Author Caroline Fraser, whose book, “Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder,” won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for biography, is speaking at today’s Studium Generale at Peninsula College. She will talk about Wilder as well as her latest book, “Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers.” (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author to speak in Port Angeles

Caroline Fraser featured as Writer-in-Residence at Peninsula College

Clallam County and Astound are partnering with assistance from Clallam County PUD on a $22 million project that will extend Astound’s existing fiber network near Laird’s Corner to almost 100 miles of new above ground and underground infrastructure that will reach more than 1,500 homes in the Highway 112 corridor.

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High-speed internet coming to Highway 112 corridor

Clallam County, PUD and Astound involved in $22M project

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Charter Review Commission to consider seven issues

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Charter Review Commission has launched a public survey regarding seven issues under…

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State leaders discuss budget

Importance of gas tax explained

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Conservation measures requested on water system west of Sekiu

CARLSBORG — Clallam County Public Utility District No. 1 has issued a stage 2 water alert for its…

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Supreme Court justice addresses law day event

PORT ANGELES — Clallam-Jefferson Pro Bono Lawyers hosted an observance of Law Day at the Elwha Heritage Center…

Ty Coone. (Clallam County Sheriff's Office)

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Search suspended for kayaker missing in Strait

SEQUIM — The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Wednesday morning for a man who went missing while…

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UPDATED: Suspect in custody after threat at Port Angeles High School

PORT ANGELES — A juvenile male was taken in custody Wednesday in connection with a message containing a…

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Microsoft purchases Peninsula credits

Carbon removal will come from area forests

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Port Angeles School District to reduce budget by $1.9M

Additional cuts could come if government slashes Title 1 funding

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Jefferson County discussion centers on fireworks

Potential future bans, pathway to public displays discussed

Natalie Maitland.

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Port Townsend Main Street hires next executive director

Natalie Maitland will start new role with organization May 21

Olympic Kiwanis Club member Tobin Standley, right, hands a piece of stereo equipment to Gerald Casasola for disposal during Saturday’s electronics recycling collection day in the parking lot at Port Angeles Civic Field. Items collected during the roundup were to be given to Friendly Earth International Recycling for repairs and eventual resale, or else disassembled for parts. Club members were accepting monetary donations during the event as a benefit for Kiwanis community programs. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Electronics recycling

Olympic Kiwanis Club member Tobin Standley, right, hands a piece of stereo equipment to Gerald Casasola for disposal…

Port Angeles Garden Club member Bobbie Daniels, left, and her daughter, Rose Halverson, both of Port Angeles, look at a table of plants for sale at the club’s annual plant sale and raffle on Saturday at the Port Angeles Senior Center. The event featured hundreds of plants for sale as a fundraiser for club events and operations. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Plant sale

Port Angeles Garden Club member Bobbie Daniels, left, and her daughter, Rose Halverson, both of Port Angeles, look…

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Two people transported to hospitals after three-car collision

CHIMACUM — Two people were transported to hospitals after a three-car collision on state Highway 19.

Chimacum Elementary School sixth-grade students jump on a rotating maypole as they use the new playground equipment on Monday during recess. The playground was redesigned with safer equipment and was in use for the first time since inspections were completed last Thursday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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New equipment

Chimacum Elementary School sixth-grade students jump on a rotating maypole as they use the new playground equipment on…

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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…

W. Ron Allen.

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Allen to be inducted into Native American Hall of Fame

Ceremony will take place in November in Oklahoma City

Moses McDonald, a Sequim water operator, holds one of the city’s new utility residential meters in his right hand and a radio transmitter in his left. City staff finished replacing more than 3,000 meters so they can be read remotely. (City of Sequim)

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Sequim shifts to remote utility meters

Installation for devices began last August

A family of eagles sits in a tree just north of Carrie Blake Community Park. Following concerns over impacts to the eagles and nearby Garry oak trees, city staff will move Sequim’s Fourth of July fireworks display to the other side of Carrie Blake Community Park. Staff said the show will be discharged more than half a mile away. (City of Sequim)

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Sequim to move fireworks display

Show will remain in Carrie Blake Park