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Hospice orientation sessions planned

Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County will conduct both an online orientation and an in-person session for potential volunteers. An in-person session will… Continue reading

Coho cancellations announced

Black Ball Transport cancelled its 2 p.m. Wednesday sailing to Victoria, as well as the 4 p.m. return sailing and all sailings… Continue reading

Finalists for the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce’s 2022 Sequim Citizen of the Year award include, from left, Monica Dixon, David Blakeslee and Lynn Horton. Blakeslee, the Sequim Valley Lions Club president, received the award at The Cedars at Dungeness. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Blakeslee selected Sequim’s Citizen of the Year

Lions president lauded for volunteer efforts at numerous festivals

Finalists for the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce’s 2022 Sequim Citizen of the Year award include, from left, Monica Dixon, David Blakeslee and Lynn Horton. Blakeslee, the Sequim Valley Lions Club president, received the award at The Cedars at Dungeness. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
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Peninsula's Chasity Selden, right, drives to the lane as Bellevue's Jadyn Mueller runs interference on Wednesday night in Port Angeles.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Peninsula men, women to cut the nets

Pirates share North titles for first time since 2015

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Peninsula's Chasity Selden, right, drives to the lane as Bellevue's Jadyn Mueller runs interference on Wednesday night in Port Angeles.
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Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Bottomfish season opens in Washington coastal marine areas on March 11.

OUTDOORS: Seasons set for razor clams, bottomfish, halibut

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife shellfish managers this week confirmed coastal razor clam, halibut and bottomfish spring seasons. Coastal razor clam digging… Continue reading

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Bottomfish season opens in Washington coastal marine areas on March 11.

PAT NEAL: The legend of the skunk cabbage

unless it is the skunk cabbage in the snow. This swamp-dwelling harbinger of spring… Continue reading

Janine Kirby, EVS Tech II, prepares the machine for service. (Jefferson Healthcare)

Robot zapping germs at Port Townsend hospital

Jefferson Healthcare uses UV light to destroy pathogens

Janine Kirby, EVS Tech II, prepares the machine for service. (Jefferson Healthcare)
Leelah Smith.

$1,000 reward offered for info on missing woman

The family of a Lower Elwha Klallam woman missing since Jan. 10 is offering a $1,000 cash reward for “information that directly… Continue reading

Leelah Smith.
Claire Henninger, Western Washington University goalkeeper

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Sequim’s Henninger part of Seattle awards ceremony

The national champion Western Washington University women’s soccer team will be recognized today at the 88th annual Seattle Sports Star of the Year… Continue reading

Claire Henninger, Western Washington University goalkeeper
Karen Hackenberg

Artist featured at Studium Generale

Artist Karen Hackenberg, whose solo exhibition is featured in Peninsula College’s PUD, will be the featured speaker at the free Studium Generale… Continue reading

Karen Hackenberg
Ryana Moss, Neah Bay girls basketball

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Ryana Moss, Neah Bay girls basketball

With the Neah Bay girls basketball team’s offense struggling, the Red Devils found themselves quickly down in a 9-1 hole against Waterville-Mansfield in their 1B… Continue reading

Ryana Moss, Neah Bay girls basketball

Clallam County may incentivize hiring, retention for certain positions

Deputy prosecuting attorney, public works, nurses are among jobs

Rick Paschall.

Clallam PUD board member resigns

Agency to conduct interviews in April

Rick Paschall.
With Whidbey Island as a backdrop, a flock of brants, small geese, turns into the wind before landing in the Salish Sea at Point Hudson. The brants winter along temperate zone seacoasts and breed in the high Arctic tundra. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Flight of the brants

With Whidbey Island as a backdrop, a flock of brants, small geese, turns into the wind before landing in the Salish Sea at Point Hudson.… Continue reading

With Whidbey Island as a backdrop, a flock of brants, small geese, turns into the wind before landing in the Salish Sea at Point Hudson. The brants winter along temperate zone seacoasts and breed in the high Arctic tundra. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Jefferson approves final rescue plan dollars

Commissioners allocate remaining $800K

South Jefferson County schools release students early due to weather

Students were released early from the Quilcene and Brinnon public schools on Monday because of weather conditions. The Quilcene School District announced an… Continue reading

Story Slam planned in Port Townsend

The Church of BuVu and Winter Texts will host PT Story Slam from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday. The free open… Continue reading

Will Hornyak

Storyteller to present Irish tales on Wednesday

“I’ll be telling you about a woman who was a warrior, a fighter, a protector, a leader. She was born in the year 1530 on… Continue reading

Will Hornyak