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Norovirus, strep seen on North Olympic Peninsula

Several illnesses, such as a norovirus and strep throat, are floating around the North Olympic Peninsula, prompting health experts to issue reminders… Continue reading

Keith Thorpe / Peninsula Daily News An abandoned building in the 200 block of East Front Street in Port Angeles faces demolition.

Teardown of derelict building in Port Angeles still on hold

Financing, permitting slows action on structure

Keith Thorpe / Peninsula Daily News An abandoned building in the 200 block of East Front Street in Port Angeles faces demolition.
Front, from left to right, Merrin Packer, Taryn Dupont, Cheryl DiPietro and, behind, Cheryl Tamblyn, Jamie Pauley and Amy Henry participate in a poignant scene in “Calendar Girls,” Olympic Theatre Arts’ newest production. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

‘Calendar Girls’ begins two-week run on Friday

Coming-of-age story to play at Sequim’s Olympic Theatre Arts

  • Apr 27, 2023
  • By Emily Matthiessen Olympic Peninsula News Group
  • Clallam County
Front, from left to right, Merrin Packer, Taryn Dupont, Cheryl DiPietro and, behind, Cheryl Tamblyn, Jamie Pauley and Amy Henry participate in a poignant scene in “Calendar Girls,” Olympic Theatre Arts’ newest production. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
In the Metropolitan Opera’s “Champion,” simulcast Saturday in Port Angeles and Port Townsend, bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green portrays prizefighter Emile Griffith. (Metropolitan Opera)

‘Champion’ to arrive on big screen Saturday

Live at the Met simulcast in both Port Angeles, Port Townsend

In the Metropolitan Opera’s “Champion,” simulcast Saturday in Port Angeles and Port Townsend, bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green portrays prizefighter Emile Griffith. (Metropolitan Opera)
Port Angeles School District Superintendent Marty Brewer addresses the audience at a public forum at Jefferson Elementary School. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

PASD cuts in budget outlook

District is facing $5 million shortfall

Port Angeles School District Superintendent Marty Brewer addresses the audience at a public forum at Jefferson Elementary School. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)
Port Angeles police and Clallam County Sheriff’s deputies gather at the scene of a standoff that forced closure of the 1100 block of East Third Street on Wednesday afternoon. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

UPDATE: Streets reopened after Port Angeles standoff

Law enforcement officers have reopened streets that were blocked off and left the area after finishing negotiations with a person who was… Continue reading

Port Angeles police and Clallam County Sheriff’s deputies gather at the scene of a standoff that forced closure of the 1100 block of East Third Street on Wednesday afternoon. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

New Washington gun law already faces federal court challenge

Gov. Jay Inslee signs three related bills

  • Apr 26, 2023
  • By Lisa Baumann and Manuel Valdes The Associated Press
  • Regional News
David Brownell, executive director of the North Olympic History Center, stands in front of the historic Lincoln School at Eighth and C streets in Port Angeles on Tuesday. The NOHC is hoping to divest itself of the school building and has issued a request for proposal on what to do with the structure. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Historical society seeks new proposals for Lincoln school

After 32 years, group giving up on dream of museum

David Brownell, executive director of the North Olympic History Center, stands in front of the historic Lincoln School at Eighth and C streets in Port Angeles on Tuesday. The NOHC is hoping to divest itself of the school building and has issued a request for proposal on what to do with the structure. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
State Department of Transportation officials, from left, Ben Ford, Brian Whitehouse and Piper Petit address a meeting of the Port Angeles Business Association on Tuesday. (Peter Segall / Peninsula Daily News)

Closures, other DOT projects upcoming

Bridge repairs, roundabouts and fish passage work planned

State Department of Transportation officials, from left, Ben Ford, Brian Whitehouse and Piper Petit address a meeting of the Port Angeles Business Association on Tuesday. (Peter Segall / Peninsula Daily News)
Paul Gottlieb.

Special legislative session in works

Carbon credits bill to return in future

Paul Gottlieb.

Victorian Heritage Festival this weekend

Customs House battle, beekeeping, fashion show, teas scheduled

Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighter Mya Delano plays her guitar surrounded by fellow squad members as a house at 141 Harry Brown Road burns behind her on Sunday west of Port Angeles. The house was intentionally torched as a training exercise, giving firefighters an opportunity to practice in a live fire situation. Fire districts 2 and 4, along with members of the Port Angeles Fire Department, took part in the event. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Training exercise

Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighter Mya Delano plays her guitar surrounded by fellow squad members as a house at 141 Harry Brown Road burns… Continue reading

Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighter Mya Delano plays her guitar surrounded by fellow squad members as a house at 141 Harry Brown Road burns behind her on Sunday west of Port Angeles. The house was intentionally torched as a training exercise, giving firefighters an opportunity to practice in a live fire situation. Fire districts 2 and 4, along with members of the Port Angeles Fire Department, took part in the event. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Clallam PUD appoints Purvis

Assistant GM says he will resign from staff position

Psychedelics may become lowest enforcement priority in Jefferson County

Resolution would ‘right a historical wrong’

Drug possession laws in limbo after House rejects Blake bill

Enforcement could be in hands of cites, counties after July 1

Nearly 300 runners take off in the Run the Peninsula's Sequim Railroad Bridge run Saturday morning. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

RUN THE PENINSULA: Sequim Bridge Run boasts ideal conditions for 300 competitors

Second in racing series includes 5K, 10K distances

Nearly 300 runners take off in the Run the Peninsula's Sequim Railroad Bridge run Saturday morning. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Artist Emily Carlquist, seen here before one of her abstract multi-media pieces featuring acrylic paint on textured canvas with needle-woven local fiber warped on canvas, on display at Dandelion Botanical for the month of April. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Fiber artist’s debut show at Dandelion Botanical

Closing party, celebration set for Saturday

  • Apr 24, 2023
  • By Emily Matthiessen Olympic Peninsula News Group
  • Clallam County
Artist Emily Carlquist, seen here before one of her abstract multi-media pieces featuring acrylic paint on textured canvas with needle-woven local fiber warped on canvas, on display at Dandelion Botanical for the month of April. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Transport fee rates adjusted in Jefferson

Ambulance hikes are in line with Port Ludlow

Paul Gottlieb/for Peninsula Daily News Gun store owner Jim Rogers expects to weather an impending ban on assault weapon sales.

Assault weapons sale ban approved

Peninsula gun shop owners weigh-in on ban

  • Apr 22, 2023
  • By Paul Gottlieb Special to the Peninsula Daily News
Paul Gottlieb/for Peninsula Daily News Gun store owner Jim Rogers expects to weather an impending ban on assault weapon sales.
This sonar image of the Pythias Oasis site shows bubbles rising from the seafloor about two-thirds of a mile deep and 50 miles off Newport, Ore. These bubbles are a byproduct of a unique site where warm, chemically distinct fluid gushes from the seafloor. Researchers believe this fluid comes directly from the Cascadia megathrust zone, or plate boundary, and helps control stress buildup between the two plates.Philip et al./Science Advances

Undersea ‘oasis’ sheds new light on plate tectonics

Seepage doesn’t mean an earthquake is imminent

This sonar image of the Pythias Oasis site shows bubbles rising from the seafloor about two-thirds of a mile deep and 50 miles off Newport, Ore. These bubbles are a byproduct of a unique site where warm, chemically distinct fluid gushes from the seafloor. Researchers believe this fluid comes directly from the Cascadia megathrust zone, or plate boundary, and helps control stress buildup between the two plates.Philip et al./Science Advances