Daily Update Newsletter

Jefferson County, YMCA partner with volunteers to build skate park

Agencies could break ground this summer in Quilcene

Peninsula Behavioral Health is bracing for Medicaid cuts

CEO: Program funds 85 percent of costs

Kathy Moses of Port Angeles hammers in stakes that will be used to support a cover for strawberry starts and other plants in her plot in the Fifth Street Community Garden in Port Angeles. Moses was working in a light rain during Thursday’s gardening endeavor. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Plant protection

Kathy Moses of Port Angeles hammers in stakes that will be used to support a cover for strawberry starts and other plants in her plot… Continue reading

Kathy Moses of Port Angeles hammers in stakes that will be used to support a cover for strawberry starts and other plants in her plot in the Fifth Street Community Garden in Port Angeles. Moses was working in a light rain during Thursday’s gardening endeavor. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Port of Port Angeles is seeking grant dollars for airport

Funding would support hangars, taxiway repair

Rhododendron Festival parade set for Saturday

The annual Rhody Festival, music performances and a plant sale highlight weekend events on the North Olympic Peninsula. • The 90th Rhododendron Festival will continue… Continue reading

Seasonal restrictions upcoming for Hood Canal Bridge

The state Department of Transportation has announced upcoming restrictions on openings of the Hood Canal Bridge. Beginning Thursday and continuing through Sept. 30,… Continue reading

Volunteer Pam Scott dresses the part as she sells ducks for the Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby at the Sequim Farmers and Artisans Market on Saturday. (Leah Leach/for Peninsula Daily News)

Tickets still available for annual Duck Derby

Let us introduce you to the woman in the duck suit. Pam Scott will be the woman inside the “big old fat… Continue reading

Volunteer Pam Scott dresses the part as she sells ducks for the Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby at the Sequim Farmers and Artisans Market on Saturday. (Leah Leach/for Peninsula Daily News)
Gemma Rowland and Peninsula College women’s soccer coach Kanyon Anderson celebrate after Rowland was honored with the Wally Sigmar award for soccer. The award is given to those who exemplify leadership, athleticism, academics and citizenship. (Peninsula College Athletics)

PENINSULA COLLEGE: Pirates honor athletic award winners at year-end ceremony

Peninsula College Athletics celebrated its 2024-25 academic year accomplishments by handing out athletic awards to outstanding student-athletes Wednesday afternoon in the Pirate… Continue reading

Gemma Rowland and Peninsula College women’s soccer coach Kanyon Anderson celebrate after Rowland was honored with the Wally Sigmar award for soccer. The award is given to those who exemplify leadership, athleticism, academics and citizenship. (Peninsula College Athletics)
The Cedars at Dungeness Men’s Club member Michael “Burch” Burchard aced the par-3 No. 8 hole from 100 yards with his pitching wedge on Monday. It was his first career hole-in-one. (The Cedars at Dungeness)

AREA SPORTS: Cedars member Burchard collects first hole-in-one

Port Angeles Basketball Summer Camp July 21-24

The Cedars at Dungeness Men’s Club member Michael “Burch” Burchard aced the par-3 No. 8 hole from 100 yards with his pitching wedge on Monday. It was his first career hole-in-one. (The Cedars at Dungeness)
A Clallam County Public Utilities District worker trims sycamore trees on East Washington Street near the Bell Creek Plaza shopping complex in Sequim on Wednesday as part of an effort to clear branches that may interfere with nearby power lines. The clearing helps pave the way for eventual maintenance on the PUD lines. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Clearing the line

A Clallam County Public Utilities District worker trims sycamore trees on East Washington Street near the Bell Creek Plaza shopping complex in Sequim on Wednesday… Continue reading

A Clallam County Public Utilities District worker trims sycamore trees on East Washington Street near the Bell Creek Plaza shopping complex in Sequim on Wednesday as part of an effort to clear branches that may interfere with nearby power lines. The clearing helps pave the way for eventual maintenance on the PUD lines. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Funding cuts to hit WSU extensions

Local food purchase program most impacted

Jefferson County library to host preparedness discussion

Talk to cover water systems, food resiliency

Kaylee Oldemeyer, a second-year nursing student, is among those selling tickets for the Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby this Sunday. (Leah Leach/for Peninsula Daily News)

Peninsula College nursing program students selling ducks for annual derby

Olympic Medical Center Foundation to give proceeds for scholarships

Kaylee Oldemeyer, a second-year nursing student, is among those selling tickets for the Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby this Sunday. (Leah Leach/for Peninsula Daily News)
Author Caroline Fraser, whose book, “Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder,” won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for biography, is speaking at today’s Studium Generale at Peninsula College. She will talk about Wilder as well as her latest book, “Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers.” (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

Pulitzer Prize-winning author to speak in Port Angeles

Caroline Fraser featured as Writer-in-Residence at Peninsula College

Author Caroline Fraser, whose book, “Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder,” won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for biography, is speaking at today’s Studium Generale at Peninsula College. She will talk about Wilder as well as her latest book, “Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers.” (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)
Port Angeles Roughriders.

PREP BASEBALL: Roughriders hang on tight to beat Steilacoom

The Port Angeles baseball team is one victory away from an automatic bid to the 2A state tournament after holding off a seventh-inning… Continue reading

Port Angeles Roughriders.

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Registration extended for Rhody Run; NOBAS seeks volunteers

The registration has been extended to 8 p.m. Saturday for Sunday’s running of the Jefferson Healthcare 5K/10K Rhody Run in Port Townsend.… Continue reading

The Port Angeles boys golf team members who qualified for either district or state. From left, Noah Myers, Sky Gelder, Kolby Charles, Austin Worthington and Cale Wentz. Worthington and Wentz will be moving on to play in the state tournament next week, joined by three Port Angeles girls and three golfers from Sequim. (Bob Anderson)

DISTRICT GOLF: Eight Olympic Peninsula golfers moving on to state

Port Angeles’ Austin Worthington and Sequim’s Adrian Aragon qualified to move on the state 2A tournament, while Port Angeles girls Claire Osterberg and… Continue reading

The Port Angeles boys golf team members who qualified for either district or state. From left, Noah Myers, Sky Gelder, Kolby Charles, Austin Worthington and Cale Wentz. Worthington and Wentz will be moving on to play in the state tournament next week, joined by three Port Angeles girls and three golfers from Sequim. (Bob Anderson)

PREP SOCCER: Tough night for Olympic Peninsula teams as Port Angeles, Sequim and Forks all fall

Sequim plays home playoff Thursday at PC

PREP SOFTBALL: Port Angeles a No. 1 seed at district; Sequim qualifies for tournament

The Olympic League champion Port Angeles softball team knows its district opponent Saturday, while Sequim made the district tournament as a No. 12 seed.… Continue reading

Peninsula College writer in residence to speak at Studium Generale

Caroline Fraser, a Peninsula College writer-in-residence, will speak during Studium Generale at 12:35 p.m. Thursday. The presentation will be in the Little… Continue reading