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Dawna Krause and her husband Loren find that Dawna’s winning giant pumpkin measured 169 pounds on a spring scale from a small tractor scoop. Dawna was a first-time winner in the giant pumpkin contest conducted each year at the Evergreen Country Estates neighborhood on Goss Road south of Port Angeles. Hers was the only pumpkin over 100 pounds from the dozen or so entries. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Great pumpkin

Dawna Krause and her husband Loren find that Dawna’s winning giant pumpkin measured 169 pounds on a spring scale from a small tractor scoop. Dawna… Continue reading

Oct 11, 2022
By Dave Logan For Peninsula Daily News
Clallam County

Martha Olbrych of Port Ludlow is part of the tennis crew at the Port Townsend High School courts on Wednesdays and Sundays. Players of various levels are getting together for morning doubles as long as the weather stays tennis-friendly. Anyone interested in joining the group can contact organizer David Michael at harp@olympus.net. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/for Peninsula Daily News)

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It’s not all pickleball

Martha Olbrych of Port Ludlow is part of the tennis crew at the Port Townsend High School courts on Wednesdays and Sundays. Players of various… Continue reading

Oct 11, 2022
By Diane Urbani de la Paz For Peninsula Daily News
Jefferson County

Coronavirus

Jefferson County may keep emergency orders

State plans to lift restrictions Oct. 31

Oct 11, 2022
by Ken Park
Clallam County Coronavirus Jefferson County

Elaina Wood, 6, center, looks on in delight after catching a crab as her brother, Kjol Wood, 11, left, watches while grandmother Tina Taylor of Port Angeles, right, and Puget Sound Anglers member Russ Manson of Sequim assist with the capture during the Grab a Crab Derby on Saturday at the Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival in Port Angeles. The three-day festival brought abut 15,000 people to the Port Angeles waterfront for food, music and other activities. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Caught one!

Elaina Wood, 6, center, looks on in delight after catching a crab as her brother, Kjol Wood, 11, left, watches while grandmother Tina Taylor of… Continue reading

Clallam County to consider autopsy contract

Thurston proposed to host them again

Port Angeles High School senior homecoming King and Queen Jack Gladfelter and Lily Halberg prepare to ride in their school’s homecoming parade after being crowned on Friday. The pair presided over the Port Angeles Roughriders’ 28-9 loss to the Bremerton Knights during Friday’s football game at Port Angeles Civic Field. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Homecoming royalty crowned

Port Angeles High School senior homecoming King and Queen Jack Gladfelter and Lily Halberg prepare to ride in their school’s homecoming parade after being crowned… Continue reading

Curtis Shuck, chairman of the Well Done Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to cap abandoned oil and gas wells, conducts testing on a well in West Jefferson County. The well, located near the Hoh River in an area known as Oil City, is leaking emissions, and Shuck’s foundation is working to properly seal it. (Well Done Foundation)

Nonprofit to plug well near Oil City

Clean-up effort in West Jefferson

Pedestrian treated and released after collision

A pedestrian State Patrol said was jaywalking on U.S. Highway 101 after dark was treated and discharged from Olympic Medical Center after being hit by… Continue reading

PT city manager gets a pay raise

Increase first since he was hired in ’19

Sequim man dies in rollover on Palo Alto

A 23-year-old Sequim man died early Saturday morning in a one-vehicle rollover collision on Palo Alto Road near its intersection with Louella Road.… Continue reading