Rodney Hofman opens one of hundreds of Christmas cards sent to hime and fellow Dungeness Courte Memory Care residents following a request from Hofman's family members on social media. (Dungeness Courte Memory Care)

Life

Hundreds of Christmas cards sent to care facility

Family’s request on Facebook brightens many seniors’ day

Sequim Mayor William Armacost takes a whipped cream pie in the face from Ben Clemens, 10, the son of Port Angeles Mayor Kate Dexter, at the Port Angeles Safeway store on Lincoln Street, the culmination of a challenge between Safeway stores in the two towns to see which could raise more donations for local food banks. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

News

Pie in the face caps weeklong competition

Food-bank clients real winners of Port Angeles, Sequim contest

Business

Jobless rate keeps climbing on Olympic Peninsula

Counties shed jobs, especially in hospitality sector

News

Clallam Transit budget keeps services, fares stable

Ridership down but sales tax receipts up

Feeding 5000 provided Christmas lunches to go on Tuesday. Pictured are, from left, Todd McGrail, Eugene Fraker, Doris Villarreal. Mark Calamar, Sherry Schaaf and Pastor Bob Schwartz in the kitchen at the Forks Community Center. Feeding 5000 is a nonprofit organization funded by the community and local churches. It serves free meals each Tuesday. (Christi Baron/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

News

Peninsula nonprofits provide holiday meals

Nonprofits on the North Olympic Peninsula are providing free community meals this week during the holiday break.

Opinion

PAT NEAL: Christmas of yesteryear

IT WAS DAYLIGHT in the swamp on the shortest day of the year. Christmas was coming and I…

Donna Pacheco

Business

Olympic Medical Center updates marketing, communications department

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center has promoted one staffer and hired two more in its marketing and…

Trish Tisdale

Business

Port Angeles’ Trish Tisdale wins graphic design awards

PORT ANGELES — Graphic designer Trish Tisdale of Port Angeles recently won awards for two graphic designs.

News

Hundreds given first dose of Pfizer vaccine on Peninsula

First shipments of Moderna vaccine arrive in Clallam County

Lloyd Bedinger, left, Bruce Skinner, the executive director of the Olympic Medical Center Foundation, share a fist bump in front of the Georgiana Street home Bedinger donated to the foundation in his mother's name. Helen Rice, a former OMC employee, lived in the house for more than 60 years before she died in March at age 106. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

News

Man donates late mother’s house to OMC foundation

Woman, who lived to be 106, worked at medical center

Life

Regional 4-H groups offer citizenship project

Teens gearing up for 2021 Know Your Government conference

News

Flue fire damages Sequim-area home

SEQUIM — A fire that originated from the flue pipe of a wood-burning stove spread into a home…

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News

Sequim City Council proclaims 2021 as ‘The Year of Kindness’

SEQUIM — Sequim City Council members have named 2021 “The Year of Kindness.”

Linty Hopie

Business

Feiro Marine Life Center names development director

PORT ANGELES — The Feiro Marine Life Center has hired Linty Hopie as development director.

News

Second shipment of Pfizer’s vaccine arrives on Peninsula

Moderna version, approved by FDA, expected this week

Rescue workers attend to a man who was injured after he was struck by a falling tree while he was riding his bicycle in the Elwha Valley. (Clallam County Fire District 2)

News

Bicyclist struck by falling tree flown to hospital

Man in his 60s was riding in Elwha Valley

Col. Randy Roberts (U.S. Air Force, retired) prepares to lay a ceremonial wreath for U.S. military prisoners of war and missing in action during Saturday's Wreaths Across America event at Sequim View Cemetery. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

News

Sequim honors veterans with Wreaths Across America

Event mirrors national effort with special service

Life

Clallam Conservation District sets native plant sale

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam Conservation District is accepting pre-orders for its annual Native Plant Sale. The bare-root…

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Life

Sequim Bay Yacht Club’s quilt auction nets $1,975 for VHOCC

SEQUIM — Unable to host its annual Reach and Row for Hospice regatta in 2020, the Sequim Bay…

Letters to the Editor

LETTERS: Children’s heroes

“It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your…