John Zuermer, 86, of Sequim plays his saxophone on the patio plaza at the Dungeness Nature Center at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim. Zuermer, who regularly performs at the center from 11 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays and Saturdays, said he decided it would be a fun thing to do, keeping up his musical skills while playing for anyone who happened by. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Music at the Nature Center

John Zuermer, 86, of Sequim plays his saxophone on the patio plaza at the Dungeness Nature Center at…

Cherie Kidd, left, and Bruce Emery.

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Emery, Kidd cite experience to voters

Both DCD candidates push work histories to residents

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Funding increases for area drug task force

OPNET includes many Peninsula jurisdictions

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A construction worker welds support pieces for a new pedestrian bridge connecting the historic railroad trestle over the Dungeness River to the Dungeness River Nature Center at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim on Wednesday. The work is part of a project to restore part of the original Dungeness River floodplain while providing better access to the Olympic Discovery Trail.

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Railroad bridge park gets new pedestrian walkway

A construction worker welds support pieces for a new pedestrian bridge connecting the historic railroad trestle over the…

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OlyCAP director says housing projects on track

Affordable apartments and temporary shelter moving forward

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Clallam County approves bonuses for patrol, jail personnel

Funds for referral, retention, recruitment

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Port Angeles School Board OKs contract with educators

Office professionals continue to negotiate

Jefferson Healthcare’s Campus Expansion and Modernization project is explained to state Reps. Mike Chapman and Steve Tharinger, far left, earlier this week. Dr. Christine Skorberg, middle, speaks to them about the importance of an expanded obstetrics and gynecology clinic while hospital Commissioner Jill Buhler Rienstra and Dr. Asif Luqman, far right, look on. (Jefferson Healthcare)

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Jefferson Healthcare presents plans to legislators

Expansion project in the works

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DOT to review Kenmore complaints against Dash Air

Dash Air awaiting agency’s review

The U.S. Coast Guard and East Jefferson Fire and Rescue assisted a fishing trawler that began taking on water shortly after 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Port Townsend Bay. No more information was available Thursday afternoon. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Trawler takes on water

The U.S. Coast Guard and East Jefferson Fire and Rescue assisted a fishing trawler that began taking on…

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Fire district levy lid lifts to go on February ballots

Whether they merge or not, they need more funding, chief says

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Clallam County files charges against Midway Metals

Scrapyard owners cited for dumping, nuisance issues

A technician works on the monitoring equipment housed on the buoy onboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Henry Blake in the Strait of Juan de Fuca on Sept. 20. The buoy, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s network of weather monitoring stations, stopped transmitting weather data last year. Technicians replaced the monitoring equipment last week. (Peter Segall / Peninsula Daily News)

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Crews refurbish weather buoy in Strait

NOAA equipment had stopped its transmissions

Port Townsend artist Rebecca Welti records the installation of her concrete climbing sculpture, Pluteus, at a new playground area at HJ Carroll Park in Chimacum. The sculpture, in the shape of a baby sea urchin, is totally accessible and represents dependence on life in the Salish Sea. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Sculpture installation

Port Townsend artist Rebecca Welti records the installation of her concrete climbing sculpture, Pluteus, at a new playground…

Maria Melvin, an advanced registered nurse practitioner for the North Olympic Healthcare Network, stands in the examination room of the organization’s mobile health clinic during a session at Port Angeles High School. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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NOHN mobile clinic delivers services to students

Service began in 2021 and will run through June 2024

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Contact information

PORT ANGELES — Here is contact information for the North Olympic Healthcare Network/Port Angeles School District mobile health…

Richard “Glen” Melville.

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Makah Tribal member new deputy director of Office of Justice Services

WASHINGTON — Richard “Glen” Melville, an enrolled member of Makah Tribe, will lead the Office of Justice Services…

From left to right, Boat School Executive Director Betsy Davis and Ajax Café owner Kristan McCary celebrate the recognition of the Galster House, home of the Ajax Café, with this year’s Mary P. Johnson Award for historic preservation presented by the Jefferson County Historical Society and its executive director, Shelly Leavens.

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Historic preservation award given to boat school for its work on Galster House

Historical society provides honor in unanimous vote

Jim Stoffer.

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Stoffer resigns Sequim School Board position

District taking applications

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Port Townsend hazardous waste facility to close

Staffing issues cited as reason