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A GROWING CONCERN: The neverending tale of horsetail

I LOVE IT here on the Peninsula, gardening heaven, but our gardening Nirvana has also been shattered by…

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Todd Ortloff Show guests this week

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Letters to the Editor

LETTER:A triumph

We celebrate the unanimous vote by the Washington state Legislature approving $13 million for a 16-bed drug treatment…

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LETTER:Save watershed

We should not be logging in the Elwha watershed.

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PASD only Peninsula district to join social media lawsuit

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles School District is the lone public school district on the North Olympic…

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Local school districts reach settlement with Juul

Part of nationwide class-action lawsuit

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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None…

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LETTER:Music program

Here we are again: enrollment declining, special education underfunded, school funding formulas changing, a global pandemic whose impacts…

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How much impact do you think short-term rentals are having on the Peninsula’s housing shortage?

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LETTER:Mass shootings

In the “Speaking Out” segment (PDN, April 29), people were asked to comment on the assault weapon ban…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER:Gun law

Sen. Kevin Van De Wege voted “No” on Substitute Senate Bill 1240, the “Assault Weapons” ban, because he…

Artwork by Stephanie Kunz, a featured artist at Locally Known Cowork, 112 W. Washington St. during the First Friday Art Walk on May 5. (Stephanie Kunz)

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Sequim Art Walk offers Irrigation Fest theme

Fanciful hats also encouraged

A volunteer cleans up needles used for drug injection that were found at a homeless encampment in Everett on Nov. 8, 2017. A temporary law that makes possession of small amounts of drugs a misdemeanor expires on July 1, so if lawmakers fail to pass a bill, Washington would become the second state — after neighboring Oregon — to decriminalize drug possession. Lawmakers said Tuesday they were increasingly optimistic a compromise will be reached to avoid those consequences. (Ted S. Warren/The Associated Press, file)

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Drug policy sparks special session

State would decriminalize possession if law expires

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Do you think state lawmakers will be quick when they reconvene May 16 to fix a drug law that’s set to expire July 1?

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Unsolved cases include murder, disappearances

By Paul Gottlieb

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What is a cold case?

By Paul Gottlieb

Lower Elwha Police Chief Sam White was on a task force that explored the issue of missing and murdered indigenous people statewide. (Paul Gottlieb/Special to Peninsula Daily News)

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Missing, murdered indigenous legislation signed

Task force to seek answers to unsolved cases

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March set for Friday

PORT ANGELES — A march from the Vern Burton Community Center to downtown Port Angeles will highlight a…

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Do you agree with the Biden administration’s move to send 1,500 troops to the southern border in anticipation of a migrant surge?

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