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NEWS BRIEFS: Special meeting today between Port Angeles city, port … and other items

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles City Council and Port of Port Angeles commissioners will consider an interlocal…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Direct your resources to where they can help through Reaching Out

Thank you for printing the letter “Donation concerns” last Sunday [Aug. 27], and to the writer who was…

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Four-hour delay around Lake Crescent set for Thursday

PORT ANGELES — The first planned four-hour delay for construction on U.S. Highway 101 at Lake Crescent is…

Alex Biss, right, is comforted by mom April as they meet Christine Chang, kneeling at left, Alex’s first-grade teacher at Jefferson Elementary School in Port Angeles. Paige, a third-grader, looks on for her younger brother’s special day. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Most Peninsula districts have resumed classes

Cape Flattery, Quilcene and Brinnon public school districts will resume classes today, while other North Olympic Peninsula districts…

Opinion

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: To open the mind, close the eyes … and point

JANE JULIAN THOUGHT maybe she should apologize. Many of her choices for the Port Townsend Film Festival are…

Opinion

PAT NEAL: Tourist questions asked by real tourists

THIS MUST BE one of the busiest tourist seasons ever.

Crime

Clallam County man charged after child rescued from hot car

PORT ANGELES — A 33-year-old Clallam County man was charged Tuesday after deputies say they rescued his sleeping…

DACA decision stirs concern in Clallam, Jefferson counties

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DACA decision stirs concern in Clallam, Jefferson counties

Immigrant rights advocates in Clallam and Jefferson counties had little faith that President Donald Trump’s impending elimination of…

Wooden Boat Festival welcomes sailors and the curious this weekend in Port Townsend

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Wooden Boat Festival welcomes sailors and the curious this weekend in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — The Wooden Boat Festival — featuring more than 300 boats on land and in the…

Memorial planned Monday in newly renamed Port Angeles park

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Memorial planned Monday in newly renamed Port Angeles park

PORT ANGELES — A ceremony honoring first responders and the lives lost during the 9/11 terrorist attacks is…

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Mount St. Helens Monument scientist leaves legacy

By Jackson Hogan

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Shame on the immature men who are seeking Clallam pet licensing information

There are two immature, mean-spirited men who want to waste taxpayers’ money (desperately needed for worthy causes) and…

Olympic National Park Visitor Center closes today; services offered nearby

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Olympic National Park Visitor Center closes today; services offered nearby

PORT ANGELES — The Olympic National Park Visitor Center in Port Angeles will be temporarily closed beginning today…

Sequim looks to gather input on envisioning better future

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Sequim looks to gather input on envisioning better future

By Matthew Nash

Dungeness woman continues skydiving at 84

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Dungeness woman continues skydiving at 84

By Matthew Nash

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News The sun shines behind a flagpole in front of the Clallam County Courthouse in Port Angeles at mid-morning on Tuesday as layers of smoke from wildfires in eastern Washington and Montana filter the light to shades of orange and red.

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Smoke expected to clear from Olympic Peninsula by Thursday

PORT ANGELES — Ash that fell as smoke across the North Olympic Peninsula obscured the sun Tuesday is…

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Port Angeles eyes code changes for advisory panels

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles City Council will consider today code revisions that would encourage citizen participation…

Carlsborg girl begins second year of campaign to provide toiletries to homeless

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Carlsborg girl begins second year of campaign to provide toiletries to homeless

CARLSBORG — A Carlsborg girl who handed out 1,282 gift bags full of toiletries to homeless people in…

Hearing to decide if accused murderer should be made to take medication

Crime

Hearing to decide if accused murderer should be made to take medication

PORT ANGELES — A Bainbridge Island teen charged with killing a 71-year-old Sequim woman will have a court…

Ships slowing in busy channel to protect endangered orcas

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Ships slowing in busy channel to protect endangered orcas

By Phuong Le