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Vehicles make their way down Laird Road west of Port Angeles as a layer of smoke shrouds the Olympic Foothills and the surrounding lowlands on Thursday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Wildfire smoke getting in our eyes and lungs

Forecasters hope levels will begin to diminish Saturday

Vehicles make their way down Laird Road west of Port Angeles as a layer of smoke shrouds the Olympic Foothills and the surrounding lowlands on Thursday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Book signing Saturday in Port Townsend

Sculptor Sara Mall Johani will sign copies of her new book “Mine, Your, Nobody’s: My story of Wild Olympic Salmon” from 1… Continue reading

Caution urged on federal lands during dry conditions

Since July 23, fire officials have responded to five fires across the North Olympic Peninsula with about 25 acres burned on federal… Continue reading

Fundraiser dance at cidery Saturday

Kilombo Funk will perform for a global music dance from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. The fundraiser will be at Finnriver Farm… Continue reading

Siblings Sequoia Mitchell, 9, and Coco Mitchell, 6, both of Sequim, attempt to catch tadpoles in a side channel of the Dungeness River at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim on Tuesday. A spell of hot weather forecast for the next several days will likely send many people on the North Olympic Peninsula seeking heat relief near the water. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Heat wave hitting Peninsula

Area not expected to bake with temperatures like June

Siblings Sequoia Mitchell, 9, and Coco Mitchell, 6, both of Sequim, attempt to catch tadpoles in a side channel of the Dungeness River at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim on Tuesday. A spell of hot weather forecast for the next several days will likely send many people on the North Olympic Peninsula seeking heat relief near the water. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Adrienne Wilson will perform alongside Bill Evans in this Saturday’s “Bill Evans 81!” concert at Fort Worden’s Wheeler Theater. (Photo courtesy Auburn University)

Thoughts of Port Townsend kept returning dancer going

After contracting COVID-19, professor to perform Saturday

Adrienne Wilson will perform alongside Bill Evans in this Saturday’s “Bill Evans 81!” concert at Fort Worden’s Wheeler Theater. (Photo courtesy Auburn University)

Emergency alert test set Wednesday morning

The nation’s public alert system will be tested at 11:20 a.m. today. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will… Continue reading

Jeremy Denk, a MacArthur “genius” grant winner, is among the guest artists at this month’s Music on the Strait festival. His performances will be available for free via live streaming. (Photo courtesy of Music on the Strait)

Festival is live, online, indoors, outdoors

Six concerts set for hall in Port Angeles, farm in Quilcene

Jeremy Denk, a MacArthur “genius” grant winner, is among the guest artists at this month’s Music on the Strait festival. His performances will be available for free via live streaming. (Photo courtesy of Music on the Strait)

Free outdoor concerts presented this week

Free outdoor concerts continue this week on the North Olympic Peninsula. Today at 6 p.m., Backwoods Hucksters will perform Americana and blues during the Port… Continue reading

Gary Engbrecht has a hobby like no other. “Everyone needs a hobby,” he says. “Mine is picking up trash strewn around the town. I think I’ve emptied this bag about five times already and it is just 9 a.m.” During the weekend, Engbrecht, who is the production manager for the Port Townsend Film Festival, concentrated his efforts at the Point Hudson Marina in Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Keeping Port Townsend green

By Steve Mullensky For Peninsula Daily News Gary Engbrecht has a hobby like no other. “Everyone needs a hobby,” he says. “Mine is picking up… Continue reading

Gary Engbrecht has a hobby like no other. “Everyone needs a hobby,” he says. “Mine is picking up trash strewn around the town. I think I’ve emptied this bag about five times already and it is just 9 a.m.” During the weekend, Engbrecht, who is the production manager for the Port Townsend Film Festival, concentrated his efforts at the Point Hudson Marina in Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
Sarah Rubenstein is the administrator of the Port Townsend School District’s new online program for first- through 12th-graders.

Online programs to be offered in Port Townsend, Chimacum

Digital course work includes electives, languages, honors

Sarah Rubenstein is the administrator of the Port Townsend School District’s new online program for first- through 12th-graders.
Port Townsend eighth-grader Peter Sanok, top, plays the title role in “Timon of Athens,” the movie to screen this week at Chimacum’s Finnriver Farm & Cidery. Costarring are, from left, eighth-graders Auden Darrock and Anna Munn and seventh-grader Sierra Douglas. (Photo by Maggie Kelley)
Port Townsend eighth-grader Peter Sanok, top, plays the title role in “Timon of Athens,” the movie to screen this week at Chimacum’s Finnriver Farm & Cidery. Costarring are, from left, eighth-graders Auden Darrock and Anna Munn and seventh-grader Sierra Douglas. (Photo by Maggie Kelley)
Lauren Ehnebuske, pictured during a rehearsal Friday, is among the performers in “Bill Evans 81!,” the celebration of Port Townsend-based dancer and educator Bill Evans’ career. The concert is set for Saturday evening in Fort Worden’s Wheeler Theater. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Dancer-choreographer marks 81st birthday

Olympic Mountains inspire pieces in Saturday’s concert

Lauren Ehnebuske, pictured during a rehearsal Friday, is among the performers in “Bill Evans 81!,” the celebration of Port Townsend-based dancer and educator Bill Evans’ career. The concert is set for Saturday evening in Fort Worden’s Wheeler Theater. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Amid the Saturday afternoon drizzle, the Seattle band Great American Trainwreck brought country and rock to the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center in Coyle. The Concerts in the Woods series (coyleconcerts.com) is presenting free outdoor shows this summer. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Great American Trainwreck performs at Concert in the Woods

Amid the Saturday afternoon drizzle, the Seattle band Great American Trainwreck brings country and rock to the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center in Coyle. The… Continue reading

Amid the Saturday afternoon drizzle, the Seattle band Great American Trainwreck brought country and rock to the Laurel B. Johnson Community Center in Coyle. The Concerts in the Woods series (coyleconcerts.com) is presenting free outdoor shows this summer. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Teaching artists Margie McDonald, at left on the porch, and Michele Soderstrom led a four-afternoon course on building superhero armor for youngsters at the Northwind Art school at Fort Worden State Park in July. Their graduates are Callum Johnson, 14, Kaladry Groenig, Satria McKnight and Owen Griffith, all 11, Reid Armstrong, 10, Caleb Armstrong, 9, Byron Eisele, 8, and Nigel Groenig, 13. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Teaching artists Margie McDonald, at left on the porch, and Michele Soderstrom led a four-afternoon course on building superhero armor for youngsters at the Northwind Art school at Fort Worden State Park in July. Their graduates are Callum Johnson, 14, Kaladry Groenig, Satria McKnight and Owen Griffith, all 11, Reid Armstrong, 10, Caleb Armstrong, 9, Byron Eisele, 8, and Nigel Groenig, 13. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Cheri Keller is pictured at the Duckabush Trailhead at the start of her trip on Sunday.
Cheri Keller is pictured at the Duckabush Trailhead at the start of her trip on Sunday.