Daily Update Newsletter

Sequim Police Officer Stephanie Benes readies her 2016 Ford Interceptor for duty on April 11, at the Sequim Civic Center. City staff plans to buy three newer models this year bringing the Sequim Police Department’s total to 10 Interceptors. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

Sequim to replace police vehicles

The Sequim Police Department continues to change out its fleet. The department’s Ford Crown Victorias are… Continue reading

Sequim Police Officer Stephanie Benes readies her 2016 Ford Interceptor for duty on April 11, at the Sequim Civic Center. City staff plans to buy three newer models this year bringing the Sequim Police Department’s total to 10 Interceptors. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

BirdFest-BirdQuest winners announced

Garry Bullock won the grand prize of a plane ride from Sequim to Port Townsend in the BirdFest-BirdQuest game held in conjunction with… Continue reading

Creation tales to be spun at Story Swap

Creation stories are all around us — and now, Cherie Trebon believes, is the time to tell them. Trebon, one of this… Continue reading

Ensemble Electra to perform in Port Angeles on Tuesday

Ensemble Electra to perform in Port Angeles on Tuesday

The rich sounds of the recorder, violin and harpsichord will fill Maier Performance Hall at 7 p.m. Tuesday when Peninsula College’s Maier… Continue reading

Ensemble Electra to perform in Port Angeles on Tuesday
Powers, Rivers make return to Music Live with Lunch

Powers, Rivers make return to Music Live with Lunch

Violinist Kate Powers will return to Music Live with Lunch on Tuesday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave. Tickets are… Continue reading

Powers, Rivers make return to Music Live with Lunch
TRACK: Forks boys, PA girls rule at Forks Lions Club meet

TRACK: Forks boys, PA girls rule at Forks Lions Club meet

Forks’ Cole Baysinger and Neah Bay’s Cameron Buzzell put on dominant performances at the Forks Lions Club Invitational track meet as the Spartan… Continue reading

TRACK: Forks boys, PA girls rule at Forks Lions Club meet

EYE ON JEFFERSON: Hearing set on Port Townsend tourist home applications moratorium

The Port Townsend City Council will conduct a public hearing on a moratorium of tourist home applications when it meets Monday. The meeting will begin… Continue reading

Diabetics, young and young at heart, seek local options for care

Diabetics, young and young at heart, seek local options for care

Physicians say specialists like endocrinologists hard to come by in rural areas

Diabetics, young and young at heart, seek local options for care
Saving the hemlock: Peninsula experiment could help dying trees on the East Coast

Saving the hemlock: Peninsula experiment could help dying trees on the East Coast

Researchers are looking to western hemlock trees on the Miller Peninsula east of Sequim to collect data that could help save hemlock trees… Continue reading

Saving the hemlock: Peninsula experiment could help dying trees on the East Coast
Port Angeles pastor to undertake 1,300-mile trek to raise money for orphans, widows

Port Angeles pastor to undertake 1,300-mile trek to raise money for orphans, widows

A Port Angeles pastor plans to bike, kayak and run 1,300 miles around Washington state, praying and raising funds for orphans and… Continue reading

Port Angeles pastor to undertake 1,300-mile trek to raise money for orphans, widows

Car hitting pole cuts power on West End

About 3,300 West End customers lost power for about four hours Friday after a vehicle sheared off a power pole along U.S. Highway… Continue reading

Easter egg hunts continue cracking open today across Peninsula

Easter egg hunts continue cracking open today across Peninsula

Children collected brightly colored eggs, candy and prizes during Easter egg hunts on the North Olympic Peninsula on Saturday. But the fun isn’t over. More… Continue reading

Easter egg hunts continue cracking open today across Peninsula

Victim identified from fatal wreck on U.S. 101 near Bear Creek

The State Patrol has identified the victim of a fatal wreck Thursday on U.S. Highway 101 near Bear Creek. The State Patrol identified… Continue reading

OUTDOORS: A peek at summer and fall river salmon fishing

ENJOY WHILING AWAY a warm fall day fishing on the Quillayute River system? Congratulations, as recreational anglers will have a much improved season this fall,… Continue reading

EYE ON CLALLAM: County to revisit B&B ordinance

Clallam County commissioners will discuss revisions to a proposal to regulate vacation rental and bed-and-breakfast inns Monday. The work session will begin at 9 a.m.… Continue reading

WRESTLING: Forks’ Lucas is All-Peninsula MVP

WRESTLING: Forks’ Lucas is All-Peninsula MVP

In 2016, Forks’ Josue Lucas finished eighth in the 106-pound Class 1A bracket at Mat Classic, the state wrestling meet. That’s pretty good,… Continue reading

WRESTLING: Forks’ Lucas is All-Peninsula MVP

Forks couple indicted on federal charges; both charged with conspiracy of encouraging and inducing an alien to enter U.S., forced labor

A Forks-area couple has been indicted on federal charges of holding a Guatemalan woman against her will, abusing her and forcing her to… Continue reading

Dog team searches Sol Duc area for missing hiker

Dog team searches Sol Duc area for missing hiker

A dog team was scheduled to search the west side of the Sol Duc River on Thursday evening, a week after… Continue reading

Dog team searches Sol Duc area for missing hiker
Tim Cournyer

Forks Community Hospital CEO says health care changes coming

Health care delivery is going to change, according to Tim Cournyer, Forks Community Hospital CEO. “Health… Continue reading

Tim Cournyer
Application deadine Saturday for June’s long-distance Race to Alaska

Application deadine Saturday for June’s long-distance Race to Alaska

Call R2AK the Iditarod with a chance of drowning. That’s how the third annual 750-mile nonmotorized Race to Alaska, hosted by the… Continue reading

Application deadine Saturday for June’s long-distance Race to Alaska