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This year’s Honored Pioneers for the 130th Sequim Irrigation Festival, include, from left, Hazel Messenger Lowe, Tim Wheeler, Betty Ellis Kettel and Janet Ellis Duncan.

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Honored Pioneers chosen for 130th Irrigation Festival

Four selected to participate in events

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Sisters Jasmine Kirchan, left, and Shawnta Henry and their mom Nicole Kirchan all work at the Sequim Boys & Girls Club. After work on Feb. 26, they all helped save the life of a man in front of Walmart.

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Sequim woman uses CPR training to save man outside Walmart

She credits training to Boys Girls Club, fire district

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No flight operations scheduled this week

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

The 104-lot Bell Creek Major Subdivision and 24-lot Bella Vista Estates recently were approved by Sequim Hearing Examiner Peregrin Sorter. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Hearing examiner approves 2 projects

Developments could add 128 homes in Sequim

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EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Local boards and commissions plan meetings for week

Meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula.

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Violet Morris, 9, of Port Angeles climbs on "The Rocktopus," a steel, rock and masonry sculpture on Friday  at Port Angeles City Pier. The sculpture was originally designed by artist Oliver Strong as a topiary creation, but was later reworked with stone and mortar by artist Maureen Wall with support from Soroptimist International Port Angeles Jet Set, the City of Port Angeles and the Girl Scouts.

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Tentacle tango

Violet Morris, 9, of Port Angeles climbs on “The Rocktopus,” a steel, rock and masonry sculpture on Friday…

Crime & Justice

Suspect arraigned on scam charges

Reportedly involved in three additional schemes

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2024 timber revenue shows Jefferson below average, Clallam on par

DNR timber delay could impact 2025 timber revenue

Peter Harrison with Southern Royal Albatross on Campbell Island, New Zealand. (Photo credit Shirley Metz) 

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Seabird expert speaking at Fort Worden

Albatrosses largest, longest-living and best traveled birds

Crime & Justice

Man in custody after gun fired at park

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man was booked into Clallam County Jail on Thursday for attempted murder…

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Forks council looks to fill vacant seat

FORKS — The Forks City Council is accepting applications to fill a vacant seat on the council until…

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Charter Review town hall set

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Charter Review Commission will conduct a community town hall from 5 p.m.…

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‘One Family in Gaza’ to be performed Sunday

PORT TOWNSEND — There will be a performance of “One Family in Gaza” at 4 p.m. Sunday.

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Piano soloist to perform at Grace Lutheran Church

PORT TOWNSEND — Rachelle McCabe will perform a selection of pieces by Mendelssohn, Schubert, Bartók and Debussy at…

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A GROWING CONCERN: A few degrees can bee all the difference

I AM SO glad we had several frosts the last 10 days and rainy weather.

Courtesy of Rep. Emily Randall's office

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Rep. Emily Randall to hold town hall in Port Townsend

Congresswoman will field questions from constituents

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Entertainment and events slated for weekend

Music, movies and a historic locomotive highlight a weekend of events on the Peninsula.

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A pair of daffodil blooms poke up from a planter at Lincoln Street and Railroad Avenue on Thursday in Port Angeles. With the coming of spring, flowers are beginning to blossom and trees are taking on their familiar green of the warmer months.

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Signs of spring

A pair of daffodil blooms poke up from a planter at Lincoln Street and Railroad Avenue on Thursday…

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Port Angeles sends letter to governor

Requests a progressive tax code

Joshua Wright, program director for the Legacy Forest Defense Coalition, stands in a forest plot named "Dungeness and Dragons," which is managed by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Currently, the DNR is evaluating Wright's claim that there is a rare plant community in one of the units, which would qualify the parcel for automatic protection from logging. Locating rare plant communities is just one of the methods environmental activists use to protect what they call "legacy forests." (Joshua Wright)

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Activists answer call to protect forests

Advocacy continues beyond timber auctions