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The audience Wednesday night at Concert on the Pier. Peninsula Daily News

Rousing, packed performance at Port Angeles’ Concert on the Pier by Lobo Del Mar

ALMOST 1,000 PEOPLE crowded onto the City Pier area of Port Angeles for Wednesday night's Concert on the Pier by Lobo Del Mar. Lobo Del… Continue reading

The audience Wednesday night at Concert on the Pier. Peninsula Daily News
A fundraiser: Help with July 4 Port Angeles fireworks show sought by Chamber of Commerce

A fundraiser: Help with July 4 Port Angeles fireworks show sought by Chamber of Commerce

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce, which is putting on the gala fireworks show that climaxes the town's Independence Day celebration… Continue reading

A fundraiser: Help with July 4 Port Angeles fireworks show sought by Chamber of Commerce
Wilder Baseball's Tanner Rhodefer pitches against the Northwest Blaze last week. Wilder hosts the Firecracker Classic today through Sunday at Civic Field. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

BASEBALL: Wilder hosts Firecracker Classic today through Sunday

PORT ANGELES — The 17th annual Dick Brown Memorial Firecracker Classic opens today with four games at Civic Field. The eight-team Firecracker Classic runs through… Continue reading

Wilder Baseball's Tanner Rhodefer pitches against the Northwest Blaze last week. Wilder hosts the Firecracker Classic today through Sunday at Civic Field. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Fiddle Tunes concerts start Friday in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Centrum’s annual celebration of traditional music, culminates in three public performances at Fort Worden State Park,… Continue reading

NEWS BRIEFS: Paradise Fire creeping up Pelton Peak . . . and other items

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The Paradise Fire continued to creep slowly up the slope of 5,301-foot Pelton Peak on Wednesday, fire officials said. The fire… Continue reading

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Port Angeles School District hires new business services director

PORT ANGELES — An accounting manager from Lakewood has been tapped as the new director of finance and operations for the Port Angeles School District.… Continue reading

David Knechtel
A single-car accident sent a 75-year-old Port Hadlock man to Harborview Medical Center on Wednesday. — Bill Beezley/East Jefferson Fire-Rescue

State Patrol: Sleep causes two separate wrecks in East Jefferson County; drivers taken to Harborview Medical Center

A Port Hadlock man and a Nordland woman were airlifted to a Seattle hospital after they fell asleep and crashed their cars in separate wrecks… Continue reading

A single-car accident sent a 75-year-old Port Hadlock man to Harborview Medical Center on Wednesday. — Bill Beezley/East Jefferson Fire-Rescue
Vote for your favorites in Swain's Little Slugger Photo Contest!

Vote for your favorites in Swain’s Little Slugger Photo Contest!

THE ENTRIES ARE in, and voting is under way to determine the winners of prizes in Swain's General Store's 58th anniversary Little Slugger Photo Contest!… Continue reading

Vote for your favorites in Swain's Little Slugger Photo Contest!
A steel barrier marks the edge of a bluff above where the body of a woman was found on the beach at the end of West 10th Street in Port Angeles on Monday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Woman found dead on Port Angeles beach had been reported missing, ‘in crisis’

PORT ANGELES — A woman whose friends had reported her missing and emotionally “in crisis,” according to police reports, was found dead Monday night on… Continue reading

A steel barrier marks the edge of a bluff above where the body of a woman was found on the beach at the end of West 10th Street in Port Angeles on Monday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
A fundraiser: Help with July 4 Port Angeles fireworks show sought by Chamber of Commerce

A fundraiser: Help with July 4 Port Angeles fireworks show sought by Chamber of Commerce

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce, which is putting on the gala fireworks show that climaxes the town's Independence Day celebration… Continue reading

A fundraiser: Help with July 4 Port Angeles fireworks show sought by Chamber of Commerce
A single-car accident sent a 75-year-old Port Hadlock man to Harborview Medical Center on Wednesday. Bill Beezley/East Jefferson Fire-Rescue

State Patrol: Sleep causes two separate wrecks in East Jefferson County; drivers taken to Harborview Medical Center

A Port Hadlock man and a Nordland woman were airlifted to a Seattle hospital after they fell asleep and crashed their cars in separate wrecks… Continue reading

A single-car accident sent a 75-year-old Port Hadlock man to Harborview Medical Center on Wednesday. Bill Beezley/East Jefferson Fire-Rescue
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FREE MUSIC: Concert on the Pier in Port Angeles tonight — 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.! [Plus summer concert schedules for Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Sequim]

THE PENINSULA'S TRIBUTE to the summer — the three free outdoor community concert series in Port Angeles, Port Townsend and Sequim — are in full… Continue reading

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BUSINESS BRIEF: Sequim contractors complete training for ‘preferred’ status with Port Angeles, PUD

SEQUIM — Bill and Anna Mair of Bill Mair Heating and Air Inc., 80 Valley Farm Court, have completed all the requirements and training to… Continue reading

NEWS BRIEFS: Port of Port Angeles to meet today in special session . . . and other items

PORT ANGELES — Port of Port Angeles commissioners will meet in a special session at 1:30 p.m. today in the meeting room of port headquarters,… Continue reading

Olympic Medical Center is developing plans to have a retaining wall retaining structure built into the bluff on the northwest edge of the hospital building in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Olympic Medical Center plans retaining wall to minimize erosion

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center plans to build a retaining wall to minimize topsoil erosion on the northwest side of its building at 939… Continue reading

Olympic Medical Center is developing plans to have a retaining wall retaining structure built into the bluff on the northwest edge of the hospital building in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

SPORTS BRIEFS: Port Angeles volleyball camp . . . Adult coed softball . . . BMX events . . . Port Townsend surf event . . . Area high school runners invited to cross country All-Star race . . . Madison honored

Roughriders hosting volleyball camp PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles High School volleyball team is holding a camp July 13-16 at the high school gymnasium.… Continue reading

Vote for your favorites in Swain's Little Slugger Photo Contest!

Vote for your favorites in Swain’s Little Slugger Photo Contest!

THE ENTRIES ARE in, and voting is under way to determine the winners of prizes in Swain's General Store's 58th anniversary Little Slugger Photo Contest!… Continue reading

Vote for your favorites in Swain's Little Slugger Photo Contest!
A steel barrier marks the edge of a bluff above where the body of a woman was found on the beach at the end of West 10th Street in Port Angeles on Monday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Woman found dead on Port Angeles beach had been reported missing, ‘in crisis’

PORT ANGELES — A woman whose friends had reported her missing and emotionally “in crisis,” according to police reports, was found dead Monday night on… Continue reading

A steel barrier marks the edge of a bluff above where the body of a woman was found on the beach at the end of West 10th Street in Port Angeles on Monday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Second-degree rape charged after Port Angeles police investigation

PORT ANGELES — A 28-year-old man has been charged with second-degree rape and other crimes after a Port Angeles police investigation. David Lyle Schroeder, 28,… Continue reading

A steel barrier marks the edge of a bluff above where the body of a woman was found on the beach at the end of West 10th Street in Port Angeles on Monday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

UPDATE: Woman found dead on Port Angeles beach had been reported missing, ‘in crisis’

PORT ANGELES — A woman whose friends had reported her missing and emotionally “in crisis,” according to police reports, was found dead Monday night on… Continue reading

A steel barrier marks the edge of a bluff above where the body of a woman was found on the beach at the end of West 10th Street in Port Angeles on Monday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)