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North Olympic Library System to host Rain or Shine! Outdoor Storytime

PORT ANGELES — The North Olympic Library System will continue its Rain or Shine! Outdoor Storytime series in…

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Weekly flight operations scheduled

COUPEVILLE — There will be no field carrier landing practice for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey…

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Sequim and PA’s high school equestrian teams merged to compete as one in Freestyle 4’s Drill Team, placing 1st  in meet 3 and winning a gold medal are Joanna Seelye, left, Libby Swanberg, Maggie Anderson and Sydney Hutton with coaches Katie Newton, left, and Keri Tucker. Watch them  compete live at state finals May 19-22  by visiting https://www.wahset.info/stream-links and clicking on District 4.

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HORSEPLAY: PA, Sequim equestrian teams head to state meet

LET’S ALL CHEER and congratulate the Sequim and Port Angeles equestrian teams on their Washington State High School…

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The cruise ships Celebrity Eclipse, front, and Ovation of the Seas, rear, sit anchored in Port Angeles Harbor on Friday as they await the Alaskan cruise season. Both ships are operated by the Royal Caribbean Group or its subsidiaries. Anchored between the cruise vessels are the bulk carrier James Bay and the pusher tug Dublin Sea.

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Cruising the harbor in Port Angeles

The cruise ships Celebrity Eclipse, front, and Ovation of the Seas, rear, sit anchored in Port Angeles Harbor…

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NOLS to host events celebrating Asian-American, Pacific Islander heritage

The North Olympic Library System (NOLS) is highlighting Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May with…

Donna and Jon Harrison of Harrison’s Comfort Footwear have retired, with ownership of the popular shoe store moving over to Beck's Shoes. Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group

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Iconic shoe store changes hands

SEQUIM — Before they were a couple, they were a customer and a business owner.

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A GROWING CONCERN: For spring garden glory, hang out with the cool kids

LAST WEEK, I told you what not to plant. This week, let me give you a list of…

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Mount Olympus in Olympic National Park, as seen from the High Divide trail in August 2020, could lose its glaciers by 2070 because of global warming.

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Study: Olympic glaciers doomed

Researchers project most melting by 2070

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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…

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EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

• Port Angeles Business Association — In-person meeting 7:30 a.m. Tuesday at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 DelGuzzi Drive (off…

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Dahlias dazzle at botanical garden

SEQUIM — The Sequim Botanical Garden Society’s next Work to Learn party focused on planting dahlia tubers and…

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Peninsula College selects president

New chief to replace retiring Luke Robins

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ISSUES OF FAITH: Seeing and nurturing beauty

THE ANCIENT CHINESE philosopher Confucius said of beauty: “Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.”

The Ballet Workshop’s senior dancers — from left, Caitlynn Donaldson, Isabella Knott, Ryan Andrews and Amelia Brown — will join performers from Oregon and New York City in this weekend’s production of “The Sleeping Beauty.” (Bob Spink)

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‘Sleeping Beauty’ reawakens with performance in Port Angeles

Ballet Workshop presents dancers from New York City

Education

Peninsula school districts mulling cutbacks

Reduction likely in future for many

Cherie Kidd.

Politics

Kidd third to announce for DCD position

Candidates headed for August primary contest

Nellie Bly (Maggie Jo Bulkley) and Phileas Fogg (Brendan Chambers) engage in global travel — real and imagined — in “Around the World in Less Than 80 Days,” now playing at Key City Public Theatre in Port Townsend. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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Music, film, drama spring up this weekend across North Olympic Peninsula

Springtime activities hit full strength this weekend with jazz and swing, a film festival and a theatrical race…

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Earth Day celebrations set this weekend on Olympic Peninsula

The North Olympic Peninsula will offer a variety of Earth Day celebrations.

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Sequim Botanical Garden Work to Learn set Saturday

SEQUIM — The Sequim Botanical Garden Society will conduct a Work to Learn party at 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

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Pancake breakfast planned Sunday

SEQUIM — There is a pancake breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to noon Sunday.