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City Council candidates offer different visions for Port Angeles

Carr and Karjalainen split on city direction

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Clallam sheriff pursuing grant for updated drone

Search and rescue among camera’s uses

Novelist Jacqueline Winspear will give the annual Huntingford Humanities Lecture this Thursday. (Jacqueline Winspear)

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Novelist Winspear to give annual lecture

Huntingford Humanities Lecture on Thursday

Lily Alexander, left, has her mini Aussiedoodle, Wednesday, blessed by the Rev. Laura Murray of St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Port Angeles. Murray led the Blessing of the Animals on Sunday at the Gateway Transit Center. The annual blessings are performed in celebration of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the 12th century patron saint of animals and the environment. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Animal blessings

Lily Alexander, left, has her mini Aussiedoodle, Wednesday, blessed by the Rev. Laura Murray of St. Andrews Episcopal…

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Rain is keeping park fires in check

New team arrive to assess damage

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Jefferson commissioners approve budget requests for third quarter

Additional revenue, grants help offset various expenditures

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Clallam County finalizing 6-year transportation plan

Thirty-four funded projects, including ODT, under review

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters after a closed-door meeting with Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and other House Republicans after Gaetz filed a motion to oust McCarthy from his leadership role at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday. (J. Scott Applewhite/The Associated Press)

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McCarthy becomes the first speaker to be ousted from the job in a House vote

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown, a…

Michaela Christiansen, 14, left, and Pen DeBord, 14, both of Port Angeles, use a cider press to crush fresh apples into juice and pulp during Saturday’s Applestock celebration in Sequim. The event, a benefit for several area charities, featured food, music, crafts and games in the orchard at Williams Manor B&B/Vacation Rental. Applestock 2023 beneficiaries were the Salvation Army Food Bank, Angel Tree Christmas, Coats for Kids and area food banks. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Pressing apples

Michaela Christiansen, 14, left, and Pen DeBord, 14, both of Port Angeles, use a cider press to crush…

Emily Matthiessen / Olympic Peninsula News Group The Sequim Logging Show, seen in May 2023, will operate next year as its own nonprofit organization to seek insurance coverage separate from the Sequim Irrigation Festival. Organizers of both the festival and show say it was a pragmatic decision and is similar to what the festival did in late 2017 after leaving the umbrella of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce.

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Logging Show to be separate from festival

New nonprofit formed, but event will continue

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Sequim downtown lot to be prepped for redesign with three potential concepts

City purchased Centennial Place property in 2013 for 100th anniversary

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., gives two thumbs up as the Senate votes to approve a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open on Saturday in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Associated Press)

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Government shutdown averted with little time to spare

Ukraine funding remans an issue

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Salish Sea on cusp of losing tufted puffins

One nesting pair reported on Protection Island

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Year-round tourism aim for Peninsula

Businesses emphasize winter, shoulder seasons

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined by Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, right, and other GOP members, talks to reporters just after voting to advance appropriations bills on the House floor at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday night. McCarthy is digging in on his refusal to take up Senate legislation designed to keep the federal government fully running beyond midnight Saturday. (J. Scott Applewhite/The Associated Press, File)

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If shutdown occurs, parks will close

National sites will shutter and services will be reduced

Leo Wright, 3, of Port Townsend examines an end-of-season sunflower at the Sequim Botanical Garden near the Albert Haller Playfields at the Water Reuse Demonstration Site on Wednesday. The garden features a variety of flowers and plants maintained the city and by local gardening groups. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Close-up look

Leo Wright, 3, of Port Townsend examines an end-of-season sunflower at the Sequim Botanical Garden near the Albert…

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Olympic National Park reopens some trails

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Fires burning in Olympic National Park had forced the closure of 10 trails but…

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Clallam considers new 10-year cable TV franchise

Hearing on pact with Astound Broadband

A landslide blocks Mount Walker Lookout Road on Thursday morning. (Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office)

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Landslide closes road for about four hours

Woman rescued on Mount Walker Lookout

Tyler Benedict stars in “Tubby the Tuba,” a story that’s part of the Port Angeles Symphony’s Family Pops performances on Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Symphony concert: ‘West Side Story,’ William Tell and beyond

Two performances Saturday include PAHS choir in finale