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Applications open for tourism marketing grants

PORT ANGELES — Visit Port Angeles is accepting applications for six $2,500 tourism marketing grants through June 9.

Port Angeles’ Jake Anstett, center, won the 450cc division of the American Motorcycle Association Pro Racing’s Washington Nitro Nationals Hillclimb in Sunnyside over the weekend. (Washington Nitro Nationals Hillclimb)

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AREA SPORTS: Motorcyclist Anstett rockets to Hillclimb victories

SUNNYSIDE — Port Angeles’ Jake Anstett blistered the field in the Pro 450 CC category at the Washington…

Third basemen Josiah Gooding is one of the excellent defensive players for the Port Angeles Roughriders baseball team. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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STATE BASEBALL PREVIEW: Port Angeles enters tournament riding high

PORT ANGELES — At midseason, it looked like a longshot for the Port Angeles baseball team to make…

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STATE GOLF TOURNAMENT: All Olympic Peninsula boys make first-day cut

CHEHALIS — All three Olympic Peninsula boys at the 2A state golf tournament at the Riverside Golf Club…

U.S. Highway 101, pictured from the Black Diamond bridge, is set to reopen late Thursday or early Friday, the state Department of Transportation said. The section has been closed since early March for fish passage work on Tumwater Creek with a detour set up on state Highway 117. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Reopening soon

U.S. Highway 101, pictured from the Black Diamond bridge, is set to reopen late Thursday or early Friday,…

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Amazon submits permits with the city of Port Angeles

Project larger than one previously proposed

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Port Townsend likely to see increases in recycling fees

Changes coming due to adjustments with Jefferson County Solid Waste

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Logging protest continues with climber in tree

Injunction hearing scheduled for Friday

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Three hospitalized after crash on Highway 19

CHIMACUM — Three people were taken to hospitals following a three-car collision on state Highway 19.

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PAT NEAL: The Olympic Peninsula driving guide

THE SIGNS OF the season are everywhere. The roar of the lawn mower, the stench of burning charcoal…

“Artist at Tamanowas” appears in Patricia Hagen’s one-woman show, “Into the Woods.” The exhibit, at Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery in Port Townsend, is designed to feel like a walk on a forest trail. (Patricia Hagen)

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‘Into the Woods’ to offer a forest walk inside an art gallery

PORT TOWNSEND — This is the time, the artist believes, to come into the forest. Listen for the…

Colleen Williams of Port Angeles won a Toyota Corolla donated by Wilder Toyota in the 36th annual Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby. She said Tuesday she was shocked when Bruce Skinner, the executive director of the Olympic Medical Center Foundation, called her Sunday to tell her she won. “All I could say is, ‘You’re kidding me. What?” Williams said. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Toyota winner

Colleen Williams of Port Angeles won a Toyota Corolla donated by Wilder Toyota in the 36th annual Great…

Coach Morgan Worthington talks to her players between innings at a game last week at Dry Creek Elementary. The Roughriders go in to the state tournament Friday ranked No. 3 in the state. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PORT ANGELES SOFTBALL: Roughriders loaded for another long run in state tournament

PORT ANGELES — Last year, the Port Angeles softball team graduated superstar Natalie Robinson, who won the Olympic…

The Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association's Danielle Woodhouse approaches the finish line at Lake Vancouver this weekend, where she finished second in the B final of the U17 singles race. (Sean Halberg)

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: OPRA rower second at Lake Vancouver race

VANCOUVER, Wash. — The Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association concluded its spring season Saturday, with members competing at the…

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Overnight lane closures set east of Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Contractors working for the state Department of Transportation will be moving barriers and putting down…

Kayla Fairchild, culinary manager for the Port Angeles Food Bank, chops vegetables on Friday that will go into ready-made meals for food bank patrons. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Meal programs offer twist to food bank services

PA launches first revenue-producing effort with entrees

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Jefferson County to move its fire danger

Risk level to increase to moderate June 1

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Assessor’s office asks to keep reduced hours

Customer service now four days per week

Port Angeles Mayor Kate Dexter is one of several local people who helped pluck a winning duck from a pickup truck on Sunday at Port Angeles City Pier. There was 36 ducks to be plucked from six Wilder Toyotas. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Duck Derby event brings in new record

Proceeds to benefit students seeking medical careers

Marchers, surrounded by a mass of bubbles, wave to spectators lining the sidewalk during the 90th Rhody Festival Parade on Saturday in Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Rhody parade

Marchers, surrounded by a mass of bubbles, wave to spectators lining the sidewalk during the 90th Rhody Festival…