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Holiday bazaars, activities set this weekend

Holiday bazaars and activities are presented this weekend.

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Very Short Play Festival set for Friday

PORT ANGELES — Students in Peninsula College’s Intro to Theatre class will share their original 10-minute-or-less plays with…

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OTA presents Best Christmas Pageant Ever

SEQUIM — The Best Christmas Pageant Ever will take the stage at Olympic Theatre Arts beginning today.

Ballet Workshop members, from left, Courtney Smith, 18, Amelia Brown, 15, and Daphne Oakes, 14, all of Port Angeles, will be part of the troupe’s seasonal presentation of “The Nutcracker.” (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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‘The Nutcracker’ returns with a young cast and guest performers

Nearly 100 Ballet Workshop students to dance

Photo by Dow Lambert / Shirley Anderson and Ken Wiersema lead the next Backyard Birding series, hosted by the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society, on Saturday. Pictured here are Roufus hummingbirds on a feeder.

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Backyard Birding to spotlight ‘The Inside Story’

SEQUIM — After a long hiatus because of COVID concerns and building construction, Backyard Birding programs hosted by…

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Sequim surfer drowns off Crescent Beach Road near Joyce

Autopsy set today

Dan Huff.

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Retiring assistant chief to serve on Fire-Rescue 2 board

Dan Huff to fill vacant seat

Shahida Shahrir Mellon

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Tobacco and HIV topic of Thursday lecture

PORT ANGELES — Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death and disease worldwide and is extremely…

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‘Night Sweats’ to be screened on World AIDS Day

Educational panel to accompany film

Port Angeles High School freshman Zoey Van Gordon is one of 12 players on the new girls bowling team that began competing this month under coach Becky Gunderson. Athletic director Dwayne Johnson said the school added bowling to its sports calendar to help improve girls’ athletic participation, which has been in decline. The team practices at Laurel Lanes. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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Bowling team aims to get girls involved in athletics

Port Angeles joins Sequim in Olympic League competition

Bruce Emery.

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Clallam County to hire acting director of community development

Emery emerges from five applicants

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Finley Loveless, 3, of Sequim spends some quality time with Santa Claus (Stephen Rosales) at the Hometown Holidays event Saturday afternoon in downtown Sequim. Along with photos with Santa and the royalty, other festivities included live music, a tree-lighting ceremony, Sequim Museum & Arts’ Tractor Parade and more.

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Holidays welcomed on the Peninsula

Finley Loveless, 3, of Sequim spends some quality time with Santa Claus (Stephen Rosales) at the Hometown Holidays…

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Wintry weather forecast on Peninsula

Heavy snow coming in Olympic mountains

Shoppers, from left, Sue Priest, Pam Predovich and Peggy Romero, all of Port Angeles, stroll down West First Street in downtown Port Angeles searching for bargains on Small Business Saturday, a local followup to Black Friday, kicking off the holiday shopping season. Weekend shoppers were given an opportunity to purchase tote bags containing coupons for special deals from participating merchants, with proceeds from tote sales benefiting the Port Angeles Winter Ice Village. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Small Business Saturday

Shoppers, from left, Sue Priest, Pam Predovich and Peggy Romero, all of Port Angeles, stroll down West First…

A Christmas tree titled “Santa’s Magic Key” stands tall at the 32nd annual Festival of Trees at Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles on Friday after it fetched the highest bid during Friday night’s gala auction benefiting the Olympic Medical Center Foundation. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Festival of Trees gathers donations for hospital

Welcoming ceremony added to this year’s events

Clallam County Fire District 4 firefighters responded to a barn fire on Saturday. (Roger Mosley)

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Joyce firefighters put out barn fire

No one injured

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Holiday bazaars set this weekend

Holiday bazaars are set for the weekend and beyond on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Dancer Keely Whitmore leads second graders in teacher Sharon Fritschler's class at Roosevelt Elementary in exercises that integrate movement and a science lesson about geology as part of Peninsula Performs, a collaboration between Field Arts & Events Hall and the Port Angeles School District that brings artist educators into classrooms. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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Artists bring creative touch to schools

Field Hall, school district collaborate on new program

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Golf at Sunland now open to public

CH Investment Fund purchases formerly private Sequim course

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Neon Riders 4-H Club’s Ruby Coulson stands in front of the renowned Saddlebred Horseman Tom Moore’s statue fresh from her win in the Individual Presentation Contest for her slide-show and speech, “Equine Regenerative Therapies.” at the 4-H National competition in Kentucky.  Billed as the Largest Youth Equine Education Event in North America, it’s a huge accomplishment for the young woman from Sequim.

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HORSEPLAY: Sequim student wins first at 4-H Nationals

WHO’D A THOUGHT the day would come when stem-cell therapy would be used to improve the healing of…