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Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News Wilder Senior's Landon Seibel takes a cut in a game at at Civic Field earlier this month. Wilder will be hosting the Dick Brown Memorial Firecracker Classic at Civic Field beginning Thursday.

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AMERICAN LEGION: Wilder Sr. will host six teams as Firecracker Classic returns

Games to be played at Civic Field in Port Angeles

Firefighters from the Port Angeles Fire Department spray between 150 and 200 people from a ladder and two other hoses on Monday afternoon at Erickson Playfield. The community event was scheduled as temperatures soared to 97 degrees. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Community cools off

By Dave Logan

Volunteers work to secure a turret as it is lowered by crane on Sunday, the final day of the community build for the Generation II Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Crane lifts turrets into place at Dream Playground

Weekend in July possible to put on finishing touches

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Chynna Penird of Port Angeles uses a drill to drive screws into a support structure on rhe Generation II Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles on Saturday morning.

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Volunteers race to complete Dream Playground

More help needed for Generation II

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Gov. Jay Inslee extends state eviction ban to Sept. 30

Jefferson County Fairgrounds among those affected

Folksinger John McCutcheon will give a live concert Sunday on the streaming platform Mandolin to benefit community radio stations including KPTZ-FM 91.9. (Photo by Irene Young)

Arts & Entertainment

Music and community: Folksinger mixes both Sunday

Concert to be live-streamed

Commander Donald Emmerson, left, receives the Meritorious Service Medal from Rear Admiral Brad Collins, commander of Navy Region Northwest, during Naval Magazine Indian Island’s Change of Command ceremony on Thursday. Emmerson’s role of commanding officer is now filled by Commander Andrew Crouse. (Zach Jablonski/Peninsula Daily News)

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Naval Magazine Indian Island has new commanding officer

Andrew Crouse says installation has a ‘rich history’

The Kennewick pulls into the Port Townsend dock Wednesday afternoon to wait for cars and walk-on passengers. The Port Townsend/Coupeville ferry route will continue to have one-boat service for the foreseeable future. (Zach Jablonski/Peninsula Daily News)

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One-boat service to remain in place for Port Townsend-Coupeville ferry route

Hurdles: Staffing, vessels’ availability

Larisa Jean Dietz, 50, of Sequim, front, sits with attorney Karen Unger in Clallam County Superior Court on Wednesday. Dietz is charged with first-degree assault and attempted second-degree murder in the Oct. 8, 2019, stabbing of a wheelchair-bound Sequim man she said had groped her. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Crime & Justice

Stabbing trial opens

Attorneys: Misdirected rage, mental disorder

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Jefferson PUD water sufficient for Port Hadlock sewer project

Agency presented with update on first phase

Port Angeles School Board candidates, from left, Jean Stratton, Mary Hebert, Jesse Charles and Gabi Johnson prepare to debate at a Port Angeles Business Association breakfast meeting at Joshua’s Restaurant. (Rob Ollikainen/Peninsula Daily News)

Politics

Port Angeles School District hopefuls debate critical race theory, sex ed, other issues

Four agree top concern is for in-person classes

A suspicious package found Monday was determined not to be a bomb. (Port Angeles Police Department)

Crime & Justice

Port Angeles man held on $75,000 bail for suspicious device

Judge orders mental health evaluation

Volunteers, from left, John Albiso, Tien Vo and Bill Chastain cut boards that will become part of the Generation II Dream Playground during the first day of a six-day community build on Tuesday at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles. The playground will replace an antiquated version that was built by volunteers in 2002 and torn down earlier this year. Organizers are still seeking volunteers to help with construction, the loan of woodworking tools and monetary donations. More information on the build is at www.padreamplayground.org. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Dream Playground

Volunteers, from left, John Albiso, Tien Vo and Bill Chastain cut boards that will become part of the…

Mariia Bush stands with her two daughters, Madison, 9, and Avery, 6, during the Juneteenth Protest Against Racism and Hate on Saturday in downtown Sequim. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Alleged racial incident draws 140 to rally

Police continue investigation as alleged victim plans not to press charges

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Jefferson County masking mandate expected to end June 30

State requirements for unvaccinated residents to mask believed to continue

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Volunteers bore holes and prepare the site on Friday for the beginning of a community build of the Generation II Dream Playground, scheduled to begin on Tuesday, at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles.

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Community build begins Tuesday

Volunteers to create Dream Playground II

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News The site of a proposed 106-room hotel being planned by the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe near the downtown Port Angeles waterfront sits idle on Friday as the tribe works with the city on infrastructure and environmental issues.

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More delay for Elwha Hotel

Hurdles mount for $25 million project

Woodbridge Farm’s Peter Mustin and singer and chef Grace Love look forward to celebrating Juneteenth at the Chimacum farm on Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Black business owners create a celebration

‘Healing with unity’ focus of Saturday’s feast

Port Angeles Fine Arts Center executive director Christine Loewe admires an art installation, “The Pool Zone” by Chris Oliver, debuting Saturday in the Webster’s Woods Sculpture Park. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Saturday celebration offers outdoor art, music

Summertide in Webster’s Woods Sculpture Park

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Sequim police investigating alleged hate crime in downtown

Group plans protest on Saturday