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In mid-July, an RV parked partially on public and private property was towed at the request of the City of Sequim after it was deemed abandoned after 18 months parked in one spot. It’s one of a handful of RVs and vehicles illegally parked in the City of Sequim as nonprofit agencies seek safe housing options for residents. (Michelle Ridgway)

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Cities, Clallam County to partner on RV project

Housing crunch continues as locals seek removal options

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Bridge over river could start in spring

Restoration expected on lower Big Quilcene

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Official: Woman dies jumping from vehicle

Autopsy to confirm cause, manner of death

Demolition began Monday morning on the derelict two-story brick building at 204 E. Front St. in Port Angeles. A 300-foot section of Front Street will be shut down while the work is being done, and that could stretch into next week. The developer has said he has plans for an apartment building on the site. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Building demolition

Demolition began Monday morning on the derelict two-story brick building at 204 E. Front St. in Port Angeles.…

Julia Smith of Port Angeles, center right, oversees her children, fourth-grader Julia Smith, 9, and fifth-grader Shelby Smith, 10, right, pick out backpacks filled with school supplies as volunteer Ann West assists with distribution during Saturday’s back-to-school fair at Jefferson Elementary School in Port Angeles. During the event, students were given free school supplies, with family service opportunities, as well as a lunch, made available at the approach of the 2023-24 school year. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Back to school fair

Julia Smith of Port Angeles, center right, oversees her children, fourth-grader Julia Smith, 9, and fifth-grader Shelby Smith,…

Zumba dancers perform on Lawrence Street during the Uptown Street Fair parade in Uptown Port Townsend on Saturday. Seventeen marching units, including this one, paraded down Lawrence Street in front of hundreds of spectators lining the sidewalk. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Uptown Street Fair

Zumba dancers perform on Lawrence Street during the Uptown Street Fair parade in Uptown Port Townsend on Saturday.

Smoke from wildfires in eastern Washington and Canada contribute to the red, smokey sunrise on Sunday over Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Smoke to begin to waft away today

Wildfires in other areas soil air quality on Peninsula

Jeff Lee of Vancouver, Wash., controls a pair of draft horses during a power pulling demonstration on Friday in the grandstand arena at the Clallam County Fair. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Weekend at the fair

Jeff Lee of Vancouver, Wash., controls a pair of draft horses during a power pulling demonstration on Friday…

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Clallam County Sheriff’s Office to view online crime reporting

New system would offer another option for misdemeanors

The Hōkūle‘a arrives in Auke Bay on June 11, when it was welcomed by hundreds of Juneau residents and tribal leaders. The wind-powered traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe began a scheduled 47-month global voyage. (Clarise Larson/Juneau Empire)

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Voyaging Polynesian canoe to visit Port Townsend

Welcome on Tuesday; tours on Wednesday

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Lane closure set as building is taken down

PORT ANGELES — Traffic will be disrupted on Front Street as it slopes west to its intersection with…

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Port Angeles declares Stage II water shortage

City asks for voluntary conservation efforts

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Visitors to Union Wharf in downtown Port Townsend read information about a North Pacific gray whale that was stranded on a beach in Port Ludlow and died in 2019 as they look at a display of the 42-foot whale’s skeleton on Union Wharf in Port Townsend. The skeleton, which was dedicated on Tuesday after it had been put together in July, “is attracting a lot of attention,” said Liesl Slabaugh, development and marketing director for the Port Townsend Marine Life Center. She said personnel at the center hoped the exhibit would inspire awareness and curiosity ”about this whole world that is under the water and our interdependence with it… We need to respect their home.”

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Skeleton makes whale of a statement

Visitors to Union Wharf in downtown Port Townsend read information about a North Pacific gray whale that was…

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OMC financial woes continue

Agency gets distressed hospital grant

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Cantwell conducts fentanyl roundtable in Port Angeles

Health officials call for regulatory reform

FILE - Trainer Marcia Hinton pets Lolita, a captive orca whale, during a performance at the Miami Seaquarium in Miami, March 9, 1995. Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, died Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, at the Miami Seaquarium as caregivers prepared to move her from the theme park in the near future. (Nuri Vallbona/Miami Herald via AP, File)

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Lolita dies before move from Miami to her home

Orca known as Toki lived in captivity for more than five decades

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National park, forest issue campfire ban

PORT ANGELES — Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest have announced a complete ban on campfires.

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Todd Ortloff Show guests this week

Todd Ortloff Show

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Portion of Highway 101 reopens early

QUILCENE — The state Department of Transportation announced that the construction on U.S. Highway 101 north of Quilcene…

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Rebecca Gilbert has opened a new salon in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Rebecca Gilbert has opened a new hair and nail salon.

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