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A number of schooners cross the Port Townsend Bay as they take part in the annual Northwest Schooner Cup race during the Wooden Boat Festival on Saturday at Point Hudson Marina. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Schooner Cup

A number of schooners cross the Port Townsend Bay as they take part in the annual Northwest Schooner Cup race during the Wooden Boat Festival… Continue reading

A number of schooners cross the Port Townsend Bay as they take part in the annual Northwest Schooner Cup race during the Wooden Boat Festival on Saturday at Point Hudson Marina. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
Isaac Deater of Port Angeles plays guitar as his dog, Mimi, listens in on the sidewalk outside the Port Angeles Farmers Market at The Gateway pavilion on Saturday. Deater was busking for donations on a warm late-summer weekend on the North Olympic Peninsula. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Summer song

Isaac Deater of Port Angeles plays guitar as his dog, Mimi, listens in on the sidewalk outside the Port Angeles Farmers Market at The Gateway… Continue reading

Isaac Deater of Port Angeles plays guitar as his dog, Mimi, listens in on the sidewalk outside the Port Angeles Farmers Market at The Gateway pavilion on Saturday. Deater was busking for donations on a warm late-summer weekend on the North Olympic Peninsula. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Weekly flight operations scheduled

There will be no field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Complex this week. There will… Continue reading

Port Angeles mandates outdoor water restrictions

The city of Port Angeles has declared a Stage III critical water shortage, which implements some immediate restrictions on outdoor water usage.… Continue reading

Ezra Rodriguez, 3, of Forks learns the workings of a bear canister with Olympic National Park Education Technician Christine Whitmarsh at the Peninsula College Fall Spectacular on Saturday in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Fall spectacular

Ezra Rodriguez, 3, of Forks learns the workings of a bear canister with Olympic National Park Education Technician Christine Whitmarsh at the Peninsula College Fall… Continue reading

Ezra Rodriguez, 3, of Forks learns the workings of a bear canister with Olympic National Park Education Technician Christine Whitmarsh at the Peninsula College Fall Spectacular on Saturday in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Fireworks light up the skies over Carrie Blake Community Park to cap Sequim’s Independence Day celebration on July 4, 2023. The fireworks display started following the ban on the discharge of fireworks in the city. City council members plan to discuss the ban of fireworks sales next month. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim council to consider ban on fireworks sales

Discharge banned in city limits in 2016

Fireworks light up the skies over Carrie Blake Community Park to cap Sequim’s Independence Day celebration on July 4, 2023. The fireworks display started following the ban on the discharge of fireworks in the city. City council members plan to discuss the ban of fireworks sales next month. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Sequim police serve a search warrant on Aug. 29 at Gold Rush Jewelry and Coin after multiple reports of theft. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim police investigating alleged $100K in theft from gold business

Nineteen people say they have been left without funds

Sequim police serve a search warrant on Aug. 29 at Gold Rush Jewelry and Coin after multiple reports of theft. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim won’t go for parks district

Council declines vote but may revisit in future

Steve Mullensky/ for Peninsula Daily News Steve Chapin, left, and Devin Dwyer discuss the finer points of Dwyer’s 1980 standard cedar Pocock designed single scull. This scull and others are part of a display at the Wooden Boat Festival at Point Hudson Marina

Racing shells made from cedar built with ‘oral tradition’

Builder obtained smooth-grained materials from Forks mill

Steve Mullensky/ for Peninsula Daily News Steve Chapin, left, and Devin Dwyer discuss the finer points of Dwyer’s 1980 standard cedar Pocock designed single scull. This scull and others are part of a display at the Wooden Boat Festival at Point Hudson Marina

Clallam’s budget projects deficit

County to attempt reduce its expenditures

Daytime alternating traffic planned for Elwha River Bridge

Travelers will see one-way alternating traffic on U.S. Highway 101 near the Elwha River Bridge next week. Contractor crews will put down… Continue reading

EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Clallam commissioners to discuss highway projects

Meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula

Housing project to receive $2M from tax fund

Commissioners approve use for North View complex

Security exercise next week at Naval Magazine Indian Island

Naval Magazine Indian Island will conduct a security training exercise Tuesday and Wednesday. Training activities on the installation may include loud speaker… Continue reading

Expenses to outpace revenue for Clallam Fire District 2

Projection based on rejection of levy lid lift

David Gritskie of Stripe Rite from Bremerton guides a stripe painting machine Wednesday east of Port Angeles City Hall. The new parking lot is using permeable pavement over a layer of gravel of 2 feet to 4 feet thick. The project is retrofitting the east city hall parking lot with a new stormwater detention and treatment infrastructure. The project will help manage runoff, slow down peak flow and remove pollutants before connecting and flowing into Peabody Creek. The parking lot will reopen to the public on Monday. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Parking lot project

David Gritskie of Stripe Rite from Bremerton guides a stripe painting machine Wednesday east of Port Angeles City Hall. The new parking lot is using… Continue reading

David Gritskie of Stripe Rite from Bremerton guides a stripe painting machine Wednesday east of Port Angeles City Hall. The new parking lot is using permeable pavement over a layer of gravel of 2 feet to 4 feet thick. The project is retrofitting the east city hall parking lot with a new stormwater detention and treatment infrastructure. The project will help manage runoff, slow down peak flow and remove pollutants before connecting and flowing into Peabody Creek. The parking lot will reopen to the public on Monday. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Looking to stay cool, several people jump off the Rainbow Bridge over the Devil’s Punch Bowl on the Spruce Railroad Trail on Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park over Labor Day weekend. A heat advisory has been issued by the National Weather Service with temperatures expected to reach the 80s and possibly the low 90s through today. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Heat advisory

Looking to stay cool, several people jump off the Rainbow Bridge over the Devil’s Punch Bowl on the Spruce Railroad Trail on Lake Crescent in… Continue reading

Looking to stay cool, several people jump off the Rainbow Bridge over the Devil’s Punch Bowl on the Spruce Railroad Trail on Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park over Labor Day weekend. A heat advisory has been issued by the National Weather Service with temperatures expected to reach the 80s and possibly the low 90s through today. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

Clallam County hosting online climate risk survey

The Clallam County Department of Community Development is conducting an online climate risk and resilience survey through Oct. 4. The survey is… Continue reading

Olympic Medical Center’s financial picture improving year over year

Hospital’s net losses $10M ahead of past 12 months