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Jennifer Thomas Jennifer Thomas watches Japanese skaters Masaya Morita and Utana Yoshida skate to her instrumental tune “Rise of the Phoenix” during the Winter Olympics. Japan won a silver medal with their score in the Ice Dance – Rhythm Dance routine for team figure skating.

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Sequim composer’s epic music remains staple at Olympics

‘Rise of the Phoenix’ helps Japan figure skating team win silver

Stevie Borggard of Port Angeles holds up a welcome sign as the first passengers come off the M.V. Coho on Thursday. Gail Scott, center with bag, from Sooke is all smiles. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Coho returns to music, sign-waving community

Event marks first voyage since winter maintenance period

Jada Easterly of Utah and her partner Kaeden Warnberg-Lemm of Minnesota were on a national park trek and found Madison Falls west of Port Angeles. The falls are located at the park entrance up the Elwha River valley on Olympic Hot Springs Road on a wheelchair-accessible, 500-foot trail. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Waterfall watchers

Jada Easterly of Utah and her partner Kaeden Warnberg-Lemm of Minnesota were on a national park trek and…

Port Angeles-born James Garlick will be the featured artist in Saturday’s Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra concert. (Alex Bodi Hallett/Sattva Photo)

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Port Angeles-born soloist to rejoin symphony orchestra

James Garlick will play Barber’s Concerto for Violin

Dr. Bri Butler, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Family Dental Clinic dental director, stands in one of the pediatric rooms of the clinic she helped develop. The tribe is planning to move its Blyn clinic into Sequim to expand both pediatric and adult services. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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Jamestown Tribe plans to move dental clinic to Sequim

Sequim building would host both children, adults

4PA volunteers Kathy and Vern Daugaard pick up litter on the edge of the Tumwater Truck Route this week. 4PA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to a clean and safe community. The efforts of staff and volunteers have resulted in the Touchstone Campus Project, which is being constructed in the 200 block of East First Street, with transitional housing for Port Angeles’ most vulnerable residents. Those interested in volunteering or donating can visit 4PA.org. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Volunteer work

4PA volunteers Kathy and Vern Daugaard pick up litter on the edge of the Tumwater Truck Route this…

Port of Port Townsend Harbormaster Kristian Ferrero, right, watches as a crew from Seattle Global Diving and Salvage work to remove a derelict catamaran that was stuck in the sand for weeks on a beach at the Water Front Inn on Washington Street in Port Townsend. The boat had been sunk off of Indian Point for weeks before a series of storms pushed it to this beach last week. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Derelict boat removal

Port of Port Townsend Harbormaster Kristian Ferrero, right, watches as a crew from Seattle Global Diving and Salvage…

Jefferson County Auditor Brenda Huntingford, right, watches as clerk Ronnie Swafford loads a stack of ballots that were delivered from the post office on Tuesday into a machine that checks for signatures. The special election has measures affecting the Port Townsend and Brinnon school districts as well as East Jefferson Fire Rescue. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Jefferson County voters supporting school district measures, fire lid lifts

Port Townsend approving 20-year, $99.25 million construction bond

The members of the 2026 Rhody Festival royalty are, from left, Princess Payton Frank, Queen Lorelei Turner and 2025 Queen Taylor Frank. The 2026 queen was crowned by the outgoing queen during a ceremony at Chimacum High School on Saturday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Rhody coronation

The members of the 2026 Rhody Festival royalty are, from left, Princess Payton Frank, Queen Lorelei Turner and…

Runners in the Run The Peninsula's Elwha Bridge Run take off into the rain Saturday morning. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)

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RUN THE PENINSULA: Nearly 500 take on the Elwha Bridge Run

PORT ANGELES — Nearly 500 people young and old braved the wet February weather west of Port Angeles…

A seal pops its head out of the water as a dory rower propels his craft in the calm waters of the Salish Sea. Whidbey Island is in the distance. Today’s high temperature is forecast to be in the low 50s with partly cloudy skies. Rain is set to return this weekend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Rowing on the Strait

A seal pops its head out of the water as a dory rower propels his craft in the…

Jovino Santos Neto will appear, along with his Quinteto, at Field Arts & Events Hall on Saturday. (Daniel Sheehan)

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Brazilian pianist, composer brings Quinteto to Field Hall

Multifaceted Santos Neto to appear Saturday

Aliya Gillet, the 2025 Clallam County Fair queen, crowns Keira Headrick as the 2026 queen during a ceremony on Saturday at the Clallam County Fairgrounds. At left is princess Julianna Getzin and at right is princess Jasmine Green. The other princesses, not pictured, are Makenzie Taylor, Molly Beeman and Tish Hamilton. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Clallam County royalty crowned for annual fair

Silent auction raises funds for scholarships

Port Angeles Community Award recipients gather after Saturday night’s annual awards gala. From left, they are Frances Charles, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, Organization of the Year; Kyla Magner, Country Aire, Business of the Year; Amy Burghart and Doug Burghart, Mighty Pine Brewing, Emerging Business of the Year; Rick Ross, Educator of the Year; Kayla Fairchild, Young Leader of the Year; John Fox, Citizen of the Year. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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Community leaders honored at annual awards banquet

Fox named Citizen of Year for support of athletic events

Wendy Rae Johnson waves to cars on the north side of U.S. Highway 101 in Port Angeles on Saturday during a demonstration against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minnesota. On the other side of the highway is the Peninsula Handmaids in red robes and hoods. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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ICE protest

Wendy Rae Johnson waves to cars on the north side of U.S. Highway 101 in Port Angeles on…

The Michael Trebert Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, assisted by Trail Life USA and Heritage Girls, retired 1,900 U.S. flags and 1,360 veterans wreaths during a recent ceremony. The annual event also involved members of Carlsborg Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #6787, Sequim American Legion Post 62, Port Angeles Elks Lodge #353 Riders and more than 100 members of the public.

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Flag retirement

The Michael Trebert Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, assisted by Trail Life USA and Heritage…

Anthony DeLeon, left, and McKenzie Koljonen, who are planning a wedding in October, practice feeding each other a piece of wedding cake during the Olympic Peninsula Wedding Expo at Field Arts & Events Hall while Selena Veach of Aunt Selena’s Bakery of Port Angeles watches with glee. More than 35 vendors presented all aspects of the wedding experience last weekend. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Cake rehearsal

Anthony DeLeon, left, and McKenzie Koljonen, who are planning a wedding in October, practice feeding each other a…

U.S. Rep. Emily Randall, D-Port Orchard, who represents Washington’s 6th Congressional District, left, listens as Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe cultural manager Carmen Watson-Charles explains the history and background of the Tse-whit-zen village located on the west end of Port Angeles Harbor. Randall secured federal funding that will support its preservation. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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Rep. Randall visits ancestral village during tour with Port of Port Angeles

If Senate approves, dollars would go toward property designations

A large group with signs and banners gathers in front of the Clallam County Courthouse on Lincoln Street on Saturday with concerns about the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. A Border Patrol agent shot and killed Alex Pretti, 37, in Minneapolis last week, shortly after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good, 37, also in Minneapolis earlier this month. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Shooting sparks protest

A large group with signs and banners gathers in front of the Clallam County Courthouse on Lincoln Street…

When not at work as a corrections officer at Clallam Bay Corrections Center, Kristapher Edgecombe of Sequim likes to don his “Sasquatch gear” and search for the elusive creature in the Olympic National Forest and other areas for his YouTube channel, Xpedition_Edge. (Kristapher Edgecombe)

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Sequim man chronicles outoors experiences with his findings

YouTube channel highlights adventures on Olympic Peninsula