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Sequim-area fires remain under investigation

SEQUIM -- The causes of two Sequim-area fires, one at a mobile home on Old Olympic Highway on Saturday and the other in a field… Continue reading

Martial arts aid in fight against disease

SEQUIM -- Kathrin Sumpter teaches people how to use weapons that restore their sense of personal power. Sumpter, owner of Sequim Martial Arts at 452… Continue reading

People likely caused blaze, official said; wildland fire seventh in as many days

SEQUIM -- Firefighters spent several hours and more than 3,600 gallons of water on knocking down a relatively small brush fire Thursday morning that was… Continue reading

Sequim man tells of 444 days imprisoned in Iran

SEQUIM -- In his home office, Charles Jones has various awards for valor, and a photograph of the Americans who spent 444 days imprisoned in… Continue reading

Realtors, bank offer fundraising help to Sequim youth club

SEQUIM -- July could be a particularly sunny month for the Sequim unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula. The club,… Continue reading

Sequim council to consider garden

SEQUIM -- One small, new project stood out among the big, old ones talked about during the Sequim City Council's special meeting this week. The… Continue reading

Water reuse site draws ideas from three groups

SEQUIM -- The name bears no glamour, but community groups clamor for a piece of it: Sequim's Water Reuse Demonstration Site, a nearly 28-acre swath… Continue reading

Produce travels to Seattle quiet as Whisper

SEQUIM ­-- Let us follow a strawberry, flush from the field as it travels on wind and water -- but without petroleum -- from Sequim… Continue reading

Program matches young workers with summer jobs

SEQUIM -- Carl Chastain isn't sure who's getting the better deal: the teenagers who will come to work for him this summer or the Pacific… Continue reading

Sequim’s Father Henry to move

SEQUIM -- The Rev. Henry Mulindwa -- better known as Father Henry -- is moving again. Mulindwa left his native Uganda in late January 2008… Continue reading

Bracelet aids police search for missing woman

SEQUIM -- Project Lifesaver, a tracking system that combines a transmitting bracelet and a hand-held radio antenna, helped police find a missing woman last weekend.… Continue reading

Book captures drama of Olympic National Park

SEQUIM -- The book is not what you might dread. Olympic National Park: A Natural History by Sequim poet and nature writer Tim McNulty delves… Continue reading

Sequim businesswoman, downtown advocate remembered for joy of living

SEQUIM -- Alice Jean Haught knew how to run a business well ­-- but more importantly, her friends say, she knew how to enjoy life.… Continue reading

Sequim City Council raises salary for a city manager before hiring one

SEQUIM -- Sequim's city manager just got a raise, though he or she is yet to be hired. "We set the salary range at $100,000… Continue reading

Arts group focuses on creative aging

PORT TOWNSEND ­-- Dancing, sharing music, writing and reading to friends, making collages, painting, sculpting and singing together: They're life-enhancers, whatever your age. Yet art… Continue reading

Sequim police chief delivers crime report for 2008

SEQUIM -- Sequim's 19 police officers were busier than ever last year, when they arrested 406 on investigations of felonies, 786 accused of misdemeanor offenders… Continue reading

Jamestown clinic expected to open in May 2010

SEQUIM ­-- After a wait that stretched some two years longer than planned, site preparation has begun for the nearly 35,000-square-foot Jamestown Medical Clinic alongside… Continue reading

Mother Nature’s gallery

PORT ANGELES -- You can tell this marriage is a complex yet happy one: The children, after all, keep coming back with wedding gifts. The… Continue reading

Fling raises funds for Audubon center

SEQUIM -- Hansi Hals swam 9 miles and ran 207; Annette Nesse bicycled 300 miles; Margaret Roggow, 97, water-walked across the Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center… Continue reading

Sandwich peddler pedals to customers

SEQUIM ­ -- Because his life depends on it, this delivery man drinks heavily through the day -- water, that is. Ryan Elmer, 30, peddles… Continue reading