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Port Angeles High School NJROTC instructor Maj. Leo Campbell reviews the uniform of student Robert Olea during a recent inspection.  -- Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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Heralded high school naval unit’s leader to leave Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles High School’s Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps unit will bid goodbye at…

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Tsunami dock removal from Peninsula beach may be delayed

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The window of daytime low tides is closing on any chance this week to…

Thousands of plastic ducks tumble out of a dump truck and into the Lincoln Park pond during the 23rd annual Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby in Port Angeles last year.  -- Peninsula Daily News photo

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Port Angeles duck derby moving to June to spur more ticket sales to tourists

PORT ANGELES — The 24th Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby, traditionally held in May, will be in June…

Andrew Nisbet Jr.

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Former Port of Port Angeles commissioner dies at 91

SEQUIM — Andrew Nisbet Jr., a retired military officer who moved to Sequim and conducted a post-retirement life…

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Students win at regional skills contest; 17 to head for state

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles High School and the North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center will send 17 students…

Jamie Valadez and Jacilee Wray

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Weaving a tale of basketry in Clallam history series

PORT ANGELES — For millenniums, the tribes of the Olympic Peninsula have been sharing and trading basketry styles…

Elwha River sediment is forming sandy beaches at the mouth. The plume of sediment is about 3 feet deep

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New beaches form along the Strait of Juan de Fuca from Elwha River dam removals

PORT ANGELES — Sediment flowing from the Elwha River is creating new sandy beaches along the Strait of…

Mailboxes on Cosmos Lane off Finn Hall Road in Agnew demonstrate varying heights as the Postal Service changes its requirements. Mike Millar

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Local post office stipulates higher heights for mailboxes

PORT ANGELES — Some rural mailbox owners may need to get out measuring tapes and toolboxes to make…

A soccer ball from a club in Otsuchi

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Marine debris film to screen in Forks, Port Angeles

A documentary film that follows a trio of kayakers taking a survey of debris thought to be from…

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Chimacum students seeks Internet votes for contest

CHIMACUM — Four Chimacum Middle School students are only a few votes from getting into the MathCounts Reel…

Olympic Peninsula YMCA CEO Kyle Cronk speaks to the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce on Monday to pitch the 2012 Power of Community Campaign. Arwyn Rice/Peninsula Daily News

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Clallam YMCA to kick off fundraising campaign

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Family YMCA’s 2013 Power of Community Campaign is set to begin Thursday.…

A Dodge van traveling west in the eastbound lanes came to a stop on an embankment Sunday afternoon in Port Angeles after its driver reportedly suffered a seizure. Arwyn Rice/Peninsula Daily News

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Wrong-way van travels west down East Front Street

PORT ANGELES — Drivers gawked Sunday afternoon in Port Angeles, as a Dodge van rested precariously against a…

Balloonist Crystal Stout advertises her business

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Home show ‘really, really busy’ this year

PORT ANGELES — The 31st Annual KONP Home Show was the big draw in town Saturday and Sunday,…

Alex Kim

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Call of the wild: Olympic National Park Visitor Center offers taste of outdoors [ *** GALLERY *** ]

PORT ANGELES — A small but rich resource in Port Angeles sits staffed from 9 a.m. to 4…

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Port Angeles school leader to take post in Kitsap

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles Assistant Superintendent Michelle Reid will take over the top administrative job at South…

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WEEKEND: 22 acts to take stage at Port Angeles High talent show

PORT ANGELES — Twenty-two acts ranging from songs to a speed recitation of the countries and capitals of…

The KONP Home Show

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WEEKEND: No place like the KONP Home Show

PORT ANGELES — It won’t be the traditional KONP Home Show. Oh, there will plenty of what the…

Kindergartners at Hamilton Elementary take the traditional Umbrella Walk on the first day of spring in 2012. The Port Angeles school and Neah Bay Elementary were the only two on the North Olympic Peninsula to be awarded A's by the Washington Policy Center. Peninsula Daily News

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Only 2 area schools are A-rated by state

Two North Olympic Peninsula schools would have received A grades, while three would receive F’s under a grading…

Annie Lambert

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Wine samplers having barrels of fun; tour ends today

PORT ANGELES — The 2013 Red Wine and Chocolate Tour already has been a banner one for North…

Retired Crescent School District Chairwoman Tracey Grover.

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Applications sought for Crescent board vacancy

JOYCE — The Crescent School District is accepting applications for candidates to take the place of Tracey Grover,…