Leah Leach

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Doc Reiss, left, talks with Kathi Pressley in Port Angeles. Pressley will take over as the U.S. contact for the Dignity Toilets for Togo project that Reiss started while he is in African beginning an off-shoot business.

Dignity Toilets project expands

Profits to be brought back to African villages

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Doc Reiss, left, talks with Kathi Pressley in Port Angeles. Pressley will take over as the U.S. contact for the Dignity Toilets for Togo project that Reiss started while he is in African beginning an off-shoot business.

Peninsula fire danger high

Complete burn bans in place

Hearing set on DNR land transfer

More land would be transferred to Dabob Bay conservation area

Comment period opens for Elwha River bridge project

Environmental assessment presented online

Drugs, guns add up to barrage of bullets on Egg and I Road in Jefferson County

A man who shot some 50 to 100 bullets indiscriminately out of a fifth wheel trailer in the 3000 block of Egg and… Continue reading

The ferry MV Coho sits at the dock on Saturday in Port Angeles, waiting to resume daily trips to Victoria once the U.S.-Canada border reopens to non-essential traffic. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Good news about border reopening could come next week

Coho ready to ply the Strait again

The ferry MV Coho sits at the dock on Saturday in Port Angeles, waiting to resume daily trips to Victoria once the U.S.-Canada border reopens to non-essential traffic. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Friday concert to benefit Captain Joseph House

A Concert of Light featuring Nashville musicians Daryl Wayne Dasher and Jill Kinsey and area dance music favorite Fat Chance will perform… Continue reading

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Vintage cars stand on display at Friday night's Ruddell Cruise In at Ruddell Auto Plaze in Port Angeles.

Classic auto event returns to Peninsula

Vintage cars poured into Port Angeles Friday for the 25th edition of the Ruddell Cruise In. The Cruise In, which had to skip a year… Continue reading

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Vintage cars stand on display at Friday night's Ruddell Cruise In at Ruddell Auto Plaze in Port Angeles.

Peninsula heat deaths investigated

Sports announcer, homeless man among the four

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Mike Schefers of Port Angeles works out at the Olympic Peninsula YMCA in Port Angeles.

Employee shortages cramping Clallam County businesses

Capacity is restored, but staff ing low

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Mike Schefers of Port Angeles works out at the Olympic Peninsula YMCA in Port Angeles.

Electrical power out on BPA line

East side of Clallam County affected

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Volunteers bore holes and prepare the site on Friday for the beginning of a community build of the Generation II Dream Playground, scheduled to begin on Tuesday, at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles.

Community build begins Tuesday

Volunteers to create Dream Playground II

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Volunteers bore holes and prepare the site on Friday for the beginning of a community build of the Generation II Dream Playground, scheduled to begin on Tuesday, at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles.
Gone with the Wind, with a Port Angeles crew, arrived first in the Performance Handicap Racing Fleet (PHRF) B class in the Pacific Northwest Offshore Yacht Race. (Rebecca Close)

Peninsula team first in its class in yacht race

Port Angeles hosts awards ceremony after 193-mile route

Gone with the Wind, with a Port Angeles crew, arrived first in the Performance Handicap Racing Fleet (PHRF) B class in the Pacific Northwest Offshore Yacht Race. (Rebecca Close)
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Sequim High School principal Shawn Langston (foreground, left) and photography teacher Jim Heintz look on at an SHS graduation rehearsal on Jan 9. An estimated 187 seniors will graduate at the school’s commencement ceremony on Friday. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Clallam County high school graduations this weekend

Ceremonies less restrictive than in 2020

Sequim High School principal Shawn Langston (foreground, left) and photography teacher Jim Heintz look on at an SHS graduation rehearsal on Jan 9. An estimated 187 seniors will graduate at the school’s commencement ceremony on Friday. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Past winners of the Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby grand prize gather at Swain's General Store with Wilder Toyota owner Dan Wilder to gaze upon this year's top prize, a 2021 Toyota Corolla, which is donated by Wilder. From left are Angeline Parrish, 2019 winner;  Kim Skerbeck, 1995; Mary and Harry Hebert, 2002; Tom Baerman, winner along with wife Jackie in 2011; Dan Wilder; Steve Zenovic (2018); Annette Wendell, 1992; Dan Sinnes, 1998 and Zenovic's wife Nina. All of the past 30 winners of the car have been from Port Angeles and Sequim, except for one.

Duck Derby race on for Sunday

Tickets still available

Past winners of the Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby grand prize gather at Swain's General Store with Wilder Toyota owner Dan Wilder to gaze upon this year's top prize, a 2021 Toyota Corolla, which is donated by Wilder. From left are Angeline Parrish, 2019 winner;  Kim Skerbeck, 1995; Mary and Harry Hebert, 2002; Tom Baerman, winner along with wife Jackie in 2011; Dan Wilder; Steve Zenovic (2018); Annette Wendell, 1992; Dan Sinnes, 1998 and Zenovic's wife Nina. All of the past 30 winners of the car have been from Port Angeles and Sequim, except for one.