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Peninsula College approves honorary degree for former student

Posthumous honor to be given to award-winning journalist

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Late July opening date is solid for PA’s Field Arts Events Hall

Total cost increases to about $56 million

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Improvements in works for Fairchild International Airport

FAA funding 90 percent of construction

Sequim High’s Mock Trial club members include, from left, Brody Anderson, Ameila Pozernick and Finn Marlow.

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Sequim High Mock Trial Club to compete at state

Youths take honors in first season with community support

A coyote treated by Center Valley Animal Rescue after the animal injured itself at Jefferson Healthcare is released into the wild. (Center Valley Animal Rescue)

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Frightened coyote runs through Jefferson Healthcare corridor

PT rescuers treat animal before returning it to wild

Officials with the North Olympic Regional Housing Network have purchased a Sequim home to help house at-risk or homeless veterans. From left, they are Cherie Tinker, executive director of the housing network; Helen Starr, executor with her husband Greg (not pictured) of Lt. Colonel James Minsky’s estate; real estate agent Nell Clausen with RE/MAX Prime, and John Koch with the U.S. Coast Guard. (North Olympic Regional Housing Network)

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Forks veterans group buys Sequim home

Nonprofit agency aims to benefit elderly military locals

The Michal Palzewicz Trio — from left, banjo player Dan Sherrill, cellist Michal Palzewicz and percussionist Reed Bentley — will bring what they call “classical folk art” to Port Angeles on Saturday. (The Michal Palzewicz Trio)

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Classical-folk trio on its way to Port Angeles

Juan de Fuca Foundation for the Arts concert set for Saturday

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Operators: No complaints about MAT clinic

SEQUIM — A Sequim medical facility born in the heat of public opposition has enjoyed a quiet seven…

Dancer and author Bill Evans teaches classes at the Madrona MindBody Institute at Fort Worden in Port Townsend. Evans’ book, “Teaching What You Want to Learn,” is both a memoir and a manual for teachers. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Master dance teacher publishes book for educators

Bill Evans says the experience is better than choreography

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$25.7 million asked for center in Sequim

Residential mental health facility planned next-door to opioid treatment clinic

Pictured, from left to right, are Junior Princess Kendall Adolphe of Sequim, Queen Allison Pettit of Port Angeles and Princess Olivia Ostlund of Sequim. (Tara West/101 West Photography)

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Clallam County Fair royal court announced

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Fair has announced its 2023 Fair Royalty Court.

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Olympic Medical Center tells its reasons behind long ER waits

Staffing, transfer delays among several issues

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Great Backyard Bird Count aims to help track migratory patterns

Workshop to prepare potential participants slated for Saturday

Mark Morey is pictured in 2019 on City Pier in Port Angeles. (Paul Gottlieb)

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Honorary degree, scholarship memorials to former PDN reporter

Mark Morey, who died Sunday, an award-winning journalist

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group As part of the construction plan to build and move a new Hurd Creek Hatchery, crews will remove and fill in a large fish pond. Demolition must wait for the new, nearby facility to be complete, according to state documents.

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Hurd Creek hatchery to be moved from floodplain

Construction expected through summer 2024

Port Angeles-born poet Tess Gallagher lives in the house her father built. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Tess Gallagher to receive international lifetime achievement award

At home and away, Port Angeles-based writer celebrates a poetic life

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Port Angeles seeks housing comments

Survey online; public hearing set Feb. 8

Bandleader Angie Tabor will bring the Sonic Messengers percussion trio to elementary schools across the Peninsula in February. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Adventures in Music soon to launch across Peninsula

Trio to teach, play at schools in Clallam, Jefferson counties

Port Angeles Community Award recipients gather after Saturday night’s fifth annual awards gala, including, from left, Joe DeScala, representing 4PA, organization of the year; Dr. Gerald Stephanz, citizen of the year; Tommy Harris, young leader of the year; Natalie Snow, Katelyn Sheldon and Andrea Dean, representing Welly’s Real Fruit Ice Cream, emerging business of the year; and Hayley Sharpe, owner of MOSS, business of the year. Not present was John Gallagher, educator of the year. The awards are produced by the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by Sound Publishing. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Community awards distributed at chamber gala

Six categories featured as event returns in person

At the Nest in Uptown Port Townsend on Wednesday are, from left, lead coffee companion Karley Caseber, program manager Dana Marklund and OWL 360 Executive Director Kelli Parcher. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/For Peninsula Daily News)

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OWL360’s Nest connects teens to resources

Proceeds from cafe fund youth services