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Stabilizing office, retaining staff top priorities for Clallam County sheriff

King cites efforts to collaborate between agencies

Lane Coney, who lives in Port Townsend, stops and looks at a flowering poison hemlock plant that extends over the sidewalk on Washington Street near the Port Townsend post office on Tuesday morning. Poison hemlock is a highly poisonous, flowering plant in the carrot family. All parts of the plant are toxic, especially when ingested. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Poison hemlock

Lane Coney, who lives in Port Townsend, stops and looks at a flowering poison hemlock plant that extends…

Clallam County Sheriff’s Office representatives said they believe the body found on Sunday is missing kayaker Ty Coone. The remains were found about a mile from where Coone was fishing on May 13 in a kayak north of Cline Spit. A Celebration of Life is set for 7 p.m. June 14 at the big barn at 702 Kitchen-Dick Road in Sequim. (Michele Scott Duncan)

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Body found believed to be missing kayaker

Coroner’s office seeking dental records for positive identification

Stephen and Christine Humphries of Nottingham, United Kingdom, spend part of Monday looking over the skeleton of Gunther, the 4-year-old Pacific gray whale that washed ashore and died on a beach in Port Ludlow in 2019 and is now an educational exhibit for the Port Townsend Marine Science Center located on the Union Wharf in downtown Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Visiting Gunther

Stephen and Christine Humphries of Nottingham, United Kingdom, spend part of Monday looking over the skeleton of Gunther,…

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Clallam considers Owens memorial

Location to be recommended in future

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Jefferson County emergency department outlines plans

Three steps to wildfire evacuation, director says

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JCSO receives recognition

Years in the making, sheriffs and police chief association gives agency accreditation

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Eighth Street bridges road work postponed

PORT ANGELES — The city of Port Angeles has postponed work on the Eighth Street bridges that was…

Nash Huber greets visitors during a benefit concert and dinner on May 17 in the Sequim Prairie Grange that raised funds for his medical and legal expenses. He faces eviction from Delta Farm, a Dungeness farm he helped preserve in exchange to lease it through 2032. However, Washington Farmland Trust reports that Huber continues to have violations going against his lease agreement. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Longtime farmer faces eviction

WA Farmland Trust staff say lease violations persist

Forks Mayor Tim Fletcher, Judge Bruce Hanify and Forks City Council member Vilkesh Patel.

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Patel sworn in as newest Forks City Council member

Originally from India, business opportunities brought him to West End

Sequim Sunrise Rotarians, from left, President Bill Benedict and members Ann Flack and Charlie Johnson stand in the storage unit as they ready for Memorial Day distribution. The club’s Flag Subscription Program has more than 600 American flags that are placed across Sequim with funds going to local and international groups and projects and high school scholarships. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim Rotary flag program honors service members

Subscription service raises money for service groups, scholarships

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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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Operations scheduled at Bentinck range this week

ESQUIMALT, B.C. — The land-based demolition range at Bentinck Island will be in use from 9 a.m. to…

Lynette Hostetler of Port Angeles instructs Ian, her shetland sheepdog, over an inclined obstacle during Saturday’s AKC Agility Rally and Obedience Trials at Carrie Blake Park in Sequim. The event, hosted by the Hurricane Ridge Kennel Club, featured a variety of obstacle courses with dogs searching for the fastest time in the ring. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Up and over

Lynette Hostetler of Port Angeles instructs Ian, her shetland sheepdog, over an inclined obstacle during Saturday’s AKC Agility…

Sequim's Clare Turella is awarded first place in the state 2A track and field meet at Mount Tahoma Stadium in Tacoma in the girls' high jump. Turella jumped 5 feet, 4 inches to win the state championship for the second straight year. (Courtesy of Brad Moore)

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STATE TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS: (updated) Sequim’s Turella, PA’s Clark, Neah Bay relay teams state champions

Updated with addtional Forks results

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Chip sealing scheduled in Jefferson County

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County Public Works has scheduled 8 projects for chip sealing this summer.

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EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Boards and commissions scheduled to meet next week

Meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula.

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Todd Ortloff Show guests this week

PORT ANGELES — Here is this week’s schedule for the 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Todd Ortloff Show…

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Wine Awards

SEATTLE — Seattle Wine Awards has named several local vintners as winners in its 2025 wine tasting.

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EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

• Port Angeles Business Association — Breakfast meetings with networking and educational programs are held Tuesdays at 7:30…