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Port Angeles School District superintendent search extended

Board expects to choose from two finalists on Thursday

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International Women’s Day celebration set Wednesday

PORT ANGELES — Womanfest and Olympic Cellars will host a 21st International Women’s Day celebration at 6 p.m.…

Kayke Carvalho and YeonSeo Choi of the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company will perform at Field Arts & Events Hall on Friday and Saturday. (Emma Zordan)

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American Ballet Theatre company to perform at Field Hall

PORT ANGELES — The American Ballet Theatre studio company will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday and at 2…

Scott Cook and Pamela Mae will perform at the Palindrome on Wednesday.

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Cook, Mae to play at Palindrome on Wednesday

PORT TOWNSEND — Scott Cook and Pamela Mae will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Palindrome at…

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Artist to provide lecture at Studium Generale

PORT ANGELES — Studium Generale will host Artist Lecture with Corry Ench at 12:35 p.m. Thursday.

Arts & Entertainment

Olympic Theatre Arts to stage ‘Fools’

SEQUIM — Steve Fisher will direct Neil Simon’s “Fools” with performances at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and…

Don White and Melissa Denny rehearse for the Ludlow Village Players’ reading of “Ripcord” on Friday and Saturday.

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Ludlow Village Players to open 19th season

PORT LUDLOW — The Ludlow Village Players will open their 19th season of staged reading with performances of…

Arts & Entertainment

Artist to provide monthly lecture at Studium Generale East

PORT TOWNSEND — Studium Generale East will present An Evening of Art, Adventure and Sketching with Expeditionary Artist…

A portion of U.S. Highway 101 closed Monday for the next 80 days as crews work on culvert improvements. Heading east on Highway 101 just past Fairmount, traffic is diverted onto the Tumwater Truck Route to go through Port Angeles and connect back with Highway 101. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Highway 101 closes

A portion of U.S. Highway 101 closed Monday for the next 80 days as crews work on culvert…

Stewart Cockburn from New Dungeness Nursery in Sequim explains landscaping ideas to Steve Sodorff and his wife Patti of Port Townsend while attending the annual Jefferson County Home Builders’ Association Home Show on Saturday at Blue Heron Middle School. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Landscaping ideas

Stewart Cockburn from New Dungeness Nursery in Sequim explains landscaping ideas to Steve Sodorff and his wife Patti…

Port Angeles’ Lindsay Smith, here playing against Bremerton, is leading the Roughriders in scoring this season. Smith and her teammates begin play at the Yakima Valley SunDome on Wednesday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Sports

POSTSEASON BASKETBALL: Five area prep and college teams prepare for state, NWAC tournaments

PORT ANGELES — Four Olympic Peninsula boys and girls basketball teams and one women’s college team will be…

From left, Teyah Elofson-Cross, Lincoln Park BMX, and Finn Thompson, Port Angeles boys swimming.

Sports

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK: Teyah Elofson-Cross, BMX, and Finn Thompson, swimming

Port Angeles sixth-grader Teyah Elofson-Cross is the latest BMX star to come from the Lincoln Park BMX track.

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PDC to look into Sequim letter

Complaint: Support for schools broke law

The 130th Irrigation Festival’s queen, Lily Tjemsland, receives her crown after participating in the scholarship pageant, which included a monologue performance, a dance routine with her fellow contestants and answering questions, both on stage and off. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim High School student crowned queen for Irrigation Festival’s 130th year

Pricesses, prince also named at annual ceremony

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Forks administrators share State of City

Annual address highlights finances, public safety, planning

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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…

Portions of a crowd of more than 300 people hold signs and sing songs in support of fired national park and forest service employees during a Saturday protest at the Conrad Dyar Memorial Fountain and surrounding areas along Front Street in Port Angeles. The assembly later marched through downtown streets, regrouping at the Clallam County Courthouse. The gathering was one of numerous protests at National Park Service sites across the United States against staffing reductions enacted by the Trump administration to reduce government expenditures. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Demonstration for parks

Portions of a crowd of more than 300 people hold signs and sing songs in support of fired…

A pig similar to this inflamed the British and U.S. conflict.

Life

BACK WHEN: The Great Pig War and how a pig helped set a boundary

HERE IT IS! March 1. It is National Pig Day. It is a day we can celebrate the…

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EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Commissioners to consider letter for Field Hall funds

Meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula

Sonja Elofson of Port Angeles examines a table of auction items during Friday’s “Red, Set Go!” heart healthy luncheon at Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles. The event, hosted by the Olympic Medical Center Foundation and presented by Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, was designed to raise funds for the Olympic Medical Center Heart Center. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Fundraising luncheon

Sonja Elofson of Port Angeles examines a table of auction items during Friday’s “Red, Set Go!” heart healthy…