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Stewart Cockburn from New Dungeness Nursery in Sequim explains landscaping ideas to Steve Sodorff and his wife Patti of Port Townsend while attending the annual Jefferson County Home Builders’ Association Home Show on Saturday at Blue Heron Middle School. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Landscaping ideas

Stewart Cockburn from New Dungeness Nursery in Sequim explains landscaping ideas to Steve Sodorff and his wife Patti of Port Townsend while attending the annual… Continue reading

Stewart Cockburn from New Dungeness Nursery in Sequim explains landscaping ideas to Steve Sodorff and his wife Patti of Port Townsend while attending the annual Jefferson County Home Builders’ Association Home Show on Saturday at Blue Heron Middle School. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
A portion of U.S. Highway 101 closed Monday for the next 80 days as crews work on culvert improvements. Heading east on Highway 101 just past Fairmount, traffic is diverted onto the Tumwater Truck Route to go through Port Angeles and connect back with Highway 101. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Highway 101 closes

A portion of U.S. Highway 101 closed Monday for the next 80 days as crews work on culvert improvements. Heading east on Highway 101 just… Continue reading

A portion of U.S. Highway 101 closed Monday for the next 80 days as crews work on culvert improvements. Heading east on Highway 101 just past Fairmount, traffic is diverted onto the Tumwater Truck Route to go through Port Angeles and connect back with Highway 101. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

Clallam County looks to change virtual meeting platform

Move comes after racist, obscene material has been broadcast

Heart luncheon raises record $266K for cause

The 18th annual Red, Set Go! Heart Luncheon netted a record-breaking $266,000 to benefit the Olympic Medical Center Heart Center in Sequim.… Continue reading

Little free library opens for business

Grand opening Saturday at Jefferson Elementary School

Port Angeles School District superintendent search extended

Board expects to choose from two finalists on Thursday

Olympic Medical Center CEO Darryl Wolfe, left, and board President Ann Henninger present information and answer questions about the hospital’s exploration of a possible partnership with another health care system at a forum held by the Clallam County Democrats. Aligning with another organization could help address OMC’s financial challenges and meet community care needs, Wolfe said. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

Services at center of Olympic Medical Center process

Partnership could improve financial stability, care delivery

Olympic Medical Center CEO Darryl Wolfe, left, and board President Ann Henninger present information and answer questions about the hospital’s exploration of a possible partnership with another health care system at a forum held by the Clallam County Democrats. Aligning with another organization could help address OMC’s financial challenges and meet community care needs, Wolfe said. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)
Workers from Global Diving and Salvage of Seattle pump water on Monday from inside the hull of the 50-foot powerboat Goldfinch that sank in Point Hudson Marina on Feb. 22. The boat was later towed to Port Townsend Marina. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Sunken boat floated to Port Townsend Boat Yard

A diver from Seattle’s Global Diving & Salvage patched a hole in a sunken vessel’s wooden hull so it could be dewatered… Continue reading

Workers from Global Diving and Salvage of Seattle pump water on Monday from inside the hull of the 50-foot powerboat Goldfinch that sank in Point Hudson Marina on Feb. 22. The boat was later towed to Port Townsend Marina. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
The 130th Irrigation Festival’s queen, Lily Tjemsland, receives her crown after participating in the scholarship pageant, which included a monologue performance, a dance routine with her fellow contestants and answering questions, both on stage and off. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim High School student crowned queen for Irrigation Festival’s 130th year

Pricesses, prince also named at annual ceremony

The 130th Irrigation Festival’s queen, Lily Tjemsland, receives her crown after participating in the scholarship pageant, which included a monologue performance, a dance routine with her fellow contestants and answering questions, both on stage and off. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Portions of a crowd of more than 300 people hold signs and sing songs in support of fired national park and forest service employees during a Saturday protest at the Conrad Dyar Memorial Fountain and surrounding areas along Front Street in Port Angeles. The assembly later marched through downtown streets, regrouping at the Clallam County Courthouse. The gathering was one of numerous protests at National Park Service sites across the United States against staffing reductions enacted by the Trump administration to reduce government expenditures. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Demonstration for parks

