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Port Angeles police and Clallam County Sheriff’s deputies gather at the scene of a standoff that forced closure of the 1100 block of East Third Street on Wednesday afternoon. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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UPDATE: Streets reopened after Port Angeles standoff

PORT ANGELES — Law enforcement officers have reopened streets that were blocked off and left the area after…

Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighter Mya Delano plays her guitar surrounded by fellow squad members as a house at 141 Harry Brown Road burns behind her on Sunday west of Port Angeles. The house was intentionally torched as a training exercise, giving firefighters an opportunity to practice in a live fire situation. Fire districts 2 and 4, along with members of the Port Angeles Fire Department, took part in the event. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Training exercise

Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighter Mya Delano plays her guitar surrounded by fellow squad members as a…

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Clallam PUD appoints Purvis

Assistant GM says he will resign from staff position

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Psychedelics may become lowest enforcement priority in Jefferson County

Resolution would ‘right a historical wrong’

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New Washington gun law already faces federal court challenge

Gov. Jay Inslee signs three related bills

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Transport fee rates adjusted in Jefferson

Ambulance hikes are in line with Port Ludlow

Artist Emily Carlquist, seen here before one of her abstract multi-media pieces featuring acrylic paint on textured canvas with needle-woven local fiber warped on canvas, on display at Dandelion Botanical for the month of April. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Fiber artist’s debut show at Dandelion Botanical

Closing party, celebration set for Saturday

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Drug possession laws in limbo after House rejects Blake bill

Enforcement could be in hands of cites, counties after July 1

Nearly 300 runners take off in the Run the Peninsula's Sequim Railroad Bridge run Saturday morning. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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RUN THE PENINSULA: Sequim Bridge Run boasts ideal conditions for 300 competitors

Second in racing series includes 5K, 10K distances

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Gun store owner Jim Rogers expects to weather an impending ban on assault weapon sales.

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Assault weapons sale ban approved

Peninsula gun shop owners weigh-in on ban

This sonar image of the Pythias Oasis site shows bubbles rising from the seafloor about two-thirds of a mile deep and 50 miles off Newport, Ore. These bubbles are a byproduct of a unique site where warm, chemically distinct fluid gushes from the seafloor. Researchers believe this fluid comes directly from the Cascadia megathrust zone, or plate boundary, and helps control stress buildup between the two plates.Philip et al./Science Advances

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Undersea ‘oasis’ sheds new light on plate tectonics

Seepage doesn’t mean an earthquake is imminent

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Anderson Lake closed due to toxin

PORT TOWNSEND — Anderson Lake is closed due to an elevated level of the potent nerve toxin anatoxin-a…

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Jefferson board announces public health heroes

Dozen individuals, groups recognized

Arts & Entertainment

Volunteers to clean beaches on Earth Day

PORT ANGELES — Volunteers will flock to North Olympic Peninsula beaches to clear them of plastic and other…

Hal Peterson, a co-owner of Ballard-based Mach 2 Arts, works on a fabricated tree on Wednesday that will become part of a mountains-to-sea diorama of regional landscapes at the Dungeness River Nature Center at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Heart of new Dungeness nature center nears completion

Exhibit Room expected to be open by May

Pictured from left are Forks Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Lissy Andros, Cornerstone Award recipient Nedra Reed, Wes Romberg, Bill Brager and JoMarie Miller accepting the Halvie Award on behalf of the Quillayute Valley Scholarship Auction, Citizen of the Year Shelley Castellano, Business of the Year award winner Dean Decker, and Forks Chamber President Trent Thurman. Not pictured are Deborah Scannell and Jerry Leppell. (Christi Baron/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Forks’ best presented with awards

Honors highlight West End community accomplishments

Kevin Gallacci.

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Clallam Transit chief retires after 39 years

Kevin Gallacci’s last day to be June 30

Jaiden Dokken, Clallam County’s first poet laureate, receives a hug and flowers from their father Mark Dokken of Port Angeles after Jaiden was inaugurated to their two-year post on Tuesday at the Port Angeles Public Library. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Clallam’s first poet laureate busy long before inauguration

Free activities scheduled around the county

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Council votes to double pay in Port Angeles

Proposed change to be heard May 2

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Staffing issues blamed for added Port Townsend costs

Officials: Vacancy rates lead to more consultants