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Heidi Eberle of Port Angeles and her daughter, Akira Abbitt, 11 months, sort through a stack of free children’s coats during Saturday’s Port Angeles School District Back to School Fair at Jefferson Elementary School. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Fair prepares Port Angeles families for new school year

More than 850 backpacks distributed along with supplies, clothes, information

Ron Crawford, one of seven Washington State Fair commissioners, visited the Clallam County Fair on Saturday to evaluate it in a wide range of categories from the quality of its livestock and agricultural exhibits to cleanliness to the education value of displays. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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State commissioner gives Clallam County Fair high marks

Educational value, exhibits both cited

The 2022 Music on the Strait festival's Friday, Sept. 2 concert features virtuoso pianist George Li (pictured), cellist Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir and Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet. (Simon Fowler)

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Composer once in Minidoka to be in Peninsula music festival

Paul Chihara to be guest of honor at Music on the Strait

Ellie Olson, 7, a member of the East Clallam Livestock 4H Club, shows off her knowledge of poultry using a stuffed chicken, a concession to preventing the spread of avian flu by keeping live chickens away from the Clallam County Fair barns on Thursday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Young exhibitors strut stuff on first day of Clallam County Fair

No feathers, but stuffed chickens stand in to demonstrate real thing

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E-scooters gets Port Angeles approval

Both Port Angeles, Sequim awaiting company action

Margie McDonald displays some of her work. She will be among artists featured during Soundcheck.

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Soundcheck festival to highlight local talents

Week-long celebration begins Friday

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Port Townsend Gateway project stakeholders discuss plants

Advisory group to make recommendation on selection for Sims Way corridor

Julie Jaman, the 80-year-old woman at the center of a controversy around transgender access to bathrooms, speaks at a protest across from Port Townsend City Hall on Monday. Jaman was banned from the local pool after she confronted a transgender woman in the locker room, and the event has gained national attention. Jaman and her supporters were surrounded by protestors Monday evening who shouted and made noise while they tried to speak, and scuffles broke out between the two groups. (Peter Segall / Peninsula Daily News)

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Transgender proclamation draws hundreds to meeting

Protesters clash outside Port Townsend City Hall

Free children’s art activities, such as this pictured in a file photo, at the Uptown Street Fair in Port Townsend will be from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

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Uptown Street Fair offers music, art, parade on Saturday

Annual festival focuses on local residents

Derek Kilmer helps Port Angeles Food Bank Executive Director Emily Dexter fill up the shelves with some crackers inside “The Market”. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Angeles Food Bank services well-used

Expanded facility aims to revert to grocery store model soon

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All County Picnic aims to build resiliency

This weekend’s gathering marks a decade of preparation

Crying Lady Rock on Second Beach in Clallam County is part of a stamp set celebrating the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act being signed into law Oct 23, 1972. The photograph was taken by Matt McIntosh. (Photo courtesy USPS)

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USPS stamp set includes popular Clallam County landmark

Artwork marks marine sanctuary’s 50th anniversary

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group Scott Edmundson, a PNNL-Sequim research botanist, speaks at PNNL-Sequim’s seawater propagation station with, from left, Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Secretary of Energy, U.S. representative Derek Kilmer, Geri Richmond, DOE’s undersecretary for Science and Innovation, and others about PNNL-Sequim’s efforts to harness essential minerals from the ocean and plant life.

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Secretary of Energy tours Pacific Northwest National Laboratory-Sequim

Facility could see funding for research and development

Graden Kubas, 16, of Sequim, scratches the back of his Hereford steer, Hammer, that he plans to exhibit in the Fitting and Showing category of the Jefferson County Fair in Port Townsend on Saturday. Kubas, a member of FFA, raised the steer from about 1 week old to its present age of 16 months and weighs about 1,000 to 1,300 pounds. Kubas plans to auction Hammer at the Clallam County Fair and hopes to net around $4 per pound. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Jefferson County Fair kicks off today

Graden Kubas, 16, of Sequim scratches the back of his Hereford steer, Hammer, that he plans to exhibit…

Port Angeles angler Justin Peterson landed this good-sized hatchery chinook while fishing just off shore at the Caves near Sekiu.

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OUTDOORS: Fish and Wildlife’s Recreational Salmon Manager will discuss catch number estimates at Anglers’ meeting Aug. 17

In-seasons salmon management has been a hot-button topic for North Olympic Peninsula anglers throughout 2022.

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group Colonial soldiers shoot at the British in a skirmish reenactment during the Northwest Colonial Festival in 2021. It returns for four days today through Sunday with skirmishes and demonstrations at the George Washington Inn.

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Colonial Fest returns with expanded activities, offerings

Reenactors, demonstrations on tap

Sally Pfaff’s acrylic landscapes are on view at the Port Townsend Gallery.

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Galleries display night skies, landscapes, ceramics

Artists featured for month of August

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Ghostlight returns to stage with ‘Frozen Jr.’

Cast includes 24 youths from Sequim and Port Angeles

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Agencies support Dash Air

Kenmore Air filed complaint to USDOT

Matthew Nash / Olympic Peninsula News Group Haley Petty, 17, of Agnew earned reserve market champion with Roast the rabbit at the Clallam County Junior Livestock Auction on Saturday at the Sequim Prairie Grange. It was her fifth year selling animals at the auction.

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Animal prices heat up during warm youth auction

Livestock sales help students with projects, schooling