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Apply for county preservation grants

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Heritage Advisory Board is accepting applications for historic preservation grants.

This model airplane currently on display at the Sequim Museum has a wingspan of almost 10 feet.

Arts & Entertainment

Model airplanes on exhibit at Sequim Museum Arts

SEQUIM — Historic model aircraft are on display through Saturday at Sequim Museum &Arts.

Fire Commissioner Dan Huff, left, is sworn in for a six-year term by Clallam 2 Fire-Rescue Chief Jake Patterson.

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Clallam County Fire District 2 Commissioner sworn in

PORT ANGELES — Dan Huff was sworn in as a commissioner at a recent meeting of the commissioners…

Tamara Galvan, facilities director for the Feiro Marine Life Center in Port Angeles, seated, talks about an interactive traveling bull kelp exhibit with Feiro volunteer Anni Lanigan on Thursday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Bull kelp exhibit visits Feiro Marine Life Center

Traveling display created at Port Townsend Marine Science Center

News

OMC CEO updates on staffing, legislation

Hospital says it lost about $24 million in 2023

Sequim City Council members Rachel Anderson and Brandon Janisse were voted in by fellow council members to serve as deputy mayor and mayor through the end of 2025. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Janisse elected mayor by Sequim City Council

SEQUIM — A tenured city council member is Sequim’s mayor after newly elected and re-elected council members were…

Deputy chief Justin Grider with Clallam County Fire District 2, center, has accepted an offer to become Fire District 3’s next fire chief. Here he stands with, from left, Port Angeles Fire Department Chief Derrell Sharp, Joel McKeen, Port Angeles Fire Department assistant chief, Joyce Fire and Rescue chief Greg Waters and Fire District 3 interim fire chief Dan Orr. (Jay Cline)

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Fire District 3 chooses Grider as new chief

Finance manager, new district leader set to start March 1

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Night lane closures this week at Morse Creek

PORT ANGELES — Contractors for the state Department of Transportation will replace plants in the median of U.S.…

Business

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

• Port Angeles Business Association — Breakfast meetings with networking and educational programs are held Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m.…

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News

Sequim agave victim of cold weather

Stalk grew to 22 feet

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Grant covers installation of electric chargers

Port Angeles funding to cover 50 chargers

News

Ridge fire cause unknown, report says

Several potential ignition sources found

Photo.  Andrew May.   The snowdrops that where in bloom before our winter weather and artic blast are doing well as of Friday!  Only the snow gave them reason to claim their name as they dropped down somewhat due to its weight upon them.

Life

A GROWING CONCERN: Don’t give snow the cold shoulder

AND JUST LIKE that, we are back to temperatures in the high 40s with no frost at night…

Business

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…

Life

ISSUES OF FAITH: Records of family a blessing

RECENTLY, A GOOGLE calendar notification reminded me that, on that day in 1994, I had first met my…

News

Inspirational weekend set for Peninsula

SEQUIM — Tickets are on sale for the Olympic Peninsula Women’s Fellowship’s Seventh Inspirational Weekend, which is set…

Aurora Oceguera, Puget Sound Restoration Fund's habitat lab technician, looks through the lab’s petri dishes of sorted kelp male and female gametophytes. (Tiffany Royal/Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission)

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Tribe, partners preserving kelp for restoration needs

Researchers say they’ve seen an 80 percent decline

The former Lincoln School, shown on Thursday, will be examined by the City of Port Angeles for possible conversion into multifamily housing. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Housing study set at school

City of Port Angeles wants to transform former Lincoln building

Education

Sliding enrollment, special ed expenses hitting Port Angeles School District hard

PORT ANGELES — Stagnating enrollment and an increase in students needing special education were worrisome trends when it…

Crime & Justice

Port Angeles man to be sentenced on three child sex charges

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 13 on three child sex…