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NEWS BRIEFS: Monday ribbon-cutting to fete Carrie Blake Park access road … and other items

SEQUIM — A ribbon-cutting ceremony will celebrate the opening of a new access road to Carrie Blake Park…

Clallam County Fire District No. 2 firefighters battle a car blaze on U.S. Highway 101 around Lake Crescent. (Clallam County Fire District No. 2)

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Car burns on Highway 101 at Lake Crescent

PORT ANGELES — A father and daughter narrowly escaped injury in a car fire on U.S. Highway 101…

Mourners celebrate short life; pastor talks of choices in death of teen who jumped from bridge

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Mourners celebrate short life; pastor talks of choices in death of teen who jumped from bridge

SEQUIM — A montage of photos and videos depicting Ashley Ann Wishart’s abbreviated life ended Friday night with…

Bill Peach

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State sets preferred alternative for marbled murrelet protection

OLYMPIA — The state Board of Natural Resources has selected a preferred alternative for the long-term conservation of…

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Clallam Bay prison easing lockdown after fight

CLALLAM BAY — Prison officials continued easing a lockdown Saturday at Clallam Bay Corrections Center after a brief…

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Washington state delays Dungeness crab season

The Associated Press

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Olympic Medical Center approves 2018 budget, 1 percent tax hike

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center’s board of commissioners has approved the hospital’s 2018 operating and capital budgets,…

Life

A GROWING CONCERN: Botanical stocking stuffers that are sure to please

THIS WEEK, WE all gather here across the county for Thanksgiving.

Life

BIRD WATCH: As Thanksgiving looms, look to your feeders

“YOU HAVE A woodpecker!”

Life

HELP LINE: Look for things to be grateful for

ARE WE READY?

Crime & Justice

Port Angeles man sentenced for sexual assault of minor

PORT ANGELES — Charles Jason Butcher of Port Angeles has been sentenced to more than eight years in…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Oil being consumed at gluttonous rates with few options

In reference to the [Nov. 1] letter to the editor titled “Oil challenges.”

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Time to rescind or enforce state law about mufflers

I am sure a lot of people locally do not know about or just ignore the following Revised…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Halloween costumes demeans honorable hobos

Consider the following response to “What was the most interesting Halloween costume you ever saw?” in “Speaking Out,”…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Port Angeles planning for trail ‘problem’ that doesn’t exist

On Oct. 13, the Peninsula Daily News ran an article on the Olympic Discovery Trail open house [“Homeowners…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Drivers need to be more cautious at crosswalks

On Nov. 9, I saw two schoolchildren almost hit trying to cross the street in Bremerton.

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Newspaper should stop reporting on suicides

Rarely have I felt it necessary to write you [the Peninsula Daily News].

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: True 20 percent corporate tax rate worth supporting

President Donald Trump keeps insisting that industry is taxed at the highest rate of any industrialized country, in…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Delve deeply into the suicide problem on Peninsula

Decades ago, a Peninsula Daily News reporter wrote a series of articles on the prevalence of teen suicides…

Business

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

• Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce — Twice-monthly breakfast meetings usually are held at 11:45 a.m. on the second…