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Olympic National Park Superintendent Sula Jacobs talks about the fire from a vantage point just below the day lodge, which burned May 7. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Hurricane Ridge reopening to public

Park aims to restore services after blaze

Millie Long was an all-North and all-NWAC performer in both soccer and basketball for the Peninsula Pirates. This follows a hugely successful career at Port Angeles High School in soccer, basketball and track. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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PENINSULA COLLEGE: Millie Long’s legacy will endure

PORT ANGELES — You could pretty much label her the Bo Jackson of Port Angeles and Peninsula College.

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Shuttle running Tuesday to Ridge

Popular destination to reopen after fire

Clallam County 4-H participants Cole Anderson, left, and Zoey Van Gordon practice judging and evaluating Boer goats at a practice session for the state Livestock Judging Contest on Saturday in Moses Lake. Last year’s team of Anderson, Van Gordon, Asha Swanberg and Lukas Teague won first place in the team competition. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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4-H’ers head to state livestock judging competition

Team won first place last year

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Drowned man’s body is recovered

Kayaker found at 394 feet in Lake Crescent

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Port Angeles to resume glass recycling this weekend

No home pickup planned during pilot program

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Harm reduction center to move

New site to provide addict services in downtown Port Angeles

Kevin Van De Wege.

Politics

District 24 senator eyes state lands role

Van De Wege wants to manage resources

Noah Erickson, 2, snips a flower head with the help of his father, Chris Erickson of Port Angeles, while making a solstice crown headdress during the Summertide Solstice Art Festival on Saturday at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center and adjoining Webster’s Woods Sculpture Park. The event served as a celebration of the coming of summer with a variety of food, music and outdoor activities. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Artists, poets ring in beginning of new season

Solstice event draws in families for arts exhibitions

Peninsula College graduates April Fordyce-Blewett, left, and Deborah Ceja-Cisneros, both of Forks, have a photograph taken by Fordyce-Blewett’s mother, Peggy Blewett, prior to the first of two commencement ceremonies on Saturday on the college’s Port Angeles campus. A total of 388 degrees and certificates were awarded for the 2022-23 school year with 270 people signed up to participate Saturday’s ceremonies. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Peninsula College graduation

Peninsula College graduates April Fordyce-Blewett, left, and Deborah Ceja-Cisneros, both of Forks, have a photograph taken by Fordyce-Blewett’s…

A state Department of Natural Resources helicopter flies through clouds of smoke to dump water on a hotspot of a wildland fire in the Indian Creek Valley on Sunday southwest of Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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UPDATE: Evacuations downgraded as Lake Sutherland fire continues

No road closures as more than 100 acres are burned

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Summertide, Pride events scheduled this weekend

A variety of events are planned this weekend on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Emily Matthiessen / Olympic Peninsula News Group From left, Amber Ahrens, Shauna Rogers McClain and Brittney Vincent practice blocker and jammer moves at a recent roller derby practice.

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Port Scandalous aims to keep rolling

Area’s lone roller derby league seeks a practice space

Members of team We Brake for Whales celebrate their win in the 2023 Race to Alaska in Ketchikan, Alaska, on Wednesday. (Kelsey Brenner via the Northwest Maritime Center)

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We Brake for Whales wins Race to Alaska

Captain is event’s first two-time winner

Rachel Storck, community engagement director for the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, sits on the art installation “Sky Gazer” by Port Angeles artist Steve Belz, one of several new artworks in the Webster’s Woods Sculpture Park, the site of this weekend’s Summertide Solstice Arts Festival. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Art festival to kick off summer at fine arts center

New works, poetry at Webster’s Woods

The 1972 Port Angeles girls swim team, the first girls team at the high school after Title IX passed, and the 1956 Roughriders' football team that went 7-1 will be inducted in August into the Port Angeles Hall of Fame.

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PORT ANGELES HALL OF FAME: Two historic teams to be inducted

PORT ANGELES — Two of the most important teams in Port Angeles High School history — one that…

Visitors examine the marine exhibits at the Feiro Marine Life Center at Port Angeles City Pier on Sunday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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NOAA pledges $3 million for new marine life center in Port Angeles

Building to replace Feiro Marine Discovery Center

Life

Wellness forum scheduled Wednesday

SEQUIM — The Sequim Health and Housing Collaborative will present “The Power of Collaboration in Sequim” at 2…

Participants in the Maritime Festival’s Orca Bait Swim pump themselves up on Ediz Hook before heading out across the harbor. The inaugural event drew 12 swimmers and three orcas, whose paths did not happen to meet over the 1 1/2-mile course. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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Orcas visit inaugural race in their name

Maritime fesitival offers variety over weekend

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Malpractice suit filed against OMC, others

Alleged Hill victim claims negligence