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Sports: Sequim eliminated after losing both opening round baseball games

By Joshua Washburn TACOMA -- From a rain-out to an early morning bus ride, things just didn't add up for the Sequim baseball team as… Continue reading

Dealing with the North Olympic Peninsula’s yellow streak: Scotch broom

TOM THOMPSON To many passers-by, it's a bright yellow flowery masterpiece this time of year. But don't let the brilliant color along roadsides and hillsides… Continue reading

Sports: Riders beat Shelton in rainy baseball game

By Joshua Washburn PORT ANGELES -- The Port Angeles baseball team treated their fans to a wet-and-wild ride as the Roughriders defeated Shelton 10-6 in… Continue reading

Sports: Sequim boys, girls both enter postseason play at home tonight

By Joshua Washburn SEQUIM -- For most schools, getting one of your varsity teams to the postseason is a job well done, but for the… Continue reading

Middle school class raises more than $6,000 for tsunami relief

By Tom Thompson PORT ANGELES -- When the world was stunned by the magnitude of the earthquake and tsunami disaster in South Asia, a sixth-grade… Continue reading

Fans of medieval lore don the gear to fight with ferocity

By Tom Thompson As Society of Creative Anachronism members prepare for mock medieval battles Sunday at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles, donning a steel helmet… Continue reading

Winner of car in Port Angeles turns out to really need it

By Tom Thompson PORT ANGELES -- When a car fell from the sky in the form of a golf ball Saturday to name the winner… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Former city economic development director worried over diminishing harborfront industrial lands

By Michelle Payne PORT ANGELES -- Harborfront land slated for the Hood Canal Bridge graving yard has sustained the community for centuries. And it would… Continue reading

Sports: Port Angeles swimmers show well at season opener

By Joshua Washburn POULSBO -- The Port Angeles High School boys swimming team tacked up 13 district qualifying times in its season-opening meet Thursday, defeating… Continue reading

Sports: Port Angeles girls 0-2 in Babe Ruth World Series

SETH JOHNSON FOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS ABBEVILLE, La. -- Port Angeles jumped out to a 1-0 lead early in their second pool play game of… Continue reading

Peninsula Spotlight: Take a trip across the Nile de Fuca

By Laura Rosser In just a couple weeks, crossing the Nile into Ancient Egypt won't be very difficult at all for North Olympic Peninsula residents.… Continue reading

Peninsula: They”re best in the state, too!

By Tim Roach CHENEY -- Crescent's Ruth Wilhelm and Forks' McKinnon Hanson broke state Class 2A and B meet records on their way to winning… Continue reading

West End: State catch-and-release proposal catches wrath of Forks officials

By Paul Queary - Associated Press FORKS -- This is a fish story, but not about the one that got away. It's about the fish… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Our waterfront columnist takes a smooth, quiet ride on the ‘new’ MV Coho

By Dan Hart One word describes the ride aboard the Port Angeles-Victoria ferry, MV Coho, with her new engines: Excellent. I took the 44-year-old ferry's… Continue reading

Sports: Port Townsend girls eliminated from state tourney

By Tim Roach YAKIMA -- The Port Townsend High School girls basketball team ended its run in the Class 2A state tournament Friday with a… Continue reading

West End: CEO brings “community” back into hospital

By Laura Rosser Camille Scott, chief executive officer and administrator for Forks Community Hospital, came to Forks to help the hospital out of its dire… Continue reading

Sports: Port Townsend girls clinch berth

By Tim Roach UNIVERSITY PLACE -- The Port Townsend High School girls basketball team clinched a state Class 2A Championship Tournament berth on Tuesday and… Continue reading

Sports: Cinderella season ends for Peninsula College

By Doug Flanagan KENNEWICK -- When Peter Stewart took over as the head coach of the Peninsula College men's basketball team two years ago, he… Continue reading

Hearing set on Sequim-Dungeness elk herd number

By Bill Miller SEQUIM -- A controversial special hunt has culled about one-third of the Sequim-Dungeness elk herd -- and wildlife officials are mulling their… Continue reading

Chimacum: Soldier returns home after 10 months in Iraq

By Danielle Turissini CHIMACUM -- A 23-year-old soldier is back home after 10 months in the Middle East, much to the relief of his mom… Continue reading