Clallam County

Training session set in practicing compassionate listening

Training session set in practicing compassionate listening

Joy Helmer is on a mission to create more heart-to-heart connections in the Sequim community. With recent tragedies such as the Parkland, Fla.,… Continue reading

Training session set in practicing compassionate listening

Registration open for Clallam Mosaic classes

Registration has opened for a 10-week spring program by Clallam Mosaic, a local nonprofit working to enrich, encourage and empower people with… Continue reading

Children to look high and low for Easter eggs

Children to look high and low for Easter eggs

Free community Easter egg hunts are planned this weekend on the North Olympic Peninsula in recognition of Easter, which is Sunday. Participants in the Easter… Continue reading

Children to look high and low for Easter eggs
Violist Cheryl Landry Swoboda returns to her home town of Port Angeles for a concert of Brahms, Bartok and Berlioz this Saturday, March 31.

Port Angeles Symphony concert to pair Berlioz with Brahms

A Port Angeles High School graduate who has gone on to an international career will perform with more than 70 musicians at… Continue reading

Violist Cheryl Landry Swoboda returns to her home town of Port Angeles for a concert of Brahms, Bartok and Berlioz this Saturday, March 31.

Clallam Bluebills host spring social

The deadline to reserve a seat at the upcoming Olympic Peninsula Boeing Bluebills Spring Social is Saturday. The social will honor group… Continue reading

College hosts information night in Forks

Peninsula College’s April Information Night in Forks will begin at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The program will be at the college’s Forks Campus’ commons… Continue reading

Derry to present writings at Peninsula College

Poet, Peninsula College faculty emerita and 2017 writer-in-residence Alice Derry will be reading from her newest poetry collection, “Hunger” at Studium Generale… Continue reading

International dances, a fiction-writing class, plant clinic among Peninsula attractions

International dances, a fiction writing class and a plant clinic are among the upcoming activities on the North Olympic Peninsula. Information also is available on… Continue reading

ISSUES OF FAITH: Filling a God-shaped hole

attending a university, money in my pocket, virtually no adult supervision — I felt a longing… Continue reading

LETTER: Proud to see students in gun violence protest

Kudos to Emily Menshew and the other students of Port Angeles High School. I have your photo proudly taped to the front of my fridge.… Continue reading

OTA plans auditions for ‘Leaving Iowa’

Olympic Theatre Arts in Sequim has announced open auditions for the play “Leaving Iowa,” a comedy about family vacations. Auditions will be held… Continue reading

Peninsula College plans free health, safety fair

Peninsula College Campus Safety will host a health and safety fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday. College students and the… Continue reading

Port Angeles man pleads guilty to rape of 14-year-old boy

A 47-year-old Port Angeles man pleaded guilty Thursday to the rape of a 14-year-old boy last year. Shawn Dawson, now held in… Continue reading

Port Angeles man sentenced for child molestation

Port Angeles man sentenced for child molestation

Convicted child molester Donald William Kingsley was sentenced Thursday to nearly six years in prison for a crime a bench trial found… Continue reading

Port Angeles man sentenced for child molestation
Quileute to welcome whales with ceremony today

Quileute to welcome whales with ceremony today

Former Quileute Tribal School Superintendent Leon Strom, who is credited with starting the Welcoming of the Whales ceremony in La Push, will… Continue reading

Quileute to welcome whales with ceremony today
The Sequim Community Christmas Chorus recently made a $1,500 donation to the Sequim Community Orchestra’s String Kids program.

Sequim Community Christmas Chorus makes donation to SCO String Kids Program

The Sequim Community Orchestra is the recipient of a $1,500 donation from the Sequim Community Christmas Chorus. This is the second year that… Continue reading

The Sequim Community Christmas Chorus recently made a $1,500 donation to the Sequim Community Orchestra’s String Kids program.

Young ninja training set

Olympic Nature Experience is taking registration now for a Forest Ninja Camp on Friday, April 6. The camp will be from 8:30 a.m.… Continue reading

Port Angeles elementary school wins national prize

Port Angeles elementary school wins national prize

Ask anybody at Hamilton Elementary School and they’ll all say the same thing: Hamilton Elementary is a family. That is among the… Continue reading

Port Angeles elementary school wins national prize
Port Angeles Symphony welcomes back guest artist, alumna

Port Angeles Symphony welcomes back guest artist, alumna

Seventy local musicians — plus one former local who now lives in Europe — will get together this Saturday to create something… Continue reading

Port Angeles Symphony welcomes back guest artist, alumna

Jobless rate up slightly for Clallam, Jefferson counties

North Olympic Peninsula unemployment was up slightly in February, a repeat from the previous month, state officials said. Clallam County’s jobless rate went from a… Continue reading