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Port Angeles School District to reduce budget by $1.9M

Additional cuts could come if government slashes Title 1 funding

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Jefferson County discussion centers on fireworks

Potential future bans, pathway to public displays discussed

Natalie Maitland.

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Port Townsend Main Street hires next executive director

Natalie Maitland will start new role with organization May 21

Chimacum Elementary School sixth-grade students jump on a rotating maypole as they use the new playground equipment on Monday during recess. The playground was redesigned with safer equipment and was in use for the first time since inspections were completed last Thursday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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New equipment

Chimacum Elementary School sixth-grade students jump on a rotating maypole as they use the new playground equipment on…

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Police: Man dies following assault in Sequim

SEQUIM — A man died after he was allegedly assaulted in the 500 block of West Washington Street…

W. Ron Allen.

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Allen to be inducted into Native American Hall of Fame

Ceremony will take place in November in Oklahoma City

Moses McDonald, a Sequim water operator, holds one of the city’s new utility residential meters in his right hand and a radio transmitter in his left. City staff finished replacing more than 3,000 meters so they can be read remotely. (City of Sequim)

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Sequim shifts to remote utility meters

Installation for devices began last August

A family of eagles sits in a tree just north of Carrie Blake Community Park. Following concerns over impacts to the eagles and nearby Garry oak trees, city staff will move Sequim’s Fourth of July fireworks display to the other side of Carrie Blake Community Park. Staff said the show will be discharged more than half a mile away. (City of Sequim)

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Sequim to move fireworks display

Show will remain in Carrie Blake Park

A group of people play American Mahjong at the Harmony Center of Sequim in the activities room, which is large and well-lit, with Wi-Fi, a 70-inch television, folding tables and chairs. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Harmony Center cultivates peace through connection

Nonprofit offers free activity space in Sequim

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Special candidate filing period to open Wednesday

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County elections office will conduct a special three-day filing period from 8 a.m.…

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Olympic Medical Center’s losses half of 2023

Critical access designation being considered

Leah Kendrick of Port Angeles and her son, Bo, 5, take a tandem ride on the slide in the playground area of the campground on Thursday at the Dungeness County Recreation area northwest of Sequim. The pair took advantage of a temperate spring day for the outdoor outing. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Tandem slide

Leah Kendrick of Port Angeles and her son, Bo, 5, take a tandem ride on the slide in…

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Court halts watershed logging

Activists block access to tree parcels

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FEMA to reduce reimbursement eligibility

Higher thresholds, shorter timeframes in communities

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Eighty-eight hopefuls file for public office

Candidate filing week ends today

Chimacum High School Human Body Systems teacher Tyler Walcheff, second form left, demonstrates to class members Aaliyah LaCunza, junior, Connor Meyers-Claybourn, senior, Deegan Cotterill, junior, second from right, and Taylor Frank, senior, the new Anatomage table for exploring the human body. The $79,500 table is an anatomy and physiology learning tool that was acquired with a grant from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and from the Roe Family Endowment. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Jefferson Healthcare program prepares students for careers

Kids from three school districts can learn about pathways

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Sequim police arrest man in bank robbery

SEQUIM — A 57-year-old man has been arrested on investigation of robbing Kitsap Bank in Sequim.

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Type I rental definition updated

Six units to be affected in Port Angeles

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Peninsula seeing pertussis clusters

Treatable with antibiotics, health officer says

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15 offices with multiple candidates

Filing week continues through end of business Friday