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Elaina Wood, 6, center, looks on in delight after catching a crab as her brother, Kjol Wood, 11, left, watches while grandmother Tina Taylor of Port Angeles, right, and Puget Sound Anglers member Russ Manson of Sequim assist with the capture during the Grab a Crab Derby on Saturday at the Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival in Port Angeles. The three-day festival brought abut 15,000 people to the Port Angeles waterfront for food, music and other activities. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Caught one!

Elaina Wood, 6, center, looks on in delight after catching a crab as her brother, Kjol Wood, 11, left, watches while grandmother Tina Taylor of… Continue reading

Elaina Wood, 6, center, looks on in delight after catching a crab as her brother, Kjol Wood, 11, left, watches while grandmother Tina Taylor of Port Angeles, right, and Puget Sound Anglers member Russ Manson of Sequim assist with the capture during the Grab a Crab Derby on Saturday at the Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival in Port Angeles. The three-day festival brought abut 15,000 people to the Port Angeles waterfront for food, music and other activities. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Clallam County to consider autopsy contract

Thurston proposed to host them again

Port Angeles High School senior homecoming King and Queen Jack Gladfelter and Lily Halberg prepare to ride in their school’s homecoming parade after being crowned on Friday. The pair presided over the Port Angeles Roughriders’ 28-9 loss to the Bremerton Knights during Friday’s football game at Port Angeles Civic Field. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Homecoming royalty crowned

Port Angeles High School senior homecoming King and Queen Jack Gladfelter and Lily Halberg prepare to ride in their school’s homecoming parade after being crowned… Continue reading

Port Angeles High School senior homecoming King and Queen Jack Gladfelter and Lily Halberg prepare to ride in their school’s homecoming parade after being crowned on Friday. The pair presided over the Port Angeles Roughriders’ 28-9 loss to the Bremerton Knights during Friday’s football game at Port Angeles Civic Field. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Curtis Shuck, chairman of the Well Done Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to cap abandoned oil and gas wells, conducts testing on a well in West Jefferson County. The well, located near the Hoh River in an area known as Oil City, is leaking emissions, and Shuck’s foundation is working to properly seal it. (Well Done Foundation)

Nonprofit to plug well near Oil City

Clean-up effort in West Jefferson

Curtis Shuck, chairman of the Well Done Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to cap abandoned oil and gas wells, conducts testing on a well in West Jefferson County. The well, located near the Hoh River in an area known as Oil City, is leaking emissions, and Shuck’s foundation is working to properly seal it. (Well Done Foundation)

Pedestrian treated and released after collision

A pedestrian State Patrol said was jaywalking on U.S. Highway 101 after dark was treated and discharged from Olympic Medical Center after being hit by… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Peninsula's Keilee Silva fights for a header with Everett's Giovanna Occhiallini, left, and Paige Runcorn right as Silva's teammate, Kira Meechudhone, follows behind on Saturday at Wally Sigmar Field in Port Angeles.

PENINSULA COLLEGE WOMEN’S SOCCER: Pirates remain perfect in league, win in another shutout

The Peninsula women went into the half up just 2-0 against Everett, but erupted for six goals in the second half to run away with… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Peninsula's Keilee Silva fights for a header with Everett's Giovanna Occhiallini, left, and Paige Runcorn right as Silva's teammate, Kira Meechudhone, follows behind on Saturday at Wally Sigmar Field in Port Angeles.

PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP: Crescent, Quilcene win league games

The Crescent Loggers football team won its second game of the year Saturday, beating Concrete 30-12, but coach Brian Shimko wasn’t pleased with… Continue reading

Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro.

PT city manager gets a pay raise

Increase first since he was hired in ’19

Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro.
New Orleans Saints tight end Taysom Hill (7) runs the ball past Seattle Seahawks cornerback Tariq Woolen (27) to score a touchdown Sunday in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Tyler Kaufman)

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS: Just too much Taysom in 39-32 loss

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  • Oct 9, 2022
  • By Brett Martel The Associated Press
  • Seahawks
New Orleans Saints tight end Taysom Hill (7) runs the ball past Seattle Seahawks cornerback Tariq Woolen (27) to score a touchdown Sunday in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Tyler Kaufman)
San Francisco 49ers running back Tevin Coleman runs against the Carolina Panthers during the second half an NFL football game on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Rusty Jones)

NFL ROUNDUP: 49ers’ defense buries Carolina; Cowboys remain hot in win over Rams

Jimmy Garoppolo threw for 253 yards and two touchdowns, Emmanuel Moseley returned an interception 41 yards for a score and the… Continue reading

