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Peninsula unemployment down slightly

PORT ANGELES — Unemployment rates dipped slightly on the North Olympic Peninsula in November while the region’s labor…

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NEWS BRIEFS: Philanthropic Education Organization awards PC student with $1,800 grant … and other items

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles Chapter IV of the Philanthropic Education Organization (PEO) recently awarded Hannah Nelson an…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Trump is still a bully

All U.S. intelligence agencies are unanimous that the Russians hacked our Nov. 8 election.

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Be thankful for Navy jets doing training

To the folks who whine and complain about the Navy jets: Understand that the pilots of the aircraft…

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Responders called in to rescue man on Little River Trail in Olympic National Park

PORT ANGELES — First responders worked Thursday evening to rescue a man who was injured while hiking the…

Life

Holiday events on Peninsula

Candlelight services and other holiday events are among the weekend’s activities on the North Olympic Peninsula.

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Free holiday meals served on Peninsula

Free holiday meals are planned on the North Olympic Peninsula on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Life

OTA offers winter break theatre workshop for children

SEQUIM — Olympic Theatre Arts will offer a one-week theater workshop for youth ages 6 to 18 beginning…

GNU Snowboards team rider Temple Cummins snowboards at Hurricane Ridge on Sunday. (Jesse Major/Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Snow for the holidays: Hurricane Ridge offers skiing, snowboarding, tubing, snowshoe walks

HURRICANE RIDGE — Once the gifts are open and everyone has eaten a big holiday dinner, family members…

Peninsula lights up for the holidays

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Peninsula lights up for the holidays

Families packing into cars this Christmas Eve to participate in the age-old pasttime of viewing displays of holiday…

Arts & Entertainment

ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS: Live music is set tonight at Metta Room … and other items

PORT ANGELES — The Metta Room, 132 E. Front St, beginning at 8 tonight and Sunday will host…

Arts & Entertainment

Community invited to participate in concert

SEQUIM — Celebrate the Christmas season in Baroque fashion during an upcoming performance of George Frideric Handel’s “Singalong…

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Cold weather impacts electric bills

CARLSBORG — Cold weather means higher utility bills, and so far this winter has been colder than usual,…

New $18 million medical office building almost finished

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New $18 million medical office building almost finished

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center’s new $18 million medical office building is nearing completion.

Three drug stores on the brink: Deal to involve Rite Aids

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Three drug stores on the brink: Deal to involve Rite Aids

PORT ANGELES — The sale of the North Olympic Peninsula’s only Rite Aid Corp. stores — two in…

At 4:23 p.m. Wednesday, crews from Clallam Fire District No. 2 responded to a structure fire at 237979 U.S. Highway 101 in the old Clallam Timber log yard, west of Port Angeles (Clallam Fire District No. 2)

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Arson suspected in mobile home fire

PORT ANGELES — Firefighters believe a fire that destroyed an abandoned mobile home west of Port Angeles on…

Jon Gray of Sequim stands in his attic with boxes of Star Wars toys he’s collected since the mid-1990s. He buys two of each action figure with the goal to keep one in box and a second to display. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Carlsborg man’s ‘Star Wars’ collection likely one of the biggest on Peninsula

Jon Gray remembers his first action figures well from the original 1977 “Star Wars: A New Hope.” His…

Arson suspected in mobile home fire near Port Angeles

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Arson suspected in mobile home fire near Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Arson is being investigated as the possible cause of a fire that destroyed an abandoned…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Disappointed in Port Angeles School Board for voting in new sex education program

When my friend Bill told me in the coffee shop that the Port Angeles School Board was about…

Sequim author Michael Bunnell discusses his latest novel, “American Gypsy”

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Sequim author Michael Bunnell discusses his latest novel, “American Gypsy”

SEQUIM — The failed economy of 1939 meets the worlds of carnivals and gypsies in Michael Bunnell’s “American…