Ian Mackay rides his motorized wheelchair on a section of the Olympic Discovery Trail at Robin Hill County Park west of Sequim on Friday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Ian Mackay sets wheelchair record

Mouth-controlled ride measures 184.4 miles

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Port Angeles driver hits vehicle stopping for deer

PORT TOWNSEND — A Port Angeles woman was treated and discharged from Jefferson Healthcare hospital in Port Townsend…

The Field Day event at Fort Worden State Park had something for everyone, including Port Townsend’s Rosie Dunham, 6, who is getting her face painted by artist Alexa Rose. Other activities Saturday included tug-o-war, music, bouncy houses and delicious foods. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Fourth of July marked on North Olympic Peninsula

Events planned today in Port Angeles, Sequim and Forks

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Fire destroys shop, damages garage in Agnew

AGNEW — A brush and structure fire destroyed a shop and its contents and damaged a garage on…

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Strawberry shortcake sales set for noon today (Sunday)

Public safety issue only delayed fundraiser a day

Mora Park c1880, Courtesy of North Olympic History Center

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BACK WHEN: The life behing the name on Port Angeles building

THERE IS A building in downtown Port Angeles that bears the name K.O. Erickson Building. SAVINGS BANK is…

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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

• Clallam Resilience Project — Meets the first Tuesday of every month, at 10 a.m. via Zoom at…

Pianist and best-selling author Jeremy Denk will appear at this summer’s Music on the Strait festival. (Photo by Josh Goleman)

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Clallam-born chamber music festival set to return

PORT ANGELES — Richard O’Neill, the Grammy-winning violist originally from Sequim, is joining co-artistic director James Garlick in…

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A GROWING CONCERN: Shift summer garden chores into high gear

SINCE I MOVED here 27 years ago, I’ve always heard, “It rains on the Fourth of July ……

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Freia Palmer of Port Angeles and Tom Cox of Port Townsend dance to the music of Olympic Express Big Band during Wednesday night's kickoff show in the Concerts on the Pier music series at Port Angeles City Pier. The free summer music series, hosted by the Juan de Fuca Foundation for the Arts and sponsored by Erika Ralston Word Windemere Real Estate, D.A. Davidson & Co., Elwha River Casino, Washington State Department of Commerce and the Peninsula Daily News, continues at 6 p.m. next Wednesday with the classic rock of Sweet Justice.

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Free outdoor concerts set throughout summer

Outdoor summer concerts are back in full swing in Port Angeles, Sequim and Port Townsend.

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Health officer: Wear masks indoors

Covid tranmission remains high on Peninsula

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In an effort to clean up its site due in part to illegal dumping, Midway Metals, at 258010 U.S. Highway 101 between Sequim and Port Angeles, shut down in April 2021 over environmental concerns and an unsightly appearance that prompted Clallam County officials to call it an eyesore.

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Criminal action sought for Midway Metals

Sheriff requests charge for illegal dumping

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A crew applies a sponsorship logo on the riding surface of a new pump track at Erickson Playfied in Port Angeles on Friday in preparation for the grand opening on Wednesday.

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Port Angeles’ pump track opens next week

Track measures 14,442 square feet

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Port Angeles Police Detective Trevor Dropp, left, and Sgt. Kevin Miller keep watch at The Gateway in downtown Port Angeles after a suspicious package was found at the Port Angeles Farmers Market on Saturday morning. The market was evacuated and the 200 block of North Lincoln Street was barricaded until a Washington State Patrol bomb squad arrived from Bremerton early Saturday afternoon.

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Suspicious package found to be no threat

Farmers market in Port Angeles closed until bomb squad could arrive

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Bonsai show returns to Pioneer Park

SEQUIM — Dungeness Bonsai Society’s meticulously groomed trees return for public view on Saturday.

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Registration opens for Volunteer Hospice fundraiser

SEQUIM — Rowers and paddlers can register now for the Sequim Bay Yacht Club race on Sept. 17,…

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Kira Watson replenishes inventory at the Olympic Fireworks stand at U.S. Highway 101 and Gales Street on the east side of Port Angeles on Thursday.

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Consumers reminded of fireworks rules

Bans in Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Sequim

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Events planned on North Olympic Peninsula this weekend

Although most are gearing up for the Fourth of July on Monday, other events are scheduled this weekend.

Cmdr. Joan Snaith, outgoing commanding officer of U.S. Coast Guard Air Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles, left, and incoming officer Cmdr. Brent Schmadeke stand on the tarmac after Thursday’s unconventional change of command ceremony that took place during a helicopter flyby at the base. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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A change in change-of-command ceremony

Former commanding officer promoted to captain