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COVID-19 infection rates dipping on North Olympic Peninsula

Clallam reports five cases Sunday; Jefferson zero during weekend

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EYE ON CLALLAM: Quillayute Valley School Board to hear virus report

The Quillayute Valley School Board will hear a report from the superintendent on COVID-19 when it meets at…

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Thanksgiving precautions paid off, say Peninsula health officers

Residents urged to maintain care through upcoming holidays

From left, Sequim High leadership students Richard Meier, Erik Holtrop, Dustan Koch, Aidan Braaten, Kaleb Needoba and Hannah Hampton make plans for a special holiday-themed drive-thru and toy drive, slated for noon to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the high school. Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group

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Sequim students to share holiday spirit with drive-thru toy drive

SEQUIM — In the past nine months, while moving their instruction online, Sequim High School students have seen…

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Business

Sequim’s Castell Insurance selected ‘Agent For The Future’

SEQUIM — Castell Insurance agents will meet during business hours, after hours or on weekends, via phone, video…

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Water filter sale set in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The Kiwanis Club of Sequim-Dungeness will sell emergency water purification filters from 1 p.m. to…

Life

ISSUES OF FAITH: Practice self-care for the soul

But now even more the report about him went abroad, and great crowds gathered to hear him and…

Life

Donated toy distribution planned

PORT ANGELES — The Christmas Angel program will be distributing donated toys from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.…

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WSU master gardener training program offered online

PORT ANGELES — Registration ends today for the 2021 Home Horticultural training program offered by the Washington State…

State Rep. Mike Chapman, right, speaks to first-grade students during a Thursday tour of Crescent School in Joyce as school Superintendent Dave Bingham, second from right, looks on. Chapman visited the school to see how the district's hybrid system of in-class and remote instruction was working and to discuss school funding issues. Crescent currently makes in-person instruction available to students in kindergarten through sixth grade with middle and high school students on campus on a two-day-per-week schedule intermixed with remote learning. All parents are given the option of remote instruction for their children. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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State Rep. Mike Chapman visits Crescent School

State Rep. Mike Chapman, right, speaks to first-grade students during a Thursday tour of Crescent School in Joyce…

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Wreaths Across America event set at Sequim View Cemetery

‘Growler’ jets will fly over during Saturday ceremony

Volunteers like Calvin Barnard, senior vice commander of Carlsborg VFW Post 6787, helped    distribute food at the Family Holiday Meal Bay program on Nov. 20. Dozens of volunteers return on Dec. 18 to help provide food for Christmas. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

Life

Peninsula food banks to distribute Christmas meal supplies

Organizers look to improve traffic flow

News

In-person learning a top priority for Peninsula school leaders

Districts want to get back to normal

Nurse Jess Cigalotti administers the North Olympic Peninsula's first COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday to Dr. Tracie Harris, an internist and hospitalist who cares for COVID patients at Jefferson Healthcare hospital. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

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First vaccination on Peninsula at Jefferson Healthcare

Hospital staff cheers as doctor, nurse inoculated

Violist Richard O'Neill, who grew up in Sequim, will give an online performance Saturday of music that has won him a Grammy nomination.

Arts & Entertainment

Online concert features Peninsula violist in Korea

Richard O’Neill is a classical music rock star

News

Allotment of Pfizer doses cut

Moderna vaccine expected to be approved soon

Olympic Kiwanis members Frank Bruni and Tim Crowley work to fix holiday lights in downtown Port Angeles. (Olympic Kiwanis Club)

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Vandals tear down holiday lights in downtown Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Members of the Olympic Kiwanis Club had to restring holiday lights in downtown Port Angeles…

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Crime & Justice

Former corrections officer pleads guilty to sex charges

John Russell Gray accused of assaulting four female inmates

Opinion

PAT NEAL: The fish and game commission is irrelevant

IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news as the Washington Fish and Game Commission passed more laws…

The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Opinion

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Trip of a lifetime traces family roots

TWO YEARS AGO this week, I had a few surprises. First, I found out my trip to Mexico…