Daily Update Newsletter

Duck Derby sales kick off

Ducks are on sale for the 32nd annual Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby presented by the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, with racers having… Continue reading

PAT NEAL: An Earth Day review

How was your Earth Day? Many hoped it would lead to some progress in reducing the pollution of our planet’s air, water and soil. It… Continue reading

Three to Tangle by LarryDavidson is among those to be displayed inte Port Ludlow Art League group show for May, which will be online.

Port Ludlow Art League to raffle off paintings

Proceeds to benefit scholarship fund

Three to Tangle by LarryDavidson is among those to be displayed inte Port Ludlow Art League group show for May, which will be online.
Jesse Major/for Peninsula Daily News Port Angeles' Zoe Smithson rounds first base against Central Kitsap. Smithson hit two home runs in Monday's 10-0 win and is batting .651 on the season.

PREP SOFTBALL: Riders, Smithson run roughshod over Central Kitsap

Forks and Sequim also win big

Jesse Major/for Peninsula Daily News Port Angeles' Zoe Smithson rounds first base against Central Kitsap. Smithson hit two home runs in Monday's 10-0 win and is batting .651 on the season.
Cameron Colfax, 10, a member of the Jamestown S’Klallam tribal youth program, plants pinwheels along the driveway of the tribal Justice Center in Blyn on Tuesday. The pinwheels are part of 3,600 that Dru Froggett, child advocate for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, has ensured were placed around the Jamestown campus, at the Jamestown Medical Clinic in Sequim and at Lower Elwha Klallam facilities in Port Angeles as part of a national effort to raise awareness of child abuse prevention. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Raising awareness

Cameron Colfax, 10, a member of the Jamestown S’Klallam tribal youth program, plants pinwheels along the driveway of the tribal Justice Center in Blyn on… Continue reading

Cameron Colfax, 10, a member of the Jamestown S’Klallam tribal youth program, plants pinwheels along the driveway of the tribal Justice Center in Blyn on Tuesday. The pinwheels are part of 3,600 that Dru Froggett, child advocate for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, has ensured were placed around the Jamestown campus, at the Jamestown Medical Clinic in Sequim and at Lower Elwha Klallam facilities in Port Angeles as part of a national effort to raise awareness of child abuse prevention. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Terry Ward.

Sound Publishing’s Peninsula newspapers survive a hard year

Publisher tells of COVID-19 experience

Terry Ward.
State Rep. Steve Tharinger, D-Port Townsend.

State allocation fuels Port Hadlock Sewer Project

Dean: No public vote planned since Local Improvement District not needed

State Rep. Steve Tharinger, D-Port Townsend.

Commercial passenger air service coming back

Port Angeles flights to start this summer

Coronavirus

Vaccine choice planned for Clallam County pop-up clinics

Peninsula schools possible new locations

Former corrections officer sentenced for attempting to smuggle drugs into prison

Man pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver

Port Angeles Marathon Association Mother and daughter, Katie and Audrey Rudd of Port Angeles, run in the 5K Railroad Bridge Run on Saturday.

ADVENTURE SPORTS: More than 300 compete in Railroad Bridge Run

More than 300 participants ran the Olympic Discovery Trail from Carlsborg to Sequim in the Railroad Bridge Run this weekend, the second leg… Continue reading

Port Angeles Marathon Association Mother and daughter, Katie and Audrey Rudd of Port Angeles, run in the 5K Railroad Bridge Run on Saturday.
Gardener Bob Caldwell, left, and Sue Scott work to build one of the walls of a raised bed in the Fir Street Community Garden. Gardeners from Community Organic Gardens of Sequim built five raised beds earlier this month at the site at 525 N. Fifth Ave. Participants share community service hours ranging from weeding pathways and community plots of blueberries and flowers to making signs or calling fellow gardeners with messages. Fees are $45 a year for a bed or plot, which includes a bag of compost from The Co-Op Farm and Garden, compost from Lazy J Tree Farm and water. For information on availability, call Liz Harper at 360-477-4881. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
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Building raised beds

Gardener Bob Caldwell, left, and Sue Scott work to build one of the walls of a raised bed in the Fir Street Community Garden. Gardeners… Continue reading

Gardener Bob Caldwell, left, and Sue Scott work to build one of the walls of a raised bed in the Fir Street Community Garden. Gardeners from Community Organic Gardens of Sequim built five raised beds earlier this month at the site at 525 N. Fifth Ave. Participants share community service hours ranging from weeding pathways and community plots of blueberries and flowers to making signs or calling fellow gardeners with messages. Fees are $45 a year for a bed or plot, which includes a bag of compost from The Co-Op Farm and Garden, compost from Lazy J Tree Farm and water. For information on availability, call Liz Harper at 360-477-4881. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

COLLEGE SOCCER: Peninsula women shut out Skagit Valley 1-0

The Peninsula College women’s soccer team got a long-range goal from defender Tommylia Dunbar in the first half and held on for… Continue reading

Jefferson County Commissioners: No pot grows in rural areas

Board approves Comprehensive Plan amendments

Port Angeles commercial passenger air service possible soon, officials say

Port action could end nearly seven years without flights

Port Angeles police and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigators search the wheelhouse of the Karen L on Sunday. A man was found dead inside the fishing vessel after a fire early Sunday, police said. (Rob Ollikainen/Peninsula Daily News)

Probe in fatal fire still active

Autopsy set for later this week

Port Angeles police and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigators search the wheelhouse of the Karen L on Sunday. A man was found dead inside the fishing vessel after a fire early Sunday, police said. (Rob Ollikainen/Peninsula Daily News)
Fiddler Alea Waters, left, and guitarist Lang Russel provide free music outside Port Townsend’s Recovery Cafe last week. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Recovery Cafe open in Port Townsend

Group provides resource, sense of safety for attendees

Fiddler Alea Waters, left, and guitarist Lang Russel provide free music outside Port Townsend’s Recovery Cafe last week. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Three-car wreck blocks highways 101, 112 for an hour

State Highway 112 was blocked for more than an hour Sunday after a three-car, non-injury wreck at the intersection of U.S. Highway… Continue reading

Woman injured in single-vehicle crash

An Oregon woman is in stable condition after she drove into a ditch and hit an embankment and some trees south of Brinnon,… Continue reading

Coronavirus

Health officials note increase in skipped second-dose appointments

North Olympic Peninsula public health officials have noticed an increase in people not returning for their second COVID-19 vaccination dose and are urging residents to… Continue reading