Port Angeles Parks & Recreation employee Brian Flores tosses a cut tree branch into the back of a truck for removal as coworker Elijah Hammel works in a lift bucket while the downtown Christmas tree at the Conrad Dyar Memoral Fountain is dismantled on Wednesday. Branches from the tree and the lights that entangled them were to be disposed of and the main trunk donated for firewood. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Tree removal

Port Angeles Parks & Recreation employee Brian Flores tosses a cut tree branch into the back of a…

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Renovation to impact Crab Festival

PORT ANGELES — A big tent needs a big space and a festival celebrating seafood needs to be…

Shawna Bebo of Sequim lends a balancing hand to her son, Enzo Bebo, 7, at the Port Angeles Pump Track at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles last weekend. The pair were on a family outing with a stop at the popular attraction. The 14,442-square-foot pump track is the largest Velosolutions pump track in the Pacific Northwest and the first public adaptive track in the nation. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Balancing act

Shawna Bebo of Sequim lends a balancing hand to her son, Enzo Bebo, 7, at the Port Angeles…

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Five respiratory illness deaths reported on North Peninsula

Flu cases difficult to transfer to other hospitals

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Clallam County extending Olympic Discovery Trail to La Push

Commissioners updated on project in the works

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Orientation scheduled for hospice volunteers this week

PORT ANGELES — Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County will conduct both an online orientation and an in-person session…

Rebecca Burdick of Novato, Calif., examines a display of bird wings with her daughter, Ava Burdick, 5, at the Dungeness Nature Center at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim. The newly opened nature center has moved its bird displays from the former Dungeness River Audubon Center on the same site and has plans for additional educational displays to teach about the flora and fauna of the Dungeness Valley. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Nature center

Rebecca Burdick of Novato, Calif., examines a display of bird wings with her daughter, Ava Burdick, 5, at…

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Volunteers sought for annual Point in Time count

Service organizations seek help for survey

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Clallam County to consider farmland preservation grant

Funding would keep nearly 55 acres near SunLand from development

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Clallam County to review protocols after inmate death

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County is working on an unexpected fatality review regarding the death of a Clallam…

Spectators watch as fireworks explode over Memorial Field in downtown Port Townsend on Saturday night to herald in the new year. The fireworks, set to go off at 9 p.m. to coincide with the Times Square celebration in New York City, were the concluding event of First Night, an all-ages New Year’s Eve event put on by The Production Alliance, a non-profit in Port Townsend. Madison Street, site of city hall on the right, was blocked off so people could watch the display unhindered by traffic. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Ringing in the new year

Spectators watch as fireworks explode over Memorial Field in downtown Port Townsend on Saturday night to herald in…

Justice Schulze, at 7 pounds and 6 ounces, was the Peninsula’s first baby, born at 7:12 a.m. at Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles. His parents are Jacob and Dianne Schulze. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Peninsula hospitals’ first baby of 2023 born at Olympic Medical Center

Dad: Becoming a father ‘kinda crazy and exciting’

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ESL classes get free child care in Sequim

Classes also offered in Port Angeles, Forks, Port Townsend

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Clallam Transit OKs its budget for this year

$16.7M plan includes funds for downtown resource officer

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EDC small business program seeks legal, marketing services

More than $400K to be awarded in three counties

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Steve Evans of Port Angeles assists his daughter, Ruby Evans, 7, with her skates prior to a session on the ice on Friday at the Port Angeles Winter Ice Village.

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Ice Village nears season end

Participation impressive, organizers say

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Generous donors swell Peninsula Home Fund

Every gift counts in Clallam, Jefferson counties

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A GROWING CONCERN: End the year’s chores and plan for the next

JUST LOOK HOW much difference a week can make.

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Little Hoko River Trail walk part of fee-free day at state parks

CLALLAM BAY — Lions Club members will be stationed at the trailhead of Little Hoko River Trail at…

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ORCAA seeks comment on paper mill’s mercury control

PORT ANGELES — Public comment is due Tuesday to the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency on a proposal…