Daily Update Newsletter

Secret Garden Tour displays seven spots on Saturday

The 2022 Secret Garden Tour will be hosted by the Jefferson County Master Gardener Foundation on Saturday. The tour will take place… Continue reading

Strait Turners plan meeting Saturday

Strait Turners, a local woodturners group, will meet at noon Saturday on Zoom. Alan Stratton will demonstrate how to turn something with a… Continue reading

US Postal Service delivery to be curtailed on Monday

Postal service to mark Juneteenth

Variety of entertainment on Peninsula this weekend

Steampunk, a cappella music, a Kitty City and car shows are on tap for the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend. • Brass Screw Consortium, a three-day… Continue reading

Sequim High head coach Greg Glasser, center, talks to Isaiah Moore, left, and Erik Christiansen during a timeout in the Wolves’ 51-46 win over North Mason in January 2020. (Olympic Peninsula News Group file photo)

PREP BASKETBALL: Longtime Sequim boys coach Greg Glasser stepping away

Longest tenure of any high school basketball coach on the Peninsula

Sequim High head coach Greg Glasser, center, talks to Isaiah Moore, left, and Erik Christiansen during a timeout in the Wolves’ 51-46 win over North Mason in January 2020. (Olympic Peninsula News Group file photo)
Cheyenne Tuller

Anti-racism topic of final Studium Generale series

“Thank You, America: My Personal Journey Toward Anti-Racism,” is the topic for Peninsula College’s final Studium Generale of the year today. Cheyenne… Continue reading

Cheyenne Tuller
Matthew Rainwater.

District 24 candidates spar over issues facing state

Incumbent Chapman faces Forde, Rainwater

Matthew Rainwater.
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News U.S. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Shane Thompson, accompanied by his son, Malachi Thompson, 10, a member Junior American Citizens, carries a used flag for inceneration on Tuesday at the Northwest Veterans Service Center in Port Angeles on Flag Day. Overseeing the burning were Ginny Sturgeon, left, and Jan Urfer, right, members of the Michael Trebert chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which co-hosted the event with the Clallam County Veterans Association. Eleven used cotton flags were burned during Tuesday's Flag Retirement Ceremony.
PHOTO

Flag retirement ceremony held

U.S. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Shane Thompson, accompanied by his son, Malachi Thompson, 10, a member of Junior American Citizens, carries a retiring flag… Continue reading

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News U.S. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Shane Thompson, accompanied by his son, Malachi Thompson, 10, a member Junior American Citizens, carries a used flag for inceneration on Tuesday at the Northwest Veterans Service Center in Port Angeles on Flag Day. Overseeing the burning were Ginny Sturgeon, left, and Jan Urfer, right, members of the Michael Trebert chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which co-hosted the event with the Clallam County Veterans Association. Eleven used cotton flags were burned during Tuesday's Flag Retirement Ceremony.
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Lefties' Golden Tate hits into an RBI double as Bend catcher Isah Burk looks on during the first inning on Tuesday evening at Port Angeles Civic Field.

LEFTIES: Former Seahawk Golden Tate thrills Civic Field with his baseball skills

Tate hits an RBI double, scores a run, steals a base and makes a diving grab

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Lefties' Golden Tate hits into an RBI double as Bend catcher Isah Burk looks on during the first inning on Tuesday evening at Port Angeles Civic Field.
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Curtis Welcker of Freshwater Bay and Amy Joy Sedberry of Port Angeles walk along the tidal flats at Freshwater Bay County Park west of Port Angeles during Wednesday's lowest tide of the year at minus 2.62. Daily minus tides are predicted for most locations in Northwest Washington through the weekend
Photo

Lowest tide of year at Freshwater Bay

Curtis Welcker of Freshwater Bay and Amy Joy Sedberry of Port Angeles walk along the tidal flats at Freshwater Bay County Park west of Port… Continue reading

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Curtis Welcker of Freshwater Bay and Amy Joy Sedberry of Port Angeles walk along the tidal flats at Freshwater Bay County Park west of Port Angeles during Wednesday's lowest tide of the year at minus 2.62. Daily minus tides are predicted for most locations in Northwest Washington through the weekend
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Lefties' center fielder Golden Tate rolls on the ground after making a diving catch in the top of the third to end Bend's half of the inning on Tuesday in Port Angeles.

MICHAEL CARMAN COLUMN: Showtime Tate is no side show

Real deal as a baseball player

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Lefties' center fielder Golden Tate rolls on the ground after making a diving catch in the top of the third to end Bend's half of the inning on Tuesday in Port Angeles.

Police cruiser hit in Sequim, authorities say

A Sequim police cruiser was struck in a roundabout by a teen later booked in Clallam County jail on suspicion of DUI, according… Continue reading

Race to Alaska competitors back in race on Wednesday

Start of next stage at noon today

Rhody Run Redux draws more than 900

Proceeds donated to area nonprofits

Representatives with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory say they look to have its Richland and Sequim labs be among the first federal facilities in the nation to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim lab ‘living laboratory’ in federal net-zero greenhouse gas initiative

Officials’ goal for Sequim facility is 2030

Representatives with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory say they look to have its Richland and Sequim labs be among the first federal facilities in the nation to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Special Olympian Deedra Hunter of Port Angeles takes a turn carrying the torch accompanied by fellow Olympian Bonny Ann Cates, left, and Chief Criminal Deputy Brian King of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office during Wednesday’s Law Enforcement Torch Run along a section of the Waterfront Trail in Port Angeles. The relay, which included representatives from the sheriff’s offices in Clallam and Jefferson counties, Port Angeles and Sequim police, tribal police from Lower Elwha Klallam and Jamestown S’Klallam, State Patrol, Quilcene firefighters, U.S. Border Patrol, state parks personnel and Olympic National Park rangers, as well as several Special Olympians, followed a route from the west side of Port Angeles at 7 a.m. to the Hood Canal Bridge to about 5 p.m. in support of Special Olympics, which provides sports training and athletic competition for individuals with disabilities. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Photo

Special Olympics torch run

Special Olympian Deedra Hunter of Port Angeles takes a turn carrying the torch accompanied by fellow Olympian Bonny Ann Cates, left, and Chief Criminal Deputy… Continue reading

Special Olympian Deedra Hunter of Port Angeles takes a turn carrying the torch accompanied by fellow Olympian Bonny Ann Cates, left, and Chief Criminal Deputy Brian King of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office during Wednesday’s Law Enforcement Torch Run along a section of the Waterfront Trail in Port Angeles. The relay, which included representatives from the sheriff’s offices in Clallam and Jefferson counties, Port Angeles and Sequim police, tribal police from Lower Elwha Klallam and Jamestown S’Klallam, State Patrol, Quilcene firefighters, U.S. Border Patrol, state parks personnel and Olympic National Park rangers, as well as several Special Olympians, followed a route from the west side of Port Angeles at 7 a.m. to the Hood Canal Bridge to about 5 p.m. in support of Special Olympics, which provides sports training and athletic competition for individuals with disabilities. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Three days of Steampunk events begin Friday in Port Townsend

Victorian outfits meet sci-fi in live music, fashion show, bazaar

Annual shearing seeks volunteers

Olympic Peninsula Alpaca Llama Rescue will conduct its fourth alpaca and llama shearing from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from… Continue reading

Philip Giuntoli.

Architect newest member of Olympic Medical Commission

Appointee filling unexpired term of late commissioner

Philip Giuntoli.

Jefferson County Fairgrounds seeking possiblities for growth

Manager: Space more than area for annual county fair