Clallam County

Wellness forum addresses joint, muscle, nerve pain

Loraine Lovejoy-Evans will present “Controlling Joint, Muscle and Nerve Pain” at 2 p.m. Wednesday. The free lecture, part of the WOW! Working On… Continue reading

Peninsula counties drop into low-risk category

Health officers optimistic with decreasing numbers

Photo courtesy of WSDOT State Highway 112 at milepost 36.9, where the highway has dropped more than 13 feet due to roadway settlement.

Big fix needed on state Highway 112

Stretch of road between Joyce, Clallam Bay could fully reopen by fall

Photo courtesy of WSDOT State Highway 112 at milepost 36.9, where the highway has dropped more than 13 feet due to roadway settlement.

Port to view $1.7 million payout for Port Angeles Harbor restoration

Commissioners to discuss settlement Tuesday

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Sequim chicken now at sanctuary

Rescue animal takes steps toward new life

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Sequim Prairie Garden Club seeks help in maintaining landmark

Pandemic shut down only source of revenue

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Peninsula ready for school/childcare staff vaccinations

Both Jefferson and Clallam counties are on track to add COVID-19 vaccinations of teachers and child care workers, health officers said Sunday. The two counties… Continue reading

The main advantage of mulch is regulating both moisture and temperature in the soil. It is also aesthetically pleasing. Here, with a piece of cardboard to kneel down on, mulch is carefully placed around the rhododendrons at the sheriff's house. (Andrew May/For Peninsula Daily News)

A GROWING CONCERN: A good time to mulch things over

WITH THE ADVENT of March, many jobs and chores are beginning to grow faster than your lawn or weeds. All too soon the dry weather… Continue reading

The main advantage of mulch is regulating both moisture and temperature in the soil. It is also aesthetically pleasing. Here, with a piece of cardboard to kneel down on, mulch is carefully placed around the rhododendrons at the sheriff's house. (Andrew May/For Peninsula Daily News)
The picture on the frontispiece of Big Chief White Horse Eagle’s biography titled “We Indians — The Passing of a Great Race.”

BACK WHEN: Visitor brought tall tales to Clallam County

ON DEC. 23, 1924, Clallam County received a significant visitor. Big Chief Gray Horse Eagle came to speak with local tribes. He was organizing Native… Continue reading

The picture on the frontispiece of Big Chief White Horse Eagle’s biography titled “We Indians — The Passing of a Great Race.”

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

Virtual meeting at 11 a.m. Wednesday. This week features the bicycling industry on the North Olympic Peninsula.… Continue reading

Womanfest board member Barbara Wise talks with the fall retreat participants at Lake Crescent in 2016. The retreat will return this September, organizers hope. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

International Women’s Day to be celebrated together apart

Donations made during pandemic year

Womanfest board member Barbara Wise talks with the fall retreat participants at Lake Crescent in 2016. The retreat will return this September, organizers hope. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News
The Kiwanis Club of Port Angeles and the Kiwanis Foundation recently donated $2,000 to the North Olympic Library Foundation the United Way of Clallam County for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. The book-gifting program will mail a book monthly to every child in the county who is younger than five. Pictures in the bottom row, from left to right are Tasha Fitzgerald and Peggy Norris; in the middle row, left to right are Carmen Geyer, Nina Pitts and Patrick Irwin; and in the the top row, from left to right, Sara Dutrow and Christy Smith.
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Kiwanis make donation for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library

The Kiwanis Club of Port Angeles and the Kiwanis Foundation recently donated $2,000 to the North Olympic Library Foundation, the United Way of Clallam County,… Continue reading

The Kiwanis Club of Port Angeles and the Kiwanis Foundation recently donated $2,000 to the North Olympic Library Foundation the United Way of Clallam County for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. The book-gifting program will mail a book monthly to every child in the county who is younger than five. Pictures in the bottom row, from left to right are Tasha Fitzgerald and Peggy Norris; in the middle row, left to right are Carmen Geyer, Nina Pitts and Patrick Irwin; and in the the top row, from left to right, Sara Dutrow and Christy Smith.

Man seeking pot grow permit could buy one

Charges being considered against applicant

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Bagpiper Erik Evans of Port Angeles, right, leads children and staff members down Francis Street from the old clubhouse of the Port Angeles Unit of the Boys & Girls Club to the new Turner Clubhouse on its first day of occupancy on Friday.

New clubhouse opens for Port Angeles children

Boys Girls Clubs project doubles size of old facility

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Bagpiper Erik Evans of Port Angeles, right, leads children and staff members down Francis Street from the old clubhouse of the Port Angeles Unit of the Boys & Girls Club to the new Turner Clubhouse on its first day of occupancy on Friday.
Work to protect the marine environment continues in Sequim, just under a new name as the Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory. Here in November 2016, researchers George Bonheyo, left, and Robert Jeters with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory apply an aggregator during a demonstration in a freezer laboratory in Sequim to show how the product bunches oil together in icy conditions. Bonheyo, PNNL senior research scientist for the laboratory and a research professor of biotechnology for Washington State University – Pullman, said it acts like a wick so that it can burn the oil more efficiently than chemicals. File photo by Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group

Sequim science facility becomes Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory for broader approach

More than 100 active projects continue despite pandemic

Work to protect the marine environment continues in Sequim, just under a new name as the Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory. Here in November 2016, researchers George Bonheyo, left, and Robert Jeters with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory apply an aggregator during a demonstration in a freezer laboratory in Sequim to show how the product bunches oil together in icy conditions. Bonheyo, PNNL senior research scientist for the laboratory and a research professor of biotechnology for Washington State University – Pullman, said it acts like a wick so that it can burn the oil more efficiently than chemicals. File photo by Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Cherie Kidd is a three-term Port Angeles City Council member and former mayor and longtime volunteer.

Six win Clallam County Community Service Award

2020 recipients to be honored in virtual ceremony

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Cherie Kidd is a three-term Port Angeles City Council member and former mayor and longtime volunteer.

Volunteer Hospice to add nurse team manager

Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County has created a new leadership position. Volunteer Hospice is seeking candidates for the newly created nurse team… Continue reading

EYE ON CLALLAM: Harbor settlement before Port of PA commissioners

Peninsula Daily News Port of Port Angeles commissioners will consider a Western Port Angeles Harbor Natural Resources Damage Settlement when they meet at 9 a.m.… Continue reading

COVID death youngest on Peninsula

Clallam man in his 50s

Geoduck harvesting area shut down after diver’s death

Port Angeles man, 35, dies after air tube apparently entangled in debris