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Ezra Peiffer

North Olympic Peninsula rivers at historic low flows amid worsening drought

As drought conditions intensify on the North Olympic Peninsula, rivers are struggling at record-low flows, and there is no relief in sight for the near… Continue reading

Ezra Peiffer
A rare yearling piebald deer was seen at an Elwha River side channel near Hunt Road in June. — Anna Geffre/Olympic National Park

Rare piebald fawns spotted in Clallam County

PORT ANGELES — Unusual piebald blacktail deer are appearing in Clallam County, with as many as four brightly marked fawns spotted this year. A Lake… Continue reading

A rare yearling piebald deer was seen at an Elwha River side channel near Hunt Road in June. — Anna Geffre/Olympic National Park
Ezra Peiffer

North Olympic Peninsula rivers at historic low flows amid worsening drought

As drought conditions intensify on the North Olympic Peninsula, rivers are struggling at record-low flows, and there is no relief in sight for the near… Continue reading

Ezra Peiffer
Slices of blackberry pie await purchase by Joyce Daze visitors last year. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

JOYCE DAZE FESTIVAL: Blackberry pie, music, games, parade to be served at one-day festival in Joyce this Saturday

JOYCE — The blackberries for pie — plain or a la mode — are plentiful and sweet this year, ready to serve as the centerpiece… Continue reading

Slices of blackberry pie await purchase by Joyce Daze visitors last year. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Revitalize Port Angeles founder Leslie Robertson talks with Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke on Thursday in City Hall after delivering to the city banners with messages of condolence from Port Angeles residents. Angela Lewis Foster/Chattanooga Times Free Press

Chattanooga ‘moved and touched’ by sympathy from Port Angeles

By Arwyn Rice Peninsula Daily News CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Twenty banners expressing condolences to the people of Chattanooga deeply moved those who saw them when… Continue reading

Revitalize Port Angeles founder Leslie Robertson talks with Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke on Thursday in City Hall after delivering to the city banners with messages of condolence from Port Angeles residents. Angela Lewis Foster/Chattanooga Times Free Press
A rare yearling piebald deer was seen at an Elwha River side channel near Hunt Road in June. — Anna Geffre/Olympic National Park

Rare piebald fawns spotted in Clallam County

PORT ANGELES — Unusual piebald blacktail deer are appearing in Clallam County, with as many as four brightly marked fawns spotted this year. A Lake… Continue reading

A rare yearling piebald deer was seen at an Elwha River side channel near Hunt Road in June. — Anna Geffre/Olympic National Park

WEEKEND: Participants to ‘Boot Cancer’ at Relay For Life of Forks starting today

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, July 31. FORKS — Thirteen teams and 114 registered participants in Relay For Life of Forks are ready… Continue reading

Ezra Peiffer

North Olympic Peninsula rivers at historic low flows amid worsening drought

As drought conditions intensify on the North Olympic Peninsula, rivers are struggling at record-low flows, and there is no relief in sight for the near… Continue reading

Ezra Peiffer
A rare yearling piebald deer was seen at an Elwha River side channel near Hunt Road in June. — Anna Geffre/Olympic National Park

Rare piebald fawns spotted in Clallam County

PORT ANGELES — Unusual piebald blacktail deer are appearing in Clallam County, with as many as four brightly marked fawns spotted this year. A Lake… Continue reading

A rare yearling piebald deer was seen at an Elwha River side channel near Hunt Road in June. — Anna Geffre/Olympic National Park
Revitalize Port Angeles founder Leslie Robertson talks with Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke on Thursday in City Hall after delivering to the city banners with messages of condolence from Port Angeles residents. Angela Lewis Foster/Chattanooga Times Free Press

Chattanooga ‘moved and touched’ by sympathy from Port Angeles

By Arwyn Rice Peninsula Daily News CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Twenty banners expressing condolences to the people of Chattanooga deeply moved those who saw them when… Continue reading

