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Nearly 300 runners take off in the Run the Peninsula's Sequim Railroad Bridge run Saturday morning. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

RUN THE PENINSULA: Sequim Bridge Run boasts ideal conditions for 300 competitors

Second in racing series includes 5K, 10K distances

Nearly 300 runners take off in the Run the Peninsula's Sequim Railroad Bridge run Saturday morning. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Joan Mickelson of Anacortes, left, and Doug Atterbury of Port Angeles scour the shores of Port Angeles Harbor on Ediz Hook on Saturday looking for refuse as an Earth Day activity in Port Angeles. Washington CoastSavers and Olympic National Park, as well as several other organizations, hosted beach cleanups across the North Olympic Peninsula. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Earth Day cleanup

Joan Mickelson of Anacortes, left, and Doug Atterbury of Port Angeles scour the shores of Port Angeles Harbor on Ediz Hook on Saturday looking for… Continue reading

Joan Mickelson of Anacortes, left, and Doug Atterbury of Port Angeles scour the shores of Port Angeles Harbor on Ediz Hook on Saturday looking for refuse as an Earth Day activity in Port Angeles. Washington CoastSavers and Olympic National Park, as well as several other organizations, hosted beach cleanups across the North Olympic Peninsula. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Artist Emily Carlquist, seen here before one of her abstract multi-media pieces featuring acrylic paint on textured canvas with needle-woven local fiber warped on canvas, on display at Dandelion Botanical for the month of April. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Fiber artist’s debut show at Dandelion Botanical

Closing party, celebration set for Saturday

  • Apr 24, 2023
  • By Emily Matthiessen Olympic Peninsula News Group
  • Clallam County
Artist Emily Carlquist, seen here before one of her abstract multi-media pieces featuring acrylic paint on textured canvas with needle-woven local fiber warped on canvas, on display at Dandelion Botanical for the month of April. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Ida Shantz, 5, of Port Angeles looks over a sheet of stenciled letters with her grandmother, Patricia Kessler of Woodburn, Ore., at a cardboard crown craft table during Saturday’s Barn Dance at the Clallam County Fairgrounds to benefit the Five Acre School north of Sequim. The dance also included food, entertainment, children’s activities and a silent auction. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Five Acre School benefit

Ida Shantz, 5, of Port Angeles looks over a sheet of stenciled letters with her grandmother, Patricia Kessler of Woodburn, Ore., at a cardboard crown… Continue reading

Ida Shantz, 5, of Port Angeles looks over a sheet of stenciled letters with her grandmother, Patricia Kessler of Woodburn, Ore., at a cardboard crown craft table during Saturday’s Barn Dance at the Clallam County Fairgrounds to benefit the Five Acre School north of Sequim. The dance also included food, entertainment, children’s activities and a silent auction. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
East Jefferson, Sequim.

PREP ROUNDUP: Sequim, East Jefferson athletes shine at Li’l Norway track meet

Sequim’s Mirek Skov and East Jefferson’s Reid Martin and Ellise Gardner were winners at the Li’l Norway Invitational track and field meet held… Continue reading

East Jefferson, Sequim.

Transport fee rates adjusted in Jefferson

Ambulance hikes are in line with Port Ludlow

Sequim's Lainey Vig pitched a complete game victory against Bainbridge on Friday, allowing just four hits and one earned runs. Here, she is pitching against North Mason at home on March 30. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

FRIDAY PREP ROUNDUP: Sequim softball crushes Bainbridge 23-4

The red-hot Sequim softball team scored 15 runs in the first two innings and went on to crush Bainbridge 23-4 on the road… Continue reading

Sequim's Lainey Vig pitched a complete game victory against Bainbridge on Friday, allowing just four hits and one earned runs. Here, she is pitching against North Mason at home on March 30. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Van De Wege lone Democratic senator to oppose gun ban

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been corrected to show that it was Justice Antonin Scalia who said the Second Amendment right “is not unlimited” in… Continue reading

Paul Gottlieb/for Peninsula Daily News Gun store owner Jim Rogers expects to weather an impending ban on assault weapon sales.

Assault weapons sale ban approved

Peninsula gun shop owners weigh-in on ban

  • Apr 22, 2023
  • By Paul Gottlieb Special to the Peninsula Daily News
Paul Gottlieb/for Peninsula Daily News Gun store owner Jim Rogers expects to weather an impending ban on assault weapon sales.
Manchester's Harold Hordyk caught this blackmouth chinook while fishing off Sekiu. State fisheries managers said Marine Area 5 will close to salmon retention beginning Monday.