  • Oct 9, 2022
  • The Associated Press
  • NFL
San Francisco 49ers running back Tevin Coleman runs against the Carolina Panthers during the second half an NFL football game on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Rusty Jones)
Sequim's Aiden Gockerell runs through a big hole against Olympic on Friday night in Sequim. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP: (Updated) Sequim hangs tough with 5-1 Olympic; Neah Bay rolls again

The Sequim football team gave 5-1 Olympic everything it could handle Friday night with the ball on the 1-yard line in the final… Continue reading

Sequim's Aiden Gockerell runs through a big hole against Olympic on Friday night in Sequim. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Seattle Mariners' Julio Rodriguez (44) reacts after being sprayed with champagne following the team's win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 2 of a baseball AL wild-card playoff series Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022, in Toronto. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

AL WILD-CARD PLAYOFFS: Mariners storm back from 8-1 hole to shock Toronto, win series

Adam Frazier hit a tiebreaking RBI double in the ninth inning, and the Seattle Mariners erased a seven-run deficit while topping the Toronto… Continue reading

  • Oct 8, 2022
  • By IAN HARRISON Associated Press
  • Mariners
Seattle Mariners' Julio Rodriguez (44) reacts after being sprayed with champagne following the team's win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 2 of a baseball AL wild-card playoff series Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022, in Toronto. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
East Jefferson rivals

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East Jefferson rivals

Sequim man dies in rollover on Palo Alto

A 23-year-old Sequim man died early Saturday morning in a one-vehicle rollover collision on Palo Alto Road near its intersection with Louella Road.… Continue reading

One dead, two others hurt in wreck near Brinnon

An Independence, Mo., man has died in a wreck that sent two others to a Seattle hospital and blocked U.S. Highway 101 near… Continue reading

Crab crew member Jacob Brown of Port Angeles pulls cooked crab from a boiler on Thursday in preparation for the opening of the Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival on the Port Angeles waterfront. The three-day festival begins today and runs through Sunday. For more information, see Page A6. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Prepping for crab

Crab crew member Jacob Brown of Port Angeles pulls cooked crab from a boiler on Thursday in preparation for the opening of the Dungeness Crab… Continue reading

Crab crew member Jacob Brown of Port Angeles pulls cooked crab from a boiler on Thursday in preparation for the opening of the Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival on the Port Angeles waterfront. The three-day festival begins today and runs through Sunday. For more information, see Page A6. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Denise Butler, left, and Karl Pohlod, both members of the North Olympic Peninsula Chapter of Puget Sound Anglers, on Friday tie plastic markers to a crab that will be eligible for catch during the Grab-A-Crab Derby, a featured activity of the Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival on the Port Angeles waterfront. Twenty tagged crabs were seeded into a pair of tanks, allowing the catchers a $20 discount on a crab dinner or half off on a takeout crab from the derby, which is also set for today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The festival runs through Sunday. For information, see crabfestival.org.
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Crab fest kicks off in Port Angeles

Denise Butler, left, and Karl Pohlod, both members of the North Olympic Peninsula Chapter of Puget Sound Anglers, on Friday tie plastic markers to a… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Denise Butler, left, and Karl Pohlod, both members of the North Olympic Peninsula Chapter of Puget Sound Anglers, on Friday tie plastic markers to a crab that will be eligible for catch during the Grab-A-Crab Derby, a featured activity of the Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival on the Port Angeles waterfront. Twenty tagged crabs were seeded into a pair of tanks, allowing the catchers a $20 discount on a crab dinner or half off on a takeout crab from the derby, which is also set for today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The festival runs through Sunday. For information, see crabfestival.org.

Best of the Peninsula 2021 winners announced

The Peninsula Daily News, the Sequim Gazette and the Forks Forum have announced the winners of the Best of the Peninsula 2021 contest. Click here… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Port Angeles' James Browning, accompanied by teammate Xavier Nelson, celebrates a touchdown run after intercepting a pass from Bremerton's Aiga Logova in the first quarter on Friday night at Port Angeles Civic Field.

PREP FOOTBALL: (Updated) Big Bremerton plays hurt Roughriders

The Port Angeles Roughriders football team got its offense moving after a sluggish start and kept the game within striking distance until… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Port Angeles' James Browning, accompanied by teammate Xavier Nelson, celebrates a touchdown run after intercepting a pass from Bremerton's Aiga Logova in the first quarter on Friday night at Port Angeles Civic Field.

Electrical power restored for thousands west of Lake Crescent

Fault was in Bonneville Power Adminstration line