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Sisters Jasmine Kirchan, left, and Shawnta Henry and their mom Nicole Kirchan all work at the Sequim Boys & Girls Club. After work on Feb. 26, they all helped save the life of a man in front of Walmart.

Sequim woman uses CPR training to save man outside Walmart

She credits training to Boys Girls Club, fire district

The 104-lot Bell Creek Major Subdivision and 24-lot Bella Vista Estates recently were approved by Sequim Hearing Examiner Peregrin Sorter. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Hearing examiner approves 2 projects

Developments could add 128 homes in Sequim

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This year’s Honored Pioneers for the 130th Sequim Irrigation Festival, include, from left, Hazel Messenger Lowe, Tim Wheeler, Betty Ellis Kettel and Janet Ellis Duncan.

Honored Pioneers chosen for 130th Irrigation Festival

Four selected to participate in events

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Violet Morris, 9, of Port Angeles climbs on "The Rocktopus," a steel, rock and masonry sculpture on Friday  at Port Angeles City Pier. The sculpture was originally designed by artist Oliver Strong as a topiary creation, but was later reworked with stone and mortar by artist Maureen Wall with support from Soroptimist International Port Angeles Jet Set, the City of Port Angeles and the Girl Scouts.

Tentacle tango

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Suspect arraigned on scam charges

Reportedly involved in three additional schemes

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2024 timber revenue shows Jefferson below average, Clallam on par

DNR timber delay could impact 2025 timber revenue

Peter Harrison with Southern Royal Albatross on Campbell Island, New Zealand. (Photo credit Shirley Metz) 

Seabird expert speaking at Fort Worden

Albatrosses largest, longest-living and best traveled birds

A Quillayute Valley Scholarship Auction one-day record was set on Saturday with $75,000 and an all-time record with auction items and cash donations totaled $218,002. The funds raised will go to Forks High School graduates for college and trade school scholarships. Forks High School class of 2025 seniors, in the yellow shirts, mill about the crowd, showing off auction items. Guest auctioneer Elliott Mann takes bids from the audience. Almost 900 items were auctioned during the two-day event. (Christi Baron/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

New records set

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Mary Ann Dangman of Sequim reads a plant description at a vendor booth for One Earth Botanical of Camas at the 26th annual Soroptimist Gala Garden Show at the Sequim Boys & Girls Club. The event on Saturday featured numerous display and vendor booths devoted to plants, gardening and outdoor activities, as well as a slate of guest speakers and workshops. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Garden show

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U.S. Rep. Emily Randall, D-Bremerton, speaks about current issues during a town hall meeting on Saturday in the Little Theater at Peninsula College in Port Angeles. Several hundred people attended, including an overflow audience in the Pirate Union Building. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Town hall

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Suspect arraigned on scam charges

Reportedly involved in three additional schemes

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EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

Breakfast meetings with networking and educational programs are held Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m. at Continue reading...

 

Todd Ortloff Show guests this week

Here is this week’s schedule for the 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Todd Ortloff Show on KONP Continue reading...

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PAT NEAL: The life list

BIRD WATCHING IS my life. Some of my best bird-watching has been done with a chainsaw. Considered unethical by the Continue reading...