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Sequim School Board narrows search for new chief

Decision tentatively announced late March

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Sequim city plans help for businesses

Council meetings to resume in person March 28

Four Sequim High Schoolers make up the Sequim Irrigation Festival’s royalty court. From left, princess Lauren Willis, princess Ellie Turner, queen Isabella Williams and princess Katherine Gould were crowned Saturday at Sequim High School. The royalty will see their float revealed at the festival’s kickoff dinner March 19 at 7 Cedars Casino. From there, they’ll tentatively participate in dozens of events for the Irrigation Festival’s 127th year, including festivities May 6-14. Organizers are planning for in-person events this year. For more information, visit irrigationfestival.com. (Matthew Nash/ Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Irrigation festival coronation

Four Sequim High Schoolers make up the Sequim Irrigation Festival’s royalty court. Princess Lauren Willis, princess Ellie Turner,…

Photos by Keith Ross/Keith’s Frame of Mind Royalty participating in the 2022 scholarship pageant on Saturday, include, clockwise from top left, Ellie Turner, Katherine Gould, Isabella Williams, and Lauren Willis.

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Irrigation royalty pageant to be in-person

Four high schoolers share dreams, talents

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Firefighters save man, extinguish four fires across Sequim over weekend

SEQUIM — A Sequim man saved from a fire near Woodcock Road on Sunday was involved in one…

Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe now serves as landlord to multiple downtown Sequim businesses, including Hurricane Coffee Company. The businesses remain independently owned, with tribal staff saying there are tentative plans to add a cultural center and/or art gallery and more in adjacent open spaces.

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Jamestown Tribe new landlord for 11 business spaces

Other changes in works

Photo courtesy of State Patrol A semi truck driver was transported to Olympic Medical Center with minor injuries after his truck rolled east of Sequim.

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Semi truck rolls between Blyn, Gardiner

BLYN — U.S. Highway 101 was blocked between Blyn and Gardiner for about 30 minutes when a semi…

Karen Chen of the United States competes in the women’s short program team figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics on Sunday using music by Sequim composer Jennifer Thomas. (David J. Phillip/The Associated Press)

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Sequim composer’s music makes Winter Olympics debut

Karen Chen helps U.S. to silver medal with Thomas’ song

Matthew Nash / Olympic Peninsula News Group Design work is underway to renovate and expand the Sequim Library. Staff with the North Olympic Library System estimate new designs being finished in the spring and bids for construction opening in the summer. Construction could take nine to 12 months to complete, library staff said.

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Design for Sequim Library expansion underway

Construction could begin next winter

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East Sequim highway project options include rerouted roads, roundabouts

Survey, comments open through Thursday

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory research scientist and dive officer John Vavrinec, left, shares details of PNNL’s work on Sequim Bay with U.S. Reps. Dan Newhouse and Derek Kilmer last week. Photo courtesy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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Bill could set up Blue Economy hub at Sequim Bay

Bipartisan action focuses on ocean technologies

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Sequim council approves salary panel, hears Kilmer

SEQUIM — The Sequim City Council has created a salary commission to analyze future council members’ pay.

Residents can comment online through the state Department of Transportation's website Jan. 27 through Feb. 10 on predesign concepts that would complete the Simdars Road interchange on the eastern side of the City of Sequim. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Online open house seeks input on Simdars interchange design

Comments on the U.S. 101 East Sequim Road Project

Meg and Buddy DePew's Sequim Bee Farm, seen here in 2020, won a medal for their Dungeness Fields Honey from the national Good Food Awards competition. They plan to debut it at the Sequim Sunshine Festival in March. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group file)

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Sequim Bee Farm, Finnriver Farm Cidery win Good Food awards

Local products honored out of more than 2,000 entries

An artist's rendering shows the expected view of the Jamestown Healing Clinic. (Courtesy of the Jamestown Tribe)

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Sequim, tribe agree to MAT navigator partnership

Position to be filled by March

Clallam County Fire District 3 officials look to move Dungeness Station 31 east away from a flood and tsunami zone. They’ve begun recruiting an architect to design new stations for Dungeness and Carlsborg Station 33. Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group

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Clallam County Fire District 3 seeks architects for new fire stations

Carlsborg and Dungeness need upgrades, staff say

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Clallam County Sheriff’s Office seeks leads on coyote carcass dumping

SEQUIM — The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office seeks information about the killing and dumping of multiple dead coyotes…

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Expansion approved for Sequim City Band’s rehearsal space

SEQUIM — Sequim City Council members have unanimously approved the expansion of the James Center for Performing Arts’…

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Sequim’s Kiwanis Club disbands, joins Port Angeles group

Last grants support local organizations

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Armacost’s cross prompts vote to blur backgrounds

Virtual meetings to follow in-person rules