Portions of a crowd of more than 300 people hold signs and sing songs in support of fired national park and forest service employees during… Continue reading

Portions of a crowd of more than 300 people hold signs and sing songs in support of fired national park and forest service employees during a Saturday protest at the Conrad Dyar Memorial Fountain and surrounding areas along Front Street in Port Angeles. The assembly later marched through downtown streets, regrouping at the Clallam County Courthouse. The gathering was one of numerous protests at National Park Service sites across the United States against staffing reductions enacted by the Trump administration to reduce government expenditures. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Forks administrators share State of City

Annual address highlights finances, public safety, planning

PDC to look into Sequim letter

Complaint: Support for schools broke law

Weekly flight operations scheduled

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

Port Angeles police officers and firefighters responded Friday after a car when into a building in the 600 block of East Front Street. Traffic was disrupted until the vehicle could be cleared from the scene, police said. (Port Angeles Police Department)
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Car goes into building

Port Angeles police officers and firefighters responded Friday after a car when into a building in the 600 block of East Front Street. Traffic was… Continue reading

Port Angeles police officers and firefighters responded Friday after a car when into a building in the 600 block of East Front Street. Traffic was disrupted until the vehicle could be cleared from the scene, police said. (Port Angeles Police Department)

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

Breakfast meetings with networking and educational programs are held at 7:30 a.m. Tuesdays at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 Del Guzzi… Continue reading

EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Commissioners to consider letter for Field Hall funds

Meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula

Hazel Galloway, a recently laid-off science communications specialist with the National Park Service, center, is flanked by Andy Marquez, a marine science student assisting Olympic National Park, left, and Mari Johnson, a supervisor with ONP partner Washington Conservation Corps during a protest at The Gateway in Port Angeles against the Trump administration’s downsizing of the NPS workforce. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Federal layoffs impact local lands

Five Olympic National Park employees let go, three fired from Olympic National Forest

  • Mar 1, 2025
  • By Emma Maple and Elijah Sussman Peninsula Daily News
Hazel Galloway, a recently laid-off science communications specialist with the National Park Service, center, is flanked by Andy Marquez, a marine science student assisting Olympic National Park, left, and Mari Johnson, a supervisor with ONP partner Washington Conservation Corps during a protest at The Gateway in Port Angeles against the Trump administration’s downsizing of the NPS workforce. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Sonja Elofson of Port Angeles examines a table of auction items during Friday’s “Red, Set Go!” heart healthy luncheon at Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles. The event, hosted by the Olympic Medical Center Foundation and presented by Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, was designed to raise funds for the Olympic Medical Center Heart Center. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Fundraising luncheon

Sonja Elofson of Port Angeles examines a table of auction items during Friday’s “Red, Set Go!” heart healthy luncheon at Vern Burton Community Center in… Continue reading

Sonja Elofson of Port Angeles examines a table of auction items during Friday’s “Red, Set Go!” heart healthy luncheon at Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles. The event, hosted by the Olympic Medical Center Foundation and presented by Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, was designed to raise funds for the Olympic Medical Center Heart Center. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Nominations open for Community Service awards

Forms due March 25; event scheduled for May 1

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Sammi Bates, an animal care specialist with the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society, takes her dog, Farley, from a kennel on Thursday as a dry run for the acceptance of shelter canines in the organization’s Crow Bark House beginning this weekend. The society closed the dog shelter last April because of high operating costs, resulting in a reorganization of OPHS staffing and leadership. The Bark House will begin accepting stray and surrendered animals, by appointment, starting on Saturday with a low-key public open house from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Bark House to reopen

Sammi Bates, an animal care specialist with the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society, takes her dog, Farley, from a kennel on Thursday as a dry run… Continue reading

Sammi Bates, an animal care specialist with the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society, takes her dog, Farley, from a kennel on Thursday as a dry run for the acceptance of shelter canines in the organization’s Crow Bark House beginning this weekend. The society closed the dog shelter last April because of high operating costs, resulting in a reorganization of OPHS staffing and leadership. The Bark House will begin accepting stray and surrendered animals, by appointment, starting on Saturday with a low-key public open house from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)