News

Sequim passes its 2025 budget

Capital projects include expanded utilities

Holiday Lane stretches most of Diamond Point Road and features ornaments, homemade signs and more through the holidays. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Life

Diamond Point’s decorating crew keeps holiday tradition

Volunteers decorate about 4 miles of Holiday Lane

Sam Grello, the executive director of the Port Angeles Waterfront District, strings lights on a tree in downtown Port Angeles on Thursday. The district procured professional-grade lights to last several years and will work to brighten the downtown area for the holiday season. (Kelley Lane/Peninsula Daily News)

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Holiday spirit

Sam Grello, the executive director of the Port Angeles Waterfront District, strings lights on a tree in downtown…

From left to right, donors Ann Soule and Dave Shreffler, Clallam County commissioner Randy Johnson, Peninsula Behavioral Health (PBH) CEO Wendy Sisk, PBH Board President Dave Arand and Port Angeles City Manager Nathan West break ground for PBH’s new housing project, North View. Once completed next December, North View will have 36 units available to provide permanent, supportive housing for those who have experienced chronic homelessness. (Emma Maple/Peninsula Daily News)

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Peninsula Behavioral Health breaks ground on 36-unit housing project

North View to serve those chronically homeless

Cherie Kidd of Port Angeles was crowned the champion of the 70s age category during the Ms Senior World Pageant on Nov. 23 in Biloxi, Miss. (Holli Hobbs Photography)

Life

Former mayor wins crown at Ms Senior World Pageant

The first runner-up last year, Cherie Kidd brings home title

Surveillance footage released by the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office shows a suspect allegedly holding a Frugals employee at gunpoint on Thursday. (Clallam County Sheriff’s Office)

Crime & Justice

Police: Frugals robbed at gunpoint

PORT ANGELES — Frugals was robbed at gunpoint on Thursday and law enforcement officers are seeking information from…

Crime & Justice

Deputies seize 36 livestock animals

Dead sheep found on property

News

Health care model relies on reimbursement

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center is unlike almost any other business on the North Olympic Peninsula.

News

The Commons at Fort Worden to close through winter

Hospitality services will move to The Guardhouse beginning Monday

News

City of Port Angeles adopts balanced budget

Revenue, expenses set about $157 million

Olympic Medical Center commissioners will consider potential partnerships with other health organizations to help the hospital’s long-term viability. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Olympic Medical Center to explore outside partnership

Process to explore long-term viability

After learning about each other through a genealogy service 15 years ago and speaking on the phone for years, Steven Hanson of Montevideo, Minn., and Sue Harrison of Sequim met for the first time a few weeks ago. The siblings were placed for adoption by their biological mother about 10 years apart. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Adopted as babies, siblings meet decades later

Sequim woman started search for biological family 15 years ago

Life

Permits for Christmas trees available in national forests

PORT ANGELES — If you have a vision of walking into the woods and finding the perfect Christmas…

Derek Kilmer.

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Kilmer looking to next chapter

Politician stepping down after 20 years

Jefferson County PUD General Manager Kevin Streett plans to retire next summer. (Elijah Sussman/Peninsula Daily News)

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Jefferson County PUD general manager to retire

Kevin Streett plan to serve until June 2025

News

Port Angeles, waterfront district agree to three-year deal

Funds from parking, quarterly billing to help with public events

News

Rear-end collision temporarily closes Port Angeles street

No injuries reported

In “Bake to Alaska,” gingerbread contest entrants Patty (Kirsten Louise Webb, left), Sam (Eleanor Curtis) and Wolf (Paul Kiernan) sail toward the Last Frontier. The new holiday show is premiering this month at Key City Public Theatre in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/For Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

‘Bake to Alaska’ to make world premiere in PT

PORT TOWNSEND — In creating a brand-new holiday show, playwright and performer David Natale wanted a story about…

Oliver Pochert, left, and daughter Leina, 9, listen as Americorp volunteer and docent Hillary Sanders talks about the urchins, crabs and sea stars living in the touch tank in front of her at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center. Pochert, who lives in Sequim, drove to Port Townsend on Sunday to visit the aquarium because the aquarium is closing its location this month after 42 years of operation. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Aquarium closing

Oliver Pochert, left, and daughter Leina, 9, listen as Americorp volunteer and docent Hillary Sanders talks about the…

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Tree sale is approved for auction

Appeals filed for two Elwha watershed parcels