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State Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in Port Angeles next week

Justices will visit schools, meet public with Q&A sessions

Life

A GROWING CONCERN: Thirteen steps into summer gardening

AS WE HEAD into Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer is here. The outdoor grilling season…

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…

Life

ISSUES OF FAITH: Until the end of time, be with us

Readings: The Lessons Appointed for Use on the Day of Pentecost, Year A, RCL.

Ann Reynolds-Pearl, left, of Port Townsend and Joy Ruddell of Bodega Bay, Calif., along with husbands David Rudell, pointing, and Mack Pearl, look closely at an exact-scale reproduction of the Spirit of St. Louis on display Thursday at the Port Townsend Aero Museum. Built in Burlington, Wash., by John Norman with JNE Aviation, it is considered the definitive reproduction of the historic Spirit of St. Louis that Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic in 1927 to become the first person to fly solo across that body of water to land outside Paris, France. One of only five in existence, the original is at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. This version of the Spirit of St. Louis will be on permanent display in the Port Townsend museum. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Replicating history

Ann Reynolds-Pearl, left, of Port Townsend and Joy Ruddell of Bodega Bay, Calif., along with husbands David Rudell,…

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OMC board to pursue permanent executive

Public concerns rise over staffing, morale

Port Angeles Police Chief Brian Smith

Opinion

Teaming up and slowing down

I BEGAN MY law enforcement career in 1981. Ronald Reagan was president, and the nation watched the first…

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Business

Roadmap to success in government contracting

GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING OFFERS a powerful pathway for business growth, but success requires more than simply responding to bids.…

Walter Trial, 79, of Sequim, picks up his new Toyota Corrolla at the Wilder Toyota Showroom on Tuesday after his duck was selected for the top prize during the 37th annual Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Duck Derby winner

Walter Trial, 79, of Sequim, picks up his new Toyota Corrolla at the Wilder Toyota Showroom on Tuesday…

Opinion

The perception gap: Don’t yuck my yum

SO WE’VE BEEN cursed to live in interesting times.

Janine Ledford, right, the executive director of the Makah Museum in Neah Bay, received a donation of authentic Makah baskets from Marcia Logan. The three-basket set made of cedar bark and bear grass were judged to be in good condition. They were estimated to be 70 to 75 years old. The baskets were originally in the possession of Logan’s grandparents Albert and Norma Gustafson of Port Angeles, who died decades ago. The baskets have been treasured for all those years. Logan decided to take them to the museum, as they were handmade by Makah members of the past. (Rebekah Monette)

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Basket donation

Janine Ledford, right, the executive director of the Makah Museum in Neah Bay, received a donation of authentic…

Leah Speser, J.D., Ph.D., of Port Townsend is the Peninsula College Board of Trustees’ newest member. She was appointed by Gov. Bob Ferguson in January. (Peninsula College)

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Declining enrollment, lack of state dollars key to college cuts

Tensions discussed between administrators, staff at trustees meeting

Paula Watson, director of Peninsula College’s dental hygiene program, shows visitors the school’s nearly completed dental clinic, where the first cohort of 10 students will begin learning radiology, digital imaging, teeth cleaning and other preventive dental care as part of the new program that will launch this fall. The college developed the program with significant financial support from U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Seattle, and from Delta Dental of Washington to help workforce shortages and address gaps in dental care. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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Peninsula College to launch new dental program this fall

Federal funding helps get two-year program started in Port Angeles

Spring 2026 Hope Navigator Training Cohort. (Clallam Resilience Project)

Opinion

Hope takes root: The Olympic Peninsula’s Hope Navigators begin their work

SOMETHING REMARKABLE IS happening on the Olympic Peninsula. Fifty community members — from school counselors and healthcare workers…

Phillip Beck, the sales manger at Wilder Toyota, pulls the winning duck from a Wilder truck and hands it to be checked to Bruce Skinner, the executive director of the Olympic Medical Center Foundation. The sales of the 29,152 ducks will support the foundation’s purchase of needed medical equipment at the hospital. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Sequim man wins top prize in Great Peninsula Duck Derby

Wilder Auto donates a Toyota Corolla for fundraising event

The Chimacum High School marching band marches along Lawrence Street in Port Townsend during the 91st Rhododendron Parade on Saturday. The band will play in Washington, D.C., during the Fourth of July parade to celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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March to their own drum

The Chimacum High School marching band marches along Lawrence Street in Port Townsend during the 91st Rhododendron Parade…

Intern Kiah Brown displays a European green crab, one of more than 300 caught in the first couple of weeks of trapping at the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge. (Michael Dashiell)

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Volunteers remove invasive European green crab

Dungeness Nature Alliance aids effort to preserve habitat on Dungeness Spit

A photo provided by Senior Airman Xavier Wilson/U.S. Air Force shows the U.S. Air Force demonstration squadron Thunderbirds on the tarmac at the Gunfighter Skies air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho on Sunday. Video shared on social media showed the jets striking each other and spinning toward the ground. At least four parachutes were deployed before the planes crashed. (Senior Airman Xavier Wilson/U.S. Air Force via The New York Times)

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Two military jets collide in midair at Idaho air show

Growlers based at Whidbey Island, pilots ejected

Life

A GROWING CONCERN: Get water wise for great gardening

IT IS SO wonderful to finally see some rain this last week, whereas it is already too dry…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Concentration camps

It should come as no surprise that the current administration’s anti-immigrant policies and the rush to build more…