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Nicole Driggs More than two dozen of Tom Green’s quilts will be on display throughout March at A Stitch in Time Quilt Shoppe, 225 E. Washington St., Sequim.

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Artist works with his own patterns for quilts

Former educator embraces sewing hobby, has display in Sequim

When her husband Stu Hemstreet died from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2023, Sheila Kee found that art relieved her pain more than a traditional grief support group. Now she spearheads art-based grief therapy groups for Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County, an organization that provided help during her husband’s final days. (Monica Berkseth/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim widow helps others express grief through creativity

Once aided by hospice, Kee leads art classes for the nonprofit

Sara Nicholls, executive director of the Dungeness Valley Health and Wellness Clinic, also known as the Sequim Free Clinic, inspects food items that are free to any patient who needs them. Soroptimist International of Sequim sponsors the food pantry, she said. (Austin James)

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Sequim Free Clinic to celebrate 25th year

Volunteer-driven nonprofit will reach quarter-century mark in October

When not at work as a corrections officer at Clallam Bay Corrections Center, Kristapher Edgecombe of Sequim likes to don his “Sasquatch gear” and search for the elusive creature in the Olympic National Forest and other areas for his YouTube channel, Xpedition_Edge. (Kristapher Edgecombe)

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Sequim man chronicles outoors experiences with his findings

YouTube channel highlights adventures on Olympic Peninsula

Cole Douglas, who was sentenced Thursday after he pleaded guilty to the March 2025 hit and run that seriously injured Sequim middle-schooler Colton Dufour, listens to Judge Elizabeth Stanley as Colton’s mother, Cherie Tachell, seated several rows back, smiles at her son just minutes before Douglas was taken into custody to begin serving a 12-month jail sentence. Seated beside them is victims advocate Molly Ramsey, who works in the Clallam County prosecuting attorney’s office and read a victim’s impact statement to the court during hearing. (Clallam County Superior Court)

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Sequim man gets 1 year in hit-and-run

Teenager was seriously injured in March collision

Joshua and Cindy Sylvester’s brood includes five biological sons, two of whom are grown, a teen girl who needed a home, a 9-year-old whom they adopted through the Indian Child Welfare Act, and two younger children who came to them through kinship foster care. The couple asked that the teen girl and three younger children not be fully named. Shown from left to right are Azuriah Sylvester, Zishe Sylvester, Taylor S., “H” Sylvester, Joshua Sylvester (holding family dog Queso), “R,” Cindy Sylvester, Phin Sylvester, and “O.” (Cindy Sylvester)

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Olympic Angels staff, volunteers provide help for foster families

Organization supports community through Love Box, Dare to Dream programs

Eric and Tina Thomson, owners of Tedesco’s Italian Fresh, moved to Sequim in 2016. They fell in love with the area after they visited Tina’s son, Dustin Miller, who is the restaurant’s bar manager. Eric serves on the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce’s board of directors, and he and his family support several local causes. (Monica Berkseth/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Tedesco’s restaurant built on family name

Owners, support WAG, food bank and other local causes

Director Bill Stone, far left, observes as the full cast of “Death Perception,” written by John Painter, rehearses the week before the launch of the New Works Showcase at Olympic Theatre Arts in Sequim. The cast is, from left, Veronica Konecnik, Jory Kahn, Simon Close, Joel Swenning and Rebecca Maberry. (Monica Berkseth)

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Olympic Theatre Arts to host New Works Showcase

Works by eight local playwrights featured

Every holiday season, crews string colorful Christmas lights on every shrub and tree at 7 Cedars and other Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe properties. (Patrick Walker/Olympic Peninsula News Group file)

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7 Cedars casino to offer Holiday Light Tours

Plans expected to boost offseason tourism, chamber director says

Bagpiper Rick McKenzie, who performed “Amazing Grace” during the 2023 regional Veterans Day ceremony in the hanger at U.S. Coast Guard Air Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles, is scheduled to perform at this year’s ceremony, which will be held at the Port Angeles High School auditorium due to the federal government shutdown. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Veterans Day event moved to Port Angeles High School auditorium

Ceremony moved from air station due to federal government shutdown

Judy Lange stands in the craft store at the Shipley Center amid items made by the fiber arts group she leads. Items from the store will be sold at the Shipley Center Holiday Bazaar scheduled for Friday and Saturday. (Reba Renner)

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Shipley Center kicks off holiday bazaars

Vendors to sell items Friday and Saturday

Crime & Justice

Attempted murder trial delayed

Competency hearing set for Jan. 9, 2026

Kat Malcom, child nutrition director for the Sequim Boys & Girls Club, prepares chicken enchilada wraps for distribution to children throughout Sequim. During the months of June and July, the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula provided more than 16,000 meals and snacks to children in Sequim and Port Angeles. (Jacques Star/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Teens help provide thousands of meals this summer

Boys Girls Clubs of Olympic Peninsula steps in with program

Tyler Carey and Lenara, 4, fly a kite together at Olympic Bluffs Cidery & Lavender Farm during Sequim Lavender Weekend last month. Olympic Bluffs is one of the sites visited throughout the summer by American Cruise Lines passengers through van excursions spearheaded by the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Nationwide tourism downturn may have little impact on Peninsula

While others may be facing closure, area attractions thriving

Tammy Blessing holds up her cell phone through which she is communicating with her daughter, Taylor White. She and her husband Cassidy Blessing (behind her) shop for a new pair of school shoes for Taylor with a gift card provided by H.U.M.A.N., a new Sequim nonprofit created by Cassidy’s former bosses, Darrin and Alicia Liggins. (Jacques Star/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Nonprofit provides students with shoes for school

Shopping event provides 25 kids with $100 gift cards

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Trinity UMC to start safe parking program

Partnership will help those living in vehicles

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Sequim nets $500K in grant funds to revamp park

New playground will be for kids of all abilities

Vintage at Sequim, 1009 W. Brackett Road, is among five apartment complexes in Western Washington that have been sued by the state attorney general, along with their California-based management company, for allegedly engaging in unfair and deceptive practices that have impacted senior tenants. (Kathy Cruz/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Complex for seniors sued by AG

Executive says company follows letter, spirit of law

Suzan Mannisto, co-manager of Pioneer Memorial Park, introduces the “Pathway Accessible to All Project” as Sequim Irrigation Festival Prince Malachi Byrne looks on. (Sequim Prairie Garden Club)

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Garden Club launches path at Pioneer Memorial Park

Organization seeking additional grants, fundraising

Frank Nicholson and David Martel.

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Veterans in Warrior Bike program to pass through Peninsula towns

Community asked to welcome, provide lodging this summer