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Port Angeles School District, paraeducators aren’t closer to a new contract

Membership voted to go on strike April 8 without agreement

Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro, left, and Mayor David Faber speak during the city’s annual State of the City address at the Port Hudson building in Port Townsend on Monday. Faber and Mauro said the city faced some challenges in 2023 but also made progress on important issues like housing and infrastructure. (Peter Segall/Peninsula Daily News)

Port Townsend sees victories, challenges in past year

City manager, mayor present State of City

Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro, left, and Mayor David Faber speak during the city’s annual State of the City address at the Port Hudson building in Port Townsend on Monday. Faber and Mauro said the city faced some challenges in 2023 but also made progress on important issues like housing and infrastructure. (Peter Segall/Peninsula Daily News)

Space heater leads to vehicle, garage fire in Port Angeles

No one was injured in a travel trailer and garage fire believed to have been caused by a space heater that had… Continue reading

A Coast Guard helicopter lowers a swimmer on Saturday to a vessel that was on the rocks off Marrowstone Island. (East Jefferson Fire Rescue)

Boat stranded on rocks, boater rescued Saturday

Second person aboard swam to safety without help from Coast Guard

A Coast Guard helicopter lowers a swimmer on Saturday to a vessel that was on the rocks off Marrowstone Island. (East Jefferson Fire Rescue)
Unburned portions of the Port Angeles Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield stand on Thursday next to an area that was burned in an arson fire in December. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Port Angeles’ Dream Playground to be rebuilt a third time

Community donating money, time for project

Unburned portions of the Port Angeles Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield stand on Thursday next to an area that was burned in an arson fire in December. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Work progresses on the road deck of the main over-water spans at the site of a new U.S. Highway 101 bridge over the Elwha River southwest of Port Angeles on Thursday. The bridge will replace an older nearby span that was determined to have structurally-deficient pier footings. The $36 million project is expected to be completed in December.
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Elwha River bridge construction

Work progresses on the road deck of the main over-water spans at the site of a new U.S. Highway 101 bridge over the Elwha River… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Work progresses on the road deck of the main over-water spans at the site of a new U.S. Highway 101 bridge over the Elwha River southwest of Port Angeles on Thursday. The bridge will replace an older nearby span that was determined to have structurally-deficient pier footings. The $36 million project is expected to be completed in December.
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Clallam Community Service Awards nominations deadline April 1

Nominations for the 2024 Clallam County Community Service Awards are due by the end of business on April 1. The awards, presented… Continue reading

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Road work to begin near Forks

Contractor crews will begin construction of a temporary bridge on U.S. Highway 101 at the Clallam and Jefferson county line south of Forks… Continue reading

Ridge ski season opens Saturday

Finally, enough snow falls for winter sports

EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Short term rentals, Healthier Together Task Force on agendas next week

Government meetings across North Olympic Peninsula

Firefighters extinguished a fire in an RV near Olympic Medical Center on Wednesday in Port Angeles. No one was injured. (Port Angeles Fire Department)

No one injured in RV fire

No one was injured following an RV fire at Race and Georgiana streets near Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles. A fire… Continue reading

Firefighters extinguished a fire in an RV near Olympic Medical Center on Wednesday in Port Angeles. No one was injured. (Port Angeles Fire Department)

Point Hudson Marina slated to be open today

Port of Port Townsend plans grand opening ceremony on April 24

A gate and concrete barricades block the north end of Towne Road as it reaches the new Dungeness River levee on Tuesday northwest of Sequim. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Residents provide Towne Road feedback

More than 30 express opinions on project

A gate and concrete barricades block the north end of Towne Road as it reaches the new Dungeness River levee on Tuesday northwest of Sequim. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Timeline told on Port of Port Angeles’ Maritime Trade Center

Construction slated to begin this May

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Mobile Healing Clinic to start in Clallam Bay on Monday

RV offers similar MAT services as Sequim facility

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Finalists for the 2023 Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber Commerce’s Citizen of the Year award include, front row, from left, Carol Labbe and Pauline Olsen. Not pictured is the award recipient, Renne Emiko Brock, who was unable to attend the chamber’s annual awards luncheon on Tuesday. Pictured with Labbe and Olsen are, back row, from left, chamber President Eran Kennedy, chamber Executive Director Beth Pratt and Lorie Fazio, Citizen of the Year committee chair. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Art advocate Brock named Sequim Citizen of Year

Labbe, Olsen finalists for town’s top civic award

Finalists for the 2023 Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber Commerce’s Citizen of the Year award include, front row, from left, Carol Labbe and Pauline Olsen. Not pictured is the award recipient, Renne Emiko Brock, who was unable to attend the chamber’s annual awards luncheon on Tuesday. Pictured with Labbe and Olsen are, back row, from left, chamber President Eran Kennedy, chamber Executive Director Beth Pratt and Lorie Fazio, Citizen of the Year committee chair. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
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Clallam PUD seeks replacement for Waddell

Applicants for the Clallam County Public Utility District commissioner seat left vacant by the death of District 3 commissioner Jim Waddell have until… Continue reading

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Lena Curtis guides a snow sled with her two children, Lucien Williams, 4 1/2, and Millie, 2, all from Port Townsend, down a snow hill at Port Townsend High School on Tuesday. An overnight storm passed through but not before depositing about 3 inches of soft powder, which melted rapidly as the day warmed. The blast of snowfall was largely confined to the area around Port Townsend and Port Hadlock overnight into Tuesday morning on the North Olympic Peninsula. Another weather system was coming in on Tuesday afternoon and is expected to drop rain in the lowlands and snow in the mountains on Wednesday and early Thursday, according to meteorologist Jacob DeFlitch with the National Weather Service in Seattle. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Downhill sledding

Lena Curtis guides a snow sled with her two children, Lucien Williams, 4 1/2, and Millie, 2, all from Port Townsend, down a snow hill… Continue reading

Lena Curtis guides a snow sled with her two children, Lucien Williams, 4 1/2, and Millie, 2, all from Port Townsend, down a snow hill at Port Townsend High School on Tuesday. An overnight storm passed through but not before depositing about 3 inches of soft powder, which melted rapidly as the day warmed. The blast of snowfall was largely confined to the area around Port Townsend and Port Hadlock overnight into Tuesday morning on the North Olympic Peninsula. Another weather system was coming in on Tuesday afternoon and is expected to drop rain in the lowlands and snow in the mountains on Wednesday and early Thursday, according to meteorologist Jacob DeFlitch with the National Weather Service in Seattle. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Jefferson County supports $3 million federal appropriation for Mason Street development

A $3 million federal appropriation for Habitat for Humanity’s Mason Street affordable housing development in Port Hadlock has received the unanimous support… Continue reading

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe council leaders celebrate the opening of the tribe’s new library at its Blyn campus on Saturday. Pictured, from left, are treasurer Theresa Lehman, vice chair Loni Grinnell-Greninger, chair/CEO Ron Allen and secretary Rochelle Blankenship. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe celebrates library opening

Chairman/CEO: New facility is ‘second to none’

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe council leaders celebrate the opening of the tribe’s new library at its Blyn campus on Saturday. Pictured, from left, are treasurer Theresa Lehman, vice chair Loni Grinnell-Greninger, chair/CEO Ron Allen and secretary Rochelle Blankenship. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)