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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Registration open for youth softball, baseball

Registration for North Olympic Baseball and Softball’s upcoming spring season is underway at www.nobas.org. The league offers T-Ball, Minor and Major Baseball… Continue reading

COVID-19 case rate beginning to slide on Olympic Peninsula

COVID-19 cases continue to rise on the North Olympic Peninsula, but the case rate is beginning to go down. Clallam County experienced an increase of… Continue reading

Deal seeks to revive last aluminum smelter in Pacific Northwest

A complex deal is taking shape to revive the Pacific Northwest’s last remaining aluminum smelter. Alcoa idled its Intalco Works smelter near Ferndale… Continue reading

Tessa Hulls, pictured with artwork for her graphic memoir "Feeding Ghosts," is the featured artist in 2022's inaugural First Friday Speaker Series program this Friday. The Jefferson County Historical Society hosts the online talk, part of a triptych of Chinese American Voices. photo by Hall Anderson

Friday speaker first of Chinese American voices

Jefferson County Historical Society plans more lectures in coming weeks

Tessa Hulls, pictured with artwork for her graphic memoir "Feeding Ghosts," is the featured artist in 2022's inaugural First Friday Speaker Series program this Friday. The Jefferson County Historical Society hosts the online talk, part of a triptych of Chinese American Voices. photo by Hall Anderson
Jamie Nicolaysen has opened Crystal Dragon Nails. 

The manicurist is located inside the Amazing Changes Hair Studio, 118 N. Liberty St.

Manicurist opens shop in Port Angeles salon

Jamie Nicolaysen has opened Crystal Dragon Nails located inside the Amazing Changes Hair Studio, 118 N. Liberty St. Nicolaysen specializes in acrylics,… Continue reading

Jamie Nicolaysen has opened Crystal Dragon Nails. 

The manicurist is located inside the Amazing Changes Hair Studio, 118 N. Liberty St.
Maggie Bulkley

New Theater Adventure Club classes to begin

Youth offered musical theater instruction

Maggie Bulkley
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Ed and Ruth Adams of Sequim walk their collection of shih tzus, from left, Angus, Ruby, Dublin, Ronan and Kenny, along a trail at the Water Reuse Demonstration Park near Carrie Blake Park in Sequim. The pair said each of the dogs had a color-coded leash to better keep track of which one was which.

On a walk with shih tzu

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Ed and Ruth Adams of Sequim walk their collection of shih tzus, from left, Angus, Ruby, Dublin, Ronan and Kenny, along… Continue reading

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Ed and Ruth Adams of Sequim walk their collection of shih tzus, from left, Angus, Ruby, Dublin, Ronan and Kenny, along a trail at the Water Reuse Demonstration Park near Carrie Blake Park in Sequim. The pair said each of the dogs had a color-coded leash to better keep track of which one was which.

Port Angeles hiring housing coordinator

City joins federal House America program

#30 Wyatt Dunning of the PA Riders drives around the guarding of a Kingston defender Tuesday night at the PAHS gym. dlogan

PREP BASKETBALL: Port Angeles hits 15 3-pointers in 92-32 win

The Port Angeles Roughriders boys basketball team set the nets on fire Tuesday night with its outside shooting, burying 15 3-pointers in… Continue reading

#30 Wyatt Dunning of the PA Riders drives around the guarding of a Kingston defender Tuesday night at the PAHS gym. dlogan
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Port Angeles Roughriders

State insurance commissioner adopts credit scoring ban

Others say move hurts those with good scores

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Mike McHenry, fish habitat manager for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, presents “The Elwha River: Eight Years of Research Since the Largest Dam Removal in the World” at 12:30 p.m. today.

Studium to spotlight retrospective of removal of Elwha River Dams

“The Elwha River: Eight Years of Research Since the Largest Dam Removal in the World”

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Mike McHenry, fish habitat manager for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, presents “The Elwha River: Eight Years of Research Since the Largest Dam Removal in the World” at 12:30 p.m. today.
Bailee Larson, Port Angeles girls basketball

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Bailee Larson, Port Angeles girls basketball

Bailee Larson has been on fire lately for the Port Angeles Roughriders girls basketball team. Larson, who takes care of much of the Riders’ ball-handling… Continue reading

Bailee Larson, Port Angeles girls basketball
The Seattle Kraken puts on a colorful pregame show before home games. Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News

PIERRE LaBOSSIERE COLUMN: Kraken all about the show and the beanies

I went to a hockey match the other night and a rock concert broke out. I finally got around to attending my first Seattle Kraken… Continue reading

The Seattle Kraken puts on a colorful pregame show before home games. Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News
Jon and Valkyrie Ferguson hold up the Quilts of Valor quilt given to Valkyrie earlier this month. photo by Chris Bates

Quilts of Valor conducts national sewing day Saturday

Veterans in Jefferson, Clallam counties recipients of coverlets

Jon and Valkyrie Ferguson hold up the Quilts of Valor quilt given to Valkyrie earlier this month. photo by Chris Bates

Clallam OKs federal funds for food programs

American Rescue Plan Act funds nearly $1.9 million divided among agencies

Lauren Davis, pictured at Port Townsend's Imprint Bookstore, has just published her full-length poetry collection, "Home Beneath the Church." Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

Diane Urbani de la Paz: Poet shares the personal, vulnerable

Lauren Davis’ “Home Beneath the Church” out now

  • Feb 2, 2022
  • By Diane Urbani de la Paz Peninsula Daily News
  • Opinion
Lauren Davis, pictured at Port Townsend's Imprint Bookstore, has just published her full-length poetry collection, "Home Beneath the Church." Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

First Presbyterian Church presents series of forums

“February Forum: Who Is My Neighbor”