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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

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Port Angeles to distribute free trees Saturday

At least 50 trees still unclaimed

The Rev. Larry Schellink will present “Where Comes Happiness” at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Schellink is the guest speaker at Unity in the Olympics, 2917 E. Myrtle Ave.

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Weekend program scheduled for Unity in the Olympics

PORT ANGELES — The Rev. Larry Schellink will present “Where Comes Happiness” at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith.

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Unity in Port Townsend planning for Sunday services

PORT TOWNSEND — The Rev. Pam Douglas-Smith will present “Seven Steps to Spiritual Prosperity” during services at 11…

Students in Niall Twomey’s seventh-grade science class take cover under their workstations during a Great Shakeout drill on Thursday at Blue Heron Middle School in Port Townsend. The students dropped, took cover and held on for the duration of the 30-second drill in order to build muscle memory in the event of a real earthquake or tsunami on the Peninsula. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Great shakeout

Students in Niall Twomey’s seventh-grade science class take cover under their workstations during a Great Shakeout drill on…

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Listeria recall includes Peninsula

Stores in both Clallam, Jefferson affected

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