As is tradition at the end of the Walk for Water, Interact Club members douse the president — this year Krista Charters — in Sequim’s original irrigation ditch by Sequim Middle School. Charters said carrying two large buckets of water 2 miles was harder than she thought it’d be. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Interact Club continues to ‘Walk for Water’

Fundraiser looks to build well for school in Ghana

Tom Ferrell was elected to the Sequim City Council in 2019 and reelected in 2023. He resigned from the position on March 11 and council members have opened up his seat to applicants through Friday. (City of Sequim)

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Applications for open Sequim City Council seat due Friday

Former Mayor Tom Ferrell resigned effective March 11

Crime & Justice

Trial postponed again for 2022 attempted murder case

Another evaluation sought for Luoma

Crime & Justice

Sequim man receives 4-year sentence for arson, assault charges

SEQUIM — A Sequim man has been sentenced to four years in prison for a series of crimes…

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Sequim Irrigation Festival organizers say they plan to extend Family Fun Days again to two days, May 4-5, and include free events, such as Strait Up Foam Fun in Carrie Blake Community Park. A schedule is to be determined, organizers said.

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Irrigation Festival’s carnival on hold for another year

Organizers extend free Family Fun Days another year

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Fire District seeks volunteers again before Lost Mountain station sale

Meeting set for Tuesday

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Teens hospitalized after Gardiner collision

SEQUIM — Sequim-area teens were hospitalized after an early morning collision with a tree on Feb. 29 in…

Mike Hill takes his oath of office on Friday from acting city clerk Heather Robley to become the City of Sequim’s new police chief. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Hill Sequim’s new police chief

SEQUIM — Surrounded by family, friends, colleagues and community members, Mike Hill last week officially stepped into the…

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Sequim Police Chief Sheri Crain listens to a proclamation at the Feb. 26 Sequim city council meeting as her husband Pat smiles with pride in her during the ceremony. Next to Pat is Clallam County Sheriff Brian King and, to his right, Port Angeles Police Chief Brian Smith.

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Crain reflects on policing career

Retired chief sees city grow, adapt into a ‘jewel’

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group 

The Sequim Library will host an open house from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday before it closes for expansion and renovation through spring 2025. Operations will move temporarily starting April 1 to the former Brian’s Sporting Goods space.

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Sequim Library to close temporarily for renovations

SEQUIM — The Sequim Library will close for three weeks Sunday after a last-day celebration on Friday.

Demolition continued last week by Jamestown Excavation at the former doctor’s office building at 103 W. Cedar St., adjacent to the Sequim Civic Center. Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe leaders told city staff in October 2022 that they intend to turn the space into an art gallery/gift shop. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim office demolished

Demolition continued last week by Jamestown Excavation at the former doctor’s office building at 103 W. Cedar St.,…

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Life

Peninsula seniors walk runways in New York City

Captain-Crystal, Kidd participate in Fashion Week

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Mobile Healing Clinic to start in Clallam Bay on Monday

RV offers similar MAT services as Sequim facility

The City of Sequim hosts 13 manufactured home/mobile home parks with 596 existing units and 786 approved dwelling units. City staff continue to look into zoning options that could protect these sites from redevelopment to help protect affordable housing options in the city. (City of Sequim)

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Sequim extends its mobile home moratorium

City staff to work preserving manufactured housing option

Tom Ferrell.

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Former Sequim mayor announces resignation from council

Ferrell said work obligations overseas limit his time

After five years of investigations, Sequim police have sought additional help from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Cold Case Investigation Unit through state Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office to help solve the 2019 homicide of Valerie Claplanhoo, a Makah tribal member, pictured with her son Brandan. (Cindy Lee Claplanhoo)

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Sequim police working with state unit on Claplanhoo homicide

Task force focuses on cases involving indigenous people

Mike Hill, current Sequim deputy police chief, will start March 1 as police chief following the retirement of Sheri Crain. He started full-time on the force in 2001. (City of Sequim)

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Hill named chief of police in Sequim

Shari Crain expected to retire on March 1

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Carol and Ralph, played by Sharon DelaBarre and Pat Owens, share a tender moment speaking about their spouses in a dog park bench in Olympic Theatre Arts’ “The Last Romance.”

Arts & Entertainment

OTA production tells of late-in-life romance

Show begins this weekend

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Community members have 20 days to comment starting this week on the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s proposed evaluation and treatment inpatient facility in Sequim that staff say helps people having psychiatric issues, such as suicidal thoughts.

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Comment period open for clinic in Sequim

Jamestown Tribe proposes $29M inpatient facility

Construction will soon begin between two T-ball fields in the Dr. Standard Little League Park to dig a deeper well that City of Sequim staff said will help balance the pressure in the overall water system, improve water quality and meet forecasted water demands through 20 years. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim to begin drilling well near ballpark

Project to provide new city water supply