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Kilmer plans telephone town hall

Congressman Derek Kilmer plans a telephone town hall at 6 p.m. Tuesday to provide an update on the…

Petty Officer 2nd Steve Strohmaier/U.S. Coast Guard, 13th District CAPTION: From left to right, Rear Adm. Jack Vogt, Kelly Graham, Caleb Graham, Cohen Graham, Boatswains Mate 1st Class Markus Graham and Master Chief Petty Officer Jason Wong

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Coast Guard Cutter crewman promoted in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Boatswain’s Mate Markus Graham was advanced to petty officer 1st class in a Dec. 8…

Superintendent Marty Brewer, on left, receives a check from Ray Chirayath, center, and Lynn Bedford, on right, of the Port Angeles Education Foundation. The $50,000 grant will assist students who have difficulty accessing the internet from home in order to participate in distance learning.

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$86K in grants awarded to Port Angeles School District

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Education Foundation recently awarded more than $86,000 in grants to the Port…

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Weekly flight operations scheduled

COUPEVILLE — There will be field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey…

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COVID-19 infection rates dipping on North Olympic Peninsula

Clallam reports five cases Sunday; Jefferson zero during weekend

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EYE ON JEFFERSON: County considers tax for affordable housing

The three Jefferson County commissioners will hear public comments on a draft sales and use tax ordinance to…

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EYE ON CLALLAM: Quillayute Valley School Board to hear virus report

The Quillayute Valley School Board will hear a report from the superintendent on COVID-19 when it meets at…

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Thanksgiving precautions paid off, say Peninsula health officers

Residents urged to maintain care through upcoming holidays

From left, Sequim High leadership students Richard Meier, Erik Holtrop, Dustan Koch, Aidan Braaten, Kaleb Needoba and Hannah Hampton make plans for a special holiday-themed drive-thru and toy drive, slated for noon to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the high school. Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group

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Sequim students to share holiday spirit with drive-thru toy drive

SEQUIM — In the past nine months, while moving their instruction online, Sequim High School students have seen…

Health care workers staff a check in station for people receiving the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, south of Seattle. Vaccinations are scheduled to continue in the coming weeks for front-line medical workers and and others in high-priority positions at the base. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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State officials see encouraging signs in virus data

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Water filter sale set in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The Kiwanis Club of Sequim-Dungeness will sell emergency water purification filters from 1 p.m. to…

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WSU master gardener training program offered online

PORT ANGELES — Registration ends today for the 2021 Home Horticultural training program offered by the Washington State…

State Rep. Mike Chapman, right, speaks to first-grade students during a Thursday tour of Crescent School in Joyce as school Superintendent Dave Bingham, second from right, looks on. Chapman visited the school to see how the district's hybrid system of in-class and remote instruction was working and to discuss school funding issues. Crescent currently makes in-person instruction available to students in kindergarten through sixth grade with middle and high school students on campus on a two-day-per-week schedule intermixed with remote learning. All parents are given the option of remote instruction for their children. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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State Rep. Mike Chapman visits Crescent School

State Rep. Mike Chapman, right, speaks to first-grade students during a Thursday tour of Crescent School in Joyce…

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Wreaths Across America event set at Sequim View Cemetery

‘Growler’ jets will fly over during Saturday ceremony

December 15, 2020 - A view of the Capital Regional District’s $775-million wastewater treatment project which is now treating wastewater for the region. Don Denton photograph

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BC begins treating sewage before releasing it into Strait

Inslee: Water looks so clean

Working the COVID vaccination drive-up station Thursday are, from left, Jefferson Healthcare staffers Jaimie Hoobler, Brandy Boyd, Jess Cigalotti and Lori Banks. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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‘Jumpstart phase’ of inoculation begins on Peninsula

Jefferson Healthcare begins drive-up clinic

Quilcene School District administrative assistant Carrie Thompson tosses a blanket to a student sitting in a truck with her family, during the district's "Winter Warm-up" event on Wednesday. (Zach Jablonski/Peninsula Daily News)

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Quilcene School District gives blankets to students

About 30 teachers, staff members brave rain for three hours

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In-person learning a top priority for Peninsula school leaders

Districts want to get back to normal

FILE - In this July 27, 2020, file photo, a nurse prepares a shot as a study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., gets underway in Binghamton, N.Y. The U.S. is poised to give the green light as early as Friday, Dec. 18, to a second COVID-19 vaccine, a critical new weapon against the surging coronavirus. Doses of the vaccine developed by Moderna Inc. and the National Institutes of Health will give a much-needed boost to supplies as the biggest vaccination effort in the nation’s history continues. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

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US clears Moderna vaccine for COVID-19, 2nd shot in arsenal

By Lauran Neergaard and Matthew Perrone | Associated Press

Nurse Jess Cigalotti administers the North Olympic Peninsula's first COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday to Dr. Tracie Harris, an internist and hospitalist who cares for COVID patients at Jefferson Healthcare hospital. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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First vaccination on Peninsula at Jefferson Healthcare

Hospital staff cheers as doctor, nurse inoculated

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