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Port Angeles Mayor Kate Dexter is one of several local people who helped pluck a winning duck from a pickup truck on Sunday at Port Angeles City Pier. There was 36 ducks to be plucked from six Wilder Toyotas. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Duck Derby event brings in new record

Proceeds to benefit students seeking medical careers

State lawmakers have delayed full funding for the Simdars Road Interchange to at least 2031 as the state faces a budget shortfall for the next four years and other transportation projects have a higher priority. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group file)

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Sequim corridor project delayed

Budget shortfall, priorities lead to decision

The Hanshaw family is struggling under the weight of emotional and financial stressors brought by the recent diagnoses by doctors at Seattle Children’s Hospital that have finally answered the question of why Ember, center, has always been frail. Shown with Ember are her parents, Jennifer and Tim Hanshaw, and 9-year-old sister Lena, who shares a hereditary condition with her father and sister. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim fifth-grader fights rare cluster of life-threatening diagnoses

Conditions affect one in more than 100 million, doctors say

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Superintendent marks 20 years of service

QVSD principals highlight goals and challenges

Bill Schlichting of Wilder Toyota holds up the rubber duck belonging to winner Colleen WIlliams of Port Angeles at the 36th annual Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby held at City Pier on Sunday. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

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Lucky duck

Bill Schlichting, Wilder Toyota sales manager, holds up the rubber duck belonging to Colleen Williams of Port Angeles,…

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Power outage scheduled in east Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Public Utility District has announced a power outage from 10 tonight (Sunday) until…

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Port Townsend publisher prints sci-fi writer’s work

Winter Texts’ sixth poetry collection of Ursula K. Le Guin

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Time bank concept comes to Peninsula

Members can trade hours of skills in two counties

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Peninsula Home Fund grants open for applications

Nonprofits can apply online until May 31

A lab mix waits in the rain for the start of the 90th Rhody Festival Pet Parade in Uptown Port Townsend on Thursday. The festival’s main parade, from Uptown to downtown, is scheduled for 1 p.m. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Pet parade

A lab mix waits in the rain for the start of the 90th Rhody Festival Pet Parade in…

Casandra Bruner.

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Neah Bay hires new chief of police

Bruner is first woman for top public safety role

Bliss Morris of Chimacum, a float builder and driver of the Rhody float, sits in the driver’s seat on Thursday as he checks out sight lines in the 60-foot float he will be piloting in the streets of Port Townsend during the upcoming 90th Rhody Parade on Saturday. Rhody volunteer Mike Ridgway of Port Townsend looks on. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Final touches

Bliss Morris of Chimacum, a float builder and driver of the Rhody float, sits in the driver’s seat…

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Fireworks not likely for Port Angeles on Fourth

Development at port bars launch from land

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Jefferson County, YMCA partner with volunteers to build skate park

Agencies could break ground this summer in Quilcene

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Peninsula Behavioral Health is bracing for Medicaid cuts

CEO: Program funds 85 percent of costs

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Port of Port Angeles is seeking grant dollars for airport

Funding would support hangars, taxiway repair

Volunteer Pam Scott dresses the part as she sells ducks for the Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby at the Sequim Farmers and Artisans Market on Saturday. (Leah Leach/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Tickets still available for annual Duck Derby

PORT ANGELES — Let us introduce you to the woman in the duck suit.

A Clallam County Public Utilities District worker trims sycamore trees on East Washington Street near the Bell Creek Plaza shopping complex in Sequim on Wednesday as part of an effort to clear branches that may interfere with nearby power lines. The clearing helps pave the way for eventual maintenance on the PUD lines. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Clearing the line

A Clallam County Public Utilities District worker trims sycamore trees on East Washington Street near the Bell Creek…

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Funding cuts to hit WSU extensions

Local food purchase program most impacted

Kaylee Oldemeyer, a second-year nursing student, is among those selling tickets for the Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby this Sunday. (Leah Leach/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Peninsula College nursing program students selling ducks for annual derby

Olympic Medical Center Foundation to give proceeds for scholarships