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Port Angeles approves increase in sales tax

Move raises city’s retail sales tax to 8.7 percent

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Port of Port Angeles approves hangar site design contract

Commissioners have first look at 2024 capital projects budget

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DOT truck breakdown causes backup east of Sequim

SEQUIM — A broken down state Department of Transportation construction truck backed up eastbound U.S. 101 traffic from…

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AREA SPORTS: Jefferson County Youth Basketball registration underway

Youth hoops, youth wrestling program registration available

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EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Port Townsend golf course, Sequim manufactured housing halt before panels next week

Government meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula

Petitions developed by local citizens seek to keep the “new” Towne Road unpaved and open to hikers and walkers. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Public comment sought about Sequim’s Towne Road future

Meeting for residents scheduled for Tuesday

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Sound regional publisher stresses local connections

Partnerships offer lifeline despite struggling industry

Tim Morland, front, and Rich Lear of Tualatin, Ore.-based Field Turf USA add fill to the playing surface at the new Monroe Athletic Field on Tuesday at the site of the former Monroe School near Roosevelt Elementary School in Port Angeles. The synthetic turf field, which is expected to be completed by mid-autumn, is being developed by the Port Angeles School District and will be available for community athletic events. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Monroe field prep

Tim Morland, front, and Rich Lear of Tualatin, Ore.-based Field Turf USA add fill to the playing surface…

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Power restored after more than 6,300 lose electricity

PORT ANGELES — A fault on a Bonneville Power Administration transmission line serving the West End knocked out…

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AREA SPORTS: Port Angeles AAU youth basketball tryouts set Oct. 3, 5 and 8

Feeder program for PAHS boys and girls basketball

A crew from Port Townsend Public Works watches as a backhoe removes water-logged timber from a sinkhole on Kearney Street outside the Food Co-op on Tuesday at the start of construction of a traffic circle at the intersection of state Highway 20/East Sims Way and Kearney Street in Port Townsend. Traffic heading eastbound toward Port Townsend will detour at Benedict Street and turn left on Washington Street to return to Highway 20/East Sims Way. Traffic going westbound away from Port Townsend will turn right at Kearney Street and left onto Jefferson Street to continue on Highway 20. The detour configuration will last about four weeks, according to the state Department of Transportation. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Roundabout construction

A crew from Port Townsend Public Works watches as a backhoe removes water-logged timber from a sinkhole on…

Members of the Bagley family of Forsyth, Ill., from left, parents Jessica and Cameron Bagley, and children Cody, 10, Addie, 12, and C.J., 7, look at an information kiosk on the Olympic National Park wildfires on Tuesday in front of the park visitor center in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Blazes spread in center of Olympic National Park

Large helicopters requested to keep fires at bay

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Olympic Medical Center candidates discuss hospital finances during business forum

Two commission hopefuls are both running unopposed

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Wreck shuts down US 101 south of Brinnon for five hours

BRINNON — A semitrailer driver accused of falling asleep at the wheel before running off the roadway south…

Peninsula College sophomores Ian Coughran, left, and Ciera Skelly were two of seven students participating in the inaugural Pathway Summer School at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory this summer that focused on education and career development in STEM fields. Both Coughran and Skelly plan to pursue degrees in environmental science. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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Internship through college presents career pathways

Students part of inaugural class at Sequim laboratory

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Bathrooms possible at Ridge in November

Utility project may allow winter access

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DNR: Decision on land transfers could be soon

Agency considering Dabob Bay request

Lakeside Industries will pave about a half-mile stretch of North Sequim Avenue on weekday nights for three weeks starting Wednesday. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim paving project to be completed at night

Further stretch of roadway set for more improvements this year

Port of Port Townsend Executive Director Eron Berg’s first Drinks with the Director will be on Wednesday.

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Port of PT’s Berg invites ‘Drinks with the Director’

PORT TOWNSEND — Executive Director Eron Berg of the Port of Port Townsend has invited port-based workers and…

Wildfire smoke from the Olympic National Park makes its way over Sequim and the Dungeness Valley from Dungeness Cemetery on Saturday. (Steve Jones)

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Wildfires surge in Olympic National Park

Smoke, ash seen in Peninsula communities