Jefferson County

Wooden Boat Foundation to hold bell toll ceremony Sunday

The Wooden Boat Foundation will host its traditional Bell Toll Ceremony on Facebook Live this Sunday. At 10 a.m., the public is… Continue reading

Yom Kippur services offered in Port Angeles

The Olympic B’nai Shalom congregation will celebrate Yom Kippur this week. Services will be conducted outside the Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1033… Continue reading

Antibody treatment available for some

Infusion for people sick with COVID-19 at high risk for hospitalization

David Jacobs-Strain, right, and Bob Beach will give an outdoor concert Thursday outside the Rainshadow Recording studio at Fort Worden State Park. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Bluesy duo to give outdoor concert today

David Jacobs-Strain, blues singer-guitarist, newlywed husband and new father, will give a concert outside the Rainshadow Recording studio at Fort Worden State… Continue reading

David Jacobs-Strain, right, and Bob Beach will give an outdoor concert Thursday outside the Rainshadow Recording studio at Fort Worden State Park. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Alan Barnard, who co-founded the public safety monuments, including one made from a girder from the World Trade Center, right, will conduct a remembrance ceremony at 9/11 Memorial Park in Port Angeles on Saturday, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Alan Barnard, who co-founded the public safety monuments, including one made from a girder from the World Trade Center, right, will conduct a remembrance ceremony at 9/11 Memorial Park in Port Angeles on Saturday, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

OUR VIEW: Join in fighting common enemy

The enemy isn’t Dr. Allison Berry or Dr. Anthony Fauci. It isn’t Tucker Carlson or any of the others who argue against health mandates. The… Continue reading

POINT OF VIEW: Current COVID surge is a self-inflicted wound

COVID-19 is raging in Clallam County at unprecedented levels. In the past two weeks, one out of every 100 county residents has tested positive. The… Continue reading

People gather outside the commissioners meeting room at the Clallam County Courthouse in Port Angeles on Tuesday for a public comment session on the recently issued mandate requiring people to be vaccinated for the coronavirus before being allowed to dine or drink indoors at restaurants and bars. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
People gather outside the commissioners meeting room at the Clallam County Courthouse in Port Angeles on Tuesday for a public comment session on the recently issued mandate requiring people to be vaccinated for the coronavirus before being allowed to dine or drink indoors at restaurants and bars. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Klallam ethnography topic of online program

David Brownell will present “Klallam Ethnography”: S’Klallam Interviews with Erna Gunther” at 3 p.m. Thursday. The free, online presentation is sponsored by the… Continue reading

PAT NEAL: The happiness of fall chores

Autumn must be my favorite time of year. When the Olympic Mountains stand so stark and tall in the smoke-free air, they almost seem like… Continue reading

Jamie Haney helps her fourth-grader Elise prepare for the first day of school Tuesday morning at Salish Coast Elementary in Port Townsend. The school has 408 students enrolled in kindergarten through fifth grade; 21 were absent Tuesday, principal Lisa Condran noted. "We are very successfully running outdoor breakfast and lunch to keep our students safe, so we are excited about that," she added. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

School starts at Salish Coast Elementary

Jamie Haney, above, helps her fourth-grader, Elise, prepare for the first day of school Tuesday morning at Salish Coast Elementary in Port Townsend. The school… Continue reading

Jamie Haney helps her fourth-grader Elise prepare for the first day of school Tuesday morning at Salish Coast Elementary in Port Townsend. The school has 408 students enrolled in kindergarten through fifth grade; 21 were absent Tuesday, principal Lisa Condran noted. "We are very successfully running outdoor breakfast and lunch to keep our students safe, so we are excited about that," she added. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Rick Mathis, owner of Smuggler’s Landing Restaurant & Lounge in Port Angeles, tallies a customer’s bill on Tuesday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Rick Mathis, owner of Smuggler’s Landing Restaurant & Lounge in Port Angeles, tallies a customer’s bill on Tuesday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Author Corky Parker will give two outdoor readings of her memoir, “La Finca: Love, Loss and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island,” tonight at Chester Square in Uptown Port Townsend and Friday at Marrowstone Vineyards. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Author to give pair of readings

‘La Finca’ in Port Townsend, Marrowstone

Author Corky Parker will give two outdoor readings of her memoir, “La Finca: Love, Loss and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island,” tonight at Chester Square in Uptown Port Townsend and Friday at Marrowstone Vineyards. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Jefferson chamber awards grants to businesses

The Chamber of Jefferson County has awarded Community Development Grants to three local businesses. The awardees include Kinship HR, Plumb Productions and… Continue reading

Tyler Myles Vega.

Questions sought for forum

Port Townsend council candidates to take part in forum

Tyler Myles Vega.
Felicidad Garcia, left, marries Dese’rae L. Stage in one of the joyful moments in “The S Word,” the Port Townsend Film Festival Pic available for free streaming throughout this week. (Photo courtesy of “The S Word”)

Film focuses on survival through connection

Show delves into importance of talking, listening

Felicidad Garcia, left, marries Dese’rae L. Stage in one of the joyful moments in “The S Word,” the Port Townsend Film Festival Pic available for free streaming throughout this week. (Photo courtesy of “The S Word”)