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Jefferson Transit to use an electric bus

Agency’s future is with alternative-fuel vehicles

Northwest Maritime Center volunteer Brad Bebout, left, stands ready to assist team Beasts From the East, Ivan Medvedev and Egor Klevak, front, both from Seattle, as they finish first the 70-mile paddle from Tacoma to Port Townsend on Saturday morning. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Race to Alaska starts today

Beasts from the East wins SEVENTY/48

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Fire crews fight beach blaze, structure fire

PORT ANGELES — Two fires over the weekend in the Four Seasons Ranch area near Morse Creek were…

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McDonald Creek fish passage gets no bids again

Contractors say it’s too ‘intricate, tricky’

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Benjamin N. Phillips Memorial Fund 2023 grant cycle announced

SEATTLE — Seattle Foundation opened the 2023 grant cycle of the Benjamin N. Phillips Memorial Fund on Thursday.

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Race Street closures set this week in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Race Street will be closed between Eighth and 10th streets from 8 a.m. to 5…

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Nomination round begins for Best of Peninsula

Nominations are being accepted for the Best of the Peninsula in both Clallam and Jefferson counties.

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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None…

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Blue Whole Gallery awards scholarships

SEQUIM — The Blue Whole Gallery is proud to announce that two Sequim High School student artists are…

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Derelict vessel recycling program kicks off in Port Townsend on Monday

Boat to be stripped and crushed at Boat Haven

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Overnight closures of Hood Canal Bridge begin Tuesday

SHINE — The Hood Canal Bridge will be closed to vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians overnight for three days…

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Heath Wade enjoys opening day at the Chimacum Farmers Market in 2022.

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Chimacum Farmers Market opens Sunday

Special events planned for first day of season

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Crumb family funds nursing scholarship

$150K endowment to aid Clallam County students going to St. Martin’s University

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The Port Angeles Red Lion Hotel and adjoining 48º North Waterfront Restaurant, shown Friday, are working on plans to expand and upgrade the current facilities, which will include incursion into the existing parking lot -- a proposal that would have an effect on the annual Port Angeles Crab Festival.

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Port Angeles city seeks Red Lion expansion comments

Plans won’t affect CrabFest this year but will in future

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Kestner Homestead Trail footbridge to be closed for repairs

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The footbridge over Kestner Creek along the Kestner Homestead Loop in the Quinault Rain…

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Gov. Jay Inslee  looks at a patient simulator as Peninsula College nursing instructional technician Terresa Taylor describes its workings during a tour of the college's Nursing Simulation Lab on Friday in Port Angeles.

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Inslee tours Port Angeles projects

Town ‘pumping on all cylinders,’ he said

Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighters, with assistance from surrounding districts, work to extinguish fire of beach logs and grasses that scorched a stretch of beach along the Strait of Juan de Fuca at the north end of Four Seasons Ranch and threatened numerous homes on Saturday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Beach blaze contained at Morse Creek

Saturday fire worried homeowners, but no structures affected

Tamara Galvin, facilities manager for the Feiro Marine Life Center in Port Angeles, watches as Rocky, the center’s black rockfish, explores his new viewing tank. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Feiro Marine Life Center replaces tank for rockfish

City lodging tax pays for project

Boats in the 2019 Race to Alaska compete for a $10,000 prize in a route that takes them from Port Townsend to Ketchikan, Alaska, but organizers say the race is more about the experience than the money. (Drew Malcolm via Northwest Maritime Center)

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Race to Alaska sets sail Monday

Participants to use human, wind power

Rescuers in Jefferson County assist a woman on Wednesday who went looking for a hiker reported missing on Monday. The woman was injured attempting to cross the Duckabush River and transported to Jefferson Healthcare hospital in Port Townsend. (Brinnon Fire Department)

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Woman rescued in her search for hiker

Sporadic drone flights still checking area