Best of the Peninsula 2026.

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Nominations open for Best of Peninsula contests

Nominations are now being accepted for the Best of Clallam and Jefferson County and Best of the West…

Haylee Graham and Cartier’s first time showing together in 15 years at Fox-Bell Farm’s 2024 Halloween Show.

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PENINSULA HORSEPLAY: ‘Take the Horse and Run’: A friendship story

GLORIOUS TO HEART wrenching to momentous — and a book that will remain in my soul forever —…

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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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EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

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

Tamara Northern takes a quick shot of Port Angeles High School graduate Lizzy Shaw in preparation for a parade on Friday from Ediz Hook. Graduates often throw out candy in a tradition that started during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Graduation celebration

Tamara Northern takes a quick shot of Port Angeles High School graduate Lizzy Shaw in preparation for a…

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EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Coroner consideration, fireworks ban on docket

Meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula

Johnny Steven Talbert, 43, appears in Clallam County Superior Court on Friday. He is wanted in North Carolina for two counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree robbery with a dangerous weapon. (Brian McLean/Peninsula Daily News)

Crime & Justice

Review hearing set in extradition case

Man facing two counts of first-degree murder in North Carolina

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Human remains found in Olympic National Park identified

Man found in July 2000 near the Sol Duc River

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State grants to help install electric vehicle charging stations

Mason County utility partners for charging area at Brinnon location

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Arts and entertainment scheduled for Peninsula weekend

Concerts, art and historic speeches highlight this weekend’s events on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Julie Lobato.

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Weekend program scheduled for Unity in the Olympics

PORT ANGELES — The Rev. Julie Lobato will present “Revealing the Secret Ingredient of an Extraordinary Life” at…

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ISSUES OF FAITH: A treatment for loneliness

I AM VERY thankful for the number of medications now available for what seems like every malady that…

Sequim Deputy Chief John Southard was given a Distinguished Service Award on May 26 by Police Chief Mike Hill during the Sequim City Council meeting. (Sequim Police Department)

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Deputy chief retires from Sequim Police Department

SEQUIM — A temporary assignment became three more years of service for John Southard.

The Sweater Weather String Band, from left, Rico Vinh, Will Jevne, Adam Amr and Joey Gish, perform at Pebble Beach Park behind the Field Hall Arts & Events Hall during a grand opening celebration for the venue in July 2023. On Saturday, the venue will host Field Day, a free public event from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News file)

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Field Hall namesake to be celebrated this weekend

Dorothy Field is among the ‘angels’ who made the arts center possible

Prescription locking bags like this one, which zips into a combination lock in the center, are being distributed by the Washington Health Care Authority through pharmacies such as the North Olympic Healthcare Network in Port Angeles and Chinook Pharmacy in Forks. (Washington Health Care Authority)

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Locking pharmacy bags aim to reduce drug abuse

Program available at two locations in Clallam County

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The Clallam County Heritage Advisory Board provided tours of the Clallam County Courthouse clock on Monday, June 1. Mike Doherty, from the board, and Pete Pettit, far right, were part of one group of 10 who climbed a ladder to the room where the clock mechanism is. The clock’s workings were manufactured in 1880 in Boston, purchased by Clallam County and installed in the courthouse in 1914. Jefferson County has a similar clock mechanism. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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A look inside the Clallam County clock tower

The Clallam County Heritage Advisory Board provided tours of the Clallam County Courthouse clock on Monday.

Demonstrators, some dressed as Handmaids, gather at the corner of Eighth and Race streets in Port Angeles on Wednesday. The group holds signs in support of Planned Parenthood, whose clinic on Eighth Street closed in April, and pro-choice messages. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Signs of support

Demonstrators, some dressed as Handmaids, gather at the corner of Eighth and Race streets in Port Angeles on…

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Arts council is working to revitalize Port Angeles

Public art inventory is focus of area nonprofit

Sequim artist Lynn Gilles created this 3D piece (top) with remnants of sunflower print fabric designed by Port Townsend artist Caryl Fallert-Gentry, shown below.

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Quilts, collages on view at Field Arts Events Hall

PORT ANGELES — Peninsula Fiber Artists are exhibiting a collection of art quilts, collages and tote bags through…

Marquise Hagans-Moore was sentenced Wednesday to more than 23 years in prison after he pleaded guilty in March in Clallam County Superior Court to the second-degree murder of Rebecca Rule-Cowles. (Brian McLean/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Angeles man sentenced to 23 years for murder

Hagans-Moore: ‘I know what I did was wrong’