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Strange Brew Festival returns to Port Townsend

Two days of beer, music and crafts

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group As part of the construction plan to build and move a new Hurd Creek Hatchery, crews will remove and fill in a large fish pond. Demolition must wait for the new, nearby facility to be complete, according to state documents.

Hurd Creek hatchery to be moved from floodplain

Construction expected through summer 2024

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group As part of the construction plan to build and move a new Hurd Creek Hatchery, crews will remove and fill in a large fish pond. Demolition must wait for the new, nearby facility to be complete, according to state documents.

Mobile showers may not be coming to Sequim

Staff says cost would be expensive and could create additional issues

Sewing day for quilt program

Quilts of Valor will host its annual sew day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The foundation is sewing in the Tri-Area… Continue reading

Captain/EMT Tyler Gear, at top, and Firefighter/Paramedic Margie Brueckner, bottom, train on Clallam 2’s new stair chair by lowering Recruit Theo Saxe down a flight of stairs.

Stair chair bought with grant funds

Clallam 2 Fire-Rescue has received a new stair chair that was ordered last year with funds from an August grant of $4,361.66… Continue reading

Captain/EMT Tyler Gear, at top, and Firefighter/Paramedic Margie Brueckner, bottom, train on Clallam 2’s new stair chair by lowering Recruit Theo Saxe down a flight of stairs.

US loan funding meters, upgrades

Jefferson PUD plans replacement by ’24

Clallam County seeking volunteers

Applications are due Friday for 91 volunteer positions on 21 Clallam County advisory boards and commissions. To apply, call 360-417-2233, download forms… Continue reading

Leland Creek culvert project begins Friday

Replacement to disrupt traffic for months

Photo courtesy of Brandan McCarty/ Sequim Police continue to narrow down DNA evidence in the murder of Sequim’s Valerie Claplanhoo on Jan. 2, 2019.

Murder investigation still going after 4 years

Police search narrows with DNA test results

Photo courtesy of Brandan McCarty/ Sequim Police continue to narrow down DNA evidence in the murder of Sequim’s Valerie Claplanhoo on Jan. 2, 2019.

Port Angeles seeks housing comments

Survey online; public hearing set Feb. 8

Supply drive underway in Port Angeles

Express Employment Professionals will host a supply drive from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays through Tuesday, Feb. 28. The… Continue reading

Air Force to clean up station

EPA plans to oversee Neah Bay operation

Appraisal for Short’s Farm less than port expected

Port of PT considering purchase to support local agriculture growth

Artwork by Sixkiller, contemporary Cherokee artist, is on display in House of Learning, Peninsula College Longhouse now through March.

Cherokee artist to speak on Grandma Spider

Contemporary Cherokee artist Karen Sixkiller will speak on “Rediscovering Cherokee Grandma Spider” at Studium Generale on Thursday. Sixkiller will speak in the… Continue reading

Artwork by Sixkiller, contemporary Cherokee artist, is on display in House of Learning, Peninsula College Longhouse now through March.
Port Angeles Community Award recipients gather after Saturday night’s fifth annual awards gala, including, from left, Joe DeScala, representing 4PA, organization of the year; Dr. Gerald Stephanz, citizen of the year; Tommy Harris, young leader of the year; Natalie Snow, Katelyn Sheldon and Andrea Dean, representing Welly’s Real Fruit Ice Cream, emerging business of the year; and Hayley Sharpe, owner of MOSS, business of the year. Not present was John Gallagher, educator of the year. The awards are produced by the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by Sound Publishing. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Community awards distributed at chamber gala

Six categories featured as event returns in person

Port Angeles Community Award recipients gather after Saturday night’s fifth annual awards gala, including, from left, Joe DeScala, representing 4PA, organization of the year; Dr. Gerald Stephanz, citizen of the year; Tommy Harris, young leader of the year; Natalie Snow, Katelyn Sheldon and Andrea Dean, representing Welly’s Real Fruit Ice Cream, emerging business of the year; and Hayley Sharpe, owner of MOSS, business of the year. Not present was John Gallagher, educator of the year. The awards are produced by the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by Sound Publishing. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Jefferson PUD plans to standardize broadband fees

Some internet providers in Jefferson County may see their service rates change as Jefferson County Public Utility District upgrades and expands its… Continue reading

One hurt in wreck at 104-Shine intersection

A Poulsbo woman was treated and discharged from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after she ran into a car that had pulled in… Continue reading

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group About 100 people gathered in support of Sequim School District's proposed CTE building at Sequim City Council's last meeting. More than 20 people spoke in favor of the project in a public hearing.

Sequim council approves $250K for CTE facility

City’s contribution part of effort to raise $1 million

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group About 100 people gathered in support of Sequim School District's proposed CTE building at Sequim City Council's last meeting. More than 20 people spoke in favor of the project in a public hearing.
Brock Tejeda, a high school senior, fits together his carefully crafted pieces of wood to make a step stool just like the larger finished sample on the left. Port Angeles High School hosted a Skills USA Olympic Regional contest in the woodshop at the school on Saturday. The contest involved students making in eight hours from precise directions a small step stool using their skills and the shop’s many tools and machines. Joe Shideler is the woodshop teacher, but retired woodshop teacher Tim Branham was the enabler who brought the contest back to the school after a four-year COVID absence. There were five high school contestants including one girl. Skills USA sponsors over 50 skills across the country. PAHS participated in the carpentry and precision machinery areas. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Skills contest

Brock Tejeda, a high school senior, fits together his carefully crafted pieces of wood to make a step stool just like the larger finished sample… Continue reading

Brock Tejeda, a high school senior, fits together his carefully crafted pieces of wood to make a step stool just like the larger finished sample on the left. Port Angeles High School hosted a Skills USA Olympic Regional contest in the woodshop at the school on Saturday. The contest involved students making in eight hours from precise directions a small step stool using their skills and the shop’s many tools and machines. Joe Shideler is the woodshop teacher, but retired woodshop teacher Tim Branham was the enabler who brought the contest back to the school after a four-year COVID absence. There were five high school contestants including one girl. Skills USA sponsors over 50 skills across the country. PAHS participated in the carpentry and precision machinery areas. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Chris Walker, an organizer of the Parkwood Neighborhood Alliance and an advocate for owners of modular homes, is working to keep rents reasonable in her manufactured-home community near Sequim.

Legislature aims to protect tenants

Landlord calls effort rent control

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Chris Walker, an organizer of the Parkwood Neighborhood Alliance and an advocate for owners of modular homes, is working to keep rents reasonable in her manufactured-home community near Sequim.