Revitalize Port Angeles founder Leslie Robertson talks with Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke on Thursday in City Hall after delivering to the city banners with messages of condolence from Port Angeles residents. Angela Lewis Foster/Chattanooga Times Free Press
Leslie Kidwell Robertson

Revitalize Port Angeles founder to deliver sympathy banners in Chattanooga today

CHATTANOOGA — A representative of Port Angeles will formally deliver hundreds of messages of condolence to Chattanooga, Tenn., city officials at 11 a.m. today. Leslie… Continue reading

Leslie Kidwell Robertson
Leslie Kidwell Robertson

2ND UPDATE — Port Angeles booster to deliver sympathy banners in Chattanooga on Thursday

CHATTANOOGA — A representative of Port Angeles will formally deliver hundreds of messages of condolence to Chattanooga, Tenn., city officials at 11 a.m. Thursday. Leslie… Continue reading

Leslie Kidwell Robertson
Rise in car burglaries worries Port Angeles police; thieves target vehicles with valuables in plain sight

Rise in car burglaries worries Port Angeles police; thieves target vehicles with valuables in plain sight

By Arwyn Rice Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES — Police are looking for help to solve a spike in car break-ins in the Port Angeles… Continue reading

Rise in car burglaries worries Port Angeles police; thieves target vehicles with valuables in plain sight
Police officers salute as the casket with the remains of one of five service members shot to death in the July 16 attack in Chattanooga

Banners of sympathy messages from Port Angeles to Chattanooga available for last time today

PORT ANGELES — Messages of sympathy from city residents for Chattanooga, Tenn., have spilled over onto 16 banners by the end of Sunday, and today… Continue reading

Police officers salute as the casket with the remains of one of five service members shot to death in the July 16 attack in Chattanooga
Erik Spellman pauses to drink water during his swim of the length of Lake Crescent earlier this month. This photo was taken by girlfriend Megan Hart from a kayak Hart paddled to follow the swimmer from East Beach to Fairholme.

Cancer survivor warms up to Strait crossing try with swim across Lake Crescent

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — A cancer survivor is taking on the largest lakes on the Olympic Peninsula in preparation for an August swim across the… Continue reading

Erik Spellman pauses to drink water during his swim of the length of Lake Crescent earlier this month. This photo was taken by girlfriend Megan Hart from a kayak Hart paddled to follow the swimmer from East Beach to Fairholme.
Police officers salute as the casket with the remains of one of five service members shot to death in the July 16 attack in Chattanooga

Banners of sympathy messages from Port Angeles to Chattanooga available for last time Tuesday

PORT ANGELES — Messages of sympathy from city residents for Chattanooga, Tenn., have spilled over onto 16 banners by the end of Sunday, and Tuesday… Continue reading

Police officers salute as the casket with the remains of one of five service members shot to death in the July 16 attack in Chattanooga
Sequim Mayor Candace Pratt

‘Classy Bob Massey,’ KSQM radio cornerstone, dies at age 90

SEQUIM — Robert Alan Massey, celebrated this spring as the oldest active on-air radio personality in the U.S., died early Sunday morning. Massey, 90, known… Continue reading

Sequim Mayor Candace Pratt
Cindy Anderson

Long Rifles Rendezvous takes visitors back in time near Sequim with trading camp re-enactment

SEQUIM — Dozens of frontier-era re-enactors broke camp Sunday amid a midsummer downpour — a soggy but satisfying end to the Peninsula Long Rifles' 44th… Continue reading

Cindy Anderson

Report: Clallam’s measles outbreak price tag comes in at $223,223

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County's deadly outbreak of measles in February and March cost taxpayers and businesses $223,223, according to a Clallam County Health and… Continue reading

The measles virus Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Report: Clallam’s measles outbreak price tag comes in at $223,223

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County's deadly outbreak of measles in February and March cost taxpayers and businesses $223,223, according to a Clallam County Health and… Continue reading

The measles virus Centers for Disease Control and Prevention