Jefferson County

Navy training exercise set Thursday

Naval Magazine Indian Island has scheduled a training exercise for Thursday. Training activities will include the use of blank ammunition, loud sirens… Continue reading

Amy Howard.

Port Townsend City Council to discuss pay hike for its members

Goal is to spur more applicants

Amy Howard.

Port Townsend City Hall reopens for limited services

The Port Townsend City Hall has reopened to provide limited in-person services to the public from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays.… Continue reading

Everyone 16 and older now eligible for COVID vaccine

State confirms more ‘breakthrough’ cases

Professor Matt Toerey.

Studium Generale presents ‘Zen and the Art of Chickenman’

PORT ANGELES —Peninsula College English Professor Matt Teorey will present his study, “Zen and the Art of Chickenman,” when he speaks at the Studium Generale… Continue reading

Professor Matt Toerey.
Kelly Doran takes her dog Sunny out for some fresh air at North Beach, one of several Port Townsend beaches included in Saturday’s Washington Coast Cleanup. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Washington coast cleanup set for Saturday

Volunteers to groom beaches in Clallam, Jefferson counties

Kelly Doran takes her dog Sunny out for some fresh air at North Beach, one of several Port Townsend beaches included in Saturday’s Washington Coast Cleanup. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

J&J vaccine on pause

Alternative dates, vaccine offered on Peninsula

Registration deadline for Seventy48 race Thursday

Event to run from Tacoma to Port Townsend in June

Jefferson County looking into leash law

Animal control code may be updated

After a long winter, kinetic sculptor Colin Bartle brings his machines out into the Port Townsend sunlight on Sunday. He’s among the builders hoping to join October’s Great Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Sculpture Race. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Kinetic sculpture planning is on for October

Parade, water and land races expected this fall

After a long winter, kinetic sculptor Colin Bartle brings his machines out into the Port Townsend sunlight on Sunday. He’s among the builders hoping to join October’s Great Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Sculpture Race. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Clallam County returns to high-risk category; Jefferson County up to moderate

Ninth death on North Olympic Peninsula confirmed

Adventuress Capt. Katelinn Shaw discusses steering and navigation with Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding students including Drew Harman, right, on board the schooner. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Boat school expands to Port Townsend Boat Haven location

Adventuress creates classroom opportunity for new students

Adventuress Capt. Katelinn Shaw discusses steering and navigation with Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding students including Drew Harman, right, on board the schooner. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Shelley Leavens, left, and Sarah Vowell.

‘This American Life’ writer Vowell to appear Monday night

Centrum hosts Communiversity lecture series

Shelley Leavens, left, and Sarah Vowell.

Travel could cause COVID surge

Health officers encourage 7-day quarantine

A great client, Karen, has planted numerous types of brassica this last week. Due to her active pet Corgies— who root out any new scent, such as various slug baits, as food — copper mesh has been installed around the border to deter slugs who feast on brassica. (Andrew May/For Peninsula Daily News)

A GROWING CONCERN: Brassica a winning play for gardeners

THE NATIONAL COLLEGE basketball championship game went down to the final shot, and Baylor defeated the previously undefeated Gonzaga team handily! In your vegetable garden,… Continue reading

A great client, Karen, has planted numerous types of brassica this last week. Due to her active pet Corgies— who root out any new scent, such as various slug baits, as food — copper mesh has been installed around the border to deter slugs who feast on brassica. (Andrew May/For Peninsula Daily News)
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Vaccination clinic workiers Jack Harmon, front, and Jeramey Johnson check in motorists and direct traffic during Saturday's clinic at Port Angeles High School.

Appointments available for vaccination clinics

All 16 and older eligible on Thursday

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Vaccination clinic workiers Jack Harmon, front, and Jeramey Johnson check in motorists and direct traffic during Saturday's clinic at Port Angeles High School.

Discovery Bay closed to recreational shellfish harvesting

Discovery Bay is closed to all species for recreational shellfish harvesting, the state Department of Health has announced. In Clallam County, Sequim Bay, Dungeness Bay… Continue reading

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

In-person meeting Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 DelGuzzi Drive (off U.S. Highway 101) in east Port… Continue reading

OPEN board members and volunteers are full of smiles after a recent anonymous supporter asked how she could help. She paid the veterinarian’s fee to fully exam four horses, float the teeth on three and ended up taking home two of them, agreeing to provide them a forever retirement home in her ample pastures. (Karen Griffiths/for Peninsula Daily News)

HORSEPLAY: Olympic Peninsula Equine Network offers new chances for abused, discarded horses

SARGE IS A horse who took charge of his own fate after his owners no longer wanted him and took him to an auction house… Continue reading

OPEN board members and volunteers are full of smiles after a recent anonymous supporter asked how she could help. She paid the veterinarian’s fee to fully exam four horses, float the teeth on three and ended up taking home two of them, agreeing to provide them a forever retirement home in her ample pastures. (Karen Griffiths/for Peninsula Daily News)

Peninsula overdose deaths seem to be on the rise

Investigations underway in Clallam, Jefferson counties