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Grant would fund childcare facility

Jefferson entities partner in $2.9M project

MarchFourth, the party band featuring musicians, dancers and acrobats, is set to play Saturday at the Juan de Fuca Festival in Port Angeles. (Andrew Wyatt)

Arts & Entertainment

30th Juan de Fuca Festival arrives Friday

Lineup brings music, activities for adults and children

Port Townsend’s Seamus Fraser (142) is a step ahead of the rest of the nearly 1,000 competitors in the 2023 Rhody Run on Sunday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. Fraser had flown in from classes in Ecuador the night before in order to defend his victory from last year. Fraser won the 10K event with a time of 35 minutes, 24 seconds. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Rhody festivities

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Dan Wilder Jr. pulls the winning duck from a Wilder truck at the 34th annual Great Olympic Duck Derby on Sunday. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Pluck nets 34 winners

Duck Derby breaks foundation records

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Scholarship trust named for Port Angeles pioneer comes home to Clallam County

PORT ANGELES — A $600,000 scholarship fund benefiting Port Angeles High School students now will be administered locally…

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PDN phones out of order

Peninsula Daily News phones are out of order on Sunday.

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Three Clallam County volunteers were honored for their decades of service with Clallam County Community Service Awards. From left are Lloyd Eisenman of Port Angeles, Emily Westcott of Sequim and Mike Dukes, of Clallam Bay-Sekiu.

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Three honored for longtime volunteerism

Community Service Awards presented

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Clallam County election assistant Gretchen Weeks, right, spins a tumbler containing the names of candidates a county voter registration coordinator Joshua Hart records the results during a lot drawing for candidate positions on the ballot on Friday at the county courthouse in Port Angeles.

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Peninsula election contests coming up

Filing week ends with several races

Crime & Justice

Standoff suspect has a long court history

Accused remained in jail on Friday

“Dappled,” a silk painting by Evette Allerdings of Port Angeles, is among the 40 works installed this week at Jefferson Healthcare Hospital. Image courtesy of Northwind Art

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Northwind Art decorates Jefferson Healthcare

PORT TOWNSEND — Paintings on silk, canvas and wood, mixed-media work, plein air art made with a tablet:…

Crime & Justice

Accused murder suspect is dead

Man was on court order at hospital

Port Angeles High School junior Jamie Robinson is one of many students helping prepare the school’s community garden for a plant sale on Saturday. All proceeds will be dedicated to the school’s garden program. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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Growing plants, knowledge at Port Angeles High School garden

Club to sell vegetable starts as fundraiser; cash accepted Saturday

Allen Fletcher.

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Human remains identified as Port Townsend man

Allen Fletcher disappeared in 2013 while captaining a boat from Edmonds to Bellingham

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Candidates file on fourth day of filing week

A fourth day of candidate filings led to a primary race forming in the Port Townsend School District…

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Jefferson County seeks comment on park fee increases

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County is seeking public comment on proposed Parks and Recreation Department fee increases and…

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Candidates file for Peninsula positions

Day three of candidate filing week resulted in more contests for several elected positions on the North Olympic…

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Port Angeles City Council approves pay raise

Proposal for annual increase removed

Trike races in the 3- and 4-year-old class make a dash for the finish line during the Rhody Festival Trike Races on Water Street in downtown Port Townsend on Wednesday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Trike races

Trike races in the 3- and 4-year-old class make a dash for the finish line during the Rhody…

Driftwood art instructor Tuttie Peetz works on a driftwood art piece at her home studio for Olympic Driftwood Sculptors’ next show Saturday and Sunday at the Dungeness River Nature Center. She said she’s put in more than 1,000 hours into shaping the twisted juniper wood from Montana. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Artists turn driftwood into sculptures

Seventy pieces to be on display this weekend

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Hoax call a shock, Port Angeles schools chief says

Brewer: Sixth-grade band will continue