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Jamestown S’Klallam elder, scholar, poet to share his work

PORT ANGELES — Studium Generale will celebrate National Poetry Month on Thursday by welcoming Jamestown S’Klallam Elder Duane…

David Brownell, executive director of the North Olympic History Center, stands in front of the historic Lincoln School at Eighth and C streets in Port Angeles on Tuesday. The NOHC is hoping to divest itself of the school building and has issued a request for proposal on what to do with the structure. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Historical society seeks new proposals for Lincoln school

After 32 years, group giving up on dream of museum

State Department of Transportation officials, from left, Ben Ford, Brian Whitehouse and Piper Petit address a meeting of the Port Angeles Business Association on Tuesday. (Peter Segall / Peninsula Daily News)

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Closures, other DOT projects upcoming

Bridge repairs, roundabouts and fish passage work planned

Paul Gottlieb.

Politics

Special legislative session in works

Carbon credits bill to return in future

Port Angeles police and Clallam County Sheriff’s deputies gather at the scene of a standoff that forced closure of the 1100 block of East Third Street on Wednesday afternoon. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Crime & Justice

UPDATE: Streets reopened after Port Angeles standoff

PORT ANGELES — Law enforcement officers have reopened streets that were blocked off and left the area after…

Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighter Mya Delano plays her guitar surrounded by fellow squad members as a house at 141 Harry Brown Road burns behind her on Sunday west of Port Angeles. The house was intentionally torched as a training exercise, giving firefighters an opportunity to practice in a live fire situation. Fire districts 2 and 4, along with members of the Port Angeles Fire Department, took part in the event. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Training exercise

Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighter Mya Delano plays her guitar surrounded by fellow squad members as a…

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Clallam PUD appoints Purvis

Assistant GM says he will resign from staff position

Nita Wester will present “Pollinator Plantings: Perfecting the Process”

Arts & Entertainment

Hybrid Green Thumb lecture Thursday

PORT ANGELES — Nita Wester will present “Pollinator Plantings: Perfecting the Process” at noon Thursday.

Arts & Entertainment

Family movie night in Clallam Bay

CLALLAM BAY — The Clallam Bay Branch Library will screen the 2017 animated film “Moana” at 3 p.m.…

The Port Angeles Garden Club recently donated $500 to Amy Bryant, the principal at Dry Creek Elementary School, and sixth-grade teacher Anthony Seidl for a garden at the school. 

Pictured, from left to right, are Darlene Martin, Anthony Seidl, Amy Bryant, Linda Skolnik and Janet Russell.

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Club donation to Dry Creek

The Port Angeles Garden Club recently donated $500 to Amy Bryant, the principal at Dry Creek Elementary School,…

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Dungeness team receives Land Trust’s Out Standing in the Field award

SEQUIM — A group best known for its advocacy toward Sequim’s iconic Dungeness River has earned the North…

Joan Mickelson of Anacortes, left, and Doug Atterbury of Port Angeles scour the shores of Port Angeles Harbor on Ediz Hook on Saturday looking for refuse as an Earth Day activity in Port Angeles. Washington CoastSavers and Olympic National Park, as well as several other organizations, hosted beach cleanups across the North Olympic Peninsula. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Earth Day cleanup

Joan Mickelson of Anacortes, left, and Doug Atterbury of Port Angeles scour the shores of Port Angeles Harbor…

Artist Emily Carlquist, seen here before one of her abstract multi-media pieces featuring acrylic paint on textured canvas with needle-woven local fiber warped on canvas, on display at Dandelion Botanical for the month of April. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Fiber artist’s debut show at Dandelion Botanical

Closing party, celebration set for Saturday

Ida Shantz, 5, of Port Angeles looks over a sheet of stenciled letters with her grandmother, Patricia Kessler of Woodburn, Ore., at a cardboard crown craft table during Saturday’s Barn Dance at the Clallam County Fairgrounds to benefit the Five Acre School north of Sequim. The dance also included food, entertainment, children’s activities and a silent auction. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Five Acre School benefit

Ida Shantz, 5, of Port Angeles looks over a sheet of stenciled letters with her grandmother, Patricia Kessler…

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Van De Wege lone Democratic senator to oppose gun ban

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been corrected to show that it was Justice Antonin Scalia who said the…

Sequim’s high school equestrian team celebrates taking home the district 4 small teams Championship, along with belt buckles and medals at the end of their final district WAHSET competition. The team’s high scores also earned them 24 qualifying placements to compete at the State Finals in May. Standing from left: Coach Katie Newton, Celbie Karjalainen, Katelynn Sharpe, Lily Meyer, Kennady Gilbertson, Coach Bettina Hoesel, Assistant Coach Keri Tucker. Sitting from left: Libby Swanberg, Sydney Hutton, Paige Reed.

Photo submitted by Katie Newton

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HORSEPLAY: WAHSET competition; how to treat choking

THREE CHEERS AND a hip-hip hurrah for Sequim High School Equestrian Team, with Celbie Karjalainen, Kennady Gilbertson, Paige…

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A GROWING CONCERN: Now is the time for cool-tolerant plants

JUST SO YOU know, I’m outraged and furious!

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Opinion

Point of View: Partnership for the Planet: Some Earth Day thoughts

ALL OF US have made a conscious decision to live on the Olympic Peninsula. We need only step…

Life

Sales kick off for Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby

PORT ANGELES — One lucky duck will win someone a Toyota Corolla.

Mike Mingee

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Diamond Point’s Mingee named to District 3 commission

Fills former fire commissioner Steven Chinn’s term