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Railroads gone, but left mark on Peninsula; train lines often determined a town’s status (***GALLERY***)

DUNGENESS — The North Olympic Peninsula’s foremost railroad historian, Steve Hauff, has documented between 600 and 700 miles…

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Jamestown S’Klallam tribe travels ‘long trail’ in short time; 30th anniversary of federal recognition celebrated [**Gallery**]

BLYN — Although S’Klallam people have been around for millennia — ages before the North Olympic Peninsula was…

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Sequim chamber director quits — reluctantly

SEQUIM — Vickie Maples, Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce executive director for more than two years, has reluctantly…

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Splinter lavender group plans to base fair in Sequim park while rival festival downtown

SEQUIM — The newly formed Sequim Lavender Farmers Association will base its July fair at Carrie Blake Park…

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New Sequim playfields becoming a reality

SEQUIM — A group that aims to add kick to the inventory of Sequim’s declining youth soccer fields…

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Sequim senior apartment complex construction on hold

SEQUIM — A 109-unit affordable senior apartment complex that the City Council recently approved, with some conditions, in…

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Transit sales tax measure close to win in Jefferson County

PORT TOWNSEND — A countywide proposal to raise the sales tax by 0.3 percent to benefit budget-strapped Jefferson…

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Sequim planner talks about downtown plan

SEQUIM — Improving the city’s downtown core is all about attracting more people there. That’s what interim city…

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Public will get chance to comment on Sequim’s proposals for downtown

SEQUIM — Recommendations for land use, traffic changes and development opportunities in Sequim’s downtown core will be presented…

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Women rule inaugural fitness challenge in Sequim

SEQUIM — Sequim and Port Angeles women dominated the first Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center New Year Fitness Challenge…

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Qwest presents grant to KinderKids; Boys & Club program will be able to expand

SEQUIM — Qwest Foundation on Friday presented the Boys & Girls Club of the Olympic Peninsula a $12,500…

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Historic Fairview Grange reinventing itself (***GALLERY***)

PORT ANGELES — To fill the need for a community center, 37 farmers, loggers and business owners signed…

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Four compete for Irrigation Festival crown; pageant is Feb. 26

SEQUIM — Four Sequim High School contestants are preparing to compete in a pageant for queen of the…

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Sequim pedestrian, 88, seriously hurt

SEQUIM — An 88-year-old Sequim woman was listed in serious condition in intensive care in a Seattle hospital…

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Quilt stitches together memories of Sequim pioneers

SEQUIM — The Questers Clallam C’lectors chapter in Sequim is creating a quilt for the Museum & Arts…

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Red Ranch Inn in Sequim closed

SEQUIM — Red Ranch Inn, one of the first motels in Sequim, has again been closed. It was…

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Peninsula trumpeter swan pelted with shot, killed; five dead since November

DUNGENESS — State Department of Fish and Wildlife agents are investigating the fatal shooting of a trumpeter swan,…

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Sequim council, advisory boards have wide-ranging talks

SEQUIM — City Council members and their chosen citizen advisers Monday talked about everything from improving communication to…

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Sequim council discusses eastward expansion of water, sewer service

SEQUIM — City leaders are working to extend water and sewer service east to serve Sequim Marine Research…

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Lavender documents delivered in wake of split in Sequim

SEQUIM — Scott Nagel, the former executive director of the Sequim Lavender Growers Association who abruptly left the…