Diane Urbani de la Paz

Connecting kids and the planet

SEQUIM -- You want to reconcile your family's way of life with your desire to help heal the Earth. So where do you start? With… Continue reading

More Peninsula residents’ recollections of man’s first step on the moon on July 20, 1969

In the wilderness "My wife at the time and I were living in a squatter's cabin on a sand dune behind one of the most… Continue reading

Peninsula connections to man’s first lunar landing more than memories

EDITOR'S NOTE: Today, on the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the Peninsula Daily News presents the second part of a two-part package commemorating the… Continue reading

Vive le Sequim: Lavender Festival visitors enjoy the aroma and happiness — final day today

SEQUIM -- It feels like the south of France, except she was greeted with cheers in American English, got to hang out with Dad and… Continue reading

Sequim to bloom with Lavender Fest (with printable map)

SEQUIM ­ -- This could be the year when locals from Port Townsend and Forks, Port Angeles and Chimacum rise up and rediscover: There's a… Continue reading

Sequim’s ex-city manager to begin new job

SEQUIM ­-- Bill Elliott, the Sequim city manager who received a $152,318.52 severance package after he was fired in May 2008, has been hired to… Continue reading

The buy-products of purple: Board game, wine result from Lavender Festival

SEQUIM -- The conventional wisdom: Men do not go wild over the Lavender Festival. "That is a correct statement," said Tim Kirby, who should know.… Continue reading

Tribute: Peninsula bandleader Casad loved for his jazz sounds

SEQUIM -- Peggy asked Pat to dance and stepped into a love story. It was 1991, and Peggy Heinz was watching Pat Casad waltz with… Continue reading

Jazzmen, women to join the lavender

SEQUIM ­-- It's nectar for body and mind, after a long day amid the lavender fields and fair. Jazz in the Alley, the music festival… Continue reading

Pig-headed celebrities: Performing swine troupe to visit Sequim on Thursday

SEQUIM -- If you think this town is getting a little quiet about now, get this: Four professionally performing pigs -- three stars plus a… Continue reading

Sequim council agonizes over possibility of City Hall staff cuts

SEQUIM -- For nearly four hours, seven City Council members looked into the future of Sequim, Clallam County and beyond -- and walked up to… Continue reading

Dream weavers: Artists prepare for studio tour

11Cynthia Thomas, the sculptor of this two-visaged beast, hopes you'll come to her lair and decide for yourself. Another bear, alongside the metal "Bob the… Continue reading

Woman reaches out across the globe

SEQUIM ­ -- Staci Torres hopes to pour castoff goods into a well in Africa. A six-year resident of Sequim, Torres recently learned of Life… Continue reading

Librarian turns new page in Sequim

SEQUIM -- In front of a crowd on First Street, Lauren Dahlgren turned, spun and outmaneuvered stereotypes about her profession. It was the Independence Day… Continue reading

Funding in works for Battelle tidal power research

SEQUIM -- The North Olympic Peninsula took a step closer Thursday to status as a global center for ocean energy. A unanimous vote in the… Continue reading

Falling in love with North Olympic Peninsula’s waterfalls

Tip your head back, and let all of your senses be filled. "There's a primeval feeling," beneath an Olympic Peninsula waterfall, said Lani Doely, a… Continue reading

Getting stills of waterfalls: Peninsula waterfall photo contest planned

Camera-toting waterfall fans will soon have a chance to take part in a contest. The Olympic Peninsula Visitor Bureau will hold a people's choice competition… Continue reading

Fire blamed on kids playing with matches

SEQUIM -- Youngsters playing with matches started a grass fire off Fifth Avenue north of Fir Street on Tuesday morning, Clallam County Fire District No.… Continue reading

New hotel to be conference center

SEQUIM -- To this town's palette as a retirement mecca-lavender capital-elk-stomping ground, Bret Wirta wants to add convention destination. Wirta, the Seattle developer who opened… Continue reading

Pointy patriotic pastry posted at post office in Sequim

SEQUIM -- The gingerbread foreman and forewoman are again gracing the Sequim Post Office with a sweet replica. Postal clerk Cheri Barnett, with assistance from… Continue reading