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Public concerned about hospital partnership

Commenters question possible Catholic affiliation

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Music on the Strait announces scholarship winners

PORT ANGELES — Music on the Strait has announced the recipients of the 2025 Dick and Alice Rapasky…

Skaters glide across the Winter Ice Village on Front Street in downtown Port Angeles. The Winter Ice Village, operated by the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce, is open daily from noon to 9 p.m. through Jan. 5. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Fresh ice

Skaters glide across the Winter Ice Village on Front Street in downtown Port Angeles. The Winter Ice Village,…

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PAT NEAL: The meaning of Christmas

With apologies to Charles Dickens.

Ellen White Face, left, and Dora Ragland enjoy some conversation after finishing a Christmas dinner prepared by Salvation Army Port Angeles staff and volunteers. The Salvation Army anticipated serving 120-150 people at its annual holiday meal on Tuesday. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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Hundreds served at annual Salvation Army dinner

Numbers represent growing need for assistance, captain says

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Wednesday’s e-edition to be printed Thursday

PORT ANGELES — Peninsula Daily News will have an electronic edition on Wednesday that will double as a…

Paranormal investigator Amanda Paulson sits next to a photo of Hallie Illingworth at Lake Crescent, where Illingworth’s soap-like body was discovered in 1940. Paulson stars in a newly released documentary, “The Lady of the Lake,” that explores the history of Illingworth’s death and the possible paranormal presence that has remained since. (Ryan Grulich)

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Documentary explores paranormal aspects disappearance

Director says it’s a ’ Ghost story for Christmas’

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Funding for lodge in stopgap measure

Park official ‘touched by outpouring of support’

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Artists’ submissions open for Studio Bob show

PORT ANGELES — Artists are invited to submit work for the 26th Bring Your Own Art Show, which…

Residents of various manufactured home parks applaud the Sequim City Council’s decision on Dec. 9 to approve a new overlay that preserves manufactured home parks so that they cannot be redeveloped for other uses. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim preserves overlay for homes

Plots can be sold, but use must be same

A ballot box in the Sequim Village Shopping Center at 651 W. Washington St. now holds two fire suppressant systems to prevent fires inside after incidents in October in Vancouver, Wash., and Portland, Ore. A second device was added by Clallam County staff to boxes countywide to safeguard ballots for all future elections. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Political party officials fine with Clallam’s loss of bellwether

With election certified, reps reflect on goals, security

For 20-plus years, Bob and Kelly Macaulay have decorated their boat and dock off East Sequim Bay Road for Christmas, seen here more than a mile away. However, the couple sold their boat earlier this year. (Doug Schwarz)

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Couple retires Christmas boat display on Sequim Bay

Red decorations lit up area for 20-plus years

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Todd Ortloff Show guests this week

PORT ANGELES — Here is this week’s schedule for the 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Todd Ortloff Show…

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Hurricane Ridge day lodge funding held up in Congress

PORT ANGELES — The fate of $80 million in funding to rebuild the Hurricane Ridge day lodge depends…

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Services could be impacted by closure

Essential workers won’t get paid in shutdown

A now-deceased male cougar was confirmed by Panthera and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife staff to have been infected with Avian influenza on the Olympic Peninsula. (Powell Jones/Panthera)

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Two cougars infected with bird flu die

Risk of human infection still low, CDC says

Jefferson Elementary School in Port Angeles designated Thursday dress up like a candy cane day. Back row, from left to right, they are: Wyatt Farman, Ari Ownby, Tayo Murdach, Chloe Brabant, Peyton Underwood, Lola Dixon, River Stella (in wheelchair), Fenja Garling, Tegan Brabant, Odessa Glaude, Eastyn Schmeddinger-Schneder. Front row: Ellie Schneddinger-Schneder, Cypress Crear, Bryn Christiansen and Evelyn Shrout. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Dress like a candy cane

Jefferson Elementary School in Port Angeles designated Thursday dress up like a candy cane day. Back row, from…

It is shocking to still have flowers blooming on dahlias Dec. 20, and perplexing for daylilies to be in flower at the end of the year. (Andrew May/For Peninsula Daily News) 

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A GROWING CONCERN: A merry blooming Christmas on the Peninsula

BEHOLD, BEAUTIFUL DAHLIAS and daylilies during dreary damp December days — how delightful! That is absolutely correct!

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EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Jefferson commissioners to meet on Monday

Meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula

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Sunday program set for OUUF

PORT ANGELES — Joseph Bednarik will present “The Ancient Genius of Firelight and Darkness” at 11 a.m. Sunday.