Captain-Crystal Stout sings "It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas (in Sequim)” to celebrate the lighting of the Sequim tree on Thanksgiving night. Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group

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Downtown trees usher in Christmas season

Sequim and Port Angeles conducted virtual tree-lighting ceremonies last week because of COVID-19 precautions.

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A Christmas tree titled "Star Way to Living" stands on display at Edna's Place in Port Angeles on Saturday after fetching the top bid during Friday night's Festival of Trees gala and auction. The tree, sponsored by First Federal, includes a collection of premiums themed after the Captain Joseph House. The tree received a bid of $6,500 to benefit the Olympic Medical Center Foundation.

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Festival of Trees gala breaks fundraising record

Online event to fund COVID-19 testing drew great participation

Port Angeles Food Bank Executive Director Emily Dexter stands outside the food bank's new warehouse and distribution center at 632 N. Oakridge Drive near the Port Angeles Walmart. The covered canopy area will become the food bank's drive-thru distribution lane. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Angeles Food Bank moving to larger building

Site offers more refrigeration, covered distribution point

Downtown retail stores in Port Townsend were closed Thursday for Thanksgiving, but many are planning promotions for Small Business Saturday. Local retailers across the North Olympic Peninsula are offering a variety of sales and promotions this weekend for Black Friday and Small Business Saturday. (Zach Jablonski/Peninsula Daily News)

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Motto on North Olympic Peninsula is to shop locally

Retailers offer post-Thanksgiving sales

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‘Christmas Cabin’ starts Wednesday in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The Answer For Youth and the Sprouting Hope Greenhouse will host a Candy Cane Christmas…

Arts & Entertainment

Peninsula College Longhouse to host ‘Powerful Poets’

PORT ANGELES — House of Learning, Peninsula College Longhouse, will host a poetry reading and conversations with guest…

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Arts & Entertainment

Blue Whole to exhibit ‘Light at the End of the Tunnel’

Show to feature various styles, media

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First Teacher online meeting features Santa Claus

SEQUIM — Santa Claus will be the guest at a First Teacher parent meeting at 10 a.m. Monday.

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Holiday craft sale scheduled in Sequim

SEQUIM — The Shipley Center will host a Holiday Crafts Sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday,…

Life

Christian science lecture offered Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND — Michelle Nanouche will present “Finding Your Immunity From Disease” at noon Saturday, Dec. 5.

Volunteer Phyllis Meyer of Sequim adds broth to make stuffing for Wednesday's traditional Thanksgiving Eve lunch at the Port Angeles Salvation Army. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Salvation Army volunteers provide carry-out meals

Free meals planned today at several Peninsula locations

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Peninsula Home Fund campaign begins

Donations will go to local residents in need of ‘a hand up, not a handout’

Crime & Justice

Corrections officer faces rape, child porn trials

PORT ANGELES — A Clallam Bay Corrections Center officer accused of raping an 11-year-old girl pleaded not guilty…

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PASD joins move to remote learning on Peninsula

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles School District will join other districts on the North Olympic Peninsula in…

Formal ceremonies to officially light the downtown Port Angeles Christmas tree, shown in this 2019 file photo, could be scrapped in 2020 due to the threat of COVID-19. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Virtual tree lightings set in Sequim, Port Angeles

Virtual holiday tree-lighting ceremonies are set for Sequim today (Thursday) and Port Angeles on Saturday.

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First vaccines expected in mid-December

Initial shots for front-line workers

Opinion

PAT NEAL: A ‘Dirty Thirties’ Thanksgiving

THIS IS A story of an Olympic Peninsula family celebrating Thanksgiving in the olden days.

Miguel Angel Medel Lopez, 38, appears in Clallam County Superior Court Thursday accused of rape of a child. Bail was set at $100,000. (Jesse Major/Peninsula Daily News)

Crime & Justice

Forks man receives 9 years to life for child rape

Clallam County Superior Court jury finds Miguel Angel Medel Lopez guilty after 4-day trial

George Dooley, left, and Edward Alders with the Sequim Valley Lions Club work together to load a vehicle with food during the Family Holiday Meal Bag distribution program in Sequim.  Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group

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Meal distribution helps 900 families in Sequim

Organizers expect continued, growing need in community

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Peninsula jobless rate drops in October

The jobless rate continued to fall on the North Olympic Peninsula in October.