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Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group Some spaces are available in the Community Organic Gardens of Sequim (COGS) on Fir Street. Those interested, can contact Liz Harper at 360-477-4881.

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Sequim organic garden is open for more spaces

Veggies, flowers and community offered

Tug of war was one of the many games youngsters played at the PT School Party, a celebration for local students, teachers and families in the Port Townsend School District. A large crowd turned out for the event at Blue Heron Middle School, where relay races, free clam chowder, cookies and DJ'd music flowed through the afternoon. Students and staff at all Olympic Peninsula Schools will have the option to wear masks indoors or not now the state mandate has been lifted. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Masking optional in classes

Public schools set policies after state mandate lifted

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Steffen Goeber, left, takes a photo of his wife, Sabine Goeber, both of Halle, Germany, as she experience a touch tank during a mask-required session on Saturday a the Feiro Marine Life Center at Port Angeles City Pier. Looking on is Feiro volunteer Jim Jewell.

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Feiro sets aside an hour a week for those at high risk

Masks required at special time each Saturday

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Lawmakers OK planning funds for mental crisis center

Facility to be on Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s Healing Campus

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What lived, died during legislative session

By Rachel La Corte

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24th District capital projects approved

OLYMPIA — State lawmakers approved a $1.5 billion supplemental capital budget last week that included $13.2 million for…

Submitted graphic/ Soroptimist International of Sequim’s club members recently made a $30,000 donation with $10,000 from the club and $20,000 from private donors to its sister club in Poland to help Ukraine refugees.

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Sequim Soroptimist club gives $30K to help Ukraine refugees in Poland

SEQUIM — “How can we help?”

Bridget Gregg, Master Gardener Program Coordinator and presenter of the "Growing Groceries" class starting this week, visited one of Chetzemoka Park's flowering trees on Friday. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Master gardeners offer guidance

PORT HADLOCK — The twice-yearly “Growing Groceries” class, a combination of in-person workshops and livestreamed sessions, is open…

Linda Rosenbury, superintendent of the Port Townsend School District, looks forward to the community-wide party Saturday at Blue Heron Middle School. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Townsend School District to host free celebration

Games, arts and crafts featured in Saturday event

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Vaccine proof, masking mandates lifted this weekend

Businesses tell of effects of health measures

Gallery director Sarah Jane, left, and exhibit co-curator Lucia Harrison of Tacoma arrange a display that will be included in the exhibition “Science Stories: A Collaboration of Book Artists and Scientists,” which opens Friday at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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‘Science Stories’ brings together multiple worlds

New exhibition opens Friday at Port Angeles Fine Arts Center

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Drive-through fundraiser set for Saturday

PORT ANGELES — Clallam Mosaic will celebrate Developmental Disabilities Awareness month with a drive-through Italian cream soda fundraiser…

Muralist Danielle Fodor paints the newest tiny home, named Meadow Manor, at the Community Boat Project shop in Port Hadlock on Tuesday. The 160-square-foot home is an example of the housing to be built for farmworkers in Chimacum. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Rotary Club joins tiny home-building crew

Units destined for farmworkers in rich agricultural valley

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Makah to open land to public after two years

Proof of vaccination required

Barber Beckie Tunstall cut some 14 inches of Liam Getzin’s hair during a lengthy appointment on Feb. 18. Getzin, a Port Angeles High School senior, later donated his locks to Wigs for Kids, an organization that gives wigs to children suffering health crises. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

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High school senior donates hair to charity

Teen gives his strands to Wigs for Kids

Phil Lusk Marga Kapka of Port Townsend was among the 75 people who gathered at the corner of East Sims Way and Kearney Street in Port Townsend late Thursday to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Her Hungarian parents fled Budapest in July 1945 to escape the brutality of the Soviets who had liberated the city from the Nazis earlier that year, she said. Another rally is planned at 2 p.m. today at the intersection of Washington and Taylor Streets in Port Townsend.

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Solidarity

Marga Kapka of Port Townsend was among the 75 people who gathered at the corner of East Sims…

Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group Tiffanie Powless gets a splash of yellow at the last color station at the Sun Fun Color Run 5k Saturday morning at the Albert Haller Playfields just north of Carrie Blake Community Park in Sequim. More than 500 participants were registered to run/walk 5k and 1k races, which were among the events offered during the third annual Sunshine Festival on Friday and Saturday.

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Sun Fun Color Run

Tiffanie Powless gets a splash of yellow at the last color station at the Sun Fun Color Run…

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Clallam County Sheriff's deputies Dylan Heck, left, and Hector Eagan, right, accompanied by Sgt. John Keegan, prepare to search for evidence on Friday in a section of nearby Siebert Creek in the Feb. 24 double homicide east of Port Angeles.

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Gun discovered as new clue in killings

Son of one of the deceased a suspect

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PDN to switch to mail to make deliveries more reliable

The Peninsula Daily News will be delivered to every subscriber every publication day starting at the end of…

Susan Brittain, with the schooner Adventuress behind her at the Port Townsend Boat Haven, is one of six storytellers in "She Tells Sea Tales," an online event this Saturday. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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‘She Tells Sea Tales’ presents women’s true stories

Presentations aim to support dreams of sailing