Port of Port Angeles commissioners hope to finalize a contract with Geoff James for the port executive director position by next week. (Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port of Port Angeles picks new executive director

Commissioners laud leadership

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COVID shot clinics for 12- to 15-year-olds ready as soon as approval given

Eligibility expected to be announced soon

A copper rockfish — its eyes distended due to the pressure change when it was pulled up from a depth of 250 feet — is among the creatures in “Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound.” Author David B. Williams will discuss his research on the North Olympic Peninsula in a free online program Tuesday evening. (Photo courtesy of David B. Williams)

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‘Homewaters’ talk explores creatures of Admiralty Inlet

Registration is free for Tuesday discussion

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Green Thumb Lecture series to focus on bee habitat

PORT ANGELES — Cathy Lucero will present “Bee Spaces — Hidden in Plain Sight” at noon Thursday.

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Clallam Parent to Parent to hold roundtable discussion

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Parent to Parent will host a virtual roundtable discussion, “Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities and Coming…

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Rental, utility assistance available through Serenity House

PORT ANGELES — Serenity House has received new funding from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to prevent…

Gary Huff, left, board director and campaign chairman for the Olympic Peninsula YMCA’s 2021 Impact Campaign, accepts a donation for the YMCA from 1st Security Bank, represented by Vice President Branch Manager Anthony Aceto and 1st Security personal banker Sheena Zahn.(Photo courtesy of Olympic Peninsula YMCA)

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Olympic Peninsula YMCA opens public fundraising campaign

1st Security Bank donates $2,500

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Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild holds reopening sale May 13-15

SEQUIM — The Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild will host its re-opening sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday…

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Guaranteed Education Tuition enrollment period ends May 31

OLYMPIA — The Washington Student Achievement Council has announced that the 2020-2021 Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) enrollment period…

With master of ceremonies Stephen Rosales serving as virtual guide, the 2021 Sequim Irrigation Festival Grand Parade-turned-Procession makes its way through downtown Sequim late Saturday afternoon. Festival royalty includes, from left, princesses Allie Gale and Zoee Kuperus, float builder Guy Horton, princess Sydney VanProyen and queen Hannah Hampton. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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The Irrigation Festival goes on

Sequim celebrated its civic pride in somewhat muted — and virtual — forms this past weekend, with a…

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Bentinck Island demolition range in use Wednesday through Friday

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

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Three injured in collision on U.S. Highway 101 near Blyn

BLYN — Three people were injured Saturday in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 101 in Blyn, the…

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Peninsula numbers leveling, but state cases may take a few more weeks

Super-spreaders blamed for 135 infections, official says

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Rock chuck takes rare trip to Sequim

Yellow-bellied marmot spotted for third time in Western Washington

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Speed, distraction factors in Grinnell crash

Reconstructionist examines wreck

Jenny Preston of Chimacum's Snow Creek Leather works on a belt at the Sequim Irrigation Festival's Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair in downtown Sequim pn Saturday. "I've been coming to this festival since as long as I can remember, possibly the 1970s," Preston said. With health restrictions in place the festival moved all but two events — the fair and the Grand Parade-turned-procession — to virtual presentations. See irrigationfestival.com. Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group

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Irrigation Festival fair ongoing in Sequim

Jenny Preston of Chimacum’s Snow Creek Leather works on a belt at the Sequim Irrigation Festival’s Innovative Arts…

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Sequim offering tourism grants

SEQUIM — The city of Sequim is accepting applications for tourism sustainability grants through Monday, May 24.

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An aluminum cut-out of a Roosevelt elk sits outside the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, part of the "Conservation From Here" exhibit that includes original art by Joseph Rossano.

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Elk installation appears at fine arts center

PORT ANGELES — The aluminum cut-outs of Roosevelt elk herds that have appeared on Olympic National Park visitor…

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Council members look to election

Most city office-holders plan to run in November

Mayor William Armacost's T-shirt worn during a recent shopping trip has been posted on a variety of Facebook sites. The PDN has blurred a profane word on the shirt. It is not known who took the photo that has prompted many social media comments and letters to the editor.

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Sequim mayor’s T-shirt draws attention

Message on garment prompts responses