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Staff with PNNL-Sequim plan to expand the laboratory space by demolishing two temporary buildings by Washington Harbor along Sequim Bay and build a three-story structure. They also intend to add Sequim utilities along West Sequim Bay Road in the coming years. (Andrea Starr/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

PNNL-Sequim expansion linked to West Sequim Bay Road utility additions

City water, sewer improvements could go to bid mid-2025

 

The fireworks display, seen over Carrie Blake Community Park on July 4, 2023, started after the ban on the discharge of fireworks in the city of Sequim. City council members host a public hearing on whether or not to ban the sale of fireworks on Oct. 14. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim to host fireworks hearing

City council to consider banning sales

 

Volunteers Barbara VanderWerf and Maren Halverson, with the League of Women Voters of Clallam County, speak with a customer at Sequim Goodwill about ballot information on Sept. 17 during an information session held in conjunction with the stores in Sequim and Port Angeles on National Voter Registration Day. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

League answers voters’ questions about election

Organization partners with Goodwill on national registration day

 

Some local and state leaders said $30.5 million to construct the U.S. Highway 101 East Sequim Road Project — including completion of the Simdars Road interchange — could be moved to in-progress larger projects if Initiative 2117 passes as state transportation funds may be reduced to compensate for reduced funding for efforts to reduce the state’s carbon footprint. The Sequim project is near the top of the state’s Move Ahead Washington grant program and funded by the Climate Commitment Act (CCA), which would be repealed if I-2117 is passed in the Nov. 5 general election. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Corridor project may hinge on vote

Officials: Bypass could be shelved if I-2117 passes

Some local and state leaders said $30.5 million to construct the U.S. Highway 101 East Sequim Road Project — including completion of the Simdars Road interchange — could be moved to in-progress larger projects if Initiative 2117 passes as state transportation funds may be reduced to compensate for reduced funding for efforts to reduce the state’s carbon footprint. The Sequim project is near the top of the state’s Move Ahead Washington grant program and funded by the Climate Commitment Act (CCA), which would be repealed if I-2117 is passed in the Nov. 5 general election. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim, first responders considering Naloxone distribution spots

Effort could provide medicine to help reverse opioid overdose

Nineteen agencies are anticipated to have interactive booths for visitors at the Dungeness River Festival set for Friday at Railroad Bridge Park. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Dungeness River Festival set for Friday

Nineteen agencies to present free, hands-on activities at Railroad Bridge Park

Nineteen agencies are anticipated to have interactive booths for visitors at the Dungeness River Festival set for Friday at Railroad Bridge Park. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Sequim city officials say many vehicles go well above the posted 20 mph limit along West Sequim Bay Road and the Little Explorers Early Learning Center at all hours of the day. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim targets speeding measures

Signs, patrols added along West Sequim Bay Road

Sequim city officials say many vehicles go well above the posted 20 mph limit along West Sequim Bay Road and the Little Explorers Early Learning Center at all hours of the day. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Rosalie DiMaggio looks to bring in at least another 40 wheelchairs to total about 150 and ship them along with walkers, canes and other medical gear to Guatemala to help people with mobility challenges. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Volunteers seek wheelchairs, walkers for Guatemalans

Benefit dinner set Friday at Dungeness Community Church

Rosalie DiMaggio looks to bring in at least another 40 wheelchairs to total about 150 and ship them along with walkers, canes and other medical gear to Guatemala to help people with mobility challenges. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell breaks a bottle of champagne over the RV Resilience on Sept. 5 as Steve Ashby, PNNL laboratory director, and other dignitaries celebrate the dedication of the hybrid vessel. (Andrea Starr/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory vessel dedicated at ceremony

RV Resilience to lead marine research in Sequim Bay, ocean

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell breaks a bottle of champagne over the RV Resilience on Sept. 5 as Steve Ashby, PNNL laboratory director, and other dignitaries celebrate the dedication of the hybrid vessel. (Andrea Starr/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Standing below the Saturn V rocket, Sequim students and teacher, from left, Megan Reeves, Allee Deering, Sara Turner, Riley Guimond and Olivia Lozano enjoy a tour of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex after they won a trip to Florida through their Sequim Middle School club. (Sara Turner)

Sequim students earn trip to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

Middle-schoolers work on project after school

Standing below the Saturn V rocket, Sequim students and teacher, from left, Megan Reeves, Allee Deering, Sara Turner, Riley Guimond and Olivia Lozano enjoy a tour of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex after they won a trip to Florida through their Sequim Middle School club. (Sara Turner)
BMC Roofing crews work on Aug. 28 to replace a portion of the roof of the Sequim Prairie Grange. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Donation helps Sequim Grange repair roof

