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Peninsula College Foundation reports record levels of giving

Programs, students both recipients of funds

Plans move ahead for Quilcene skate park

Jefferson County, volunteers seek grants

The site of the former Rayonier mill in Port Angeles, shown on Tuesday, awaits completion of environmental cleanup almost 27 years after the last roll of pulp rolled off the line. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Cleanup at Rayonier site still years away

Action plan to be approved in 2024-25

The site of the former Rayonier mill in Port Angeles, shown on Tuesday, awaits completion of environmental cleanup almost 27 years after the last roll of pulp rolled off the line. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
A paving crew from Lakeside Industries replaces pavement on the Waterfront Trail and the entrance to the Port Angeles City Pier parking lot on Wednesday as part of a project to improve sidewalks and storm water drainage around the site. The project is expected to be substantially completed and the parking lot reopened by mid-March. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Port Angeles City Pier

A paving crew from Lakeside Industries replaces pavement on the Waterfront Trail and the entrance to the Port Angeles City Pier parking lot on Wednesday… Continue reading

A paving crew from Lakeside Industries replaces pavement on the Waterfront Trail and the entrance to the Port Angeles City Pier parking lot on Wednesday as part of a project to improve sidewalks and storm water drainage around the site. The project is expected to be substantially completed and the parking lot reopened by mid-March. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Port Angeles may limit short-term rentals to maximum of 100

Second reading scheduled for March 5

Port Townsend approves utility rate changes, renames skate park

Public hearing set for Transportation Benefits District

Slate of initiatives has upended Olympia, lobbyist says

‘Potential showstoppers’ described at Coffee with Colleen

Artist Chris Stevenson, who described herself as an urban sketcher from Port Townsend, uses a pencil for scale as she sketches the work at the new entrance to Point Hudson Marina on Monday morning. A group in town, the Port Townsend Urban Sketchers will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday to sketch at the Port Townsend Aero Museum. Sessions are free and open to sketchers of all skill levels. For more information, see www.urbansketchersporttownsend.wordpress.com. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Marina art

Artist Chris Stevenson, who described herself as an urban sketcher from Port Townsend, uses a pencil for scale as she sketches the work at the… Continue reading

Artist Chris Stevenson, who described herself as an urban sketcher from Port Townsend, uses a pencil for scale as she sketches the work at the new entrance to Point Hudson Marina on Monday morning. A group in town, the Port Townsend Urban Sketchers will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday to sketch at the Port Townsend Aero Museum. Sessions are free and open to sketchers of all skill levels. For more information, see www.urbansketchersporttownsend.wordpress.com. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Clallam commissioners approve rental increases at fairgrounds

Volunteers thanked for work on boards

About 25 people, including Warren Musgrove of Port Angeles, far right, rallied in support of Palestine on Saturday in front of the Clallam County Courthouse. The event, also scheduled to run from noon to 1 p.m. this Saturday and March 2, included an information table that provided information about the history of occupation in the Gaza Strip, organizer Christy Cox said. (Lois Danks)
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Rally for Rafah

About 25 people, including Warren Musgrove of Port Angeles, far right, rallied in support of Palestine on Saturday in front of the Clallam County Courthouse.… Continue reading

About 25 people, including Warren Musgrove of Port Angeles, far right, rallied in support of Palestine on Saturday in front of the Clallam County Courthouse. The event, also scheduled to run from noon to 1 p.m. this Saturday and March 2, included an information table that provided information about the history of occupation in the Gaza Strip, organizer Christy Cox said. (Lois Danks)

Cetacean system aims to reduce ship strikes

The U.S. Coast Guard is launching a cetacean desk pilot program designed to reduce ship strikes and cetacean disturbances in the Salish Sea… Continue reading

Clallam County eyes four locations for reservoir

Clallam County will know more about the four potential locations for the Dungeness River off-channel reservoir when it gets a draft seismic… Continue reading

Conservation Futures Fund citizen committee to elect officers

The Jefferson County Conservation Futures Fund Citizen Oversight Committee will elect new officers during a special meeting at 4 p.m. Wednesday. The… Continue reading

Report: Crime down in Port Townsend in 2023

New hires added to city department

Evelyn Jefferson, a crisis outreach supervisor for Lummi Nation, stands at the grave of her son Patrick George Jr., who died last September due to an overdose of street drugs containing the synthetic opioid carfentanil, at the Lummi Nation cemetery on tribal reservation lands on Feb. 8 near Bellingham. Jefferson had to wait a week to bury her son due to several other overdose deaths in the community. (Lindsey Wasson/The Associated Press)

State tribes battling a devastating opioid crisis

Legislation could provide annual funding to help

Evelyn Jefferson, a crisis outreach supervisor for Lummi Nation, stands at the grave of her son Patrick George Jr., who died last September due to an overdose of street drugs containing the synthetic opioid carfentanil, at the Lummi Nation cemetery on tribal reservation lands on Feb. 8 near Bellingham. Jefferson had to wait a week to bury her son due to several other overdose deaths in the community. (Lindsey Wasson/The Associated Press)
Tom Ferrell.

Former Sequim mayor announces resignation from council

Ferrell said work obligations overseas limit his time

Tom Ferrell.
June Claypool.

Sequim Farmers & Artisans Market names new executive director

The Sequim Farmers & Artisans Market’s board of directors has appointed June Claypool as the new executive director. With her extensive background in… Continue reading

June Claypool.

UPDATE: Spokane Valley man found dead near Highway 112

Clallam County sheriff’s deputies have identified a man found dead off state Highway 112 about 12 miles west of Joyce. Jarrett R. Wilson,… Continue reading

Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News Port Angeles’ Parker Nickerson rises to shoot while defended by Steilacoom’s Chace McSherry during the Roughriders’ come-from-behind 63-49 bi-district tournament victory Thursday night. Port Angeles will face Enumclaw today [Saturday] in a winner-to-state, loser-out contest at 4 p.m. at Foster High School in Tukwila. For more information, see Page B1.
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Port Angeles’ comeback kids

Port Angeles’ Parker Nickerson rises to shoot while defended by Steilacoom’s Chace McSherry during the Roughriders’ come-from-behind 63-49 bi-district tournament victory Thursday night. Port Angeles… Continue reading

Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News Port Angeles’ Parker Nickerson rises to shoot while defended by Steilacoom’s Chace McSherry during the Roughriders’ come-from-behind 63-49 bi-district tournament victory Thursday night. Port Angeles will face Enumclaw today [Saturday] in a winner-to-state, loser-out contest at 4 p.m. at Foster High School in Tukwila. For more information, see Page B1.

Marina in Port Townsend to reopen on March 1

Grand opening celebration set April 24