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An oversized ornament for the opening ceremony at 5 p.m. Wednesday for the 32nd annual Festival of Trees this coming weekend is put in place on Sunday at the Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles, with volunteer Ricki Smith in the bucket, Matt Williams working inside the 14-foot-tall ornament and Laci Williams watching. Four of the huge round ornaments, a 20-foot-tall tree and two fountains donated by Microsoft to the Olympic Medical Center Foundation, will be lit up outside the community center during a free 20-minute ceremony that also will include performances by the Port Angeles Symphony, Ballet Workshop and Ghostlight Productions. A limited number of tickets, which will provide seats under cover outside and a sneak preview of the trees to be auctioned off on Friday, are available for $20 by going to omcf.org. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Festival ornaments

An oversized ornament for the opening ceremony at 5 p.m. Wednesday for the 32nd annual Festival of Trees…

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LETTER:Letter campaign

Every year around Human Rights Day on Dec. 10, the Olympic Peninsula Amnesty International chapter invites everyone to…

Eli Hammel of the City of Port Angeles starts on Wednesday the three-day task of putting 10,000 lights on a Christmas tree while suspended in a lift bucket. The tree, which came from city property, will adorn the downtown Conrad Dyer plaza at the foot of Laurel Street. No tree-lighting ceremony is planned but Small Business Weekend is set after Thanksgiving. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Holiday deals to be offered in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Downtown merchants will offer special deals during Small Business Weekend after Thanksgiving.

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East Jefferson Fire District approves budget, levies

Commissioners to discuss levy lid lift next month

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A GROWING CONCERN: Recycle clippings into standout holiday decor

WELL, LAST WEEK was somewhat nasty weather — and then this week, wonderful sunny skies.

Darby Berg and Karl Sachs, both 12, are among the first to climb onto artist Rebecca Welti’s sea creature sculpture at the JUMP— Jefferson Universal Movement Playground — in Chimacum.

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JUMP Playground opens at H.J. Carroll County Park

Darby Berg and Karl Sachs, both 12, are among the first to climb onto artist Rebecca Welti’s sea…

The Winter Ice Village in downtown Port Angeles is open for another season of ice skating. Tiadosa Tom, age 9 in pink, and her cousin Annabella Mason, age 4, are glad the Ice Village finally opened on Friday. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Winter Ice Village opens in Port Angeles

The Winter Ice Village in downtown Port Angeles is open for another season of ice skating. Tiadosa Tom,…

Clallam Transit’s new on-demand van service Interlink will start operating in downtown Sequim and Forks on Dec. 12. Similar to Uber or Lyft, riders can use an app to schedule, monitor and pay for rides. Clallam Transit’s board approved the change in service at its Wednesday meeting. Interlink replaces the current shuttle service.

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Transit board approves on-demand van service in Sequim and Forks

Riders able to schedule pickups through an app

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Port Angeles School District shares progress of Native American students

Collaboration with Lower Elwha focus of board meeting

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Community split in golf stakeholder meeting

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LETTER: Good election

I served as a Democratic Party poll watcher at election headquarters at the Clallam County Courthouse.

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Port Angeles School Board settles with former special education teacher

Lawsuit claimed gender discrimination

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A cyclist enters the tunnel under Discovery Road at the 3-mile marker on the Larry Scott Memorial Trail south of Port Townsend. The now-cleared segment is part of the Olympic Discovery Trail across East Jefferson and Clallam counties, where a number of trees had blocked passage after the Nov. 4 storm. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Tunnel vision

A cyclist enters the tunnel under Discovery Road at the 3-mile marker on the Larry Scott Memorial Trail…

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The 65-ton Gretchen H tugboat got a bath at the Boat Haven in Port Townsend on Monday. After the marine travel-lift brought her out of the water, maintenance workers including Chad Tichgelaar pressure washed the 81-foot vessel under a bright sun. “It was a heckuva haul-out,” Tichgelaar said. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/For Peninsula Daily News)

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‘A heckuva haul-out’

The 65-ton Gretchen H tugboat got a bath at the Boat Haven in Port Townsend on Monday.