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Memorial Weekend entertainment plentiful

Entertainment abounds on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.

Kevin Smith of Neely Construction Co. walks the perimeter next to newly installed railing panels on Thursday at Port Angeles City Pier. The first phase of pier railing replacement was completed on Thursday in a project that eliminates major portions of rusty steel edge barriers and the installation of 1,300 linear feet of galvanized steel pedestrian barriers. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Railings replaced at city pier

Kevin Smith of Neely Construction Co. walks the perimeter next to newly installed railing panels on Thursday at…

Ryan Schroeder of Port Angeles makes adjustments to a beaded hanging ceiling decoration as his son, Noah, 3, looks on before the hanging was hoisted into place during Thursday’s preparation for the 30th annual Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts at Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles. The three-day festival kicks off today at Vern Burton and Port Angeles City Hall, and it spreads out to additional venues on Saturday and Sunday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Preparing for the festival

Ryan Schroeder of Port Angeles makes adjustments to a beaded hanging ceiling decoration as his son, Noah, 3,…

Beth Pratt

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Going for a Ride: Cycling tourism on rise

ONE OF THE reasons many of us chose to make the North Olympic Peninsula our home is our…

Crime & Justice

Port Angeles man arrested for attempted strangulation

Judge issues two no-contact orders to protect victims

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Electric vehicle charging station approved

Grant, Real Estate Excise Tax fund to pay for project

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Speaker scheduled for Port Angeles service

PORT ANGELES — Ari Ostlie will present “Living in a Changing World” at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Joseph Bednarik will present “Go Out and Love Some More!” at 11 a.m. Sunday. 

Bednarik will be the guest speaker at Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1033 N. Barr Road. 

Bednarik's presentation will also stream on Zoom.

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Bednarik will present ‘Go Out and Love Some More!’ at service

PORT ANGELES — Joseph Bednarik will present “Go Out and Love Some More!” at 11 a.m. Sunday.

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ISSUES OF FAITH: The world’s our pulpit: Preaching in the church without walls

WITHOUT A DOUBT, it’s clear to all of us that for at least the last two or three…

Arts & Entertainment

NOLS book discussion groups

PORT ANGELES — The North Olympic Library System will host book discussions in person and online this month.

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EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Budget resolutions before county board

Govenment meetings across North Olympic Peninsula

Paula and Anya Eber cycle over the Alps. The Eber family, who were featured in a Traveler’s Journal in March, will detail their 14,931-kilometer, around-the-world fundraiser adventure on tandem bicycles at the Northwest Tandem Rally on Sunday in Sequim. (Eber family)

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Sequim to host Northwest Tandem Rally this weekend

SEQUIM — Two by two, the Northwest Tandem Rally is headed to Sequim this weekend.

Arts & Entertainment

Three days of music, vendors begins Friday

Tickets to Juan de Fuca Festival available now

Mandy Miller hands first-grader Mason Ng a bean in teacher Jennifer Soule’s class at Franklin Elementary School. Cora Lehmann, right, peels a bean apart to find and identify the different parts of the seed as part of a lesson in the Creative Start program administered by the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center in three district schools that combine lessons in art and science. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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Creative Start combines elements of art, science

Grant-funded program taught in three Port Angeles School District schools

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Port Angeles projects lined up through 2029

Radio system, IT upgrades among priorities

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Arts advisory seat open in Sequim

SEQUIM — The city of Sequim is seeking an applicant to fill a vacant seat on the City…

Peninsula College History Professor Michael Casella-Blackburn will offer a lecture and reading focusing on his latest book: Diplomatic Black Hole: Conspiracy and Political Fear in Mid-20th Century America

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History professor, author to read from new book

PORT ANGELES – Peninsula College History Professor Michael Casella-Blackburn will offer a lecture and reading focusing on his…

Matthew Nash /Olympic Peninsula News Group

State funding to complete the Simdars Road bypass was moved up in the latest legislative session from the 2031-33 biennium for the Department of Transportation’s Move Ahead Washington plan to include $2.642 million in the 2023-25 biennium and $26.979 million in the 2025-27 biennium.

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State funding for Simdars Road bypass moves up

City projects include deeper well, more park space

Taylla Sales received Olympic Medical Center’s leadership award for April.

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Sales’ leadership recognized

PORT ANGELES — Taylla Sales received Olympic Medical Center’s leadership award for April.

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Port Townsend wastewater treatment gets top state award for 25th year

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Wastewater Treatment Facility has won the state Outstanding Performance Award for 25…