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Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News A pleasure boat sits aground on the north side of Ediz Hook in Port Angeles on Friday.

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Cabin cruiser washes onto Ediz Hook

No environmental threat, said Coast Guard, DOE

Ruby Beach has reopened to the public after improvements were completed. NPS Photo

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Ruby Beach reopens after upgrades

PORT ANGELES — The Ruby Beach parking area and access road at Olympic National Park has reopened after…

Nancy Hughes via Unsplash Ornamental Cabbage (Brassica Oleracea) can give your garden color and interest though the winter.

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A GROWING CONCERN: Don’t leave fall chores to last minute

WELL HERE WE go, autumn officially begins this Thursday at 6:04 p.m., and that means there are a…

Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News Composer Noah Michael Smith, left, and Camaraderie Cellars winemaker Don Corson admire “Spirit of Hildegard,” Corson’s sculpture in jade. Smith and Corson have collaborated on a performance celebrating Hildegard von Bingen this Saturday.

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Saturday performance blends music, poetry

By Diane Urbani de la Paz

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Entertainment ranges from plays to fairs and concerts this weekend

A variety of entertainment is planned on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Peninsula College students Riley Baermann, left, and Avery Saul, both of Port Angeles, talk about their upcoming involvement in the Media Tech and Stagehand Training School with KING-5 television interviewer Eric Wilkinson and camera operator Robin Lile during a taping session at Field Hall Arts & Events Hall on Thursday in Port Angeles. The training school, which features a new media technicians certificate program, will be hosted by Field Hall and accredited by the college. The program will be funded through a $1 million grant by the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to develop skills that can be put to living-wage jobs on the North Olympic Peninsula.

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Tech talk at Field Arts & Events Hall

Peninsula College students Riley Baermann, left, and Avery Saul, both of Port Angeles, talk about their upcoming involvement…

Fencing surrounds the playground at Shane Park in Port Angeles after parks department officials closed the equipment because of play surface tiles that are shrinking and becoming dislodged. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Shane Park playground closed for repairs

Dislodged tiles deemed to be a tripping hazard

Waterleaf Architecture created this latest rendering of the downtown Port Angeles hotel planned by the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe.

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Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe to start site work on Port Angeles hotel

Project manager expects minimal impact on downtown traffic

Smoke rises from a wildland fire along a side spur from Joyce Access Road east of Joyce on Thursday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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State Department of Natural Resources takes over small brush fire near Joyce

Cause had not been determined on Thursday

Marley Reeder of Sequim will receive the first Juan de Fuca Foundation-PA Panto scholarship this weekend.

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JFFA, PA Panto award first scholarship

By Diane Urbani de la Paz

Wind Child, skippered by Rudy Heessels, one of the perennial participants in the annual Reach and Row for Hospice, competes in a Duck Dodge race in August. Heessels’ crew in this race included Charlie Roberts, Mylo Hauptli and Leon Skerbeck. (Fran Thompson)

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Reach, Row for Hospice to set sail this weekend

Annual fundraiser to be conducted on Sequim Bay

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ISSUES OF FAITH:

AS A FRIEND of mine often says about the world at large, “I worry, I worry.”

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United Way celebrates the kickoff of new campaign year

SEQUIM — The United Way of Clallam County will kick off its annual community campaign at Club 7…

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Clallam to view Field Hall funding; Jefferson conducts workshop

Government meetings across North Olympic Peninsula

Photo courtesy of Danni Breen Sequim resident Danni Breen and walking companion Mike Schefers are pictured on their second day of their Camino de Santiago adventure this summer, after staying in a monastery in Roncesvalles in Spain.

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Peninsula woman travels Camino de Santiago

Breen, 65, makes 500-mile pilgrimage to assess her life

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Clallam County to support water right application for Carlsborg

As county seeks development, PUD wants stakeholder meetings

Port Angeles police arrest a man at the corner of First and Albert streets in Port Angeles on Tuesday after he allegedly created a disturbance and brandished a handgun replica at passers-by. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Man subdued with ‘sponge round’ after standoff

Street blocked, crisis negotiator called in

Sequim City Band members break ground on the rehearsal hall expansion project. Pictured with ceremonial shovels are, from left, band president Debbi Soderstrom, band director Tyler Benedict and Neeley Construction superintendent Eli Collier. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim City Band breaks ground for expansion

$350K still needed to complete rehearsal hall construction

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Roughriders to conduct 70th year class reunion

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles High School Class of 1952 will conduct its 70th year class reunion.

Hannah Klaus Hunter's monoprint 'Spring Wind' is among those on display at 'Turning Point."

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Fine arts center to host opening reception for ‘Turning Point’

Whidbey Island artist also to lead printmaking workshop