Clallam County

Caution urged on federal lands during dry conditions

Since July 23, fire officials have responded to five fires across the North Olympic Peninsula with about 25 acres burned on federal… Continue reading

Martha Washington (Jane Ritchey) and George Washington (Vern Frykholm Jr.) meet with a young visitor at the Northwest Colonial Festival in 2019. The pair return this year today thorugh Sunday for daily visits with guests. Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group

Colonial Fest returns to George Washington Inn

Event shares takes of life during the Revolutionary War

Martha Washington (Jane Ritchey) and George Washington (Vern Frykholm Jr.) meet with a young visitor at the Northwest Colonial Festival in 2019. The pair return this year today thorugh Sunday for daily visits with guests. Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group
A sign at the entrance to Air Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles on Ediz Hook is shown Wednesday after it had been set afire. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Hate crime and arson suspected

Port Angeles deputy police chief: Could have been prevented

A sign at the entrance to Air Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles on Ediz Hook is shown Wednesday after it had been set afire. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Siblings Sequoia Mitchell, 9, and Coco Mitchell, 6, both of Sequim, attempt to catch tadpoles in a side channel of the Dungeness River at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim on Tuesday. A spell of hot weather forecast for the next several days will likely send many people on the North Olympic Peninsula seeking heat relief near the water. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Heat wave hitting Peninsula

Area not expected to bake with temperatures like June

Siblings Sequoia Mitchell, 9, and Coco Mitchell, 6, both of Sequim, attempt to catch tadpoles in a side channel of the Dungeness River at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim on Tuesday. A spell of hot weather forecast for the next several days will likely send many people on the North Olympic Peninsula seeking heat relief near the water. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Soroptimists to meet Friday in Port Angeles

Mark Lorentzen will address a meeting of Soroptimist International of Port Angeles at noon Friday. The public is invited to attend the… Continue reading

Woman airlifted from Olympic National Park

A 24-year-old woman was airlifted Wednesday from Grand Valley off Obstruction Point Road because of possible heat-related illness. Two rangers had… Continue reading

Emergency alert test set Wednesday morning

The nation’s public alert system will be tested at 11:20 a.m. today. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will… Continue reading

Jeremy Denk, a MacArthur “genius” grant winner, is among the guest artists at this month’s Music on the Strait festival. His performances will be available for free via live streaming. (Photo courtesy of Music on the Strait)

Festival is live, online, indoors, outdoors

Six concerts set for hall in Port Angeles, farm in Quilcene

Jeremy Denk, a MacArthur “genius” grant winner, is among the guest artists at this month’s Music on the Strait festival. His performances will be available for free via live streaming. (Photo courtesy of Music on the Strait)

Free outdoor concerts presented this week

Free outdoor concerts continue this week on the North Olympic Peninsula. Today at 6 p.m., Backwoods Hucksters will perform Americana and blues during the Port… Continue reading

Laurel Moulton, program coordinator for the Clallam County Master Gardeners, will bring the hour-long Green Thumb Education Series lectures to Zoom on Thursday.

Green Thumbs series session set for Thursday

Secret lives of garden’s insects described

Laurel Moulton, program coordinator for the Clallam County Master Gardeners, will bring the hour-long Green Thumb Education Series lectures to Zoom on Thursday.

Port Angeles woman accused of shooting man in his home

Charges possible at hearing today

Woman sheds clothes, ransacks restaurant

Competency review set for Friday

Olympic Peninsula hospital staffs to be vaccinated

COVID-19 case numbers continue to climb

Steven Raider Ginsburg, the new executive director of the Field Arts and Events Center in downtown Port Angeles, was introduced Sunday night during the Pillars of the Community fundraiser. The center, which has cost $30 million, needs an additional $10 million before it can be completed, project manager Chris Fidler said. Once the work restarts, Fidler said it will take about eight months to complete. (Scott Gardinier/Peninsula Daily News)
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Field Hall introduction

By Scott Gardinier Peninsula Daily News Steven Raider Ginsburg, the new executive director of the Field Arts and Events Center in downtown Port Angeles, was… Continue reading

Steven Raider Ginsburg, the new executive director of the Field Arts and Events Center in downtown Port Angeles, was introduced Sunday night during the Pillars of the Community fundraiser. The center, which has cost $30 million, needs an additional $10 million before it can be completed, project manager Chris Fidler said. Once the work restarts, Fidler said it will take about eight months to complete. (Scott Gardinier/Peninsula Daily News)

County commissioners review responses on charter proposals

Report to committee expected to be finalized next month

Donkey farm topic of Clallam Conservation District presentation

The Clallam Conservation District will present “Equine Farm Tour: Mud, Manure & Native Plants” at 11 a.m. Thursday. The free tour will… Continue reading

Friends of the Sequim Library book sale Saturday

The Friends of the Sequim Library will conduct a book sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The sale is at the… Continue reading

Rear-end collision on US Highway 101 sends Sequim woman to hospital

A Sequim woman was injured when the car she was driving was rear-ended by a pickup on U.S. Highway 101 east of Sequim… Continue reading

Port Townsend eighth-grader Peter Sanok, top, plays the title role in “Timon of Athens,” the movie to screen this week at Chimacum’s Finnriver Farm & Cidery. Costarring are, from left, eighth-graders Auden Darrock and Anna Munn and seventh-grader Sierra Douglas. (Photo by Maggie Kelley)

Students act in 90-minute Shakespeare film

Show to be played Wednesday, Thursday

Port Townsend eighth-grader Peter Sanok, top, plays the title role in “Timon of Athens,” the movie to screen this week at Chimacum’s Finnriver Farm & Cidery. Costarring are, from left, eighth-graders Auden Darrock and Anna Munn and seventh-grader Sierra Douglas. (Photo by Maggie Kelley)

Woman’s death 18th in Clallam

Peninsula counties break records