favorite fellow writers this… Continue reading

Gary Copeland Lilley will join a literary reading at Northwind Art’s gallery in Port Townsend on Tuesday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)
Bagpiper Rick McKenzie performs “Amazing Grace” to close Saturday’s Veterans Day ceremony in the hanger at U.S. Coast Guard Air Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Veterans honored across North Olympic Peninsula

Ceremonies held in Port Angeles, Forks, PT, Gardiner

Bagpiper Rick McKenzie performs “Amazing Grace” to close Saturday’s Veterans Day ceremony in the hanger at U.S. Coast Guard Air Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Candidates line up for Kilmer’s Congressional seat

Public Lands Commissioner Franz, Jefferson County Commissioner Dean among them

Photo by Karen Griffiths Cutline: Paradigm Sporthorse Training owner Rebecca Cushman with Carcare, one of 11 horses she’s rescued from the war zones in Ukraine. The 17.1 hand Warmblood gelding with level 2 FEI training has gained about 200 pounds since his arrival in August. She said, “He’s a well-trained and willing horse who loves to give hugs.”

HORSEPLAY: Port Townsend trainer rescues horses in Ukraine from war

“IT WAS TERRIFYING,” Rebecca Cushman said of her first-time wiring thousands of dollars in purchase and transport fees to Hong Kong for a dressage show… Continue reading

Photo by Karen Griffiths Cutline: Paradigm Sporthorse Training owner Rebecca Cushman with Carcare, one of 11 horses she’s rescued from the war zones in Ukraine. The 17.1 hand Warmblood gelding with level 2 FEI training has gained about 200 pounds since his arrival in August. She said, “He’s a well-trained and willing horse who loves to give hugs.”

A GROWING CONCERN: Make your evergreens a cut above the rest

but how do you harvest them? First, let me make it… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Friends, family and Roughrider fans line Race Street in front of Port Angeles Civic Field as a bus carrying the Port Angeles High School football team heads for Tumwater for Friday's state playoff opener. The Roughriders were on their first trip to state in more than a decade to play No. 1-seeded Tumwater High School. Dozens of people took part in the team sead-off.
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Roughriders sendoff

Friends, family and Roughrider fans line Race Street in front of Port Angeles Civic Field as a bus carrying the Port Angeles High School football… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Friends, family and Roughrider fans line Race Street in front of Port Angeles Civic Field as a bus carrying the Port Angeles High School football team heads for Tumwater for Friday's state playoff opener. The Roughriders were on their first trip to state in more than a decade to play No. 1-seeded Tumwater High School. Dozens of people took part in the team sead-off.

EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Budgets, ad valorem taxes before county boards

Government meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Six-year-old Baylee Spence of Port Angeles looks over holiday confections at the Original Christmas Cottage craft and gift fair on Friday at Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., in Port Angeles. The annual three-day fair features thousands of holiday gifts and decorations created by North Olympic Peninsula artisans. It continues Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Holiday fair in Port Angeles

Six-year-old Baylee Spence of Port Angeles looks over holiday confections at the Original Christmas Cottage craft and gift fair on Friday at Vern Burton Community… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Six-year-old Baylee Spence of Port Angeles looks over holiday confections at the Original Christmas Cottage craft and gift fair on Friday at Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., in Port Angeles. The annual three-day fair features thousands of holiday gifts and decorations created by North Olympic Peninsula artisans. It continues Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Soledad Barrio, foreground, and Noche Flamenca give a demonstration last Saturday at Field Arts & Events Hall, where they will give two performances this weekend. (Nora Pitaro/Field Arts & Events Hall)

Noche Flamenca performs at Field Arts & Events Hall

Ensemble rehearsing for a West Coast premiere

Soledad Barrio, foreground, and Noche Flamenca give a demonstration last Saturday at Field Arts & Events Hall, where they will give two performances this weekend. (Nora Pitaro/Field Arts & Events Hall)
Derek Kilmer.

Congressman will not run for reelection in ’24

Peninsula’s Kilmer serves 6 terms

Derek Kilmer.