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A puppy named Captain Kirk is getting ready for adoption by Welfare for Animals Guild after it was rescued near Kirk Road. An unsecured makeshift kennel fell out of a truck on U.S. Highway 101 last month and was struck by another vehicle. (Welfare for Animals Guild)

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Puppy rescued from wreck to be adopted

SEQUIM — A puppy named Captain Kirk is about to boldly go to a new home.

Lost Mountain Station 36 at 40 Texas Valley Road recently sold to a neighbor after Clallam County Fire District 3 was unable to recruit volunteers to staff the station. Its proceeds will go toward future construction of a new Carlsborg Station 33. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group file)

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District sells one fire station

Commissioners approve 2025 budget

Clallam County Master Gardener Gordon Clark cuts leaves off Isobel Johnston’s agave plant that she had been growing for 28-plus years. She specifically requested Master Gardeners help her remove the plant while keeping at least one for years to come. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Master Gardeners help remove agave plant on Fifth Avenue

Several baby plants uncovered below large leaves

Harvey Hochstetter tosses a box of food to Cameron Needham to stack with fellow volunteers like Bill Needham, right, for the Sequim Food Bank’s Holiday Meal Bag Distribution event. Cameron, his father Ty and grandfather Bill were three generations helping the program. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim Thanksgiving program helps 1,200 families

About 30 volunteers pack holiday boxes

Sequim Heritage House was built from 1922-24 by Angus Hay, former owner of the Sequim Press, and the home has had five owners in its 100 years of existence. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim’s Heritage House celebrates centennial

Owner hosts open house with family, friends

Actors, from left, Justin Stapleton, Mario Arruda and Sean Stone rehearse “Artificial Emotions,” a short play written by John Painter and directed by Bill Stone, far right. It will be the first of eight plays in Olympic Theatre Arts’ New Works Showcase through Sunday. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Olympic Theatre Arts offers New Works Showcase

SEQUIM — Olympic Theatre Arts will offer eight new mini shows this month for its latest New Works…

Colleen Robinson, CEO of Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County, signs off on purchasing 7.7 acres at 303 Mill Road in Carlsborg. Part of the $1.93 million purchase was covered by an $854,000 bequest from the late Frances J. Lyon. The property will be called Lyon’s Landing. (Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County)

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Habitat purchases Carlsborg property

Organization plans to build 45 homes

Clara (Rhodefer) Muma, 5, looks at a memorial honoring her great-great-great uncle Clyde Rhodefer of Sequim in front of Carlsborg Family Church on Nov. 9. The plaque was replaced and added the names of the men from Clallam County who died in World War I. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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WWI plaque rededicated for 10 servicemen

Community members gather at Carlsborg Family Church for ceremony

Sequim Police officers, from left, Devin McBride, Ella Mildon and Chris Moon receive 2024 Lifesaving Awards on Oct. 28 for their medical response to help a man after he was hit by a truck on U.S. Highway 101. (Barbara Hanna)

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Sequim police officers honored with Lifesaving Award

SEQUIM — Three Sequim Police Department officers have been recognized for helping save a Mukilteo man’s life after…

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Kennel containing puppies hit by vehicle on highway

SEQUIM — A kennel containing puppies fell out of a truck and was hit by another vehicle on…

Firefighters with Clallam County Fire District 3 work to extinguish a fire Tuesday afternoon in the 100 block of Barnes Road. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Man found dead following house fire

SEQUIM — A man was found dead inside a home after a structure fire west of Sequim.

Former state Sen. Kevin Van De Wege, D-Lake Sutherland, said 18 years in public office was a “life-altering experience.” (Kevin Van De Wege)

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Van De Wege reflects on political career

Former senator to continue firefighting, begin consulting

Sequim City Council members finalized through their consent agenda to ban the sale of fireworks effective October 2025. They held a public hearing last month that garnered mostly support for the ban. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim finalizes ban on fireworks

Ordinance change will go into effect next October

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group Rich Krebsbach, manager of the Highland Irrigation District, asks questions of Rhiana Barkie, Clallam County public works project coordinator. The map is one of four new options for the Dungeness Off-Channel Reservoir project. Public input is being taken through the county’s website at https://www.clallamcountywa.gov/188/Dungeness-Off-Channel-Reservoir-Project.

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Sequim reservoir project draws crowd, questions

Clallam County, FEMA public comment period open through Nov. 21

Kyle Bartholick-LeMaire (Sweeney Todd) and Angela Poynter (Mrs. Lovett) join the company for “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” at a rehearsal for “Sweeney Todd.” The show runs through Saturday at Sequim High School. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Ghostlight to stage ‘Sweeney Todd’ at Sequim High

Musical dark comedy runs Thursday through Saturday at auditorium

Karen Huber, sister of Nash Huber, the owner of Nash’s Organic Produce, stands by large crates that hold various seeds that Nash sells to farmers. She said she’s mitigated alleged violations and concerns from property owner, Washington Land Trust, but the longtime farmer faces eviction from the property if he doesn’t comply with ending his lease agreement that goes through 2032. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Washington Farmland Trust could evict Dungeness farmer

Nash Huber helped preserve Delta Farm in 1999

Deputy Mayor Rachel Anderson thanks Sequim police officer Mark Poole with a proclamation of his Lifesaving Award on Oct. 14 for preventing a man from jumping from the River Road bypass in August. (John Southard)

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Sequim police officer honored with Lifesaving Award

SEQUIM — Sequim Police Officer Mark Poole was awarded a 2024 Lifesaving Award for his efforts to save…

Marylaura Ramponi donates a $500,000 check on Oct. 17 to Sequim School District superintendent Regan Nickels for the Ramponi Center for Technical Excellence, a vocational building at Sequim High School. The check was made in honor of Marylaura’s husband Louie, as it would have been his 89th birthday. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Donor provides $500K for CTE

Sequim woman to match funds in March

Tribal leaders, health providers and supporters stand for a ceremonial ground breaking on Oct. 19 for The Jamestown Evaluation and Treatment Center, a 20,000-square-foot, 16-bed treatment center for patients experiencing a mental health crisis. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Tribe breaks ground on psychiatric treatment facility

Leaders anticipate receiving permit to build soon

Wendy Sisk, CEO for Peninsula Behavioral Health, and Clallam County commissioner Randy Johnson cut a ribbon with the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 16 for PBH’s first transitional house in Sequim. County funds helped pay for the refurbished home for five adults. (Peninsula Behavioral Health)

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Behavioral Health to offer transitional home in Sequim

Former office will provide services for five adults