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Signal controller project to impact traffic

PORT ANGELES — Work crews will continue with the city of Port Angeles’ signal controller upgrade project at…

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Tree sale is approved for auction

Appeals filed for two Elwha watershed parcels

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Cities, counties approve tax hikes

State law allows annual 1 percent increase

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Clallam County commissioners discuss legislative priorities

Housing, public health top concerns

A puppy named Captain Kirk is getting ready for adoption by Welfare for Animals Guild after it was rescued near Kirk Road. An unsecured makeshift kennel fell out of a truck on U.S. Highway 101 last month and was struck by another vehicle. (Welfare for Animals Guild)

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Puppy rescued from wreck to be adopted

SEQUIM — A puppy named Captain Kirk is about to boldly go to a new home.

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Festival of Trees raises record $231,000

PORT ANGELES — The 34th annual Festival of Trees, produced by the Olympic Medical Center Foundation, netted a…

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Man flown to hospital after single-car collision

BLYN — A 67-year-old man was flown to an Everett hospital after the car he was driving left…

“Strait beauty” by Randall Tomaras.

Arts & Entertainment

First Friday Art Walk set this weekend in Sequim

SEQUIM — First Friday Art Walk will celebrate autumn with a gold-themed walk from 5 p.m. to 8…

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Submission period open for Tidepools Magazine

PORT ANGELES — Tidepools Magazine is accepting submissions for its 2025 edition though midnight Jan. 17.

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Sequim Community Chorus to host weekend concerts

SEQUIM — The Sequim Community Christmas Chorus will present “The Christmas Story” at 7 p.m. Friday and 2…

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Festival of Lights set for Saturday

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center will host its fourth Wintertide Festival of Lights from…

Lost Mountain Station 36 at 40 Texas Valley Road recently sold to a neighbor after Clallam County Fire District 3 was unable to recruit volunteers to staff the station. Its proceeds will go toward future construction of a new Carlsborg Station 33. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group file)

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District sells one fire station

Commissioners approve 2025 budget

The crowd of several hundred holiday revelers, most of which were children, watches as the downtown Port Angeles Christmas tree is lit. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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O Christmas tree

A crowd of several hundred holiday revelers, most of which were children, watches as the downtown Port Angeles…

Clallam County Master Gardener Gordon Clark cuts leaves off Isobel Johnston’s agave plant that she had been growing for 28-plus years. She specifically requested Master Gardeners help her remove the plant while keeping at least one for years to come. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Master Gardeners help remove agave plant on Fifth Avenue

Several baby plants uncovered below large leaves

Harvey Hochstetter tosses a box of food to Cameron Needham to stack with fellow volunteers like Bill Needham, right, for the Sequim Food Bank’s Holiday Meal Bag Distribution event. Cameron, his father Ty and grandfather Bill were three generations helping the program. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim Thanksgiving program helps 1,200 families

About 30 volunteers pack holiday boxes

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Operations scheduled at Bentinck range this week

ESQUIMALT, B.C. — Training at the land-based demolition range on Bentinck Island will be conducted from 9 a.m.…

Janet Lucas, left, finds a special purchase of a “mail manager” at Swains early Friday morning. Black Friday shoppers descended on the Port Angeles store at 8 a.m. There were dozens of early risers who went looking for special bargains on one of the biggest shopping days of the year. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Black Friday

Janet Lucas, left, finds a special purchase of a “mail manager” at Swains early Friday morning. Black Friday…

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Clallam adopts housing needs

Population projected at 86,700 by 2045

Sherry Phillips, chair of the Festival of Trees design committee, stands next to the tree Twelve Days of Christmas, which she designed personally. (Leah Leach/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Angeles woman shares joy of decorating trees

Sherry Phillips lends talent for all of festival’s 34 years

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EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Public hearings set on proposed 2025 budgets

Meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula