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A hot air balloon piloted by Captain Crystal Stout drifts over the Dungeness Valley west of Sequim in this 2012 file photo. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Air Affaire to showcase aviation industry

Saturday event includes last hurrah for balloon program

To usher in the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe's Healing Clinic, from left, Dana Ward, tribal council member; Loni Greninger, council vice-chair; Elaine Grinnell, elder, and W. Ron Allen, chairman, cut the ribbon on the facility that aims to help locals overcome opioid use disorder. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Jamestown Tribe ushers in healing clinic

Facility a place to help those with opioid use disorder

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Sequim VFW burglar pleads guilty, serves jail time

SEQUIM — A man arrested for burglarizing the Sequim Veterans of Foreign War Post 4760 in March pleaded…

Crime & Justice

Lakewood man agrees to eight years for Sequim crime spree

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

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Sequim OKs new flag display policy

SEQUIM — A new chapter in the Sequim Municipal Code formalizes what flags will be displayed in and…

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)

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USPS stamp set includes popular Clallam County landmark

Artwork marks marine sanctuary’s 50th anniversary

Crime & Justice

Sequim man sentenced to 18 years for child rape

Judge: Actions were ‘appalling’

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group Scott Edmundson, a PNNL-Sequim research botanist, speaks at PNNL-Sequim’s seawater propagation station with, from left, Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Secretary of Energy, U.S. representative Derek Kilmer, Geri Richmond, DOE’s undersecretary for Science and Innovation, and others about PNNL-Sequim’s efforts to harness essential minerals from the ocean and plant life.

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Secretary of Energy tours Pacific Northwest National Laboratory-Sequim

Facility could see funding for research and development

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group The Strait Stamp Show on Saturday in the Guy Cole Event Center features free entry, free stamps for children, a penny table, door prizes and vendors.

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Sequim stamp show Saturday celebrates wide-variety of tastes

SEQUIM — As stamps circulate the world every day, local collectors look to bring some new and seasoned…

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group Colonial soldiers shoot at the British in a skirmish reenactment during the Northwest Colonial Festival in 2021. It returns for four days today through Sunday with skirmishes and demonstrations at the George Washington Inn.

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Colonial Fest returns with expanded activities, offerings

Reenactors, demonstrations on tap

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group Access from River Road to West Silberhorn Road was closed for several hours Monday after a cyclist died after being struck by a garbage truck.

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Sequim man dies after he was hit by garbage truck

SEQUIM — A Sequim man has died after he was struck by a garbage truck, reported the Sequim…

Matthew Nash / Olympic Peninsula News Group Haley Petty, 17, of Agnew earned reserve market champion with Roast the rabbit at the Clallam County Junior Livestock Auction on Saturday at the Sequim Prairie Grange. It was her fifth year selling animals at the auction.

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Animal prices heat up during warm youth auction

Livestock sales help students with projects, schooling

Photo courtesy of Dan James Nearly 800 people rode in the Tour de Lavender this weekend in Sequim and Dungeness valleys, with the event expected to raise $20,000 to help main the Olympic Peninsula Trail.

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CYCLING: Tour de Lavender returns to pre-pandemic levels

SEQUIM — Cyclists returned to pre-pandemic numbers for the Tour de Lavender on Saturday after a participant cap…

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group Agnew Little Free Pantry volunteers greet Sarah Irish, a Molina Healthcare community engagement specialist, fifth from left, as she donates $2,000 for food from the agency. Some of the volunteers who work daily to restock the pantry, include, from left, Susan Harris, Dave Large, Florence and Michael Bucierka, Irish, Peggy and John Toppenberg, Dave Iezzi, and Ren Garypie. ^

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Little Free Pantries see higher demand, costs

Donations help offset federal programming being reduced

Volunteers compile kits with housewares at Dungeness Valley Lutheran Church for Ukrainian refugees now in Washington. (Photo courtesy of Dungeness Valley Lutheran Church)

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Donations continue for Ukrainian refugees

Concert to raise funds to be held later this month

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EPA gives $50M to help tribes’ fish, shellfish habitat efforts

Funding doubled over five year span

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Man airlifted after River Road rollover wreck

SEQUIM — A 21-year-old Port Angeles resident was in critical condition as of Tuesday morning following a rollover…

Crime & Justice

Murder case on hold for state hospital admission in November

Kenney must understand charges against him to proceed

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Sequim council OKs temporary electric scooters contract

Viability depends on neighboring cities’ approval, rep says

Michael Mangiameli, with Sebastian, 5, and Eleanora, 2, of Sequim enjoy a day at Jardin du Soliel Lavender Farm & Gift Shop on July 15. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Lavender fields forever

Michael Mangiameli with Sebastian, 5, and Eleanora, 2, of Sequim, enjoy a day at Jardin du Soliel Lavender…