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Port Angeles School Board to conduct community conversation

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles School Board members will be available to answer questions and listen to feedback…

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After-school art program returns to Stevens Middle School

PORT ANGELES — Let’s Make Art, a free after-school program at Stevens Middle School that began last year,…

Cellist Sky Gelder, pictured in summer 2023, is an Olympic Strings Workshop alumnus. (Dewi Sprague)

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Music camp at Lake Crescent opens applications

These are summer days of magic, says violinist Erin Hennessey: making music, meeting new people, stretching a bit…

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Department of Licensing offices to be closed

PORT ANGELES – The Department of Licensing office of the Clallam County auditor’s office will be closed Feb.…

Cheri Sanford of Port Angeles, right, hands a piece of metal debris to her grandson, Damien Millet, 9, after it was located with a metal detector and dug from the sand at Hollywood Beach in Port Angeles on Wednesday. They were combing the beach in search of whatever hidden treasures they could find. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Beach combing

Cheri Sanford of Port Angeles, right, hands a piece of metal debris to her grandson, Damien Millet, 9,…

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Six Peninsula school measures passing

Sequim voters approve bond, levy

Counties can collect up to $1.80 of property tax per $1,000 of assessed value, but they are only allowed to increase their property tax collection amount by 1 percent each year, excluding new construction, without voter approval.

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Clallam already eyeing 2026 cuts

If county can’t raise revenue, it may cut employees, services

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Clallam County election workers Neva Miller, right, and Debbie Kracht, both of Sequim, open election ballots on Tuesday at the courthouse in Port Angeles.

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Ballot sorting in Port Angeles

Clallam County election workers Neva Miller, right, and Debbie Kracht, both of Sequim, open election ballots on Tuesday…

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State funding challenges dominate legislative conversations

Multiple bills may have local relevance

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PA’s Platypus Marine looks to expansion

Growth benefits local economy

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Port of Port Angeles updates delegation of authority

Debt collections, Amazon site among other business

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PAT NEAL: Digging potatoes in the snow

THERE ARE FEW things I enjoy more than digging potatoes in the snow. I know, I should have…

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Voters approving all Peninsula school measures

Sequim bond passing with required supermajority

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Rick Godfrey stands with his Boy Scouts of America achievements on his office’s wall, including his merit badges and Troop 490 photos. In 1950, he was the youngest scout in the state to earn his Eagle Scout, the highest rank in scouting. The troop celebrated 100 years at a special dinner on Saturday at the Sequim Masonic Lodge.

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Sequim troop celebrates centennial with dinner

Scout organization began in 1925 in a Sunday school class

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Clallam County commissioners discuss reservoir design

Consensus reached on two-cell option

Firefighters respond to a house fire at West Sixth Street and Cherry Street on Friday in Port Angeles. (Port Angeles Fire Department)

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Home destroyed in Port Angeles house fire

PORT ANGELES — Residents escaped a house fire at West Sixth Street and Cherry Street, but the home…

Two men are now serving prison time for beating an employee last October at the AM/PM in Carlsborg and attempting to take his wallet. Joshua Pulliam, 28, pleaded guilty on Dec. 18 to conspiracy to commit first-degree burglary and will serve a year in prison, while Julian Treat, 30, pleaded guilty Jan. 21 and was sentenced to two years in prison. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Second man pleads guilty to Carlsborg AM/PM burglary

Two-year sentence includes drug treatment, mental health evaluation

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Mary Montgomery-Crumley dishes up helpings of salad at “Soup’s On.” Lunch also included a biscuit, two versions of minestrone soup, one vegetarian, one with chicken, and chocolate chip butterscotch bars.

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‘Soup’s On’ free lunch at St. Luke’s draws varied crowd of helpers, diners

SEQUIM — Melissa, a member of Sequim’s Friends Together, a group that includes those with disabilities, was dropped…

At a recent site visit, North Olympic Library System Facilities Manager Brian Phillips and SHKS Architect Pia Westen examine construction progress at the Sequim Library as it’s being renovated and expanded. NOLS leaders anticipate reopening the facility in June. (North Olympic Library System)

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Sequim library may open in June

Fall campaign brings in more than $500K in donations

Mike Speer of Bonney Lake, the brother of Sherry Nagel, a former board member of the YMCA of the Olympic Peninsula, cuts a ceremonial ribbon on Jan. 28 courtesy of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce to commemorate a new bus that Nagel’s estate helped fund. The bus is dedicated in Nagel’s honor. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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YMCA honors late board member with new bus

Sherry Nagel’s estate, Forest Foundation provide funds