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Jefferson County letter addresses funding obligation

Board says prosecuting attorneys will try fewer cases

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Planning workshop to cover Port Townsend comprehensive plan

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend City Council, Port Townsend Planning Commission and the SCI Alliance will conduct…

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Access to Paradise Bay road to close for three weeks

PORT LUDLOW — Access from state Highway 104 to Paradise Bay Road will close to all traffic at…

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Clallam County commissioners to host budget presentations

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County commissioners will present the county’s proposed 2025 budget at a series of…

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Public comment open on proposed PNNL aquatic research

SEQUIM — The U.S. Department of Energy will host public meetings at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday.

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‘Your voice’ program aims to increase civil engagement

PORT TOWNSEND — Owl 360, Antioch University and the Jefferson County Clemente Course will present “Why Care? Your…

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Five rescued from tug off coast of La Push

Concrete barge waiting to be towed to shore

Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay P. Evans.

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Two Navy crew members who went missing after crash identified

Two U.S. Navy crew members who were missing after their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier during a training…

Sales of fireworks will be prohibited in Sequim city limits effective late October 2025 after Sequim city council members voted to restrict the sale. The decision comes seven years after former city council members voted to ban the discharge of fireworks in city limits. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group file)

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Sequim to ban fireworks sales

Ordinance to go into effect next fall

The West Sequim Bay Corridor Project, including a lift station at Forrest Road, is the largest project for the city of Sequim in 2025. Nick Dostie, Sequim’s city engineer and deputy director of public works, previously said the city plans to go to bid in the second or third quarter of 2025, with construction possibly starting in the first quarter of 2026, and pipeline and lift station construction complete in the third or fourth quarter of 2028. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim’s $58M budget largest in history

Utility rate increase continues three-year plan

Karyn Bocko of Port Angeles, front, looks at mushroom merchandise at the annual Fungi Festival on Saturday at the Clallam County Fairgrounds. Looking on at right is Freya Gereke of Portland-based Odd Fox & Fern. The two-day event brought together mushroom fans for a weekend of fungus appreciation, along with food, merchandise and workshops. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Fungi Festival at Fairgrounds

Karyn Bocko of Port Angeles, front, looks at mushroom merchandise at the annual Fungi Festival on Saturday at…

Pat Boyd of Port Angeles picks out a tree during Saturday’s tree giveaway in the Port Angeles City Hall parking lot. The event, part of the City Shade Tree program, offered a selection of scarlet oaks/American red oaks, Garry oaks/Oregon white oaks and Katsura trees to be planted along city rights-of-way. The city handed out about 140 trees last year, the first year of the program. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Tree selection in Port Angeles

Pat Boyd of Port Angeles picks out a tree during Saturday’s tree giveaway in the Port Angeles City…

Patrick Young of Sequim pulls a cart containing his son, Ellis Young, 2 1/2, and freshly picked pumpkins on Saturday at the pumpkin patch at Agnew Grocery east of Port Angeles. The family was out in a light rain to collect the perfect Jack ‘o Lantern for Halloween. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Rolling along

Patrick Young of Sequim pulls a cart containing his son, Ellis Young, 2 1/2, and freshly picked pumpkins…

Craig Warden and wife Morgana of Port Townsend spend Saturday afternoon looking for the perfect pumpkin for holiday cooking and decorating at the Dharma Ridge Farm off Center Road in Chimacum Valley. The patch will be open at least one more weekend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Pumpkin hunting

Craig Warden and wife Morgana of Port Townsend spend Saturday afternoon looking for the perfect pumpkin for holiday…

Beeler Van Orman of Port Angeles tosses a glass bottle into a recycling bin on Thursday at the Regional Transfer Station in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Clallam, Jefferson counties no longer able to recycle glass

City of Sequim able to continue with different processor

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Jefferson Healthcare considers its 2025 budget

About 60 percent of costs comes from labor, CFO says

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Peninsula College produces $44M in economic impact

Economic influence grows by 15 percent

About two dozen took part in a community cold plunge in the 48-degree waters of Port Townsend Bay on Thursday to celebrate the biggest super moon of the year. Although the moon wasn’t due to rise for at least another hour, that didn’t dampen the participants’ entry into the bay next to the Port Townsend Marine Science Center aquarium. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Taking the plunge

About two dozen took part in a community cold plunge in the 48-degree waters of Port Townsend Bay…

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Woman injured in rollover collision south of Brinnon

BRINNON — A 74-year-old woman was transported to Jefferson Healthcare hospital following a rollover collision on U.S. Highway…

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EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Jefferson commissioners to discuss defense caseloads

Meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula