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Cider festival tops list of Peninsula entertainment

A cider festival, music performances and an art walk highlight weekend events on the North Olympic Peninsula.

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ISSUES OF FAITH: Bloom where you are planted

Readings: Proper 23, Year C of the Revised Common Lectionary

Pastor Beth Oling of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Port Angeles blesses Lille, a 17-year-old Havanese dog, at the annual Blessing of the Animals event at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Sunday afternoon. Roxanne Grinstad is the dogs owner. About a dozen dogs and cats came for the special blessing. The church blesses animals to celebrate the Creation Season and St. Francis’ love of animals. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Blessing of the Animals held in Port Angeles

The Rev. Beth Oling, right, the pastor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Port Angeles, blesses Lille, a…

Workers set up the main tent for the Dungeness Crab Festival in downtown Port Angeles on Wednesday evening. (Kelley Lane/Peninsula Daily News)

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Dungeness Crab Festival opens three-day run

Food, music and vendors highlight annual event

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Instructor art exhibit on display at Peninsula College

PORT ANGELES — The Community Education: Instructor Art Exhibition is on display at Peninsula College until Nov. 20.

Guest soloist Colin Davin, rehearsing with the Port Angeles Symphony in 2023, will return to the Peninsula for solo recitals in Port Angeles on Friday and in Sequim on Saturday. (Diane Urbani de la Paz)

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Guitarist to play recitals in Port Angeles, Sequim

Performances will be first chamber concerts in symphony’s season

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Candidate forum set for Port Angeles School Board positions

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Democrats will host a forum for Port Angeles School Board candidates at…

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Tickets on sale for bewitching tea, silent auction

PORT ANGELES — Tickets are on sale for the Soroptimist International of Port Angeles Jet Set’s Bewitching Tea…

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Indigenous Peoples Day to be celebrated at Longhouse

PORT ANGELES — c’ic’áyx̣ʷmu Rachel Sullivan-Owens will be the featured poet at the fifth Indigenous Peoples’ Day Poetry…

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Legislative session may focus on backfilling Medicaid cuts

Rep. Bernbaum: State anticipates drop in enrollees

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Man arrested following investigation into fraudulent vehicle purchase

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man has been arrested on investigation of vehicle theft and forgery and…

Sabrina Mudd, left, and Michele Stafford of Port Angeles push and wiggle the four largest pumpkins to try and guess their weights just before the official weigh-in during the 18th Evergreen Country Estate pumpkin contest on Goss Road south of Port Angeles. The four pumpkins, from left to right, weighed 151 pounds, 166 pounds, 84 pounds and 115 pounds. Dawna Krause grew the 166-pounder and was declared this year’s champion. The winner of the weight-guessing contest won a coho salmon or two Dungeness crabs. A dozen smaller pumpkins also were entered for fun. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Pumpkin contest

Sabrina Mudd, left, and Michele Stafford of Port Angeles push and wiggle the four largest pumpkins to try…

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Clallam budget may have layoffs

Deficit amounts to nearly $2 million

Jennifer Hanshaw, left, her daughter Ember, center, and friend Skyler Adair enjoy cream sodas during a fundraiser for the Hanshaw family at Rainshadow Cafe on Sept. 27. 
Jacque Star/Olympic 
Peninsula News Group

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Rainshadow Cafe hosts fundraiser for Sequim student

Ember Hanshaw has conditions that affect one in 100 million, doctors say

Opinion

PAT NEAL: The great clam hunt of 2025

THIS MUST BE the best autumn weather in years. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any…

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Vaccines available for most but not children

Health officer: Feds holding back pediatric doses

Hadley Harp, 7, accompanied by brother Van Harp, 3, and mother Ashton Harp, all of Port Angeles, stroll through a room filled with evil clowns as part of a haunted house set up by the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society in its Kitty City animal shelter west of Sequim. Saturday’s haunted attraction was a highlight of the organization’s Howl-O-‘Ween event that benefitted the humane society along with a food drive for the Sequim Food Bank. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Haunted fundraiser

Hadley Harp, 7, accompanied by brother Van Harp, 3, and mother Ashton Harp, all of Port Angeles, stroll…

Gabriella Wolman, holding her son, Andy Wolman, 2, left, and Francesca Wolman, with daughters Lily Parker, 5, and Lucy Parker, 2, all of Sequim, examine a gurney with a stuffed bear placed on display by Olympic Ambulance during Saturday’s Safety Fair at Carrie Blake Park in Sequim. The fair, hosted by the city of Sequim, Clallam County Fire District 3 and members of the Community Emergency Response Team, featured a variety of public safety displays and demonstrations as well as workshops and lectures themed around surviving an emergency. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Safety fair

Gabriella Wolman, holding her son, Andy Wolman, 2, left, and Francesca Wolman, with daughters Lily Parker, 5, and…

Sarah Severns, left, and Diana Burns, both of Sequim and members of the North Olympic Shuttle & Spindle Guild, operate a pair of spinning wheels at a demonstration table at the Pacific Northwest Fiber Arts Expo on Friday at Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles. The three-day festival featured dozens of vendor displays, workshops and demonstrations that supported knitting, weaving and other fiber activities. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Spinning yarn

Sarah Severns, left, and Diana Burns, both of Sequim and members of the North Olympic Shuttle & Spindle…

Josette Goarin of Sequim pauses at an informational kiosk as she watches a pair of bicyclists approach over a span connecting the railroad bridge to the Olympic Discovery Trail on Friday near the Dungeness Nature Center at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim. The popular park and nearby nature center offer a glimpse of the Dungeness River watershed and provide a venue for outdoor leisure activities. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Railroad traffic

Josette Goarin of Sequim pauses at an informational kiosk as she watches a pair of bicyclists approach over…