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No weekly flight operations this week

COUPEVILLE — There will be no field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station…

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Studium Generale to host traditional welcome ceremony

PORT ANGELES — The fall series of Studium Generale lectures will kick off with “Welcome to nəxʷsƛ̕áy̕əm’ Territory”…

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Port Townsend Main Street to host Sip and Stroll fundraiser

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson Healthcare and the Port Townsend Main Street Program will sponsor Sip and Stroll in…

“Echo of the Tides,” a painting by Melissa Doyel, will be on display at Blue Whole Gallery during October.

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Sequim to host First Friday Art Walk this weekend

SEQUIM — The First Friday Art Walk will celebrate with an orange-themed event from 5 p.m. to 8…

Sequim’s Patrick Elias, left, expresses disbelief after Port Angeles’ Jude Wallace, right, completed a pass reception near the Sequim goal line while teammate Taylor Abold celebrates during Friday night’s game in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP FOOTBALL RECAP: Port Angeles takes back Rainshadow trophy

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Roughriders had their biggest win in more than a year Friday night,…

Emma Desjardins, Port Angeles soccer, and Dylan Mann, Port Angeles football.

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK: Emma Desjardins, Port Angeles girls soccer, and Dylan Mann, Port Angeles football

Our athletes of the week each led their respective teams to victories over their Rainshadow Rivals this week.

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Big Hurt iron man competitor Joey Gish of Sequim races through the transfer zone on the way to his kayak after finishing the mountain bike leg of the race in first place on Saturday at Pebble Beach Park in Port Angeles. Gish finished second in the iron division in the 2024 Big Hurt

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BIG HURT: Team and individual races come down to tight duels

PORT ANGELES — In a very close finish for such a long endurance race, the team of Senior…

East Jefferson Fire Rescue and the state Department of Ecology responded Sunday to a sunken cabin cruiser that went aground off Indian Point between the ferry dock and Port Townsend Marina. One person on board was treated for injuries. The Washington State Ferry M/V Salish is entering the dock. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Two people, dog rescued from sinking vessel in PT

East Jefferson Fire Rescue, Port of PT staff deploy absorbent booms

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Port Angeles man dies following rollover collision

QUILCENE — A man who was in a single-car rollover collision last week has died.

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Ryan Edinger sits at the organ he now commands at Faith Lutheran Church in Sequim. There are 10 ranks of pipes, each with 61 notes, including flats and sharps.

Life

Classically trained musician replaces organist who retired after 50 years

Edinger directed parish music program at Concordia University

Organizers of the Sequim Irrigation Festival said they’ll keep their annual Royalty Ambassador Scholarship Pageant in Sequim High School’s auditorium but move practices to the Boys & Girls Club in Sequim. Proposed rate changes by Sequim School District are cost prohibitive for practices, Festival Director Michelle Rhodes said. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim schools propose fee hike

Board may approve changes in October

Sequim school board directors selected Nicholas Bell to serve on the board following Larry Jeffryes’ resignation this summer. Bell will serve through November 2026. (Nicholas Bell)

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Sequim school board fills its vacant seat

Nicholas Bell to be sworn in on Nov. 3

Sports

PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP: Quilcene, Crescent win

TACOMA — The Quilcene Rangers got the best game of Isaac Figueroa’s career in crushing Charles Wright 60-30…

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PREP ROUNDUP: Port Angeles loses tough one 1-0 to powerhouse North Kitsap

PORT ANGELES — There are no moral victories in the standings, but the Port Angeles girls soccer team…

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Peninsula's Layla Bejar, right, gets blocking assistance from teammate Shiori Shintaku as Shoreline's Milka Embaye advances for the ball on Saturday in Port Angeles.

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COLLEGE SOCCER: Peninsula women set scoring record

PORT ANGELES — For the second time in two years against the same team, the Port Angeles women’s…

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Board names middle school

Hurricane Ridge to replace Stevens

Tom Swanson and his golden retriever, Tyler, during a Society of American Foresters replanting project at Lake Pleasant, five months after a 1985 fire that burned 550 acres on the West End and shut down U.S. Highway 101. (Courtesy photo)

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Forty years later, residents remember West End blaze

East wind picked up embers from slash fire in Forks

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Jefferson County officials connecting with STR owners

Plan implemented in April starting to permit rentals

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Peninsula counties receive state grants

Funding will go toward habitat, conservation projects

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Portion of Francis Street to be closed for sewer work

PORT ANGELES — The city of Port Angeles will begin re-lining the sanitary sewers beneath Francis Street on…