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Port Angeles seeks hosts for Erickson Playfield

One-month commitment preferred

A Quillayute Valley Scholarship Auction one-day record was set on Saturday with $75,000 and an all-time record with auction items and cash donations totaled $218,002. The funds raised will go to Forks High School graduates for college and trade school scholarships. Forks High School class of 2025 seniors, in the yellow shirts, mill about the crowd, showing off auction items. Guest auctioneer Elliott Mann takes bids from the audience. Almost 900 items were auctioned during the two-day event. (Christi Baron/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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New records set

A Quillayute Valley Scholarship Auction one-day record was set on Saturday with $75,000 and an all-time record with…

Mary Ann Dangman of Sequim reads a plant description at a vendor booth for One Earth Botanical of Camas at the 26th annual Soroptimist Gala Garden Show at the Sequim Boys & Girls Club. The event on Saturday featured numerous display and vendor booths devoted to plants, gardening and outdoor activities, as well as a slate of guest speakers and workshops. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Garden show

Mary Ann Dangman of Sequim reads a plant description at a vendor booth for One Earth Botanical of…

Port Executive Director Paul Jarkiewicz, left, City Fire Chief Derrell Sharp and Port Angeles City Manager Nathan West, right, pose in front of the city’s newly purchased wildland urban interface fire engine. (City of Port Angeles)

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Port Angeles partners with port to purchase fire engine

PORT ANGELES — Through partnership with the Port of Port Angeles, the Port Angeles Fire Department has purchased…

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PAT NEAL: Highway history on the Peninsula

BUILDING ROADS ON the Olympic Peninsula has always been a challenge. In the days before roads, people traveled…

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PREP SOCCER: East Jefferson soccer wins to improve to 3-0 on the season

LANGLEY — The East Jefferson boys soccer team improved to 3-0 with a dominant 4-1 road victory over…

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Juan Carlos Cisneros-Lopez, Sequim Junior Soccer’s new director of coaching, works with players, such as Barrett Gerdes, 6-and-a-half, at a preseason skills camp on March 1 at the Albert Haller Playfields. In the coming months, Cisneros-Lopez said he plans to develop a curriculum for players and coaches to succeed.

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SEQUIM JUNIOR SOCCER: First development director hired by program

SEQUIM — Sequim Junior Soccer looks to level up its players’ game with support from a local expert.

For the fourth straight year, the 7 Cedars Casino men's basketball team won the Peninsula Basketball League championship, sweeping through the season-ending playoff bracket on Monday night. The team includes from left, Garrett Edwards, Easton Joslin, Kasey Ulin, Daniel Horton, Kyle Benedict, Dru Clark, Wyatt Dunning and Jim Halberg. (Peninsula College)

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Walla Walla upsets Lane for NWAC title and two former Pirates in NCAA tourneys

PASCO — Walla Walla Community College ended up winning the Northwest Athletic Conference women’s basketball championship, beating Lane…

Family members of the late Mike McAleer, from left, McAleer’s wife, Shannon Burke, son Michael McAleer and daughter Colleen McAleer, accept the Clallam Economic Development Council’s Olympic Leader Award at Friday’s annual EDC Gala at 7 Cedars Casino in Blyn. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Former volunteer named Olympic Leader at EDC gala

Mike McAleer served on boards, provided support

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Jefferson County discusses rules for rental units

Public comments to be accepted through Friday

Rachel Lee Priday will be the guest soloist for the Port Angeles Symphony’s first concert of spring on Saturday. (Lisa-Marie Mazzucco)

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Soloist to play with symphony Saturday

UW music professor to join Port Angeles group

U.S. Rep. Emily Randall, D-Bremerton, speaks about current issues during a town hall meeting on Saturday in the Little Theater at Peninsula College in Port Angeles. Several hundred people attended, including an overflow audience in the Pirate Union Building. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Town hall

U.S. Rep. Emily Randall, D-Bremerton, speaks about current issues during a town hall meeting on Saturday in the…

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Firefighters rescue woman from house fire

SEQUIM — Firefighters and neighbors rescued a woman and three dogs following a house fire in the 700…

Firefighters from East Jefferson Fire Rescue extinguished an RV fire early Monday morning on Marrowstone Island. (East Jefferson Fire Rescue)

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Firefighters put out RV fire on Marrowstone Island

MARROWSTONE ISLAND — East Jefferson Fire Rescue extinguished an RV fire in the 600 block of Robbins Road…

Soroptimist International of Sequim’s Medical Loan Closet seeks a business or community organization that can take advantage of its nonprofit status to provide it with an 800- to 1,000-square-foot space. (Soroptimist International of Sequim)

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Soroptimists seek partner for Medical Loan Closet

SEQUIM — Soroptimist International of Sequim’s Medical Loan Closet has provided free durable medical equipment to ensure residents’…

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Shop With a Hero program partners with Mariners

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Shop With a Hero team has partnered with the Seattle Mariners for…

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Celebrations set this week for World Water Day

PORT ANGELES — The Elwha Legacy Forests Coalition and the Earth Law Center will host several events in…

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Forum to discuss Charter Review Commission

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Democrats will host a forum on the Clallam County Charter Review Commission…

Luke Bulla will perform at the Palindrome on Sunday.

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Bulla to perform at Palindrome on Sunday

PORT TOWNSEND — Rainshadow Concerts will present Luke Bulla in concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

Cast members, top row from left, Rick Mischke, Rebecca Gilbert, Mary Kaye O’Brien and, in front, from left, Rich Hendricksen, Susan Bjork and Steve Henrickson, at a rehearsal for “The Man in the Green Truck.”

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Port Angeles Community Players to stage production this weekend

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Community Players will stage a production of “The Man in the Green…