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Todd Ortloff Show guests this week

PORT ANGELES — Here is this week’s schedule for the 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Todd Ortloff Show…

Alex ‘Swiftwater’ McCarty, a Makah artist who will present a lecture, about the Ozette Village, is pictured working on a carving. (Shauna Bittle)

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Makah Museum opens after two years

Facility marks 43rd anniversary

Arts & Entertainment

Variety of entertainment on Peninsula this weekend

Steampunk, a cappella music, a Kitty City and car shows are on tap for the North Olympic Peninsula…

The Rev. Larry Schellink will present “I of the Storm #6: Nonresistance”” at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Schellink is the pastor at Unity in the Olympics, 2917 E. Myrtle Ave.

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Weekend program scheduled for Unity in the Olympics

PORT ANGELES — The Rev. Larry Schellink will present “I of the Storm #6: Nonresistance” at 10:30 a.m.…

Karen Teig for Master Gardener Foundation A scene from one of the gardens on the Petals and Pathways Garden Tour is pictured here.

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Petals and Pathways Garden Tour set in a week

Tickets available now

Bob McCall, from Great Britain, loads his kayak with supplies he will need for his 710-mile journey to Ketchikan, Alaska, during the 2022 Race 2 Alaska, which got underway at noon Thursday from Victoria Harbour. A self-described tracker junkie since the first race, McCall decided to enter the race in 2020 and ordered a kayak built in Victoria, but COVID-19 hit and canceled everything. This is the first time he was able to enter and he is looking forward to the adventure. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Race to Alaska teams start 710-mile trek

Thirty-two leave Victoria for Ketchikan

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Olympic Medical Center to change Emergency Department firm

Decision creates wave of objections

Crime & Justice

Makah man sentenced to 16 months in prison after carjacking

TACOMA — An enrolled member of the Makah Tribe has been sentenced in U.S. District Court in Tacoma…

Christine Loewe, executive director of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, makes flower crowns with Theo Miller in this file photo. The annual celebration will be on Saturday.

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Outdoor art festival to celebrate Summer Solstice

Live music, art stations at Webster’s Woods

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US Postal Service delivery to be curtailed on Monday

Postal service to mark Juneteenth

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Crescent School to graduate 14; Lincoln High had 10 graduates

JOYCE — The 14 members of the Crescent School District Class of 2022 will mark commencement at 5:30…

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Peninsula College to award 457 degrees, certificates Saturday

PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College will observe its 60th commencement ceremony on Saturday when it awards 457 degrees…

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Man rescued from house fire

PORT ANGELES — Clallam 2 Fire-Rescue firefighters rescued the occupant of a burning house who was unable to…

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Lodging tax funds, no-shooting area on county agendas

Government meetings on North Olympic Peninsula

Cheyenne Tuller

Arts & Entertainment

Anti-racism topic of final Studium Generale series

PORT ANGELES — “Thank You, America: My Personal Journey Toward Anti-Racism,” is the topic for Peninsula College’s final…

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Police cruiser hit in Sequim, authorities say

SEQUIM — A Sequim police cruiser was struck in a roundabout by a teen later booked in Clallam…

Special Olympian Deedra Hunter of Port Angeles takes a turn carrying the torch accompanied by fellow Olympian Bonny Ann Cates, left, and Chief Criminal Deputy Brian King of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office during Wednesday’s Law Enforcement Torch Run along a section of the Waterfront Trail in Port Angeles. The relay, which included representatives from the sheriff’s offices in Clallam and Jefferson counties, Port Angeles and Sequim police, tribal police from Lower Elwha Klallam and Jamestown S’Klallam, State Patrol, Quilcene firefighters, U.S. Border Patrol, state parks personnel and Olympic National Park rangers, as well as several Special Olympians, followed a route from the west side of Port Angeles at 7 a.m. to the Hood Canal Bridge to about 5 p.m. in support of Special Olympics, which provides sports training and athletic competition for individuals with disabilities. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Special Olympics torch run

Special Olympian Deedra Hunter of Port Angeles takes a turn carrying the torch accompanied by fellow Olympian Bonny…

Matthew Rainwater.

Politics

District 24 candidates spar over issues facing state

Incumbent Chapman faces Forde, Rainwater

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News U.S. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Shane Thompson, accompanied by his son, Malachi Thompson, 10, a member Junior American Citizens, carries a used flag for inceneration on Tuesday at the Northwest Veterans Service Center in Port Angeles on Flag Day. Overseeing the burning were Ginny Sturgeon, left, and Jan Urfer, right, members of the Michael Trebert chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which co-hosted the event with the Clallam County Veterans Association. Eleven used cotton flags were burned during Tuesday's Flag Retirement Ceremony.

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Flag retirement ceremony held

U.S. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Shane Thompson, accompanied by his son, Malachi Thompson, 10, a member of…

Representatives with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory say they look to have its Richland and Sequim labs be among the first federal facilities in the nation to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Sequim lab ‘living laboratory’ in federal net-zero greenhouse gas initiative

Officials’ goal for Sequim facility is 2030