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Noah Larsen, 9, of Port Angeles practices his forearm swing with the help from tennis instructor Jeff Gonzales on Thursday in Port Angeles. The pair worked with practice balls on the courts at Erickson Playfield. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Forearm practice

Noah Larsen, 9, of Port Angeles practices his forearm swing with the help from tennis instructor Jeff Gonzales on Thursday in Port Angeles. The pair… Continue reading

Noah Larsen, 9, of Port Angeles practices his forearm swing with the help from tennis instructor Jeff Gonzales on Thursday in Port Angeles. The pair worked with practice balls on the courts at Erickson Playfield. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

National broadband map charts coverage

Residents asked to update their service description

NOLS teen advisory board seeks volunteers

The North Olympic Library System is seeking volunteers for its Teen Advisory Board. Members will gain leadership and collaboration skills while helping… Continue reading

Port Townsend City Council approves emergency repairs

Broken sewer line required quick action

Sequim city officials begin talks about hosting mobile shower unit

Facility would assist homeless population

BOOST deadline extended

Small businesses have until Jan. 13 to apply for free legal, marketing, bookkeeping services

The ferry MV Coho sits in Port Angeles on Wednesday during its annual hiatus from service for maintenance. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Coho ferry undergoing scheduled maintenance

Vessel will return to service on Jan. 26

The ferry MV Coho sits in Port Angeles on Wednesday during its annual hiatus from service for maintenance. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Derrell Sharp.

Port Angeles council recognizes Sharp, French

Ceremonies laud both

Derrell Sharp.
Port Angeles Parks & Recreation employee Brian Flores tosses a cut tree branch into the back of a truck for removal as coworker Elijah Hammel works in a lift bucket while the downtown Christmas tree at the Conrad Dyar Memoral Fountain is dismantled on Wednesday. Branches from the tree and the lights that entangled them were to be disposed of and the main trunk donated for firewood. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Tree removal

Port Angeles Parks & Recreation employee Brian Flores tosses a cut tree branch into the back of a truck for removal as coworker Elijah Hammel… Continue reading

Port Angeles Parks & Recreation employee Brian Flores tosses a cut tree branch into the back of a truck for removal as coworker Elijah Hammel works in a lift bucket while the downtown Christmas tree at the Conrad Dyar Memoral Fountain is dismantled on Wednesday. Branches from the tree and the lights that entangled them were to be disposed of and the main trunk donated for firewood. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Shawna Bebo of Sequim lends a balancing hand to her son, Enzo Bebo, 7, at the Port Angeles Pump Track at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles last weekend. The pair were on a family outing with a stop at the popular attraction. The 14,442-square-foot pump track is the largest Velosolutions pump track in the Pacific Northwest and the first public adaptive track in the nation. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Balancing act

Shawna Bebo of Sequim lends a balancing hand to her son, Enzo Bebo, 7, at the Port Angeles Pump Track at Erickson Playfield in Port… Continue reading

Shawna Bebo of Sequim lends a balancing hand to her son, Enzo Bebo, 7, at the Port Angeles Pump Track at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles last weekend. The pair were on a family outing with a stop at the popular attraction. The 14,442-square-foot pump track is the largest Velosolutions pump track in the Pacific Northwest and the first public adaptive track in the nation. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Clallam County extending Olympic Discovery Trail to La Push

Commissioners updated on project in the works

Five respiratory illness deaths reported on North Peninsula

Flu cases difficult to transfer to other hospitals

Thousands awarded for housing in Jefferson County

Bulk of funding goes to maintaining operations

Rebecca Burdick of Novato, Calif., examines a display of bird wings with her daughter, Ava Burdick, 5, at the Dungeness Nature Center at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim. The newly opened nature center has moved its bird displays from the former Dungeness River Audubon Center on the same site and has plans for additional educational displays to teach about the flora and fauna of the Dungeness Valley. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Nature center

Rebecca Burdick of Novato, Calif., examines a display of bird wings with her daughter, Ava Burdick, 5, at the Dungeness Nature Center at Railroad Bridge… Continue reading

Rebecca Burdick of Novato, Calif., examines a display of bird wings with her daughter, Ava Burdick, 5, at the Dungeness Nature Center at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim. The newly opened nature center has moved its bird displays from the former Dungeness River Audubon Center on the same site and has plans for additional educational displays to teach about the flora and fauna of the Dungeness Valley. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
FILE - Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks during the House Committee on Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Sen. Patty Murray elected Senate pro tempore

Seattle Democrat first woman in history to hold post

FILE - Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks during the House Committee on Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Clallam County to consider farmland preservation grant

Funding would keep nearly 55 acres near SunLand from development

Clallam County to review protocols after inmate death

Clallam County is working on an unexpected fatality review regarding the death of a Clallam County jail inmate, Chief Corrections Deputy Don… Continue reading

Port Townsend employees Chris MacDonald, left, and Rafe Thornton, clean up the last of the tons of dirt from a landslide that occurred on Water Street in Port Townsend about 4 a.m. Monday. The road was closed and vehicular traffic was diverted to other streets. It took 18 trips of 5-yard capacity dump trucks to remove the dirt and haul it to a facility on Redwood Street. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Landslide on Water Street blocks road, but little damage is done

Traffic to ferry rerouted while city crews clean up debris

Port Townsend employees Chris MacDonald, left, and Rafe Thornton, clean up the last of the tons of dirt from a landslide that occurred on Water Street in Port Townsend about 4 a.m. Monday. The road was closed and vehicular traffic was diverted to other streets. It took 18 trips of 5-yard capacity dump trucks to remove the dirt and haul it to a facility on Redwood Street. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
Climber Levi Craze sawed limb after limb off a 115-foot cottonwood tree in Uptown Port Townsend. A Darrell Emel’s Tree Service crew spent two full days with a crane and a large wood chipper on the site behind Cathy Traut-Hessom’s Clay Street home. She was apologetic about having the tree cut, but wanted to remove it before a winter storm blew it down onto nearby homes and cars. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Treetop trim

Climber Levi Craze sawed limb after limb off a 115-foot cottonwood tree in Uptown Port Townsend. A Darrell Emel’s Tree Service crew spent two full… Continue reading

Climber Levi Craze sawed limb after limb off a 115-foot cottonwood tree in Uptown Port Townsend. A Darrell Emel’s Tree Service crew spent two full days with a crane and a large wood chipper on the site behind Cathy Traut-Hessom’s Clay Street home. She was apologetic about having the tree cut, but wanted to remove it before a winter storm blew it down onto nearby homes and cars. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)

Volunteers sought for annual Point in Time count

Service organizations seek help for survey