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Healthy Living Winter 2020

Our Winter 2020 Healthy Living special section is out!

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Living on the Peninsula Winter 2020

Our Winter 2020 Living on the Peninsula special section is out!

Ellie DiPietro of the Jefferson County Historical Society proposed the idea of Letters to 2020 and wrote one of her own. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Letters to 2020 project solicits reflections

‘Get lost!’ says one pre-paid postcard to past 12 months

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Statewide slowdown fuels local optimism

Officials await COVID-19 testing results after holidays

State Department of Transportation crews inspect a sunken section of state Highway 112.

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Landslide closes 7.5-mile portion of Highway 112

Geologists examine area between Joyce, Clallam Bay

Sequim Mayor William Armacost takes a whipped cream pie in the face from Ben Clemens, 10, the son of Port Angeles Mayor Kate Dexter, at the Port Angeles Safeway store on Lincoln Street, the culmination of a challenge between Safeway stores in the two towns to see which could raise more donations for local food banks. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Pie in the face caps weeklong competition

Food-bank clients real winners of Port Angeles, Sequim contest

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Inslee issues new travel restrictions

New COVID-19 strain raises concern

Lloyd Bedinger, left, Bruce Skinner, the executive director of the Olympic Medical Center Foundation, share a fist bump in front of the Georgiana Street home Bedinger donated to the foundation in his mother's name. Helen Rice, a former OMC employee, lived in the house for more than 60 years before she died in March at age 106. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Man donates late mother’s house to OMC foundation

Woman, who lived to be 106, worked at medical center

Joseph Molotsky swaddles an injured barred owl at Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue in Port Townsend. After two weeks of rehabilitation, the bird has begun to eat on its own. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/ Peninsula Daily News)

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Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue cares for feathered friends great and small

Acts of kindness deliver animals to Jefferson County center

Port Angeles' Jaida Wood, left, and Kole Acker give their testimonials asking state leaders to allow prep athletes to play sports again.

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‘Let Us Play’: Student-athletes give testimonials

Campaign urges less strict COVID-19 metrics to allow prep sports

Rescue workers attend to a man who was injured after he was struck by a falling tree while he was riding his bicycle in the Elwha Valley. (Clallam County Fire District 2)

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Bicyclist struck by falling tree flown to hospital

Man in his 60s was riding in Elwha Valley

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Registered nurse Gretchen Souza, director of education at Olympic Medical Center, right, applies a bandage to emergency services nurse Samantha Counts, who was the first person in Clallam County to receive a vaccination against COVID-19 during a clinic at the Port Angeles hospital on Friday.

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OMC nurse gets Clallam County’s first vaccine shot

Second health care workers clinic set next week

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Clallam PUD rates to rise in spring

CARLSBORG — Clallam County Public Utility District commissioners have approved 2021 operating budgets that include utility rate increases…

The Sequim UPS Store is opened for limited hours from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. as staff awaits a new computer system for shipping and receiving. Staff said they plan to expand hours and staffing once the computers are installed. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

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UPS options change on the Peninsula

Stores open in Port Townsend, closed in Port Angeles, on reduced hours in Sequim

The 2020 winter season operations for Hurricane Ridge began Nov. 27 with glistening treetops and a thick carpet of snow for visitors.On Saturday, 39 inches of snow were recorded at the snow sensor at the ridge. The ridge is open for skiing, snowboarding, tubing and other winter sports. (Laura Foster/Peninsula Daily News)

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Hurricane Ridge Road set to be open for winter break

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The road to Hurricane Ridge is set to be open throughout winter break, weather…

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Thanksgiving precautions paid off, say Peninsula health officers

Residents urged to maintain care through upcoming holidays

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PREP SPORTS: As schools given OK to reopen, what about sports?

OLYMPIA — Now that many schools in Washington have been given the go-ahead from Gov. Jay Inslee to…

December 15, 2020 - A view of the Capital Regional District’s $775-million wastewater treatment project which is now treating wastewater for the region. Don Denton photograph

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BC begins treating sewage before releasing it into Strait

Inslee: Water looks so clean

Nurse Jess Cigalotti administers the North Olympic Peninsula's first COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday to Dr. Tracie Harris, an internist and hospitalist who cares for COVID patients at Jefferson Healthcare hospital. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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First vaccination on Peninsula at Jefferson Healthcare

Hospital staff cheers as doctor, nurse inoculated

Olympic Kiwanis members Frank Bruni and Tim Crowley work to fix holiday lights in downtown Port Angeles. (Olympic Kiwanis Club)

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Vandals tear down holiday lights in downtown Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Members of the Olympic Kiwanis Club had to restring holiday lights in downtown Port Angeles…