Supporters of President Donald Trump and antifa supporters clashed with Washington state police on the state Capitol Campus in Olympia, Wash., Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. Police in Olympia declared a riot early Saturday afternoon and arrested at least one person as groups with different points of view held simultaneous protests. (The Olympian via AP)

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One person shot in violent protests in Olympia

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Garbage company sues Port Angeles for $4.8M

City prepares for legal fight

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State geology lecture offered online

PORT TOWNSEND — Will Gallin will present “Geologic Carbon Sequestration in Washington State” at 4 p.m. Saturday.

Masked protesters by an occupied home speak with a neighborhood resident opposed to their encampment and demonstration in Portland, Ore., on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Makeshift barricades erected by protesters are still up in Oregon's largest city a day after Portland police arrested about a dozen people in a clash over gentrification and the eviction of a family from a home. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

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Large Oregon eviction protest stretches into third day

By Gillian Flaccus | The Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2020, file photo, Raymond Duda, FBI Special Agent in Charge in Seattle, speaks during a news conference at a podium, about charges against a group of alleged members of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division for cyber-stalking and mailing threatening communications, including the Swastika-laden posters at right, in a campaign against journalists in several cities. Johnny Roman Garza, an Arizona man has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for his role in a neo-Nazi group's coordinated campaign to threaten and harass journalists, activists and other targets on both U.S. coasts, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020.  (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

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Neo-Nazi group member who threatened journalist gets prison

By Michael Kunzelman | The Associated Press

For 50 years, Diamond Point’s Don McIntyre has portrayed Santa Claus to benefit the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots. While limited this year due to COVID-19, he plans to go at least another five years. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Diamond Point man marks 50 years as Santa

Toys for Tots says it’s preparing for 3,400 kids in Clallam County

Jefferson County Food Banks Association volunteer Chance Worton stacks boxes of ham inside the refrigeration unit at the Tri-Area Food Bank on Thursday. Harbor Foodservice of Kent delivered 533 discounted hams to be distributed to families of all four food banks in Jefferson County. (Zach Jablonski/Peninsula Daily News)

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533 hams delivered to Jefferson County Food Banks

Purchase was made possible through community donations

A pharmacist labels syringes in a clean room where doses of COVID-19 vaccines will be handled, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, at Mount Sinai Queens hospital in New York. The hospital expects to receive doses once a vaccine gets the emergency green light by U.S. regulators. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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US allows emergency COVID-19 vaccine in bid to end pandemic

WASHINGTON — The U.S. gave the final go-ahead Friday to the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine, marking what could…

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Peninsula ports requesting federal money for projects

Funds for Marine Trades Center, Point Hudson jetty

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Jefferson County to sell land to PUD

Sale will allow for Olympic Discovery Trail extension

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OMC may get COVID-19 vaccine soon

Inoculations to begin with hospital workers

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Police say fatal crosswalk collision an accident

Lorraine (Reandeau) Anderson remembered

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Strait ERN members to hear about next steps, other topics

The Strait of Juan de Fuca Ecosystem Recovery Network members will hear about the next steps for the…

Siobhan Canty, CEO of the Jefferson Community Foundation, works with the Housing Solutions Network in her new office space in Port Townsend. After the foundation was evicted from its Port Hadlock office, Edensaw Woods donated the Julian Street space. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Jefferson County community asked to free up affordable housing

Shortage affects workforce as well as homeless

Documents created by Pfizer for the meeting with the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel, as Pfizer seeks approval for emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine, are seen on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. The meeting of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration represented the next-to-last hurdle before the expected start of the biggest vaccination campaign in U.S. history. Depending on how fast the FDA signs off on the panel's recommendation, shots could begin within days. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

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US panel endorses widespread use of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

By Lauran Neergaard and Matthew Perrone | Associated Press

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Vaccine hopes raised on Olympic Peninsula

Health officers see ‘light at the end of the tunnel’

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Port Angeles homeless shelter lease extended

Port erecting trespass fence

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Port Townsend City Council supports affordable housing tax

County commission to conduct public hearing Dec. 21

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Clallam commissioners OK federal relief fund distribution

Funding will go to Port Angeles medical and mental health clinics

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Giving Tree donations support WAG nonprofit

SEQUIM — Looking for some help spreading a little holiday cheer to its canine guests this year, the…