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David Conklin/Jefferson County Farmers Markets Heath Wade enjoys opening day at the Chimacum Farmers Market in 2022.

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Chimacum Farmers Market opens Sunday

Special events planned for first day of season

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Crumb family funds nursing scholarship

$150K endowment to aid Clallam County students going to St. Martin’s University

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS The Port Angeles Red Lion Hotel and adjoining 48º North Waterfront Restaurant, shown Friday, are working on plans to expand and upgrade the current facilities, which will include incursion into the existing parking lot -- a proposal that would have an effect on the annual Port Angeles Crab Festival.

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Port Angeles city seeks Red Lion expansion comments

Plans won’t affect CrabFest this year but will in future

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Gov. Jay Inslee looks at a patient simulator as Peninsula College nursing instructional technician Terresa Taylor describes its workings during a tour of the college's Nursing Simulation Lab on Friday in Port Angeles.

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Inslee tours Port Angeles projects

Town ‘pumping on all cylinders,’ he said

Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighters, with assistance from surrounding districts, work to extinguish fire of beach logs and grasses that scorched a stretch of beach along the Strait of Juan de Fuca at the north end of Four Seasons Ranch and threatened numerous homes on Saturday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Beach blaze contained at Morse Creek

Saturday fire worried homeowners, but no structures affected

Tamara Galvin, facilities manager for the Feiro Marine Life Center in Port Angeles, watches as Rocky, the center’s black rockfish, explores his new viewing tank. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Feiro Marine Life Center replaces tank for rockfish

City lodging tax pays for project

Boats in the 2019 Race to Alaska compete for a $10,000 prize in a route that takes them from Port Townsend to Ketchikan, Alaska, but organizers say the race is more about the experience than the money. (Drew Malcolm via Northwest Maritime Center)

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Race to Alaska sets sail Monday

Participants to use human, wind power

Rescuers in Jefferson County assist a woman on Wednesday who went looking for a hiker reported missing on Monday. The woman was injured attempting to cross the Duckabush River and transported to Jefferson Healthcare hospital in Port Townsend. (Brinnon Fire Department)

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Woman rescued in her search for hiker

Sporadic drone flights still checking area

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Port Angeles school board talks budget and class sizes

New high school bell schedule for 2024-25

Matthew Sacks, left, and Levi Smith of Brandsen Co. from Portland, Ore., lay one of the layers on the new stage floor at the Field Arts and Events Hall in downtown Port Angeles. There will be a total of six layers of materials for the high-tech stage floor. The venue, which will seat 500, will begin to host performances when it opens at the end of July. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Field Hall floor installation

Matthew Sacks, left, and Levi Smith of Brandsen Co. from Portland, Ore., lay one of the layers on…

Frank Redmon.

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Quilcene schools superintendent resigns

Frank Redmon moving to Pennsylvania

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Olympic Angels provides support, mentors for youth in foster care

Jefferson County program expanding into Clallam County

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Sequim postpones hearing on food trucks

Staff: State protocols must be completed

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Hurricane Ridge shuttle delayed following fire

National Park Service says it’s working on update by Friday

A helicopter from the Coast Guard station in Port Angeles assists in the rescue. (Clallam County Sheriff’s Office)

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Unidentified man rescued from beach after falling 60 feet

Taken to Harborview; his condition was unknown on Tuesday

Joshua Guerrier.

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Search continues for hiker

Missing man believed to have entered Duckabush River

Suzanne Ames.

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Peninsula College sets 9 new programs

Courses of study to begin in fall

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Jefferson Healthcare offers medical assistant training program

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson Healthcare has opened enrollment for another cohort to the Medical Assistant Apprentice Program, a…

Ridership for Clallam Transit’s new Interlink vans has increased so much since December that leadership is looking to implement a second van that would report to pings for rides using the app “Ride Pingo.” (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Ridership grows for app-based van-ride service

Staffer hired to help train people to use public transit

Crime & Justice

Forks man sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison

Calloway pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter