Jefferson County

Doug Chin is the speaker this Friday in the Jefferson County Historical Society's First Friday Speaker Series, both in person at the Northwest Maritime Center and online. photo courtesy Jefferson County Historical Society

Chinese American history in state topic of lecture

In a hybrid presentation this Friday evening, writer, activist and historian Doug Chin will delve into the history of Chinese and Chinese… Continue reading

Doug Chin is the speaker this Friday in the Jefferson County Historical Society's First Friday Speaker Series, both in person at the Northwest Maritime Center and online. photo courtesy Jefferson County Historical Society

Discovery Bay, Admiralty Inlet open for shellfish harvest

The Department of Health has opened Discovery Bay from Diamond Point to Fort Worden and Admiralty Inlet including Fort Flagler for recreational… Continue reading

Music, art offered in Friday entertainment

It’s going to be a big weekend for art shows and live music on the North Olympic Peninsula. Here’s a sampling of things to see… Continue reading

Registration deadline looms for Beach Naturalist training

Registration closes on Friday for Beach Naturalist training offered by the WSU Jefferson County Extension to help North Olympic Peninsula residents turn… Continue reading

Port Townsend School District Superintendent Linda Rosenbury, left, and Main Street Program Executive Director Mari Mullen were among the people who came to the city’s streateries-and-parklets open house at the Cotton Building on Tuesday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Streateries discussion in progress

Port Townsend council expects to make decision in May

Port Townsend School District Superintendent Linda Rosenbury, left, and Main Street Program Executive Director Mari Mullen were among the people who came to the city’s streateries-and-parklets open house at the Cotton Building on Tuesday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Chinese American Voices topic Jefferson County Historical Society’s First Friday series

Doug Chin will present “Chinese in Port Townsend and Washington State” at 7 p.m. Friday. Chin’s lecture will be in the Northwest… Continue reading

Friends of Fort Flagler to host lecture on elephant seals

Deisy Bach will discuss elephant seal sightings in the Puget Sound at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The free online lecture is sponsored by… Continue reading

Interim County Administrator Mark McCauley decided, instead of retiring, to accept the county commissioners' appointment to full county administrator. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Jefferson County hires experienced administrator

‘No need to disrupt the progress we’ve made’

Interim County Administrator Mark McCauley decided, instead of retiring, to accept the county commissioners' appointment to full county administrator. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News
Inside the remodeled playhouse in Port Townsend, "Around the World in Less Than 80 Days" playwright and actor David Natale cracks up Denise Winter, the artistic director of Key City Public Theatre. The two, along with the cast and crew, have just opened ticket sales for the show's world premiere. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Key City Public Theatre to reopen with ‘Around the World’

Renovated facility to welcome audiences with world premiere

Inside the remodeled playhouse in Port Townsend, "Around the World in Less Than 80 Days" playwright and actor David Natale cracks up Denise Winter, the artistic director of Key City Public Theatre. The two, along with the cast and crew, have just opened ticket sales for the show's world premiere. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

PAT NEAL: They clearcut the ‘Tunnel of Love’

SOME NIGHTS, I dream of rivers. Ones I have floated and others that exist only in dreams of a distant past. Last winter was a… Continue reading

Washington Native Plant Society to host prairie walks in Port Townsend

The Olympic Peninsula chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society will present “Introduction to Native Plants of the Prairie” on Thursday and… Continue reading

Open house event slated

Study conducted for next two years

Volunteers stab through sheets of cardboard to plant shrubs to grow to shade out reed canary grass, an invasive species, along Tarboo Creek during the 16th annual Plant-A-Thon. (Northwest Watershed Institute)

Volunteers plant trees to save Tarboo Creek habitat

Invasive reed canary grass knocked down by cardboard sheets

Volunteers stab through sheets of cardboard to plant shrubs to grow to shade out reed canary grass, an invasive species, along Tarboo Creek during the 16th annual Plant-A-Thon. (Northwest Watershed Institute)

Applications accepted now for grants to help businesses

Allocations from American Rescue Plan Act funds

A line of sloops file past the committee boat, red flags, to start the 31st annual Shipwright’s Regatta on Port Townsend Bay on Saturday. The regatta, open to sailing boats of all sizes, is generally considered the official start of sailing season for Port Townsend mariners. (Steve Mullensky/For Peninsula Daily News)

Regatta opens season

By Steve Mullensky For Peninsula Daily News A line of sloops file past the committee boat, red flags, to start the 31st annual Shipwright’s Regatta… Continue reading

A line of sloops file past the committee boat, red flags, to start the 31st annual Shipwright’s Regatta on Port Townsend Bay on Saturday. The regatta, open to sailing boats of all sizes, is generally considered the official start of sailing season for Port Townsend mariners. (Steve Mullensky/For Peninsula Daily News)

A GROWING CONCERN: The cole hard facts on cabbages

ISN’T IT GREAT? We are officially in the season of spring. Not so great that our own No. 1-seeded Washington basketball team, Gonzaga, went down… Continue reading

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