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Stephen Fisher, from the Kenmore area, tows 2-year-old Juniper and pugs Jackie and JoJo, with wife Catherine Creason following. They participated in the couple’s sixth Tour de Lavender this weekend. Creason said they were married during the event five years ago. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Life

Tour de Lavender enjoys its biggest turnout to date

More than 900 people register for annual bike ride

News

Dabob Bay area could expand

DNR may use state funds for program

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Secure entrance eyed for Clallam County courthouse

Grant would pay 70 percent of upgrade

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Trails still closed after cougar attack in park

Trackers haven’t found animal, officials say

First responders prevent a vehicle from sliding farther down an embankment after it went off U.S. Highway 101 Monday evening. Its driver, a 61-year-old Sequim woman, died in the crash. (Clallam County Fire District 3)

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Sequim woman dies after car goes over embankment

Collision between SUV, log truck injures another

Blackberry pie contest winners, from left, Rachel Rice of Joyce (second place, adult), Audry Rice, 11, of Joyce (third place, youth), Janice Harsh of Port Angeles (third place, adult), Haylie Tenneson, 11, of Port Angeles (first place, youth), Tamara Stephens, Clackamas, Ore. (first place, adult) and Ariana Varholla, 15, of Sequim (second place, youth) display their pies and ribbons at the end of judging on Saturday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Joyce Daze

Blackberry pie contest winners, from left, Rachel Rice of Joyce (second place, adult), Audry Rice, 11, of Joyce…

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State seeking comment for northern spotted owl

Input could keep it on endangered list

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OMC Foundation announces $500,000 program contribution

Scholarship fund aims to increase health care workers

The charred remains of a pair of mobile homes sit on Saturday at the Emerald Mobile Home & RV Park in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Travel trailers burn at Port Angeles facility

PORT ANGELES — Firefighters extinguished blazes in two travel trailers at Emerald Mobile Home & RV Park on…

Firefighters work to contain a brush fire on the south side of U.S. Highway 101 near Deer Park on Monday. (Clallam 2 Fire-Rescue)

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Brush fire burns about 1.5 acres near Deer Park

PORT ANGELES — Clallam 2 Fire-Rescue crews contained a brush fire that burned about 1.5 acres south of…

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Port Townsend’s Centrum Acoustic Blues Festival presented Justin Golden as an opening act for special guest Bobby Rush in a solo acoustic concert on Wednesday at McCurdy Pavilion at Fort Worden State Park. Rush joined the Acoustic Blues artist faculty on Tuesday to teach a harmonica clinic during the 2023 Acoustic Blues Workshop and to tell stories to the registered participants of the workshop. The festival continues today with the Acoustic Blues Showcase at 1:30 p.m. and Saturday Blues in the Clubs at 6:30 p.m. For more information, see https://centrum.org/events-calendar.

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Blues in Port Townsend

Port Townsend’s Centrum Acoustic Blues Festival presented special guest Bobby Rush in a solo acoustic concert on Wednesday…

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Hanan Zawideh is the new vice president of HR Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Peninsula College.

Education

New vice president starts at Peninsula College

Hanan Zawideh will lead college’s DEI efforts

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Port of Port Angeles looks to diversify for future

Maritime center and foreign trade zone to expand port offerings

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Clallam sheriff seeks grant for tactical robot

Commissioners to consider request

Greg Holmquist of Port Angeles walks to his beached boat to pull it to a waiting trailer, parked more than 100 yards from the end of the regular boat ramp as a group of kayakers paddle around the Bachelor Rock sea stack during Thursday’s minus-2 low tide at Freshwater Bay west of Port Angeles. Holmquist said it was a perfect day for boating with calm seas and pleasant weather. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Low tide boat launch

Greg Holmquist of Port Angeles walks to his beached boat to pull it to a waiting trailer, parked…

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Probe into Hurricane Ridge lodge fire continues

Winter access plans haven’t been decided

Politics

Ozias challenger drops out of race

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Commissioner Mark Ozias no longer has an opponent in his bid to be…

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Olympic Medical Center emergency department is nearing full staffing levels

New medical director on board

A tandem dump truck delivers sub-surface material on Wednesday at the site of the future Monroe Playfield at Roosevelt School in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Superintendent: Monroe Playfield project on schedule

Field expected to be available by Sept. 1

A multi-agency police force walks up the ramp after conducting a high-risk, low-frequency training exercise on board the M/V Kennewick on Wednesday. High risk refers to the level of danger to people and property, i.e., a hostage situation, and low frequency refers to the chance of it actually happening, but the agencies want to be prepared by training. The force was made up with personnel from the Port Townsend, Port Angeles and Sequim police departments and both the Clallam and Jefferson county sheriff’s departments as well as from customs enforcement. The 8 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. ferries from Port Townsend were cancelled due to low tides, so travel was not impacted during the exercise. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Training exercise

A multi-agency police force walks up the ramp after conducting a high-risk, low-frequency training exercise on board the…