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Volunteer nurse Karen Easterly-Behrens of Port Ludlow, left, talks with Eliana Rose of Port Townsend at Saturday’s Pfizer booster clinic at Quilcene School. The county Department of Emergency Management worked with dozens of volunteers to organize the clinic. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Long-term care facility resident dies of COVID-19

Woman in her 90s was in vulnerable population, health officer says

David Scott Johnson.

Crime & Justice

Arson suspect will plead guilty

Prosecutor’s deal seeks nine years

Waves and foam erupt from the Pacific Ocean during high tide at the mouth of the Quillayute River in La Push. In the distance is James Island and the marker light at the river’s mouth. Strong winds and rain pummeled the Peninsula on Sunday. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Surf pounds shore on West End

Lonnie Archibald

Marc Abshire, executive director of the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce, delivers a State of the Chamber address in January 2020. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Business

Small network for loans in works

Clallam program mirrors Jefferson’s

Kayleen McDonald of the Sequim unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula delivers bagged lunches to a waiting car as unit director Tessa Jackson, left, looks on during a drive-thru Halloween in front of the organization’s Sequim facility last year. Besides lunch bags, trick-or-treaters were offered hats, treats and coloring books. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Halloween to be celebrated on Peninsula

Events planned in Port Townsend, Sequim, Port Angeles, Joyce and Forks

Jim Stoffer, incumbent for the District 3 position on the Sequim School District Board of Directors, speaks during a League of Women Voters forum Sunday. (Jesse Major/Peninsula Daily News)

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Sequim School Board delays vote to censure member

Resolution under consideration also calls for resignation

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Deadline nears for comment on code change plan

Port Angeles Planning Commission to present ideas to council next month

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EYE ON CLALLAM: Recreational vehicle ordinance plans before county

Meetings across Clallam County

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Officer Mike Johnson of the Port Angeles Police Department accepts a drop-off of unwanted drugs on Saturday in the parking lot of the Clallam County Courthouse as part the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The annual event, organized by the U.S. Drdug Enforcement Administration, allowed people to get rid of potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs for safe disposal.

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Drug Take Back Day

Officer Mike Johnson of the Port Angeles Police Department accepts a drop-off of unwanted drugs on Saturday in…

Arts & Entertainment

Sequim Prairie Grange to host drive-by lasagna fundraiser

SEQUIM — The Sequim Prairie Grange will host a drive-by lasagna dinner fundraiser.

Pleasant weather held as Fall Fest entertained big crowds at Extreme Sports Park on Saturday. The festival included an Extreme Timber Sports Show, a Zombie Run and a Lawnmower Derby where people cheered on their favorites. (Scott Gardinier/Peninsula Daily News)

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Fall Fest

Pleasant weather held as Fall Fest entertained big crowds at Extreme Sports Park on Saturday. The festival included…

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Storm causes electrical power outages in Clallam County

Jefferson PUD reports no problems

Life

A GROWING CONCERN: Autumn full of chores for yard, garden

OCTOBER IS ONE of my most favorite times of year as our deciduous trees become a rainbow of…

Back Country Horsemen of Washington Peninsula Chapter member Del Sage helps a Scout with Troop 1498 with his horse-riding skills at Layton Hill Horse Camp. (Courtesy of Linda Morin)

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HORSEPLAY: Scouts get help with horsemanship badges

“WOW! WHAT A weekend,” exclaimed Linda Morin, a member of Back Country Horsemen’s Peninsula Chapter, when she and…

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Bentinck range operations scheduled

ESQUIMALT, B.C. — The Royal Canadian Navy has announced that the land-based demolition range at Bentinck Island will…

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Weekly flight operations scheduled

COUPEVILLE — There will be field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey…

Containers aboard the MV Zim Kingston are on fire near Victoria. (Victoria News)

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Blaze contained on ship anchored near Victoria

Zim Kingston had spilled cargo in rough seas earlier

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Clallam County reports another COVID death

Jefferson booster clinics planned

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Rachel Storck, community outreach coordinator for the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, left, and executive director Christine Loewe look over pumpkins to be available for carving during this weekend's Celebration of Shadows Fall Festival.

Arts & Entertainment

Arts center to host fall festival Saturday

Pumpkin carving contest, display

Arts & Entertainment

Timber sports, other events offered at Fall Fest

Zombie Run, Jeep rock crawling, lawnmower demo derby and more