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Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe council leaders celebrate the opening of the tribe’s new library at its Blyn campus on Saturday. Pictured, from left, are treasurer Theresa Lehman, vice chair Loni Grinnell-Greninger, chair/CEO Ron Allen and secretary Rochelle Blankenship. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe celebrates library opening

Chairman/CEO: New facility is ‘second to none’

About 30 sailboats compete in the Port Townsend Sailing Association’s 33rd annual Shipwrights Regatta on Port Townsend Bay on Saturday. More of a fun event than a sailing competition, awards are given out during a pizza party afterward for the most navigationally challenged (Directional Helmet trophy) and for the “saltiest” boat and crew. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Shipwrights Regatta

About 30 sailboats compete in the Port Townsend Sailing Association’s 33rd annual Shipwrights Regatta on Port Townsend Bay…

“Against all Odds: Abandonment to Olympian, A Tribute to Joe Rantz” by Catherine Bilyard is one of 41 quilts on display in Sequim Museum & Arts through the end of March as part of the “Inspiration/Exploration” exhibit. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Joe Rantz quilt highlighted at Sequim museum

Tribute among 41 pieces in show

A paving crew from Lakeside Industries replaces pavement on the Waterfront Trail and the entrance to the Port Angeles City Pier parking lot on Wednesday as part of a project to improve sidewalks and storm water drainage around the site. The project is expected to be substantially completed and the parking lot reopened by mid-March. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Port Angeles City Pier

A paving crew from Lakeside Industries replaces pavement on the Waterfront Trail and the entrance to the Port…

Artist Chris Stevenson, who described herself as an urban sketcher from Port Townsend, uses a pencil for scale as she sketches the work at the new entrance to Point Hudson Marina on Monday morning. A group in town, the Port Townsend Urban Sketchers will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday to sketch at the Port Townsend Aero Museum. Sessions are free and open to sketchers of all skill levels. For more information, see www.urbansketchersporttownsend.wordpress.com. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Marina art

Artist Chris Stevenson, who described herself as an urban sketcher from Port Townsend, uses a pencil for scale…

About 25 people, including Warren Musgrove of Port Angeles, far right, rallied in support of Palestine on Saturday in front of the Clallam County Courthouse. The event, also scheduled to run from noon to 1 p.m. this Saturday and March 2, included an information table that provided information about the history of occupation in the Gaza Strip, organizer Christy Cox said. (Lois Danks)

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Rally for Rafah

About 25 people, including Warren Musgrove of Port Angeles, far right, rallied in support of Palestine on Saturday…

Evelyn Jefferson, a crisis outreach supervisor for Lummi Nation, stands at the grave of her son Patrick George Jr., who died last September due to an overdose of street drugs containing the synthetic opioid carfentanil, at the Lummi Nation cemetery on tribal reservation lands on Feb. 8 near Bellingham. Jefferson had to wait a week to bury her son due to several other overdose deaths in the community. (Lindsey Wasson/The Associated Press)

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State tribes battling a devastating opioid crisis

Legislation could provide annual funding to help

After five years of investigations, Sequim police have sought additional help from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Cold Case Investigation Unit through state Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office to help solve the 2019 homicide of Valerie Claplanhoo, a Makah tribal member, pictured with her son Brandan. (Cindy Lee Claplanhoo)

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Sequim police working with state unit on Claplanhoo homicide

Task force focuses on cases involving indigenous people

Animal tracks dot the otherwise smooth surface of the putting surface after a 2-inch blanket of snow fell on parts of Jefferson County on Thursday morning, including Discovery Bay Golf Course in Port Hadlock. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Snow quickly replaced by rain on Peninsula

Falling tree branches cause power outages

A group of friends meets for coffee every Monday and then takes a walk with their dogs along a beach in Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Beach walk

A group of friends meets for coffee every Monday and then takes a walk with their dogs along…

A pair of excavators demolish the former Bushwhacker Restaurant in Port Angeles on Saturday, clearing the space for a future Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Bushwacker building torn down for new restaurant

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen to be built

Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News Martha Bell, left, and Nancy Jacobson put new donations into the Little Free Pantry box at 316 S. Cherry St. that is sponsored by First Presbyterian Church in Port Angeles.

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Stocking up at Free Little Pantries

Martha Bell, left, and Nancy Jacobson put new donations into the Little Free Pantry box at 316 S.…

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Port Angeles’ Paige Mason, right, puts up the ball over the head of Sequim’s Libby Turella as Sequim’s Hailey Wagner looks on at left on Tuesday at Port Angeles High School. Mason led the Roughriders with 26 points to help Port Angeles win 74-46 and clinch an Olympic League championship and a No. 1 seed for the playoffs. For the story, go to Sports on page B1.

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Roughriders Olympic League champions

Port Angeles’ Paige Mason, right, puts up the ball over the head of Sequim’s Libby Turella as Sequim’s…

Crew members of the ferry MV Coho secure lines to the dock as the vessel returns to Port Angeles on Tuesday after being out of service since early January for annual dry dock and maintenance in Anacortes. The ferry is scheduled to resume daily service between Port Angeles and Victoria on Thursday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Coho returns

Crew members of the ferry MV Coho secure lines to the dock as the vessel returns to Port…

Winners of the 2024 Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce Community Awards gather after Saturday night’s ceremony at Field Arts & Events Hall in Port Angeles. The winners are, from left, Becky McFarland and Stevie Boggard of Kindred Collective, emerging business of the year; Tom Baermann of Pacific Office Equipment, business of the year; Stacey Sanders, educator of the year; Sheryl Hamilton of Oxford House, organization of the year; Kennedy Cameron, young leader of the year; and Jeff Bohman, citizen of the year. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Six awards presented during community gala

Trails advocate wins PA chamber’s Citizen of Year nod

Men’s 5K winner Langdon Larson of Port Angeles crosses the finish line at the Elwha Bridge Run held Saturday morning. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)

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Elwha Bridge Run kicks off five-race series

Larson siblings win men’s, women’s 5-kilometer events

Michael Poats, left, and Brody Merritt of the Port Angeles stormwater department work to install a pump to remove standing water from a flooded area near the playground at Shane Park in Port Angeles on Wednesday. The pool of standing water, which is up to 3 feet deep in places and has at times covered the nearby play equipment, is to be pumped to a nearby storm drain. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Park drainage

Michael Poats, left, and Brody Merritt of the Port Angeles stormwater department work to install a pump to…

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Peninsula's Ese Onakpoma, right, races with Shoreline's Jamikal Davis on Wednesday in Port Angeles.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL: Peninsula College slips past Shoreline into first-place tie

PORT ANGELES — At one point late in the game, with the Peninsula College men’s basketball team hanging…

Nordland General Store Co-op CEO Patti Buckland, left, points to an area of the store to a group of visitors at the open house on Saturday in Nordland on Marrowstone Island. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Nordland General Store reimagined as a cooperative

Island investors work to raise funds, formulate inventory

Lincoln Park BMX From left, Teyah Elofson-Cross and Kylin Weitz, Port Angeles riders at the Lincoln Park BMX. They are both headed to the UCI World BMX Championships in Rock Hill, S.C.

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BMX: Five Lincoln Park riders headed to world championships

PHOENIX — The Lincoln Park BMX track based out of Port Angeles has five riders, two from Port…