Sequim woman bequeaths $850K for fixes

BMC Roofing crews work on Aug. 28 to replace a portion of the roof of the Sequim Prairie Grange. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Corey Edwards, organizer of the Olympic Peninsula Toy and Collectibles Show, stands by his case of Kaiju monsters he’s been collecting since the early 2000s. He said the show on Saturday will be an option for locals to find new and old toys that they might remember from their childhood. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Toy and collectibles show set for Saturday

Event returns for its second year at Carrie Blake Park in Sequim

Corey Edwards, organizer of the Olympic Peninsula Toy and Collectibles Show, stands by his case of Kaiju monsters he’s been collecting since the early 2000s. He said the show on Saturday will be an option for locals to find new and old toys that they might remember from their childhood. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Fireworks light up the skies over Carrie Blake Community Park to cap Sequim’s Independence Day celebration on July 4, 2023. The fireworks display started following the ban on the discharge of fireworks in the city. City council members plan to discuss the ban of fireworks sales next month. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim council to consider ban on fireworks sales

Discharge banned in city limits in 2016

Fireworks light up the skies over Carrie Blake Community Park to cap Sequim’s Independence Day celebration on July 4, 2023. The fireworks display started following the ban on the discharge of fireworks in the city. City council members plan to discuss the ban of fireworks sales next month. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Sequim police serve a search warrant on Aug. 29 at Gold Rush Jewelry and Coin after multiple reports of theft. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim police investigating alleged $100K in theft from gold business

Nineteen people say they have been left without funds

Sequim police serve a search warrant on Aug. 29 at Gold Rush Jewelry and Coin after multiple reports of theft. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim won’t go for parks district

Council declines vote but may revisit in future

The Carlsborg Store has slowly reopened to the public as an artisan mercantile and restoration business by owners Justin Pollak and Jonel Lyons. The business first opened in 1915 to accommodate the Carlsborg Mill. (Carlsborg Store)

Couple restores Carlsborg Store, looks to share history

Artisan mercantile, restoration company now open

The Carlsborg Store has slowly reopened to the public as an artisan mercantile and restoration business by owners Justin Pollak and Jonel Lyons. The business first opened in 1915 to accommodate the Carlsborg Mill. (Carlsborg Store)

FD3 plans to ask for levy in 2025

Agency to push EMS request into 2026

Hawaiian officials, students and staff celebrate the opening of new playground sets at King Kamehameha III Elementary School’s temporary site on Aug. 13. Sequim’s Danielle Patterson helped coordinate and donate the Wagga Wagga structure after wildfires in August 2023 destroyed the school. (Danielle Patterson/Allplay Systems)

Sequim woman coordinates playground donation in Hawaii

Structure dedicated in August after deadly wildfire last year

Hawaiian officials, students and staff celebrate the opening of new playground sets at King Kamehameha III Elementary School’s temporary site on Aug. 13. Sequim’s Danielle Patterson helped coordinate and donate the Wagga Wagga structure after wildfires in August 2023 destroyed the school. (Danielle Patterson/Allplay Systems)
Ruby Coulson of Sequim, playing as the Stanford Tree, and gymnast Levi Jung-Ruivivar, who competed for the Philippines’ women’s gymnastics team and is an incoming Stanford freshman, jump together in Paris during an interview promoting the university’s many Olympians. (Stanford Athletics)

Sequim woman performs as Stanford mascot at Paris Olympics

Coulson to appear as university’s ‘Tree’ through next April

Ruby Coulson of Sequim, playing as the Stanford Tree, and gymnast Levi Jung-Ruivivar, who competed for the Philippines’ women’s gymnastics team and is an incoming Stanford freshman, jump together in Paris during an interview promoting the university’s many Olympians. (Stanford Athletics)
Ocean Mounts, 12, stands with his brother Ollie, 7, on Greywolf Elementary School’s new playground Quantis M2. Ocean suggested a new playground a few years ago, and Sequim School District and PTA leaders have sought funds for the project. He now attends Sequim Middle School and said he’s glad his brother and other children will get to play on the structure. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim schools celebrate playground installations

Crab Trap, We-Saw, Friendship Swings some of new attractions

Ocean Mounts, 12, stands with his brother Ollie, 7, on Greywolf Elementary School’s new playground Quantis M2. Ocean suggested a new playground a few years ago, and Sequim School District and PTA leaders have sought funds for the project. He now attends Sequim Middle School and said he’s glad his brother and other children will get to play on the structure. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)