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WEEKEND: Boat parade, fairs abound on Peninsula

A holiday-lights boat parade in Port Angeles. Native basket-weaving and storytelling in Blyn. A crafts fair in Port…

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WEEKEND: Marine center offers gift shop sale, other events this weekend

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Marine Science Center offers special events this weekend. The center’s annual holiday…

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WEEKEND: Caroling, sales in Port Townsend for Saturday spending

PORT TOWNSEND — Carolers will stroll the streets and businesses will offer specials celebrating national Small Business Saturday…

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Christmas Tree lightings — Sequim today, Port Angeles on Saturday (and PT on Dec. 1)

PORT ANGELES — The lighting of this year’s Port Angeles Christmas Tree begins with music, holiday treats and…

'A hand up, not a handout': This season's Peninsula Home Fund campaign debuts

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‘A hand up, not a handout’: This season’s Peninsula Home Fund campaign debuts

A grandmother caring for two small children received help with her utility bills. An out-of-work logger in Quilcene…

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Economic times challenge 2012 Home Fund

One-hundred percent OF the Peninsula Daily News’ Peninsula Home Fund is used to help people. Every dollar donated…

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$254,593.73 worth of thank-yous to the 2011 Home Fund donors

During the 2011 holiday season, generous readers and supporters in Jefferson and Clallam counties raised a record-breaking $254,593.73…

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Port Angeles mayor to meet with Victoria council

PORT ANGELES — Mayor Cherie Kidd will travel to Victoria today to present a proclamation at the Victoria…

East Jefferson Fire-Rescue and Jefferson County Sheriff's Office personnel investigate a three-car wreck on state Highway 20 near Port Townsend on Tuesday. Crystal Craig

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Three cars involved in state Highway 20 wreck

PORT TOWNSEND — No injuries were reported after a three-vehicle collision on state Highway 20 earlier this week,…

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Clallam County marijuana cases go up in smoke

The Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office will dismiss five pending misdemeanor marijuana possession and paraphernalia charges following the…

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Cherish Our Children benefit lined up Nov. 30

LAPUSH — The city of Forks and the Quileute tribe are sponsoring the annual Cherish Our Children holiday…

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Sobriety patrols kick off today

Washington state’s first-ever Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign will begin today. Extra officers will be patrolling…

Turkey feasts offered across Peninsula

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Turkey feasts offered across Peninsula

Free community feasts are planned across the North Olympic Peninsula for Thanksgiving. Although most will be Thursday, two…

The 1888 former Puget Sound Cooperative Colony Congregational Church at the corner of First and Vine streets in Port Angeles will be remodeled in 2013 on its 125th anniversary.  -- Photo by Arwyn Rice/Peninsula Daily News

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Donations aid restoration of oldest church building in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The forest-products company Green Crow and Independent Bible Church have given a major lift to…

Ben Basden

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30 students honored with special lunch

PORT ANGELES — Thirty Stevens Middle School students were treated to lunch at the North Olympic Peninsula Skills…

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Land trust gets bequest to preserve longtime Dungeness Valley farm

Peninsula Daily News SEQUIM — Jane’s Farm, a 50-acre site near the intersection of Kitchen-Dick Road and Old…

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Where free Thanksgiving meals are served this week

Free community feasts are planned across the North Olympic Peninsula for Thanksgiving. Although most will be Thursday, two…

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Dry Creek Elementary receives $2,022 grant

PORT ANGELES — The Ben and Myrtle Walkling Memorial Trust has given Dry Creek Elementary School a $2,022.24…

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SPORTS: Peninsula College men’s and women’s soccer teams make history

TUKWILA — It will be a day that goes down in Peninsula College sports history. The Pirate women…

A barrier blocking access to Elwha Valley Road will be taken down Tuesday for its official opening to the public. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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Elwha Valley Road to open Tuesday with tribal ceremony

PORT ANGELES — A new access road to the Lower Elwha Klallam reservation west of town is expected…