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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)

Sequim police working with state unit on Claplanhoo homicide

Task force focuses on cases involving indigenous people

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)
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 beach in Port Townsend.… Continue reading

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)
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)

Bushwacker building torn down for new restaurant

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen to be built

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)
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. Cherry St. that is sponsored by First… Continue reading

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.
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 Hailey Wagner looks on at left on… Continue reading

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.
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 Angeles on Tuesday after being out of… Continue reading

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)
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)

Six awards presented during community gala

Trails advocate wins PA chamber’s Citizen of Year nod

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)
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)

Elwha Bridge Run kicks off five-race series

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

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

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

At one point late in the game, with the Peninsula College men’s basketball team hanging on for a victory over Shoreline, Pirates’… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Peninsula's Ese Onakpoma, right, races with Shoreline's Jamikal Davis on Wednesday in Port Angeles.
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 remove standing water from a flooded area… Continue reading

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)
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)

Nordland General Store reimagined as a cooperative

Island investors work to raise funds, formulate inventory

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)
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.

BMX: Five Lincoln Park riders headed to world championships

The Lincoln Park BMX track based out of Port Angeles has five riders, two from Port Angeles and three from Kingston, who qualified… Continue reading

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.
A Port Angeles Public Works crew examines the hole left at 11th and Oak streets after a water main break sent a geyser of water into the air Saturday morning, damaging the road surface. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Port Angeles Public Works patches third water main break in four days

Director says such blowouts common after pipes thaw

A Port Angeles Public Works crew examines the hole left at 11th and Oak streets after a water main break sent a geyser of water into the air Saturday morning, damaging the road surface. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
The paving work planned for Thursday at the intersection of Fifth and Lincoln streets has been delayed until today, Port Angeles Public Works Director Mike Healy said early Thursday afternoon. “The stabilizing material didn’t stabilize as well as it should, probably because of the rain and temperatures. About 20 percent isn’t as firm as we would like,” he said. “If you pave that, there will be a soft spot and we don’t want that. We have a lot of confidence that it will be ready Friday sometime around evening rush hour. Who knows? We hope Mother Nature cooperates,” he said. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Intersection paving delayed

The paving work planned for Thursday at the intersection of Fifth and Lincoln streets has been delayed until today, Port Angeles Public Works Director Mike… Continue reading

The paving work planned for Thursday at the intersection of Fifth and Lincoln streets has been delayed until today, Port Angeles Public Works Director Mike Healy said early Thursday afternoon. “The stabilizing material didn’t stabilize as well as it should, probably because of the rain and temperatures. About 20 percent isn’t as firm as we would like,” he said. “If you pave that, there will be a soft spot and we don’t want that. We have a lot of confidence that it will be ready Friday sometime around evening rush hour. Who knows? We hope Mother Nature cooperates,” he said. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Port Angeles Public Works and Washington State Department of Transportation officials examine a sinkhole in the middle of Fifth and Lincoln streets in Port Angeles on Wednesday after water from a broken water main tore up the pavement. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Water main break, sinkhole close Port Angeles intersection

Repairs expected to be finished Thursday afternoon

Port Angeles Public Works and Washington State Department of Transportation officials examine a sinkhole in the middle of Fifth and Lincoln streets in Port Angeles on Wednesday after water from a broken water main tore up the pavement. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Forks’ Dylan Micheau (10) scores over Neah Bay’s Mathias Greene Monday evening in Forks. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

PREP BASKETBALL: Neah Bay boys’ and girls’ streaks continue

The Neah Bay boys and girls basketball teams kept up their winning streaks with victories at Forks. The boys held on to beat… Continue reading

Forks’ Dylan Micheau (10) scores over Neah Bay’s Mathias Greene Monday evening in Forks. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)
Tamara Galvan, facilities director for the Feiro Marine Life Center in Port Angeles, seated, talks about an interactive traveling bull kelp exhibit with Feiro volunteer Anni Lanigan on Thursday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Bull kelp exhibit visits Feiro Marine Life Center

Traveling display created at Port Townsend Marine Science Center

Tamara Galvan, facilities director for the Feiro Marine Life Center in Port Angeles, seated, talks about an interactive traveling bull kelp exhibit with Feiro volunteer Anni Lanigan on Thursday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Peninsula's Javon Ervin makes the slam dunk over the head of Olympic's Christian Parrish on Saturday in Port Angeles.

COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL: Pirates tied for first after romp over Olympic

The Peninsula College men’s basketball team got monster games from Ese Onakpoma and Javon Ervin and shot nearly 60 percent from the… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Peninsula's Javon Ervin makes the slam dunk over the head of Olympic's Christian Parrish on Saturday in Port Angeles.
The former Lincoln School, shown on Thursday, will be examined by the City of Port Angeles for possible conversion into multifamily housing. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Housing study set at school

City of Port Angeles wants to transform former Lincoln building

The former Lincoln School, shown on Thursday, will be examined by the City of Port Angeles for possible conversion into multifamily housing. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Noah Glaude, executive director of the North Olympic Library System, shovels snow from the front sidewalk at the Port Angeles Public Library after a fast and furious band of snow showers rolled across Port Angeles on Wednesday morning.

Brief snow, then rain for Peninsula

Warmer temperatures with rain expected, even at elevation

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Noah Glaude, executive director of the North Olympic Library System, shovels snow from the front sidewalk at the Port Angeles Public Library after a fast and furious band of snow showers rolled across Port Angeles on Wednesday morning.