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WEEKEND REWIND: Chevrolet dealership comes to Peninsula as Ruddell Auto Mall of Port Angeles lands franchise

PORT ANGELES — The North Olympic Peninsula has acquired a Chevrolet dealership. Ruddell Auto Mall of Port Angeles…

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WEEKEND REWIND: Clallam commissioners make $731,705 Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center grant official

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County has dotted the I’s and crossed the T’s on a grant to help…

Teenagers pack Bada NW Coffee Bar for the inaugural Pacific Reign karaoke night earlier this month. The event attracted 78 teens as part of a plan to found a coffeehouse teen center and activity group. (Leslie Robertson)

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WEEKEND REWIND: Port Angeles community groups, teens at work on Pacific Reign coffeehouse, music venue

PORT ANGELES — With the help of two Port Angeles community improvement groups, teenagers might soon have a…

Cynthia Koan

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WEEKEND REWIND: Primary likely as third Democrat announces bid for Jefferson commissioner’s seat

PORT TOWNSEND — The race to replace retiring District 1 County Commissioner Phil Johnson will most likely have…

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WEEKEND REWIND: Port Angeles seeks new trial after jury awards $1.5 million in termination of former finance director

PORT ANGELES — The city is seeking a new trial on Yvonne Ziomkowski’s termination, claiming the jury that…

Jefferson County Parks and Recreation Director Matt Tyler inspects the 10-pound cowling that fell from a 100-foot-tall lightpost at Memorial Field. (Charlie Bermant/Peninsula Daily News)

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WEEKEND REWIND: Jefferson commissioners seek $112,500 grant to replace lighting at Port Townsend’s Memorial Field

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County is applying for a grant to replace antiquated and failing lighting at Memorial…

The shuttered Fairview Elementary School in Port Angeles. (Peninsula Daily News)

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WEEKEND REWIND: Shuttered Fairview School eyed for housing solution in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Services for the homeless are expanding in Port Angeles and Sequim, and volunteers associated with…

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WEEKEND REWIND: Peninsula College adds Purple Heart parking spot to campus

PORT ANGELES — Veterans who were injured in combat now have a special parking spot at Peninsula College.…

Port Ludlow resident Gil Skinner

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WEEKEND REWIND: Outpouring of opposition to Port Ludlow Associates logging operation arrives at Jefferson commissioners’ meeting

PORT TOWNSEND — Opposition to a logging project within the boundaries of the Port Ludlow master planned resort…

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WEEKEND REWIND: Police: Woman in custody is a suspect in killing of master carver in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A 45-year-old woman is a suspect in the late-March beating death of Native American master…

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WEEKEND REWIND: New trial date set in Salt Creek RV Park standoff, alleged jail assault

PORT ANGELES — A new trial date has been set for Ordez Eugene Kompkoff, a Port Angeles man…

Mark Ozias ()

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WEEKEND REWIND: Wild Olympics legislation presented to U.S. Senate panel for first time

PORT ANGELES — Familiar battle lines are being drawn over previously failed Wild Olympics legislation that was presented…

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WEEKEND REWIND: Measles fatality identified as Port Angeles student

The Associated Press PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles woman whose 2015 death from measles was the first…

Stacey Price of Port Angeles shows off some of the items she purchased as one of the last customers of the now-shuttered Haggen Northwest Fresh supermarket. Price acquired approximately $4

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WEEKEND REWIND: Haggen closes with a customer’s final act of kindness in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — An act of kindness during the final day of operations at the now-shuttered Haggen grocery…

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GOOD FRIDAY MORNING! What’s happening on the North Olympic Peninsula? See today’s PDN front page

ANOTHER NEWSY DAY on the North Olympic Peninsula! Our website, cmg-northwest2.go-vip.net/peninsuladailynews, has the highlights, but the print edition…

A trail closure sign and temporary trail map are affixed to a gate blocking Olympic Hot Springs Road into Olympic National Park in the Elwha Valley west of Port Angeles on Thursday. — Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News ()

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Washouts: Damaged roads limit access in Olympic National Park

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Two Olympic National Park roads await repairs months after the raging rivers that damaged…

Mary Beth Wegener

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Olympic Peninsula Humane Society prepares for reopening in new digs; ‘Meowgaritas’ fundraiser slated for Saturday

PORT ANGELES — Staff and volunteers at the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society have been busy planning Saturday’s Meowgaritas…

A Jimmy John's Sandwich shop is poised to open soon at U.S. Highway 101 and Del Guzzi Drive on the east edge of Port Angeles. — Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News ()

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Jimmy John’s sandwich shop franchise coming to Port Angeles — Corrected

Editor’s note: This story was corrected on May 2 to remove references to hot sandwiches. PORT ANGELES —…

Lehani's employee Debbie Holt takes a lunch break next to student paintings part of this month's Art Wave project. Aside from Lehani's

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Art Wave to showcase students’ work in Port Townsend stores, restaurants starting Sunday

PORT TOWNSEND — Uptown and downtown historic district merchants are showcasing student artwork for the 16th annual Art…

Jefferson County Undersheriff Joe Nole

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Port Townsend walk in high heels symbolizes pain of domestic violence

PORT TOWNSEND — About 55 people, many in high heels, participated in Wednesday’s seventh annual Walk a Mile…

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