A giant Pacific octopus swims in its tank at Feiro Marine Science Center at Port Angeles City Pier while fans of the creature cast ballots for a name in an online poll, which ended Thursday afternoon. Octomatic was the people’s choice with 54.1 percent of 1,123 votes cast, winning out over Olive with 39 percent, Cranberry with 3.9 percent, Toby with 2 percent and Bobbie with 0.9 percent. The octopus, which was captured in Agate Bay north of Joyce, will reside at Feiro until it reaches maturity, and then it will be released in the area of where it was found. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Lakewood man agrees to eight years for Sequim crime spree

Fiancee also approves plea deal; sentencing hearing set for Aug. 23

Clallam County to takeover Clallam Bay park

State began process in November 2020

An aerial photo released Saturday by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a diesel spill off the west coast of San Juan Island after a 49-foot fishing vessel sank with an estimated 2,600 gallons of fuel on board. A Good Samaritan rescued all five crew members on the Aleutian Isle as the vessel was sinking near Sunset Point, the Coast Guard’s 13th District Pacific Northwest district in Seattle and KIRO-TV reported. (U.S. Coast Guard via The Associated Press)

Salvage crews assessing wreck off San Juan Island

Coast Guard: Containment efforts underway since Sunday

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All County Picnic aims to build resiliency

This weekend’s gathering marks a decade of preparation

Crying Lady Rock on Second Beach in Clallam County is part of a stamp set celebrating the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act being signed into law Oct 23, 1972. The photograph was taken by Matt McIntosh. (Photo courtesy USPS)

USPS stamp set includes popular Clallam County landmark

Artwork marks marine sanctuary’s 50th anniversary

Steve Short of Port Townsend escaped without a scratch after he rolled his 1987 Suzuki Samurai during a run on the 4x4 course at the Jefferson County Fair on Sunday. Short said he should have “rolled back, but my foot slipped off the brake pedal and hit the gas instead.” The vehicle sustained damage to the front end, but it smoked a lot on the way back to the pits. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Dr. Michael Maxwell, CEO of the North Olympic Healthcare Network, conducts a short tour of the organization’s future Eastside Health Center at 1026 E. First St. in Port Angeles during an open house on Saturday. The clinic, located in the former Edna’s Place building, will house medical services and administrative offices with an opening scheduled for late December. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News The Sturgeon Moon, the last full supermoon of the year, emerges behind Port Townsend's Marrowstone Island and the distant Cascades, on Thursday night. The reddish color is due to the smoke from the fires in eastern Washington.
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Sturgeon Moon over Marrowstone Island

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Summer Green Thumb award winner named

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A giant Pacific octopus swims in its tank at Feiro Marine Science Center at Port Angeles City Pier while fans of the creature cast ballots for a name in an online poll, which ended Thursday afternoon. Octomatic was the people’s choice with 54.1 percent of 1,123 votes cast, winning out over Olive with 39 percent, Cranberry with 3.9 percent, Toby with 2 percent and Bobbie with 0.9 percent. The octopus, which was captured in Agate Bay north of Joyce, will reside at Feiro until it reaches maturity, and then it will be released in the area of where it was found. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Steve Short of Port Townsend escaped without a scratch after he rolled his 1987 Suzuki Samurai during a run on the 4x4 course at the Jefferson County Fair on Sunday. Short said he should have “rolled back, but my foot slipped off the brake pedal and hit the gas instead.” The vehicle sustained damage to the front end, but it smoked a lot on the way back to the pits. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Photo courtesy of Peninsula College Peninsula College men's soccer coach Jake Hughes, right, talks with assistant Jesse Salgado during practice earlier this month at Wally Sigmar Field. The Pirates begin their season Thursday at home with a game against Wenatchee CC.

PENINSULA MEN’S SOCCER PREVIEW: Battle will be on for kings of the North

New stars from UK, Japan added

 

Courtesy photo Zach Gavin, Ella Ventura and Harrison Fulton received their "graduation blades" from the Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association last week.

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Trio earns blades from Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association

Three Port Angeles High School graduates, Zach Gavin, Ella Ventura and Harrison Fulton, received their “graduation blades”… Continue reading

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Michael Dashiell /Olympic Peninsula News Group Cherie Kidd and Bruce Emery (seated), candidates for Clallam County Director of Community Development, speak at a debate hosted by the Rotary Club of Sequim at the Dungeness River Center.

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Emery, Kidd debate DCD seat after primary

 

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Sea star gazing classes at Fort Worden

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Bag of Books sale this week in Port Angeles

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Cherish Cronmiller is the executive director for Olympic Community Action Programs. (Brian McLean/Peninsula Daily News)

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Strait turners to meet

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Free music offered outdoors on Peninsula

Concerts set in Sequim, Port Angeles, Port Townsend

 

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