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EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

• Clallam Resilience Project — Meets the first Tuesday of every month, at 10 a.m. via Zoom at…

Pianist and best-selling author Jeremy Denk will appear at this summer’s Music on the Strait festival. (Photo by Josh Goleman)

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Clallam-born chamber music festival set to return

PORT ANGELES — Richard O’Neill, the Grammy-winning violist originally from Sequim, is joining co-artistic director James Garlick in…

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A GROWING CONCERN: Shift summer garden chores into high gear

SINCE I MOVED here 27 years ago, I’ve always heard, “It rains on the Fourth of July ……

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Freia Palmer of Port Angeles and Tom Cox of Port Townsend dance to the music of Olympic Express Big Band during Wednesday night's kickoff show in the Concerts on the Pier music series at Port Angeles City Pier. The free summer music series, hosted by the Juan de Fuca Foundation for the Arts and sponsored by Erika Ralston Word Windemere Real Estate, D.A. Davidson & Co., Elwha River Casino, Washington State Department of Commerce and the Peninsula Daily News, continues at 6 p.m. next Wednesday with the classic rock of Sweet Justice.

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Free outdoor concerts set throughout summer

Outdoor summer concerts are back in full swing in Port Angeles, Sequim and Port Townsend.

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Health officer: Wear masks indoors

Covid tranmission remains high on Peninsula

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In an effort to clean up its site due in part to illegal dumping, Midway Metals, at 258010 U.S. Highway 101 between Sequim and Port Angeles, shut down in April 2021 over environmental concerns and an unsightly appearance that prompted Clallam County officials to call it an eyesore.

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Criminal action sought for Midway Metals

Sheriff requests charge for illegal dumping

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A crew applies a sponsorship logo on the riding surface of a new pump track at Erickson Playfied in Port Angeles on Friday in preparation for the grand opening on Wednesday.

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Port Angeles’ pump track opens next week

Track measures 14,442 square feet

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Port Angeles Police Detective Trevor Dropp, left, and Sgt. Kevin Miller keep watch at The Gateway in downtown Port Angeles after a suspicious package was found at the Port Angeles Farmers Market on Saturday morning. The market was evacuated and the 200 block of North Lincoln Street was barricaded until a Washington State Patrol bomb squad arrived from Bremerton early Saturday afternoon.

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Suspicious package found to be no threat

Farmers market in Port Angeles closed until bomb squad could arrive

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Bonsai show returns to Pioneer Park

SEQUIM — Dungeness Bonsai Society’s meticulously groomed trees return for public view on Saturday.

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Registration opens for Volunteer Hospice fundraiser

SEQUIM — Rowers and paddlers can register now for the Sequim Bay Yacht Club race on Sept. 17,…

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Kira Watson replenishes inventory at the Olympic Fireworks stand at U.S. Highway 101 and Gales Street on the east side of Port Angeles on Thursday.

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Consumers reminded of fireworks rules

Bans in Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Sequim

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Events planned on North Olympic Peninsula this weekend

Although most are gearing up for the Fourth of July on Monday, other events are scheduled this weekend.

Cmdr. Joan Snaith, outgoing commanding officer of U.S. Coast Guard Air Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles, left, and incoming officer Cmdr. Brent Schmadeke stand on the tarmac after Thursday’s unconventional change of command ceremony that took place during a helicopter flyby at the base. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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A change in change-of-command ceremony

Former commanding officer promoted to captain

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OMC says it’s ready for Fourth

Emergency department to be fully staffed, it announces

Port Angeles icon Scooter Chapman has been named the Grand Marshall of the Port Angeles Fourth of July Grand Parade. The Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce recently made that announcement. After 70 years on the air at radio KONP Scooter retired from broadcasting recently. The PAHS class of ’52 grad has followed sports all of his broadcasting life and most recently was the MC at the Duck Derby.    (the Chamber told me they just recently sent you a press release about this) dlogan

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Fourth of July marked on Peninsula

Forks, Port Angeles, Sequim announce events

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PDN news available only online on Monday

The U.S. Postal Service will not deliver on the Fourth of July, so Monday’s Peninsula Daily News, which…

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First Friday goes purple on July 1

SEQUIM — Purple abounds in Sequim this July and the First Friday Art Walk Sequim is no exception.

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Forestry, no shooting area before counties

Government meetings in Clallam, Jefferson counties

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Forum, tour focuses on vocational careers

SEQUIM — Bringing awareness to and fostering jobs through a Career Technical Education will be the focus of…

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Tim Wheeler of Sequim, center left, and Lillian Easton of Port Angeles, hold signs in favor of reproductive rights during a rally that began at Planned Parenthood in Port Angeles and ended up at the Clallam County Courthouse. The pair were among about 80 people protesting on Wednesday against the recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Roe vs. Wade case that granted the right to an abortion in the United States.

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Pro-choice rally

Tim Wheeler of Sequim, center left, and Lillian Easton of Port Angeles, hold signs in favor of reproductive…