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Barry and Ellen Lerich of Marrowstone Island are pictured in front of the Anuradhapura Monastery in Sri Lanka.

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Couple chosen Marrowstone Citizens of Year

Husband, wife moved to Marrowstone in ’01

Cellist Julian Schwarz, pictured rehearsing in spring 2023, rejoins the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra for two performances this Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Port Angeles Symphony)

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Cellist, full orchestra to present two performances Saturday

Historic instrument was made in 1743

After five years of investigations, Sequim police have sought additional help from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Cold Case Investigation Unit through state Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office to help solve the 2019 homicide of Valerie Claplanhoo, a Makah tribal member, pictured with her son Brandan. (Cindy Lee Claplanhoo)

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Sequim police working with state unit on Claplanhoo homicide

Task force focuses on cases involving indigenous people

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Clallam County voters approving all propositions

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County voters supported Forks Community Hospital and Crescent and Cape Flattery public school districts…

Animal tracks dot the otherwise smooth surface of the putting surface after a 2-inch blanket of snow fell on parts of Jefferson County on Thursday morning, including Discovery Bay Golf Course in Port Hadlock. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Snow quickly replaced by rain on Peninsula

Falling tree branches cause power outages

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Aging schools deteriorating, PASD chief says

District to request November bond measure

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Program seeking to spur industry

Innovation hub hopes to bring jobs

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Clallam County to hire jail nurses after service provider ends contract

New arrangement to save about $70K next year, add hours

A group of friends meets for coffee every Monday and then takes a walk with their dogs along a beach in Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Beach walk

A group of friends meets for coffee every Monday and then takes a walk with their dogs along…

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Special election ballots due today

Forks hospital, school levies to be decided

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Jefferson PUD to raise its pole attachment rates for businesses

Increase will affect phone, internet companies next year

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Port Angeles woman charged with stealing Transit bus

Arraignment set for Friday

Ethel Butler, a Sequim High graduate and longtime Olympic Peninsula resident, bequeathed nearly $1 million to the Albert Haller Foundation. (Marilyn Newton)

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Bequest gives $959K to Haller Foundation

Cousin: ‘She didn’t live like a millionaire’

Dave Logan / for Peninsula Daily News Ryan O’Hara, a Clallam County election assistant, grabs a bundle of 83 ballots that had gone through the first step of validation in the electronic sorting machine after arrival to election headquarters in the basement of the Clallam County Courthouse on Election Day.

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Most special election measures headed for approval

Quilcene EP&O too close to call

A pair of excavators demolish the former Bushwhacker Restaurant in Port Angeles on Saturday, clearing the space for a future Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Bushwacker building torn down for new restaurant

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen to be built

Mike Hill, current Sequim deputy police chief, will start March 1 as police chief following the retirement of Sheri Crain. He started full-time on the force in 2001. (City of Sequim)

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Hill named chief of police in Sequim

Shari Crain expected to retire on March 1

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Field Arts Events Hall is looking to expand its Port Angeles programs

After-school arts activity called Peninsula Performs coming to middle school

Craig Romano Author Craig Romano, an award-winning guidebook author, will present a slideshow hiking tour around the Olympic Peninsula, Grays Harbor and the Long Beach Peninsula at the Olympic National Park Perspectives Winter Speaker Series event on March 19. (North Olympic Library System)

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Olympic National Park’s ‘Perspectives’ series continues with ‘rare plants’ search on Tuesday

PORT ANGELES — Patrick Loafman, a biological technician with Olympic National Park, will lead attendees of the next…

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Erik Kingfisher, Stewardship Director of Jefferson Land Trust, explains the role of the trust after the sale of the Shorts Family Farm is completed to the Port of Port Townsend to an assembly of port commissioners and interested parties during a tour on Wednesday.

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Short’s Farm challenges assessed

Port to consider how to manage its first foray into agriculture

Michael Dashiell /Olympic Peninsula News Group Casey, a Great Dane, recuperates at Welfare For Animals Guild’s Half Way Home Ranch after being found on the West End with reported gunshot injuries and severe dehydration.

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WAG rescues dog with gunshot injury

Agency seeks support for rescues’ major surgeries

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