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Port Townsend launches financial video series

Public engagement sought for sustaining city

Grant would fund childcare facility

Jefferson entities partner in $2.9M project

Alahan Sivam, left, and Kandice Ringer, both of Eugene, Ore., take cellphone photos of Sol Duc Falls in the Sol Duc River Valley of Olympic National Park on Monday. The pair visited the popular attraction while on a weeklong exploration of the park. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Capturing the falls

Alahan Sivam, left, and Kandice Ringer, both of Eugene, Ore., take cellphone photos of Sol Duc Falls in the Sol Duc River Valley of Olympic… Continue reading

Alahan Sivam, left, and Kandice Ringer, both of Eugene, Ore., take cellphone photos of Sol Duc Falls in the Sol Duc River Valley of Olympic National Park on Monday. The pair visited the popular attraction while on a weeklong exploration of the park. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

LGBTQ care politicized, area health officer says

Interventions include mental health, therapy

Caleb Messinger and staff with the Southern Nibble food truck serve customers at a Sequim High School soccer game in September 2022. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim considers food truck code change

Public hearing scheduled for next month

Caleb Messinger and staff with the Southern Nibble food truck serve customers at a Sequim High School soccer game in September 2022. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Tickets for three-day THING festival at Fort Worden on sale

Food vendors, parade and other activities featured Aug. 25-27

MarchFourth, the party band featuring musicians, dancers and acrobats, is set to play Saturday at the Juan de Fuca Festival in Port Angeles. (Andrew Wyatt)

30th Juan de Fuca Festival arrives Friday

Lineup brings music, activities for adults and children

  • May 23, 2023
  • By Diane Urbani de la Paz for Peninsula Daily News
  • Clallam County
MarchFourth, the party band featuring musicians, dancers and acrobats, is set to play Saturday at the Juan de Fuca Festival in Port Angeles. (Andrew Wyatt)
Alan Barnard, chair of Clallam County Disaster Airlift Response Team (DART) right, and David Woodcock, DART vice chair, cut the ribbon for the opening of the new DART Operations Center at Fairchild International Airport. (CLALLAM COUNTY DISASTER AIRLIFT RESPONSE TEAM )

Clallam DART moves into larger operations center

The Clallam County Disaster Airlift Response Team, known as DART, has moved into an expanded operations center at the Fairchild International Airport.… Continue reading

Alan Barnard, chair of Clallam County Disaster Airlift Response Team (DART) right, and David Woodcock, DART vice chair, cut the ribbon for the opening of the new DART Operations Center at Fairchild International Airport. (CLALLAM COUNTY DISASTER AIRLIFT RESPONSE TEAM )
Dan Wilder Jr. pulls the winning duck from a Wilder truck at the 34th annual Great Olympic Duck Derby on Sunday. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

Pluck nets 34 winners

Duck Derby breaks foundation records

Dan Wilder Jr. pulls the winning duck from a Wilder truck at the 34th annual Great Olympic Duck Derby on Sunday. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
Port Townsend’s Seamus Fraser (142) is a step ahead of the rest of the nearly 1,000 competitors in the 2023 Rhody Run on Sunday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. Fraser had flown in from classes in Ecuador the night before in order to defend his victory from last year. Fraser won the 10K event with a time of 35 minutes, 24 seconds. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Rhody festivities

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Port Townsend’s Seamus Fraser (142) is a step ahead of the rest of the nearly 1,000 competitors in the 2023 Rhody Run on Sunday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. Fraser had flown in from classes in Ecuador the night before in order to defend his victory from last year. Fraser won the 10K event with a time of 35 minutes, 24 seconds. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Scholarship trust named for Port Angeles pioneer comes home to Clallam County

A $600,000 scholarship fund benefiting Port Angeles High School students now will be administered locally after its recent transfer to the Olympic… Continue reading

PDN phones out of order

Peninsula Daily News phones are out of order on Sunday. To reach us, use email or cell phones. If you do not know the individual… Continue reading

“Dappled,” a silk painting by Evette Allerdings of Port Angeles, is among the 40 works installed this week at Jefferson Healthcare Hospital. Image courtesy of Northwind Art

Northwind Art decorates Jefferson Healthcare

Paintings on silk, canvas and wood, mixed-media work, plein air art made with a tablet: All were installed this week at Jefferson… Continue reading

“Dappled,” a silk painting by Evette Allerdings of Port Angeles, is among the 40 works installed this week at Jefferson Healthcare Hospital. Image courtesy of Northwind Art
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Clallam County election assistant Gretchen Weeks, right, spins a tumbler containing the names of candidates a county voter registration coordinator Joshua Hart records the results during a lot drawing for candidate positions on the ballot on Friday at the county courthouse in Port Angeles.

Peninsula election contests coming up

Filing week ends with several races

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Clallam County election assistant Gretchen Weeks, right, spins a tumbler containing the names of candidates a county voter registration coordinator Joshua Hart records the results during a lot drawing for candidate positions on the ballot on Friday at the county courthouse in Port Angeles.
Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News Three Clallam County volunteers were honored for their decades of service with Clallam County Community Service Awards. From left are Lloyd Eisenman of Port Angeles, Emily Westcott of Sequim and Mike Dukes, of Clallam Bay-Sekiu.

Three honored for longtime volunteerism

Community Service Awards presented

Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News Three Clallam County volunteers were honored for their decades of service with Clallam County Community Service Awards. From left are Lloyd Eisenman of Port Angeles, Emily Westcott of Sequim and Mike Dukes, of Clallam Bay-Sekiu.

Standoff suspect has a long court history

Accused remained in jail on Friday

Accused murder suspect is dead

Man was on court order at hospital

Candidates file on fourth day of filing week

A fourth day of candidate filings led to a primary race forming in the Port Townsend School District while three primary races have emerged in… Continue reading

Port Angeles High School junior Jamie Robinson is one of many students helping prepare the school’s community garden for a plant sale on Saturday. All proceeds will be dedicated to the school’s garden program. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

Growing plants, knowledge at Port Angeles High School garden

Club to sell vegetable starts as fundraiser; cash accepted Saturday

Port Angeles High School junior Jamie Robinson is one of many students helping prepare the school’s community garden for a plant sale on Saturday. All proceeds will be dedicated to the school’s garden program. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)
Allen Fletcher.

Human remains identified as Port Townsend man

Allen Fletcher disappeared in 2013 while captaining a boat from Edmonds to Bellingham

Allen Fletcher.