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Woman flown to hospital after collision on Highway 19

One woman was flown to a Seattle hospital and three others were taken to Jefferson Healthcare hospital after a vehicle crossed the centerline… Continue reading

Nor’Wester Rotary member Chris Szczepczynski turns hot dogs for sale at Jammin’ in the Park on Saturday at Pebble Beach Park on the Port Angeles waterfront. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Jammin’ in the Park

Nor’Wester Rotary member Chris Szczepczynski turns hot dogs for sale at Jammin’ in the Park on Saturday at Pebble Beach Park on the Port Angeles… Continue reading

Nor’Wester Rotary member Chris Szczepczynski turns hot dogs for sale at Jammin’ in the Park on Saturday at Pebble Beach Park on the Port Angeles waterfront. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

FD3 plans to ask for levy in 2025

Agency to push EMS request into 2026

Members of the Sequim School District’s long-range facilities planning group got a look at Sequim High School’s aging science classrooms. The four classrooms were built in 1967. Adjacent to the classrooms is a storage area with rows of chemicals used in classroom studies without nearly the ventilation needed, said Mike Santos, Sequim schools’ director of facilities, operations and security. (Michel Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim school group reviewing aging facilities for possible funding request

Board directors: Multi-phase plan will be considered

Members of the Sequim School District’s long-range facilities planning group got a look at Sequim High School’s aging science classrooms. The four classrooms were built in 1967. Adjacent to the classrooms is a storage area with rows of chemicals used in classroom studies without nearly the ventilation needed, said Mike Santos, Sequim schools’ director of facilities, operations and security. (Michel Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Hawaiian officials, students and staff celebrate the opening of new playground sets at King Kamehameha III Elementary School’s temporary site on Aug. 13. Sequim’s Danielle Patterson helped coordinate and donate the Wagga Wagga structure after wildfires in August 2023 destroyed the school. (Danielle Patterson/Allplay Systems)

Sequim woman coordinates playground donation in Hawaii

Structure dedicated in August after deadly wildfire last year

Hawaiian officials, students and staff celebrate the opening of new playground sets at King Kamehameha III Elementary School’s temporary site on Aug. 13. Sequim’s Danielle Patterson helped coordinate and donate the Wagga Wagga structure after wildfires in August 2023 destroyed the school. (Danielle Patterson/Allplay Systems)
Port Townsend Public Works Director Steve King, left, discusses ways to repair the broken sewer line that developed a sinkhole late Friday night on Water Street at the entrance to the Port Townsend ferry dock, with Talon Cameron of Seaton Construction, Lane Dodson and Adam Fructas. Raw sewage continues to flow through the 70-year-old pipe and partially fills the hole. Plans were to make a temporary fix with a steel plate over the hole until more permanent repairs could be made. (Steve Mullensky/For Peninsula Daily News)
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Sinkhole repairs

Port Townsend Public Works Director Steve King, left, discusses ways to repair the broken sewer line that developed a sinkhole late Friday night on Water… Continue reading

Port Townsend Public Works Director Steve King, left, discusses ways to repair the broken sewer line that developed a sinkhole late Friday night on Water Street at the entrance to the Port Townsend ferry dock, with Talon Cameron of Seaton Construction, Lane Dodson and Adam Fructas. Raw sewage continues to flow through the 70-year-old pipe and partially fills the hole. Plans were to make a temporary fix with a steel plate over the hole until more permanent repairs could be made. (Steve Mullensky/For Peninsula Daily News)

Weekly flight operations scheduled

There will be field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Complex this week. There will be… Continue reading

Property owners Sam Watson, left, and Marianne Condrup, right, speak with Lincoln Park Grocery business owner Erin Korte in the recently reopened shop on Tuesday in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Renovated Lincoln Park Grocery reopens to customers

Readerboard remains feature of business, which now includes local vendors

Property owners Sam Watson, left, and Marianne Condrup, right, speak with Lincoln Park Grocery business owner Erin Korte in the recently reopened shop on Tuesday in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Ralph Henry Keil and Ginny Grimm.

Chimacum sailor’s remains are identified

After nearly eight decades, man who died at Pearl Harbor to be buried at Tahoma National Cemetery

Ralph Henry Keil and Ginny Grimm.

District aims for unified vision

Waterfront group bringing stakeholders together

EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Presentations next week on preliminary budgets

Meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula

Port of Port Townsend employee Eva Ellis trims brush and weeds out of the rain gardens Wednesday morning at Point Hudson in advance of the annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival Sept. 6-8 at Point Hudson Marina. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Prep work

Port of Port Townsend employee Eva Ellis trims brush and weeds out of the rain gardens Wednesday morning at Point Hudson in advance of the… Continue reading

Port of Port Townsend employee Eva Ellis trims brush and weeds out of the rain gardens Wednesday morning at Point Hudson in advance of the annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival Sept. 6-8 at Point Hudson Marina. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Fort Worden PDA considers dissolution timeline

Interim executive director aims for smooth transition

David Brehm, Jeene Hobbs, Barbara VanderWerf and Ann Soule from the Clallam County League of Women Voters stand with a new sign that shows the level of water flow for the Dungeness River. While the river flow was considered critical on Aug. 23, levels improved slightly to "low" flow later that night. The sign, just west of Knutsen Farm Road on Old Olympic Highway, will be updated weekly, organizers said. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

New sign to display Dungeness River levels

Drought indicator placed on Old Olympic Highway property

David Brehm, Jeene Hobbs, Barbara VanderWerf and Ann Soule from the Clallam County League of Women Voters stand with a new sign that shows the level of water flow for the Dungeness River. While the river flow was considered critical on Aug. 23, levels improved slightly to "low" flow later that night. The sign, just west of Knutsen Farm Road on Old Olympic Highway, will be updated weekly, organizers said. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Port Angeles receives $3.4M in federal grant for trail design funding

City, as lead applicant, is one of 13 agencies to receive funding

Port of Port Townsend receives $200K in grant funding

Dollars to pay for design work at airport’s industrial area, executive director says

Tom Waertz of Ready America, left, runs an earthquake simulation in a shake trailer as participants, from left, Sequim EMT Lisa Law, CERT member Anne Koepp of Joyce and Jim Buck of the Joyce Emergency Planning and Preparation Group recover after being jolted by a 6.8-magnitude quake. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

High magnitude earthquake simulator comes to Port Angeles

Area emergency responders experience shaking in small room

Tom Waertz of Ready America, left, runs an earthquake simulation in a shake trailer as participants, from left, Sequim EMT Lisa Law, CERT member Anne Koepp of Joyce and Jim Buck of the Joyce Emergency Planning and Preparation Group recover after being jolted by a 6.8-magnitude quake. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Candidates for office to speak during forum

The North Hood Canal Chamber of Commerce will host a candidate forum during its third Quilcene-Brinnon Connections meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday. The… Continue reading

Clallam Transit to welcome four new buses to its fleet

Agency fully staffed for first time in three years, general manager says

Funding needed for safety facility

PA, Clallam both must find at least $3M