Clallam County

Construction crews will place a new overlay on West Washington Street in Sequim starting in late April from the River Road roundabout to the Ninth Avenue roundabout over about four weeks. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Washington Street overlay to begin later this month

Project begins annual effort to pave the full thoroughfare

Construction crews will place a new overlay on West Washington Street in Sequim starting in late April from the River Road roundabout to the Ninth Avenue roundabout over about four weeks. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
A building stands boarded up Monday along West Marine Drive following a seven-hour standoff Sunday in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
A building stands boarded up Monday along West Marine Drive following a seven-hour standoff Sunday in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
A donation of $38,000 from the Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild to Clallam County Fire District 3 will help purchase a ZOLL X Series monitor/defibrillator that paramedics said they use on nearly every call. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
A donation of $38,000 from the Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild to Clallam County Fire District 3 will help purchase a ZOLL X Series monitor/defibrillator that paramedics said they use on nearly every call. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Judge: Navy can’t use Washington parks for training

SEALs sought up to 28 state facilities to work cold water scenarios

Senior swing dance returns to Port Angeles Community Center

After a two-year hiatus, Cat’s Meow will perform for a swing dance from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. The weekly dances… Continue reading

Traffic waits at a temporary stoplight controlling a one-lane temporary bridge that bypasses a construction zone on U.S. Highway 101 at Indian Creek west of Port Angeles on Saturday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Temporary bridge open at Indian Creek

Alternating traffic in place on US 101 through late fall

Traffic waits at a temporary stoplight controlling a one-lane temporary bridge that bypasses a construction zone on U.S. Highway 101 at Indian Creek west of Port Angeles on Saturday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Weekly flight operations scheduled

There will be no field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Complex this week. There will… Continue reading

Jesse Major.

County employee, former reporter seeks DCD post

Code enforcement, affordable housing, planning among priorities

Jesse Major.

A GROWING CONCERN: Every brassica on the team is a winner

WELL, EVEN OUR very own Peninsula College women’s basketball team lost in overtime at the buzzer. But still, second place is nothing to sneeze at—… Continue reading

US Flag Ship Philadelphia in Port Angeles Harbor circa 1899. (Courtesy of the North Olympic History Center)

BACK WHEN: Dispatches from Olympic Peninsula’s past

SOMETIMES, THERE ARE interesting tidbits of history that are simply too small to write a column about. Here are a few: E Pluribus MOOnum Sequim… Continue reading

US Flag Ship Philadelphia in Port Angeles Harbor circa 1899. (Courtesy of the North Olympic History Center)
I like you by Susan Trisko can be seen at Blue Whole Gallery in Sequim.
I like you by Susan Trisko can be seen at Blue Whole Gallery in Sequim.

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

In-person meeting 7:30 a.m. Tuesday at Joshua’s Restaurant, 113 DelGuzzi Drive (off U.S. Highway 101) in east Port Angeles.… Continue reading

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An abandoned building at 204 E. Front Street in downtown Port Angeles sits boarded up on Friday.

PA council considers condemning structure

Long-time nuisance site of fire last weekend

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
An abandoned building at 204 E. Front Street in downtown Port Angeles sits boarded up on Friday.
T-Ball player Dominic Johnson tries for a catch during opening day of the 2022 Sequim Little League.

Sequim Little Leaguers play on opening day

Uniformed teams jog through balloons

T-Ball player Dominic Johnson tries for a catch during opening day of the 2022 Sequim Little League.

Slight climb seen in COVID-19 case numbers

Peninsula reports 37 more cases between Tuesday, Friday

Shelly Leavens, executive director of the Jefferson County Historical Society, will welcome visitors to the new "Wood" exhibition — which includes Annalise Rubida's wooden lights — during an open house this Saturday evening. The Jefferson Museum of Art & History on Water Street in Port Townsend is the venue. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
Shelly Leavens, executive director of the Jefferson County Historical Society, will welcome visitors to the new "Wood" exhibition — which includes Annalise Rubida's wooden lights — during an open house this Saturday evening. The Jefferson Museum of Art & History on Water Street in Port Townsend is the venue. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Code change targets housing crisis

Provisions made against use as short-term rentals