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Michelle Rhodes, executive director of the Sequim Irrigation Festival, shows festival royalty the new logo and tagline “When History Flows and Futures Grow” for the 130th festival on Oct. 12 at the Oasis Bar and Grill. Sherry Scharschmidt designed the logo using artificial intelligence technology. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Irrigation Festival reveals 2025 logo, tagline for 130th year

The tagline for the 130th year of the Sequim Irrigation Festival is “Where History Flows and Futures Grow.” The festival is set for… Continue reading

Michelle Rhodes, executive director of the Sequim Irrigation Festival, shows festival royalty the new logo and tagline “When History Flows and Futures Grow” for the 130th festival on Oct. 12 at the Oasis Bar and Grill. Sherry Scharschmidt designed the logo using artificial intelligence technology. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Port of Port Townsend examines its 2025 budget plans

More than 50 percent of capital budget to be Boat Haven projects

Workers guide a new 125-foot-long, 1,500-pound section of stormwater drain pipe into a trench above the Larry Scott Trail on Tuesday in Port Townsend. The new pipe is bigger and made from a different material than the PVC that it replaced. Last winter, the old pipe fractured in places due to weather and caused dirt and rocks to slide onto the trail. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Pipe installation

Workers guide a new 125-foot-long, 1,500-pound section of stormwater drain pipe into a trench above the Larry Scott Trail on Tuesday in Port Townsend. The… Continue reading

Workers guide a new 125-foot-long, 1,500-pound section of stormwater drain pipe into a trench above the Larry Scott Trail on Tuesday in Port Townsend. The new pipe is bigger and made from a different material than the PVC that it replaced. Last winter, the old pipe fractured in places due to weather and caused dirt and rocks to slide onto the trail. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Olympic Medical Center to implement five-year safety plan

Hospital responding to increase in incidents locally and nationwide

Port of Port Angeles approves three ground leases

Agency finalizes 15-year pact with Amazon for warehouse

PT City Council votes to oppose I-2117

State to spend $3.2B from Climate Commitment Act in biennium

Search and rescue teams locate disoriented hunter

Search and rescue teams from Clallam and Jefferson counties located a Port Angeles man who had become disoriented due to rain and foggy… Continue reading

The section of state Highway 20 leading into downtown Port Townsend is aglow with autumn color from the early morning sunshine reflecting off the poplar trees that line the roadway. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Fall colors

The section of state Highway 20 leading into downtown Port Townsend is aglow with autumn color from the early morning sunshine reflecting off the poplar… Continue reading

The section of state Highway 20 leading into downtown Port Townsend is aglow with autumn color from the early morning sunshine reflecting off the poplar trees that line the roadway. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Clallam Transit to hire security agency for downtown Port Angeles location

Two-year contract aims to curb recurring unlawful activities

Jefferson County letter addresses funding obligation

Board says prosecuting attorneys will try fewer cases

Five rescued from tug off coast of La Push

Concrete barge waiting to be towed to shore

Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay P. Evans.

Two Navy crew members who went missing after crash identified

Two U.S. Navy crew members who were missing after their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier during a training flight last week have been identified, according… Continue reading

Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay P. Evans.
Runners take off up the hill at the inaugural Spruce Railroad Run at Lake Crescent on Saturday morning. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)

RUN THE PENINSULA: Wind, rain and downed trees no match for Spruce Railroad Run

The weather threw everything it had at the inaugural Spruce Railroad Run, but in the end, the skies cleared, the sun came… Continue reading

Runners take off up the hill at the inaugural Spruce Railroad Run at Lake Crescent on Saturday morning. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)
Sales of fireworks will be prohibited in Sequim city limits effective late October 2025 after Sequim city council members voted to restrict the sale. The decision comes seven years after former city council members voted to ban the discharge of fireworks in city limits. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group file)

Sequim to ban fireworks sales

Ordinance to go into effect next fall

Sales of fireworks will be prohibited in Sequim city limits effective late October 2025 after Sequim city council members voted to restrict the sale. The decision comes seven years after former city council members voted to ban the discharge of fireworks in city limits. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group file)
The West Sequim Bay Corridor Project, including a lift station at Forrest Road, is the largest project for the city of Sequim in 2025. Nick Dostie, Sequim’s city engineer and deputy director of public works, previously said the city plans to go to bid in the second or third quarter of 2025, with construction possibly starting in the first quarter of 2026, and pipeline and lift station construction complete in the third or fourth quarter of 2028. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim’s $58M budget largest in history

Utility rate increase continues three-year plan

The West Sequim Bay Corridor Project, including a lift station at Forrest Road, is the largest project for the city of Sequim in 2025. Nick Dostie, Sequim’s city engineer and deputy director of public works, previously said the city plans to go to bid in the second or third quarter of 2025, with construction possibly starting in the first quarter of 2026, and pipeline and lift station construction complete in the third or fourth quarter of 2028. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Beeler Van Orman of Port Angeles tosses a glass bottle into a recycling bin on Thursday at the Regional Transfer Station in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Clallam, Jefferson counties no longer able to recycle glass

City of Sequim able to continue with different processor

Beeler Van Orman of Port Angeles tosses a glass bottle into a recycling bin on Thursday at the Regional Transfer Station in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Jefferson Healthcare considers its 2025 budget

About 60 percent of costs comes from labor, CFO says

Peninsula College produces $44M in economic impact

Economic influence grows by 15 percent