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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

Boys & Girls Clubs Youth Performer Pearle Peterson of Sequim sings the national anthem prior to Game 2 of the 2023 World Series between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Texas Rangers on Oct. 28 in Arlington, Texas. She will sing it again at the World Series in Los Angeles on Saturday. (Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

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Sequim’s Peterson to sing at World Series on Saturday

Boys Girls Club member to perform national anthem in Los Angeles

Michelle Rhodes, executive director of the Sequim Irrigation Festival, shows festival royalty the new logo and tagline “When History Flows and Futures Grow” for the 130th festival on Oct. 12 at the Oasis Bar and Grill. Sherry Scharschmidt designed the logo using artificial intelligence technology. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Irrigation Festival reveals 2025 logo, tagline for 130th year

SEQUIM — The tagline for the 130th year of the Sequim Irrigation Festival is “Where History Flows and…

Sales of fireworks will be prohibited in Sequim city limits effective late October 2025 after Sequim city council members voted to restrict the sale. The decision comes seven years after former city council members voted to ban the discharge of fireworks in city limits. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group file)

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Sequim to ban fireworks sales

Ordinance to go into effect next fall

The West Sequim Bay Corridor Project, including a lift station at Forrest Road, is the largest project for the city of Sequim in 2025. Nick Dostie, Sequim’s city engineer and deputy director of public works, previously said the city plans to go to bid in the second or third quarter of 2025, with construction possibly starting in the first quarter of 2026, and pipeline and lift station construction complete in the third or fourth quarter of 2028. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim’s $58M budget largest in history

Utility rate increase continues three-year plan

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City to surplus two-story home, outbuildings at Gerhardt Park

More information to come on process this spring

Two wells have been dug for four future homes in Western Ukraine to house up to 40 orphaned/abandoned Ukrainian children from the Russian invasion. Michael Cimino through Gardiner Community Church seeks financial support to finish funding the first house for about $22,500. (Photo courtesy Michael Cimino)

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Sequim man, church look to fund small homes for Ukrainian orphans

A Sequim man is seeking support to finish the first of four small homes for abandoned and orphaned…

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)

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Sequim to host fireworks hearing

City council to consider banning sales

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)

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

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

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)

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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)

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Corridor project may hinge on vote

Officials: Bypass could be shelved if I-2117 passes

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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)

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Dungeness River Festival set for Friday

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

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)

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Sequim targets speeding measures

Signs, patrols added along West Sequim Bay Road

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)

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Volunteers seek wheelchairs, walkers for Guatemalans

Benefit dinner set Friday at Dungeness Community Church

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)

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Sequim students earn trip to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

Middle-schoolers work on project after school

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