Port Townsend News

The state Transportation Commission approved an increase in Highway 520 floating bridge tolls at Wednesday's meeting in Port Townsend.

Lighting and security are being improved at a cruise ship dock at Port Angeles where vandals cut mooring lines last week.

Three-way primary contests have opened up in two of three open seats on the City Council, as well as for a Port of Port Townsend commission seat.

EDITOR'S NOTE - To see photos of the other Jefferson County Heart of Service honorees - and to read more about all 10 of the recipients - click on: http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20130512/NEWS/305129996 PORT TOWNSEND - Friends, admirers and business associates are invited to a reception this week in which 10 community heroes will be ... (more)

The Port Townsend High School Band will present an encore performance tonight of its arrangement of the Beatles album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." The free encore show - which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the commons room at Blue Heron Middle School, 3939 San Juan Ave.

Mark Welch, who has spent 10 years on the Port Townsend City Council, has decided to not seek another four year term.

The Rhododendron Festival draws people home, and this year that includes Kim Jones, a 1976 Port Townsend High School graduate and 13-time Rhody Run female division champion.

It's exactly 600 words of short story; meant to be read in three minutes or less.

The Jefferson County YMCA has received a $15,000 supplemental grant for two after-school programs at Port Townsend and Chimacum schools.

To right of flagpole at center is the original Central Hotel that burned in the 1920s.

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Eleven days into his molting process, a juvenile elephant seal dubbed "Star" has become a downtown attraction.

The 100-year-old schooner Adventuress motors toward the Northwest Maritime Center Dock at Point Hudson on the Port Townsend waterfront.

Two incumbent Port Townsend City Council members who had declined to comment about their intentions to run for another term filed candidacy papers shortly after the county Auditor's Office opened.

The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note any observations you have made of the world around you.

RECREATION AIDES needed to work part time in public recreation settings for Jefferson County Parks & Recreation.

An elderly Lynnwood couple gave their grown daughter access to their finances so she could make sure they were cared for in the last years of their lives.

A Port Townsend woman was in custody in King County on Saturday after she allegedly tried to burglarize a home, led Jefferson County deputies on a chase, crashed her car, backed into one deputy's car and forced another to leap out of her path Friday.