Joseph Molotsky swaddles an injured barred owl at Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue in Port Townsend. After two weeks of rehabilitation, the bird has begun to eat on its own. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/ Peninsula Daily News)

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Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue cares for feathered friends great and small

Acts of kindness deliver animals to Jefferson County center

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Sequim City Council proclaims 2021 as ‘The Year of Kindness’

SEQUIM — Sequim City Council members have named 2021 “The Year of Kindness.”

Can my employer make me get a COVID-19 vaccine? AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin

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Can employers make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory?

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Second shipment of Pfizer’s vaccine arrives on Peninsula

Moderna version, approved by FDA, expected this week

Rescue workers attend to a man who was injured after he was struck by a falling tree while he was riding his bicycle in the Elwha Valley. (Clallam County Fire District 2)

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Bicyclist struck by falling tree flown to hospital

Man in his 60s was riding in Elwha Valley

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Jefferson Transit makes plans for new year

Additional buses could be added

Col. Randy Roberts (U.S. Air Force, retired) prepares to lay a ceremonial wreath for U.S. military prisoners of war and missing in action during Saturday's Wreaths Across America event at Sequim View Cemetery. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim honors veterans with Wreaths Across America

Event mirrors national effort with special service

East Jefferson Fire Rescue personnel used a fire extinguisher to put out a fire in a small room inside a Port Hadlock home. (East Jefferson Fire Rescue)

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Firefighters uses extinguisher to douse flames at Port Hadlock home

East Jefferson Fire Rescue, unit from Naval Magazine Indian Island respond

State Rep. Mike Chapman, left, and Crescent School Superintendent Dave Bingham examine enrollment statistics for the school district on Thursday in Joyce. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Crescent’s strategy has kids in classrooms

School district’s track record shows no one has been ill

Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict. (Jesse Major/Peninsula Daily News)

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Peninsula inmate cases seen only in Clallam County jail

Contact limited to phone device

Jarrett and LeAnn Hansen took their daughter H.J., 2, out sliding just outside the fence of Elks Playfield on Pine Street on Monday during the first snow of the winter. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Winter launches with snow on Olympic Peninsula

Standing water reported; sunny, cold forecast Tuesday

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Long-term care center in Clallam reports 9 cases

County has 18 total positives; Jefferson adds 5

A Forks woman was transported to a hospital after her vehicle collided with a Clallam Transit bus on Monday. (Washington State Patrol)

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Car crosses center line, strikes Clallam Transit bus

PORT ANGELES — A Forks woman sustained injuries when she lost control of her vehicle on a slushy…

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Registered nurse Gretchen Souza, director of education at Olympic Medical Center, right, applies a bandage to emergency services nurse Samantha Counts, who was the first person in Clallam County to receive a vaccination against COVID-19 during a clinic at the Port Angeles hospital on Friday.

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OMC nurse gets Clallam County’s first vaccine shot

Second health care workers clinic set next week

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Clallam PUD rates to rise in spring

CARLSBORG — Clallam County Public Utility District commissioners have approved 2021 operating budgets that include utility rate increases…

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Jefferson County sales tax hearing Monday

County commissioners considering one-tenth of 1 percent tax for affordable housing

Escorted by his dog Zeke, volunteer Gabe Quintanilla brings a newly refurbished bike to the Port Townsend ReCyclery Christmas tree he built from castoff bicycle wheels. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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ReCyclery revamps bicycles as gifts

Volunteers, donations fuel program

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Interim Clallam County Health Officer Dr. Tom Locke discusses vaping with the Clallam County Board of Health.

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Health officer discusses vaccine prioritization

Widespread vaccinations hoped to start in spring

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Law enforcement, inmates split on vaccine

With COVID-19 vaccines arriving in Clallam and Jefferson counties, the willingness of law enforcement personnel and city, county…

Groundwork continues this year as developers of Lavender Meadows prep land for 217 manufactured homes in three phases at the corner of North Sequim Avenue and Port Williams Road. Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group

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Lavender Meadows developer eyes first homes in spring 2021

SEQUIM — Earth is moving as developers prep land to begin moving in manufactured homes as soon as…