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LETTER: Calling our president a buffoon no laughing matter

“Buffoon” in Webster’s description: “a gross and usually ill-educated or stupid person.”

Stalks of lavender radiate from a plant at B&B Family Farm in Sequim during Sequim Lavender Weekend on Friday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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A GROWING CONCERN: Soak up the sun in Sequim, but harken to tasks in yard

SEQUIM LAVENDER WEEKEND is upon us, and those of you traveling through the Sequim area this weekend would…

Life

HELP LINE: Remember: New Medicare numbers are coming

DO WE ALL remember that Social Security numbers are coming off our Medicare cards?

PENINSULA KITCHEN: Homemade fruit leather makes a good snack

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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Homemade fruit leather makes a good snack

IN HER MOST recent Peninsula Kitchen column, Carrie Sanford shared some great tips for maintaining sanity on a…

HORSEPLAY: 4-H leader helps youths grow

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HORSEPLAY: 4-H leader helps youths grow

GROWING UP, I was the kid in the family that my parents pointed to and said, “She’s horse-crazy.”

The cargo ship Astoria Bay takes on a load of logs at the Port of Port Angeles Terminal 3 in Port Angeles on Saturday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Business

ON THE WATERFRONT: Some ships may get an assist in Port Angeles Harbor

ON THURSDAY MORNING, the cargo ship Astoria Bay moored to the Port of Port Angeles’ Terminal 3 to…

Business

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

• Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce — Twice-monthly breakfast meetings are held at 11:45 a.m. on the second and…

Business

BUSINESS BRIEFS: New vendors welcomed to Port Angeles Farmers Market … and other items

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Farmers Market recently announced that it has added four new vendors to…

Missing Port Angeles-area woman and her dog found alive in Olympic National Park after 6 days

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Missing Port Angeles-area woman and her dog found alive in Olympic National Park after 6 days

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — A Port Angeles-area woman and her dog who had been stranded in Olympic National…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Trump group, with their incompetence and corruption, are global pariahs

The lying capacity of this chaotic, incoherent and very incompetent Trump group has become overbearing.

News

EYE ON JEFFERSON: Home Opportunity Fund focus of public hearing

The three Jefferson County commissioners will host a hearing declaring an emergency regarding the availability of affordable housing…

Entertainment

Life’s a Song offers up ‘Hometown’ single

PORT TOWNSEND — Songwriting Works’ Life’s a Song trio will premiere an Olympic Peninsula-inspired single, “Hometown,” and music…

Business

State unemployment figures hold steady

OLYMPIA — Washington state’s unemployment rate held steady last month at 4.5 percent and the state gained 2,500…

A map shows the tribes’ routes and expected landing dates for this year’s Canoe Journey. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Of the first water: Canoes on the move for a potlatch in British Columbia

PORT ANGELES — The 2017 Canoe Journey is underway, and tribes from across Washington state and British Columbia…

News

Principal chosen for Blue Heron Middle School

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend School District has hired Patrick Gaffney as the new principal for Blue…

Politics

Legislature apparently letting clock run out on session

By Rachel La Corte

Entertainment

Free outdoor concerts ring out in Sequim, Port Angeles, Port Townsend

Free outdoor concerts are planned in Sequim on Tuesday, Port Angeles on Wednesday and Port Townsend on Thursday.

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Vapid answers in ‘Speaking Out’ feature erode my faith in humanity

If there is one single feature in the Peninsula Daily News that erodes my faith in humanity, it…

Life

ISSUES OF FAITH: Guard against ridicule; instead, season conversation with salt

AFTER READING A news article yesterday on the MSN home page, I scrolled to the bottom of the…

Life

Long Rifle rendezvous, tall ship visit on Peninsula

A Peninsula Long Rifle rendezvous, a visit from a tall ship and a hoedown are among the upcoming…