Jon Buonpane of Forks looks over a few of the many wooden items — many made by Olympic Corrections Center inmates — featured during the 2023 Quillayute Valley Scholarship Auction on Saturday. The auction, which continued on Sunday, offered more than 1,000 items to raise money for scholarships for Forks High School graduates. The annual event was accompanied this year by the inaugural Forever Twilight in Forks Equinox, which ran from Friday through Sunday. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

Scholarship auction

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Field Hall gets grant of $1M

Executive director says $8M left to raise

Peninsula College revamping its application, enrollment process

Trustees learn about new testing, onboarding plans

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Port Townsend Uptown resident Kevin Mason stands in the Friday morning sunlight beside his art structure known as "Raccoon Lodge," a non-inhabitable facade constructed on the side of a 160 year old Monterey Cypress tree that cracked and broke onto the street a few years ago. Mason is involved in discussions with the city over a public right of way issue because the base of the sculpture is within a few inches of the public sidewalk.

Port Townsend Raccoon Lodge could be loaned to city

Acceptance could give piece at least two year lifespan

Port Angeles Schools Superintendent Marty Brewer says state funding for special education is woefully inadequate.

Special ed funding boost moves forward

Peninsula superintendents say it’s sorely needed

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Jonah Hoflin enrolled in Peninsula College’s IT Systems Administration program. Thanks to the Worker Retraining and Basic Food Employment and Training programs, he has not had to pay for tuition, books, or supplies.

PC student tricks out his future

As a kid, Jonah Hoflin always liked computers, and has been building them his whole life. “You can trick them… Continue reading

Christine Rose of Port Angeles and her children, Eliabeth Poindexter, 8, and Rowan Poindexter, 4, examine a display of rocks and crystals at the Clallam County Gem & Mineral Association’s Rock, Gem & Jewelry Show on Saturday at Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles. The two-day event showcased a wide variety of exhibits and vendors offering crystals, minerals, rocks and gemstones from around the world. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Gem show

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John Graham of Sequim, right, talks with Richard Fife, owner of Port Angeles-based Strait Comfort Systems, at the 38th annual KONP Home Show on Saturday at Port Angeles High School. The event featured dozens of exhibitors and displays centered on homes, home improvement and lifestyles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Home Show exhibit

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Mason Wilcox-Olton, 8, of Port Angeles casts a shadow on a high-banked curve at the Port Angeles Pump Track at Erickson Playfield on Wednesday. The track, the largest of its type in the Northwest, caters to a wide variety of wheeled conveyances and the first in the country to have an adaptive track element.

Pump track tricks in Port Angeles

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Brian Tucker, left, and Kevin Smith, workers with the Sequim branch of Neely Construction Co., remove a section of rusted railing at Port Angeles City Pier on Thursday.. The project calls for replacement of 1,300 linear feet of pedestrian railings that were installed in the 1970s with corrosion-resistant galvanized steel barriers around the pier and walkways. The project is expected to be completed in June.

Railing repair at Port Angeles pier

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Crime

Port Angeles man convicted of child sex crimes

Sentencing to be in federal court in June

 

Treatment continues for Sequim man accused of killing mother

Accused needs ‘psychiatric stabilization’

 

Life

Free dance workshops being held this week

“Movement for People Who Don’t Consider Themselves Dancers,” a free workshop with teacher Bill Evans, will be… Continue reading

 

Tufts dean’s list named

Tufts University has named two local students to its fall 2022 dean’s list. The students are Max… Continue reading

 

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