“Trail to Sol Duc Falls” will be part of the Blue Whole Gallery’s “28 on the Strait” exhibit during the First Friday Art Walk in Sequim.

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First Friday Art Walk set this week

SEQUIM — The First Friday Art Walk will celebrate with a white-themed event from 5 p.m. to 8…

Lane Coney, who lives in Port Townsend, stops and looks at a flowering poison hemlock plant that extends over the sidewalk on Washington Street near the Port Townsend post office on Tuesday morning. Poison hemlock is a highly poisonous, flowering plant in the carrot family. All parts of the plant are toxic, especially when ingested. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Poison hemlock

Lane Coney, who lives in Port Townsend, stops and looks at a flowering poison hemlock plant that extends…

Clallam County Sheriff’s Office representatives said they believe the body found on Sunday is missing kayaker Ty Coone. The remains were found about a mile from where Coone was fishing on May 13 in a kayak north of Cline Spit. A Celebration of Life is set for 7 p.m. June 14 at the big barn at 702 Kitchen-Dick Road in Sequim. (Michele Scott Duncan)

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Body found believed to be missing kayaker

Coroner’s office seeking dental records for positive identification

Stephen and Christine Humphries of Nottingham, United Kingdom, spend part of Monday looking over the skeleton of Gunther, the 4-year-old Pacific gray whale that washed ashore and died on a beach in Port Ludlow in 2019 and is now an educational exhibit for the Port Townsend Marine Science Center located on the Union Wharf in downtown Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Visiting Gunther

Stephen and Christine Humphries of Nottingham, United Kingdom, spend part of Monday looking over the skeleton of Gunther,…

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Clallam considers Owens memorial

Location to be recommended in future

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Jefferson County emergency department outlines plans

Three steps to wildfire evacuation, director says

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JCSO receives recognition

Years in the making, sheriffs and police chief association gives agency accreditation

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Eighth Street bridges road work postponed

PORT ANGELES — The city of Port Angeles has postponed work on the Eighth Street bridges that was…

Nash Huber greets visitors during a benefit concert and dinner on May 17 in the Sequim Prairie Grange that raised funds for his medical and legal expenses. He faces eviction from Delta Farm, a Dungeness farm he helped preserve in exchange to lease it through 2032. However, Washington Farmland Trust reports that Huber continues to have violations going against his lease agreement. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Longtime farmer faces eviction

WA Farmland Trust staff say lease violations persist

Forks Mayor Tim Fletcher, Judge Bruce Hanify and Forks City Council member Vilkesh Patel.

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Patel sworn in as newest Forks City Council member

Originally from India, business opportunities brought him to West End

Sequim Sunrise Rotarians, from left, President Bill Benedict and members Ann Flack and Charlie Johnson stand in the storage unit as they ready for Memorial Day distribution. The club’s Flag Subscription Program has more than 600 American flags that are placed across Sequim with funds going to local and international groups and projects and high school scholarships. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim Rotary flag program honors service members

Subscription service raises money for service groups, scholarships

Lynette Hostetler of Port Angeles instructs Ian, her shetland sheepdog, over an inclined obstacle during Saturday’s AKC Agility Rally and Obedience Trials at Carrie Blake Park in Sequim. The event, hosted by the Hurricane Ridge Kennel Club, featured a variety of obstacle courses with dogs searching for the fastest time in the ring. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Up and over

Lynette Hostetler of Port Angeles instructs Ian, her shetland sheepdog, over an inclined obstacle during Saturday’s AKC Agility…

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Woodworker Michael Clemens, left, with help from Christine Loewe, executive director of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, and fourth-grade teacher Tony Seidl, right, erect a dragon-themed arbor at the student garden at Dry Creek School on Thursday in Port Angeles.

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Permanent art installed at Dry Creek Elementary

Art by local artists graces gardens

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STR class change forces building updates

Work session scheduled for November

Screen grab from CTS security camera footage of the little scofflaw.

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Marmot takes trip to downtown Port Angeles

Camera captures furry bus passenger on adventure

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Peninsula College closing Fort Worden campus

Will finish current academic year

A 1949 built cabin at Lake Gibbs in Chimacum, was used for a live structure fire training by East Jefferson Fire Rescue Wednesday. (East Jefferson Fire Rescue)

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East Jefferson Fire Rescue burns cabin in training exercise

Lake Gibbs cabin was set for demolition

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Gardiner boat ramp replacement moves forward

Elmore sale efforts stall

Wendy Bart, the CEO of the Olympic Peninsula YMCA was the MC at a Ground Breaking Ceremony Wed afternoon. The new Early Learning Center (child care) is to be built in the area just west of the YMCA's current parking lot off Francis Street.  Over 40 dignitaries and interested people came for the introduction and the ground breaking photo op. Bart in her opening remarks said the idea for the project was formed during COVID when they realized the Olympic Peninsula was a “child care desert”. Soon was formed the money raising and architectural drawings. “The people of the Olympic Peninsula are magical” when explaining that $7 million of the needed $9 million have been promised. “We have a trajectory for success from a caring community” she continued. The 8000 sq foot building will break ground next month with a finish date of opening in September of 2026. The facility designed for children under age 5 will have hours of 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM. The general contractors is G.L.Y. of Bellevue. WA.
        Ground Breaking Op — L to R are Randy Johnson, Virginia O’Neil, Steve Tharinger, Mike French, Mark Ozias,  LaTrisha Suggs, Drew Schwab, Glenn Smithson, Lori Robbin, John Vorhees,  And a host of “special guests” who perhaps will get to use the new facility when opened.                                  (call Jody Minker for more info at 360-301-3221) dlogan

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YMCA Early Learning Center breaks ground in Port Angeles

‘Y Kids’ on hand to kick off construction

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Healthy Families braces for cuts

Organization could lose 30 percent of funding