Nathan West

Opinion

How Operation Shielding Hope is changing our community

LIKE MANY COMMUNITIES, the opioid crisis has taken a heavy toll on Port Angeles.

Suzy Ames.

Breaking News

Peninsula College cuts to close $1.8M budget gap

Programs eliminated, 12 staff laid off amid declining enrollment, state funding

Park visitors look at a huge inflatable globe that was on display in the Commons at Fort Worden State Park for Global Earth Repair Convergence through Monday. The globe is the work of Eric James Morris of Orcas Island, sitting on the tailgate, who has been making globes for more than 40 years. The convergence had a number of workshops, panels, vendors and music over a five-day period to help bring the world together and to heal and cool the planet. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Global Earth Repair

Park visitors look at a huge inflatable globe that was on display in the Commons at Fort Worden…

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Timeline set for Port of Port Angeles position

Commissioners aim to fill seat by mid-July

Adelaide J. enjoys bubbles during Mess Express week. (Olympic Peninsula YMCA)

Opinion

Summer camp — making memories that last a lifetime

AS SPRING GIVES way to longer days and families begin planning for the months ahead, many parents are…

James McGrath Morris.

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Writer-in-residence set for public events

Biographer to speak during Thursday’s Studium lecture

Violinist Miranda Liu of Budapest, Hungary, will join the Port Angeles Symphony Chamber Orchestra for its season finale concerts this week. (Miranda Liu)

Arts & Entertainment

Soloist from Budapest to join chamber orchestra for season finale concerts

‘Thoughtful musician’ to play violin concerto on Friday and Saturday

Port Angeles’ Jack Gladfelter, running for Corban University in Salem, Ore., won the 10K at the Cascade Collegiate Conference championships in La Grande, Ore.

Sports

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Gladfelter wins CCC 10K championship and Lincoln Park BMX open house

LA GRANDE, Ore. — Three former Port Angeles Roughriders competed in the Cascade Collegiate Conference Track and Field…

Business

Todd Ortloff Show guests this week

PORT ANGELES — Here is this week’s schedule for the 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Todd Ortloff Show…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: ‘Sterling performance’

I have just experienced one of the most powerful musical programs of my life. And it was a…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Fireworks pollute

This year, the city of Port Angeles has reversed its position from last year, disregarding its own laws…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Priority on safety

What’s broken in our communities can’t be fixed by politics, so I applaud Calico Cat’s recent forum on…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Tax system flawed

Veronique de Rugy’s recent column on tax myths gets the numbers mostly right but tells only half the…

Stevens Middle School seventh-graders Olivia Blank, left, Taylor Cummings and Abby Zajkowski were among the 450 students who wrote their names on a 30-foot-long iron wide flange beam — one of four lifted into place Thursday on the new Hurricane Ridge Middle School that will open in fall 2027. Also signing the beams were the Port Angeles School Board, the Port Angeles Capital Advisory Committee and members from Integrus Architecture, FORMA Construction and Vanir construction management teams. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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Middle school milestone

Stevens Middle School seventh-graders Olivia Blank, left, Taylor Cummings and Abby Zajkowski were among the 450 students who…

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Port Angeles School District to cut 8 FTEs in budget

Thirteen positions also gone due to attrition

Life

ISSUES OF FAITH: The unconditional love of mothers

THE GIVING TREE by Shel Silverstein is a children’s book about a boy and a tree.

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Olympic Medical Center’s clean audit still has concerns

Commissioner calls it a ‘very sobering report’

Carmen Geyer, Senior and Community Center Manager, City of Port Angeles.

Opinion

Champion your health: A community invitation this older Americans month

EACH MAY, COMMUNITIES across the country recognize Older Americans Month, led by the Administration for Community Living. Established…

Casey McDonald, Esperanda Salazar, standing, and Malena Marquez look over a handmade sign for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People march on Tuesday in Port Angeles. About three dozen people made signs as part of the event. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Remembering the missing and murdered

Casey McDonald, Esperanda Salazar, standing, and Malena Marquez look over a handmade sign for the Missing and Murdered…

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Crescent names finalists for post

Two to meet public for superintendent job