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Sunset clause added to $5 fee

Conservation district to report funding metrics

Three taken to hospital after head-on collision

Three people were taken to Olympic Medical Center following a head-on collision on U.S. Highway 101 at Baker Street east of Port… Continue reading

Raindrops coat the leaves of a vine maple tree at the Olympic National Park visitor center in Port Angeles. Although many species of trees are beginning to make an early transition to their fall colors, most foliage on the Peninsula are holding on their green leaves for now. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Fall foliage

Raindrops coat the leaves of a vine maple tree at the Olympic National Park visitor center in Port Angeles. Although many species of trees are… Continue reading

Raindrops coat the leaves of a vine maple tree at the Olympic National Park visitor center in Port Angeles. Although many species of trees are beginning to make an early transition to their fall colors, most foliage on the Peninsula are holding on their green leaves for now. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Bagpipers, from left, Tom McCurdy, Erik Evans and Heidi Slack, all of Port Angeles, perform together on Tuesday at Pebble Beach Park in Port Angeles. The trio were practicing songs to be played at 9/11 commemoration ceremonies across the North Olympic Peninsula. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Piper practice

Bagpipers, from left, Tom McCurdy, Erik Evans and Heidi Slack, all of Port Angeles, perform together on Tuesday at Pebble Beach Park in Port Angeles.… Continue reading

Bagpipers, from left, Tom McCurdy, Erik Evans and Heidi Slack, all of Port Angeles, perform together on Tuesday at Pebble Beach Park in Port Angeles. The trio were practicing songs to be played at 9/11 commemoration ceremonies across the North Olympic Peninsula. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Mary Engel Springer Donovan stands next to the Welcome to Forks sign she designed in 1986. (Christi Baron/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Meet the woman behind Forks’ famous sign

Design was part of chamber contest in 1980s

  • Sep 10, 2025
  • By Christi Baron Olympic Peninsula News Group
  • Clallam County
Mary Engel Springer Donovan stands next to the Welcome to Forks sign she designed in 1986. (Christi Baron/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Port Angeles City Council hopefuls differ on ideas

Dexter, Smith Dvorak debate during forum

Port of Port Angeles, Olympic Hiking Co. agree on 10-year building lease

Marine Drive location to serve as headquarters for ‘cornerstone’ business

A bicyclist makes his way over an approach span to the pedestrian bridge beneath the Elwha River Bridge west of Port Angeles. The bridges are part of the Olympic Discovery Trail, which, when completed, will stretch from Port Townsend to La Push on the Pacific coast. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Trail ride

A bicyclist makes his way over an approach span to the pedestrian bridge beneath the Elwha River Bridge west of Port Angeles. The bridges are… Continue reading

A bicyclist makes his way over an approach span to the pedestrian bridge beneath the Elwha River Bridge west of Port Angeles. The bridges are part of the Olympic Discovery Trail, which, when completed, will stretch from Port Townsend to La Push on the Pacific coast. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

9/11 memorial ceremony set for Thursday

Port Angeles’ 9/11 Remembrance ceremony is set for noon Thursday. The annual event will be at 9/11 Memorial Waterfront Park, 317 N.… Continue reading

Clallam board wants timber sales

Letter specifies revenue to junior taxing districts

Electronic equipment recycling event set for Saturday

Olympic Kiwanis and the Sequim Free Clinic, in partnership with Friendly Earth International Recycling, will host an electronics recycling collection from 10 a.m.… Continue reading

Port Angeles to host lodging tax workshop

The city of Port Angeles will host a workshop regarding the lodging tax funding application and award process at 2 p.m. Sept.… Continue reading

Riverbank stabilization work set for Quillayute

Construction crews from Geo Stabilization will begin riverbank stabilization on the north bank of the Quillayute River today. The river has been… Continue reading

Land Acquisition Committee meets Tuesday

The Charter Review Commission’s Land Acquisition Committee will meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday. The committee will meet in the council chambers at… Continue reading

Joseph Molotsky of Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue in Port Townsend came to Sequim to take custody of two baby owls from Bert Corales and Candace Fagerhaugh. The couple, who have an owl house on their 5-acre property, fed the owlets after the birds’ parents disappeared. (Bert Corales and Candace Fagerhaugh)

Sequim couple helps rescue four baby owls

Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue releases raptors after rehab

Joseph Molotsky of Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue in Port Townsend came to Sequim to take custody of two baby owls from Bert Corales and Candace Fagerhaugh. The couple, who have an owl house on their 5-acre property, fed the owlets after the birds’ parents disappeared. (Bert Corales and Candace Fagerhaugh)
North Olympic Library System Executive Director Noah Glaude gestures to the outdoor children’s area of the Sequim Library, which features benches, a rock and bouncy turf along with a soon-to-be installed gate and a door directly into the inside children’s area. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim library opening shifted to fall

Large infrastructure elements source of delay

North Olympic Library System Executive Director Noah Glaude gestures to the outdoor children’s area of the Sequim Library, which features benches, a rock and bouncy turf along with a soon-to-be installed gate and a door directly into the inside children’s area. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Durashine Concrete Polishing removed 4,000 square feet of tile inside the former Sequim Safeway and JCPenney for the new Shipley Center, Sequim’s senior center. (Shipley Center)

Shipley Center readies construction permit

Director hopeful to move in by late December 2026

Durashine Concrete Polishing removed 4,000 square feet of tile inside the former Sequim Safeway and JCPenney for the new Shipley Center, Sequim’s senior center. (Shipley Center)

Weekly flight operations scheduled

There will be field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Complex for the week. There will… Continue reading

EYE ON THE PENINSULA:

Meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula.

Joel Kawahara holds an oyster in Dabob Bay in 2018. (Kellie Henwood)

Remains of Quilcene fisherman recovered

Joel Kawahara found near Clallam Bay

Joel Kawahara holds an oyster in Dabob Bay in 2018. (Kellie Henwood)