For the first time in a year, the Tuff as Nails rowing team took the Blue Streak for a sun-splashed spin in Port Townsend Bay on Monday morning. Coming back in are Nikki Russell, facing front at left, Barb Hager and Christine Edwards; on the other side of the boat are Mari Friend and Zoe Ann Dudley. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Back on the water

For the first time in a year, the Tuff as Nails rowing team took the Blue Streak for…

Port Townsend Police Chief Thomas Olson started work last week. Some of his goals include getting the department more involved with the community and increasing the diversity among officers. (Zach Jablonski/Peninsula Daily News)

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Police chief starts position

Olson working on community connections

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Coast Guard exercise set for tonight

Tuesday evening’s maritime security practice to involve several agencies

Port of Port Angeles commissioners hope to finalize a contract with Geoff James for the port executive director position by next week. (Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port of Port Angeles picks new executive director

Commissioners laud leadership

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COVID shot clinics for 12- to 15-year-olds ready as soon as approval given

Eligibility expected to be announced soon

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Clallam Parent to Parent to hold roundtable discussion

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Parent to Parent will host a virtual roundtable discussion, “Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities and Coming…

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Rental, utility assistance available through Serenity House

PORT ANGELES — Serenity House has received new funding from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to prevent…

Gary Huff, left, board director and campaign chairman for the Olympic Peninsula YMCA’s 2021 Impact Campaign, accepts a donation for the YMCA from 1st Security Bank, represented by Vice President Branch Manager Anthony Aceto and 1st Security personal banker Sheena Zahn.(Photo courtesy of Olympic Peninsula YMCA)

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Olympic Peninsula YMCA opens public fundraising campaign

1st Security Bank donates $2,500

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Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild holds reopening sale May 13-15

SEQUIM — The Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild will host its re-opening sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday…

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Guaranteed Education Tuition enrollment period ends May 31

OLYMPIA — The Washington Student Achievement Council has announced that the 2020-2021 Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) enrollment period…

With master of ceremonies Stephen Rosales serving as virtual guide, the 2021 Sequim Irrigation Festival Grand Parade-turned-Procession makes its way through downtown Sequim late Saturday afternoon. Festival royalty includes, from left, princesses Allie Gale and Zoee Kuperus, float builder Guy Horton, princess Sydney VanProyen and queen Hannah Hampton. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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The Irrigation Festival goes on

Sequim celebrated its civic pride in somewhat muted — and virtual — forms this past weekend, with a…

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Bentinck Island demolition range in use Wednesday through Friday

ESQUIMALT, B.C. — The Royal Canadian Navy has announced that the land-based demolition range at Bentinck Island will…

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Three injured in collision on U.S. Highway 101 near Blyn

BLYN — Three people were injured Saturday in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 101 in Blyn, the…

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Peninsula numbers leveling, but state cases may take a few more weeks

Super-spreaders blamed for 135 infections, official says

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Drug overdoses skyrocket in state amid COVID

SEATTLE — More people in Washington state died of drug overdoses in 2020 than any other year in…

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Rock chuck takes rare trip to Sequim

Yellow-bellied marmot spotted for third time in Western Washington

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Speed, distraction factors in Grinnell crash

Reconstructionist examines wreck

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Culvert repair scheduled for Highway 116

MARROWSTONE ISLAND — Maintenance crews from the Department of Transportation will replace a damaged culvert under state Highway…

Jenny Preston of Chimacum's Snow Creek Leather works on a belt at the Sequim Irrigation Festival's Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair in downtown Sequim pn Saturday. "I've been coming to this festival since as long as I can remember, possibly the 1970s," Preston said. With health restrictions in place the festival moved all but two events — the fair and the Grand Parade-turned-procession — to virtual presentations. See irrigationfestival.com. Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group

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Irrigation Festival fair ongoing in Sequim

Jenny Preston of Chimacum’s Snow Creek Leather works on a belt at the Sequim Irrigation Festival’s Innovative Arts…

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Sequim offering tourism grants

SEQUIM — The city of Sequim is accepting applications for tourism sustainability grants through Monday, May 24.