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Chinook retention closing Monday off Sekiu

Anglers have today and Sunday to reel in the last blackmouth chinook of the season.… Continue reading

Manchester's Harold Hordyk caught this blackmouth chinook while fishing off Sekiu. State fisheries managers said Marine Area 5 will close to salmon retention beginning Monday.
This sonar image of the Pythias Oasis site shows bubbles rising from the seafloor about two-thirds of a mile deep and 50 miles off Newport, Ore. These bubbles are a byproduct of a unique site where warm, chemically distinct fluid gushes from the seafloor. Researchers believe this fluid comes directly from the Cascadia megathrust zone, or plate boundary, and helps control stress buildup between the two plates.Philip et al./Science Advances

Undersea ‘oasis’ sheds new light on plate tectonics

Seepage doesn’t mean an earthquake is imminent

This sonar image of the Pythias Oasis site shows bubbles rising from the seafloor about two-thirds of a mile deep and 50 miles off Newport, Ore. These bubbles are a byproduct of a unique site where warm, chemically distinct fluid gushes from the seafloor. Researchers believe this fluid comes directly from the Cascadia megathrust zone, or plate boundary, and helps control stress buildup between the two plates.Philip et al./Science Advances

A GROWING CONCERN: Now is the time for cool-tolerant plants

JUST SO YOU know, I’m outraged and furious! Again this week, as I was getting various vegetable seed for a huge kitchen garden I am… Continue reading

Anderson Lake closed due to toxin

Anderson Lake is closed due to an elevated level of the potent nerve toxin anatoxin-a found in a water sample. Test results… Continue reading

Officer Lilliana Emery, Officer Kyle Cooper and Cpl. Jeff Ordona, from left. were recognized by the Port Angeles City Council for their actions in saving a man in a burning car. The three received Life Saving Medals and Meritorious Service Medals.

Awards recognize Port Angeles officers

Port Angeles Police Officers Lilliana Emery and Kyle Cooper and Cpl. Jeff Ordona have been recognized for heroic actions in rescuing a driver… Continue reading

Officer Lilliana Emery, Officer Kyle Cooper and Cpl. Jeff Ordona, from left. were recognized by the Port Angeles City Council for their actions in saving a man in a burning car. The three received Life Saving Medals and Meritorious Service Medals.

Conservation easements applications

The Clallam County Conservation Futures Program is accepting applications for a second round of conservation futures easements on farmland. The program is… Continue reading

Mike Mingee

Diamond Point’s Mingee named to District 3 commission

Fills former fire commissioner Steven Chinn’s term

Mike Mingee

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

Breakfast meetings with networking and educational programs are held Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m. at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 DelGuzzi Drive… Continue reading

Health seminar scheduled Tuesday

Caitlin Daly will present a seminar on pelvic organ prolapse at 3 p.m. Tuesday. The free health seminar is in the Bay… Continue reading

Sequim’s high school equestrian team celebrates taking home the district 4 small teams Championship, along with belt buckles and medals at the end of their final district WAHSET competition. The team’s high scores also earned them 24 qualifying placements to compete at the State Finals in May. Standing from left: Coach Katie Newton, Celbie Karjalainen, Katelynn Sharpe, Lily Meyer, Kennady Gilbertson, Coach Bettina Hoesel, Assistant Coach Keri Tucker. Sitting from left: Libby Swanberg, Sydney Hutton, Paige Reed. Photo submitted by Katie Newton

HORSEPLAY: WAHSET competition; how to treat choking

THREE CHEERS AND a hip-hip hurrah for Sequim High School Equestrian Team, with Celbie Karjalainen, Kennady Gilbertson, Paige Reed, Katelynn Sharp, Rylie Smith, Sydney Hutton,… Continue reading

Sequim’s high school equestrian team celebrates taking home the district 4 small teams Championship, along with belt buckles and medals at the end of their final district WAHSET competition. The team’s high scores also earned them 24 qualifying placements to compete at the State Finals in May. Standing from left: Coach Katie Newton, Celbie Karjalainen, Katelynn Sharpe, Lily Meyer, Kennady Gilbertson, Coach Bettina Hoesel, Assistant Coach Keri Tucker. Sitting from left: Libby Swanberg, Sydney Hutton, Paige Reed. Photo submitted by Katie Newton

Jefferson board announces public health heroes

Dozen individuals, groups recognized