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Firefighters expected to leave Neah Bay today

Wildfires that forced the evacuation of about 100 people in Neah Bay on Thursday were just about wrapped up on Sunday with… Continue reading

Port Angeles High School Honor Society Advisor John Gallagher, left, poses with Port Angeles Education Academic Achievement Award recipients Liberty Lauer and Lily Halberg.

Foundation recognizes two high school seniors

Two students in the Port Angeles High School Class of 2023 have received the Port Angeles Education Foundation’s Academic Achievement Awards. “Liberty… Continue reading

Port Angeles High School Honor Society Advisor John Gallagher, left, poses with Port Angeles Education Academic Achievement Award recipients Liberty Lauer and Lily Halberg.
Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group Kathy Joyner, co-organizer of Toys for Sequim Kids, helps Jean Ann Houk size up a T-shirt for one of her children at the 2021 event in Sequim Prairie Grange. This year’s event is set for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 14.

Giving trees spring up to help annual ‘Toys for Sequim Kids’

Donation boxes set up throughout town

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group Kathy Joyner, co-organizer of Toys for Sequim Kids, helps Jean Ann Houk size up a T-shirt for one of her children at the 2021 event in Sequim Prairie Grange. This year’s event is set for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 14.
Nicole Gauthier.

Jefferson Transit approves general manager

Gauthier moves from interim position

Nicole Gauthier.

Lawyers offer free legal aid on Dec. 3

Registration needed by Wednesday

Port Angeles gives Field Hall ARPA funds

Clallam County to discuss allocation of federal funds today

Margaret “Maggie” O’Brien.

Port Angeles woman found dead

Natural causes suspected as cause of death

Margaret “Maggie” O’Brien.
An aerial view of the north jetty shows it as it is being rebuilt at the Point Hudson Marina.

Port: Point Hudson jetty rebuild ahead of schedule

Earlier reopening likely, officials say

An aerial view of the north jetty shows it as it is being rebuilt at the Point Hudson Marina.

Three hurt in Paradise Road-Highway 104 collision

DOT plans roundabout at that intersection

Port Angeles approves tax hike

The Port Angeles City Council has voted unanimously to adopt a 1 percent property tax levy increase as well as an excess… Continue reading

DNR ends net pen aquaculture in state-owned waters

Order disrupts planned Port Angeles fish farm

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Downtown tree becomes Sequim’s Christmas tree

Lighting part of Hometown Holidays next weekend

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East Jefferson Fire District approves budget, levies

Commissioners to discuss levy lid lift next month

Festival of Trees adds opening ceremonies

Bigger-than-life ornaments to be lit on Wednesday

Fine Arts Center offers lights, art day after Thanksgiving

Wintertide to be a month of activities

Eli Hammel of the City of Port Angeles starts on Wednesday the three-day task of putting 10,000 lights on a Christmas tree while suspended in a lift bucket. The tree, which came from city property, will adorn the downtown Conrad Dyer plaza at the foot of Laurel Street. No tree-lighting ceremony is planned but Small Business Weekend is set after Thanksgiving. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

Holiday deals to be offered in Port Angeles

Downtown merchants will offer special deals during Small Business Weekend after Thanksgiving. Exclusive offers will be available for three days beginning Friday… Continue reading

Eli Hammel of the City of Port Angeles starts on Wednesday the three-day task of putting 10,000 lights on a Christmas tree while suspended in a lift bucket. The tree, which came from city property, will adorn the downtown Conrad Dyer plaza at the foot of Laurel Street. No tree-lighting ceremony is planned but Small Business Weekend is set after Thanksgiving. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
Darby Berg and Karl Sachs, both 12, are among the first to climb onto artist Rebecca Welti’s sea creature sculpture at the JUMP— Jefferson Universal Movement Playground — in Chimacum.
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JUMP Playground opens at H.J. Carroll County Park

Darby Berg and Karl Sachs, both 12, are among the first to climb onto artist Rebecca Welti’s sea creature sculpture at the JUMP— Jefferson Universal… Continue reading

Darby Berg and Karl Sachs, both 12, are among the first to climb onto artist Rebecca Welti’s sea creature sculpture at the JUMP— Jefferson Universal Movement Playground — in Chimacum.

Thanksgiving Day newspaper to be published online only

The U.S. Postal Service is not working on Thanksgiving Day so the Peninsula Daily News will not be printed on paper or delivered to your… Continue reading

The Coast Guard flew over fires and took photographs of blazes near Cape Flattery. (U.S. Coast Guard)

UPDATE: Neah Bay residents allowed to return to homes after evacuation

DNT crews beating back fires

The Coast Guard flew over fires and took photographs of blazes near Cape Flattery. (U.S. Coast Guard)
The Winter Ice Village in downtown Port Angeles is open for another season of ice skating. Tiadosa Tom, age 9 in pink, and her cousin Annabella Mason, age 4, are glad the Ice Village finally opened on Friday. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)
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Winter Ice Village opens in Port Angeles

The Winter Ice Village in downtown Port Angeles is open for another season of ice skating. Tiadosa Tom, age 9 in pink, and her cousin… Continue reading

The Winter Ice Village in downtown Port Angeles is open for another season of ice skating. Tiadosa Tom, age 9 in pink, and her cousin Annabella Mason, age 4, are glad the Ice Village finally opened on Friday. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)