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Cape Flattery putting levy on February ballot

Replacement measure would collect nearly $2M over four-year period

Participants in the New Year’s Day polar bear dip in Port Angeles run in and out of the chilly water of Port Angeles Harbor at Hollywood Beach as onlookers watch from the shore on Monday. More than 100 dippers took part in the annual ritual, which served as a fundraiser for Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Taking the plunge

Participants in the New Year’s Day polar bear dip in Port Angeles run in and out of the…

Politics

Congress faces two shutdown deadlines

No agreements yet as spending bills loom

Sierra and Jeremy Springer of Sequim with children Poppy and newborn Fiona, who was the first baby born in Clallam County in 2024 at Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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It’s a girl! First baby of new year born in Port Angeles

Fiona Springer born just before 6 a.m.

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Clallam Transit approves annual budget, wage increases for union

PORT ANGELES — The Board of Clallam County Transit at its Dec. 20 meeting unanimously approved a $17.3…

Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighter/EMT Anaka Hughes makes her way up the stairs behind the Conrad Dyar Memorial Fountain in Port Angeles on Saturday to gather donations and pledges supporting the upcoming Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Firefighter Stairclimb on March 10 at the Columbia Center in Seattle. The North Olympic Firefighters Team consisting of firefighters from Fire District 2 and the Port Angeles Fire Department will join about 2,000 firefighters from across the region in the event, ascending 69 floors with 1,356 steps of Seattle’s tallest skyscraper benefiting blood cancer research and patient services. The North Olympic team plans another fundraising event with stairclimb machines on March 10 at Bourbon West, 125 W. Front St. in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Stairclimb donations

Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighter/EMT Anaka Hughes makes her way up the stairs behind the Conrad Dyar…

Clallam Transit driver Duane Benedict looks down at his fare box before departing The Gateway transit center in downtown Port Angeles on Saturday — the last day of collecting fares on most bus routes. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Clallam Transit provides free rides

One-year pilot program aims to boost ridership

The Center for Whale Research has received reports of a new calf with J pod on Dec. 26. (Maya Sears)

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Researchers spot newborn orca in L Pod on the day after Christmas

Southern Resident population now at 77

The first phase to revamp the parking and stormwater collection at Dr. Standard Little League Park is anticipated to be finished in January. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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First phase of Sequim Little League park revamp nears finish

No timeline, funding for final phases yet

Crime & Justice

Man subject of manhunt charged with four felonies

Three more to follow next week

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Port Angeles Winter Ice Village volunteers Rich Johnson, left, and Sarah Fixter check in used ice skates on a busy Friday afternoon skate session.

Arts & Entertainment

Ice Village season drawing to a close

Sixth season promising total high attendance

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Port Angeles releases STR inventory report

City considering additional regulations for rentals

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Christina Ballew outside Kai Tai Lagoon in Port Townsend on Friday.

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Help from Home Fund‘miracle’ for PT woman

Donations from neighbors help neighbors

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OMC counts 2023 losses, looks ahead

$24 million lost through November for year

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First Night to celebrate last night of 2023

Port Townsend’s family-friendly New Year’s Eve bash returns

Clallam County Fire District 3 
Firefighters fight a house fire in the 900 block of Hooker Road on Wednesday. Law enforcement continued to seek a Sequim man suspected for the blaze on Thursday.

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UPDATE: Sequim man taken into custody after alleged assault, arson

SEQUIM — David R. Burgess was taken into custody by Clallam County Sheriff’s deputies in the 1900 block…

Graphic courtesy of North Olympic Library System / The Outdoor Play Area at the soon-to-be-renovated Sequim Library — accessed through a gate on the building’s east side and the interior Children’s
Area — will be named in memory of Dorothy DeLand.

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Sequim Library expansion draws donations

SEQUIM — The Sequim Library Expansion and Renovation Project recently received three large donations.

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EJFR, Port Townsned extend agreement

Pact concerns fire marshal duties, inspections

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Clallam revisits staffing clerk post

District Court 1 had cut hours

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Port Angeles man dies in one-vehicle rollover

PORT ANGELES — A 40-year-old Port Angeles man died when his SUV left the roadway on O’Brien Road…