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Port Townsend Yacht Club offers marine trades scholarships

A Port Townsend Yacht Club program aims to help those looking to learn maritime skills. Applications for the club’s 2019 scholarship awards… Continue reading

Sequim forum to focus on commercial aquaculture Saturday

The Sierra Club’s North Olympic Group and the Sierra Club Chapter Water Salmon Committee will host “Industrial Aquaculture: Food or Folly? Losing the… Continue reading

OMC urges federal agency to ditch plan for Medicare, Medicaid cuts

Loud and clear. Olympic Medical Center officials made their concerns clear about proposed changes to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements during a visit… Continue reading

Sequim declines $1M loan for Prairie Street, looks to still do public outreach

Sequim declines $1M loan for Prairie Street, looks to still do public outreach

Funding won’t be coming through quite as planned for projected work on Prairie Street. Sequim’s Public Works director David Garlington told city council… Continue reading

Sequim declines $1M loan for Prairie Street, looks to still do public outreach
Sequim Schools to host emergency service, safety forum

Sequim Schools to host emergency service, safety forum

The Sequim School District plans a forum to address a variety of safety issues and potential crises that could affect the community, from… Continue reading

  • Oct 12, 2018
  • By Erin Hawkins Olympic Peninsula 
News Group
  • Clallam County
Sequim Schools to host emergency service, safety forum

Alzheimer’s walk slated for Sunday in Port Angeles

Saturday, not Sunday. PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles edition… Continue reading

Wonders of autumn this weekend at Apple and Cider Festival

Wonders of autumn this weekend at Apple and Cider Festival

Fall abundance will be celebrated this weekend during the second annual Olympic Peninsula Apple & Cider Festival. It’s an opportunity for the… Continue reading

Wonders of autumn this weekend at Apple and Cider Festival
Sentence given after fatal abuse: No jail time for Michelle Ward

Sentence given after fatal abuse: No jail time for Michelle Ward

A trained child care provider accused of failing to report her mother’s fatal abuse of 2½-year-old family member Isaac Ward Martinez was… Continue reading

Sentence given after fatal abuse: No jail time for Michelle Ward
Legislative seat incumbent, challenger discuss guns, taxes, Kavanaugh

Legislative seat incumbent, challenger discuss guns, taxes, Kavanaugh

Two candidates for state Legislature had different takes on measures involving guns and taxes at a general election forum, where they also… Continue reading

Legislative seat incumbent, challenger discuss guns, taxes, Kavanaugh
PHOTO: Taking a break

PHOTO: Taking a break

A great blue heron rests on an anchor buoy as a flock of geese paddle by Wednesday in Port Angeles Harbor.… Continue reading

PHOTO: Taking a break

Two Celtic bands bring tour to Port Angeles on Thursday

Celtic bands We Banjo 3 and Skerryvore will perform at the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. Thursday.… Continue reading

Pioneer logger named during Hickory Shirt Days in Forks

A former busheler was presented with the Pioneer Logger Award on the first day of Hickory Shirt Heritage Days on Wednesday. The West… Continue reading

OUTDOORS: Razor clam digs on tap Thursday night

OUTDOORS: Razor clam digs on tap Thursday night

THE FIRST RAZOR clam digs of the fall season will get underway tonight and continue through Saturday night at three ocean beaches. Diggers can pick… Continue reading

OUTDOORS: Razor clam digs on tap Thursday night

PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: Port Angeles clips Klahowya on late goal

The Port Angeles Roughriders girls soccer team continued their run of good results against state-ranked teams,… Continue reading

Area Sports Briefs: Sequim Youth Basketball sets dates for boys and girls tryouts; basketball officials needed

Seasons for SYB (Sequim Youth Basketball) Select teams start with tryout dates in mid-October. Team organizers would… Continue reading

Sheriff’s Office to recommend assault charge against man shot near Joyce

Sheriff’s Office to recommend assault charge against man shot near Joyce

The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office continued to investigate Tuesday a shooting west of Joyce that sent one man to a Seattle hospital Monday.… Continue reading

Sheriff’s Office to recommend assault charge against man shot near Joyce
Blue Heron Middle School students pedal in a new curriculum in Port Townsend

Blue Heron Middle School students pedal in a new curriculum in Port Townsend

Blue Heron Middle School students are learning how to operate bicycles safely through a program that gets them outside to discover local… Continue reading

Blue Heron Middle School students pedal in a new curriculum in Port Townsend

Jefferson, Clallam county commisioners head to D.C.

The White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs will host approximately 100 state and local elected officials from Washington and Oregon on Thursday,… Continue reading

Human Resources director named interim Clallam County administrator

The Clallam County commissioners have appointed Human Resources Director Rich Sill as the county’s interim county administrator when Jim Jones retires from… Continue reading

Sequim proposes $38.4 million budget for 2019

Reconstructing Fir Street, doing more for the arts and helping the Water Reclamation Facility smell better are all on tap for the city… Continue reading