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Peninsula counties drop into low-risk category

Health officers optimistic with decreasing numbers

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Man seeking pot grow permit could buy one

Charges being considered against applicant

The Kiwanis Club of Port Angeles and the Kiwanis Foundation recently donated $2,000 to the North Olympic Library Foundation the United Way of Clallam County for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. 

The book-gifting program will mail a book monthly to every child in the county who is younger than five. 

Pictures in the bottom row, from left to right are Tasha Fitzgerald and Peggy Norris; in the middle row, left to right are Carmen Geyer, Nina Pitts and Patrick Irwin; and in the the top row, from left to right, Sara Dutrow and Christy Smith.

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Kiwanis make donation for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library

The Kiwanis Club of Port Angeles and the Kiwanis Foundation recently donated $2,000 to the North Olympic Library…

Work to protect the marine environment continues in Sequim, just under a new name as the Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory. Here in November 2016, researchers George Bonheyo, left, and Robert Jeters with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory apply an aggregator during a demonstration in a freezer laboratory in Sequim to show how the product bunches oil together in icy conditions. Bonheyo, PNNL senior research scientist for the laboratory and a research professor of biotechnology for Washington State University – Pullman, said it acts like a wick so that it can burn the oil more efficiently than chemicals. File photo by Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group

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Sequim science facility becomes Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory for broader approach

More than 100 active projects continue despite pandemic

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EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

• Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce — Virtual meeting at 11 a.m. Wednesday.

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Volunteer Hospice to add nurse team manager

PORT ANGELES — Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County has created a new leadership position.

The picture on the frontispiece of Big Chief White Horse Eagle’s biography titled “We Indians — The Passing of a Great Race.”

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BACK WHEN: Visitor brought tall tales to Clallam County

ON DEC. 23, 1924, Clallam County received a significant visitor. Big Chief Gray Horse Eagle came to speak…

The main advantage of mulch is regulating both moisture and temperature in the soil. It is also aesthetically pleasing. Here, with a piece of cardboard to kneel down on, mulch is carefully placed around the rhododendrons at the sheriff's house. (Andrew May/For Peninsula Daily News)

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A GROWING CONCERN: A good time to mulch things over

WITH THE ADVENT of March, many jobs and chores are beginning to grow faster than your lawn or…

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Cherie Kidd is a three-term Port Angeles City Council member and former mayor and longtime volunteer.

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Six win Clallam County Community Service Award

2020 recipients to be honored in virtual ceremony

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Bagpiper Erik Evans of Port Angeles, right, leads children and staff members down Francis Street from the old clubhouse of the Port Angeles Unit of the Boys & Girls Club to the new Turner Clubhouse on its first day of occupancy on Friday.

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New clubhouse opens for Port Angeles children

Boys Girls Clubs project doubles size of old facility

Womanfest board member Barbara Wise talks with the fall retreat participants at Lake Crescent in 2016. The retreat will return this September, organizers hope. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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International Women’s Day to be celebrated together apart

Donations made during pandemic year

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Peninsula ready for school/childcare staff vaccinations

Both Jefferson and Clallam counties are on track to add COVID-19 vaccinations of teachers and child care workers,…

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EYE ON CLALLAM: Harbor settlement before Port of PA commissioners

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Suicide prevention team idea before House

By Joseph Claypoole

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Sequim veterinarian practice changes hands

SEQUIM — Fourth-generation Sequim resident J. David Kirner has purchased Country Care Veterinary and Acupuncture Services from Melissa…

A webcam shot at Hurricane Ridge shows deep snow Thursday morning.

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Olympic Mountains’ snowpack well-fed

Storms leave region in good shape for summer

A boat sits moored next to several boathouses at Port Angeles Boat Haven on Thursday. Port of Port Angeles commissioners are suggesting replacing boat houses with floating homes. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port of Port Angeles suggests floating homes

Agency sends letter to council asking to remove ban

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Peninsula College Community Education to offer CDL course

PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College Community Education has announced a new course to prepare students to pursue a…

Dr. John Miller

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Oympic Medical Center welcomes new family medicine physician

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center has announced that family medicine physician Dr. John Miller has joined the…

Bruce Skinner, Olympic Medical Center Foundation executive director, left, presents a check for $55,000 at last week’s OMC Commissioners meeting to Chair John Nutter, center, and OMC CEO Darryl Wolfe. (Submitted photo)

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Olympic Medical Center Foundation donates $55,000 to OMC for equipment

PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Medical Center Foundation has presented another $55,000 to OMC.