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No charter schools in offing on North Olympic Peninsula

PORT ANGELES — Voters statewide approved allowing charter schools, but so far no one has contacted any of…

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Festival of Trees sparks Christmas imaginations

PORT ANGELES — Twinkling lights, glittering ribbons and sparkling crystal icicles, as well as lariats, wine corks and…

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Officer: Port Angeles woman tried to steal my car

BEAVER — A Port Angeles woman was held at gunpoint by a state corrections officer who found her…

Bella is fine after her adventure last weekend

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Owners of rescued dog send $1,000 thank-you

PORT ANGELES — When a volunteer with the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue team literally went…

Harry Henningsen of Port Angeles watches as volunteer Christa Scott

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About 150 served at Salvation Army in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Wednesday’s pre-Thanksgiving dinner at the Port Angeles Salvation Army soup kitchen was a family affair…

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Parent pulls petition protesting anti-gay-marriage button

PORT ANGELES — A gay parent who started a drive for signatures on an online petition urging the…

Water flows over curbs in Sequim during Monday’s heavy rains in a town that doesn’t have a storm drain system.  -- Photo by Jenifer Clark/Peninsula Daily News

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Worst of storm over, but rains to persist — hastening tsunami debris

The first big storm of the season dropped a 60-foot tree on a Port Angeles home, sent water…

Ed Phillips holds Bella after rescuing the 6-year-old dog from a ledge east of Port Angeles. Clallam County Sheriff's Office

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Pooch plucked from bluff by Clallam search, rescue

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue volunteers showed dogged determination Saturday, rappelling down a…

Port Angeles Farmers Market board member Patty Hannah slices a pie during the market's inaugural homemade apple pie contest on Saturday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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Port Angeles Farmers Market holds first apple pie contest

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Farmers Market kicked off the holiday season Saturday with a pre-Thanksgiving apple…

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Teacher’s ‘No on 74’ button spurs petition drive by gay parent

PORT ANGELES — A lesbian mother has started an online drive for signatures on a petition urging the…

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Weight-loss challenge nets award for organizer

PORT ANGELES — When Bonnie Stehr decided she wanted to lose 50 pounds as a Christmas gift to…

Fairview Elementary School may become the new site of the private Five Acre School in Dungeness. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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Dungeness Valley private school might buy former Fairview School east of Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles School Board unanimously approved the listing of Fairview Elementary School as surplus…

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The End: Final ‘Twilight’ installment premieres Thursday across Peninsula

When “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2” opens Thursday night in Port Townsend and Port Angeles…

A kayaker is shown in a scene from the film 'Ikkatsu: The Roadless Coast." Steve Weileman

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Tsunami debris film screenings sell out quickly on Peninsula

When three Washington state kayakers decided to travel the North Olympic Peninsula coast, they thought they would make…

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Sequim man: Volunteers not enough for tsunami debris onslaught

PORT ANGELES — A public meeting on the continuing arrival of Japan tsunami debris has some North Olympic…

Korean War vets John "Jack" McCann and Mary Reid attend Sunday's ceremony honoring veterans at the Coast Guard Air Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles. Arwyn Rice/Peninsula Daily News

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Emotional, music-filled Veterans Day ceremony at air station

PORT ANGELES — Hundreds of veterans and their families took part in an emotional, music-filled Veterans Day ceremony…

Firefighters battle a blaze that broke out in a garage on South Tiller Road in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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Heater, chimney blamed for two fires in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Two structure fires in a 24-hour period were caused by faulty heating systems, according to…

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Benefit to make for sweet Saturday at Boys & Girls Club

SEQUIM — Most days, the Sequim unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula is…

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Benefit to make for sweet Saturday at Boys & Girls Club

SEQUIM — Most days, the Sequim unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula is…

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High-speed car chase part of ‘busy’ Port Angeles night

PORT ANGELES — A short high-speed chase through central Port Angeles neighborhoods Wednesday night that resulted in the…