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Matthew Cays

Sequim Skate Park loaner helmets gone, but not for long

SEQUIM — An Eagle Scout project creating an outdoor cabinet to store safety helmets on loan at Sequim Skate Park is more than an air-riding… Continue reading

Matthew Cays

Practice makes perfect: A story of emergency responders, their dogs and a disaster drill [**Video**]

CARLSBORG — Emergency responders were pulled through tight underground pipes. Disaster search dogs rappelled on ropes. Such unusual exercises happened during disaster training Tuesday for… Continue reading

Practice makes perfect: A story of emergency responders, their dogs and a disaster drill [**Video**]

CARLSBORG — Emergency responders were pulled through tight undergroun pipes. Disaster search dogs rappelled on ropes. Such unusual exercises happened during disaster training Tuesday for… Continue reading

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife is in the process of acquiring the The 3 Crabs restaurant site to restore the Dungeness Bay shoreline at the end of Sequim-Dungeness Way. Jeff Chew/Peninsula Daily News

3 Crabs site would be razed after state buy, proposal says

DUNGENESS — The building that has long housed The 3 Crabs restaurant would be removed under a proposed state Fish and Wildlife purchase of the… Continue reading

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife is in the process of acquiring the The 3 Crabs restaurant site to restore the Dungeness Bay shoreline at the end of Sequim-Dungeness Way. Jeff Chew/Peninsula Daily News

State may acquire 3 Crabs acreage for $1 million

DUNGENESS — The more-than-50-year-old 3 Crabs restaurant could be history if a state Department of Fish and Wildlife land acquisition goes through for nearly 52… Continue reading

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Air quality chief answers biomass questions at Port Angeles market

PORT ANGELES — The executive director of the state agency responsible for regulation and enforcement of Clallam and Jefferson County's air quality made a special… Continue reading

Virginia Vadset of Sequm
Lyle Hagen

Sequim-area ranch erects 100-foot wind turbine to produce own electricity

A wind-energy turbine — the first of its kind on the North Olympic Peninsula — was erected last week, towering 100 feet over its relatively… Continue reading

Lyle Hagen
Welfare for Animals Guild leaders

WAG to raise funds to build dog ‘halfway house’ in Happy Valley

SEQUIM — A group of dog lovers with the sole purpose of rescuing abused, abandoned, lost or surrendered dogs, has launched a fundraiser to purchase… Continue reading

Welfare for Animals Guild leaders
A Marysville couple plans to get married in this hot-air balloon at the Sequim Lavender Fest in July. Crystal Stout

Not just hot air: Couple to wed in balloon over Sequim

SEQUIM — Brenda Martz and Mark Fadden will literally be floating on air when they get married July 21 during the Sequim Lavender Festival. Pending… Continue reading

A Marysville couple plans to get married in this hot-air balloon at the Sequim Lavender Fest in July. Crystal Stout
Click anywhere on map to see an enlargement. Map by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Peninsula being woven with broadband fiber lines to speed Internet in far reaches

Projects that will give Clallam and Jefferson counties a foothold in the future of high-speed Internet connectivity are expected to go online this summer, and… Continue reading

Click anywhere on map to see an enlargement. Map by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Map by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Changes in high-speed broadband coming to Peninsula

Projects that will give Clallam and Jefferson counties a foothold in the future of high-speed Internet connectivity are expected to go online this summer, and… Continue reading

Map by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Leif Whittaker is shown in this Eddie Bauer/First Ascent photo taken during his 2010 climb to the top of Mount Everest.

‘I’m so proud of him’: Leif Whittaker scales Mount Everest for second time

PORT TOWNSEND — Leif Whittaker added to his family's proud mountaineering legacy by conquering the summit of Mount Everest — a second time. The 27-year-old… Continue reading

Leif Whittaker is shown in this Eddie Bauer/First Ascent photo taken during his 2010 climb to the top of Mount Everest.

Farmer Nash Huber recovering after mountain bike fall

SEQUIM — Well-known organic farmer Nash Huber, who owns Nash’s Organic Produce, was recovering at home Saturday after suffering a broken jaw, a broken nose… Continue reading

Leif Whittaker

Port Townsend man reaches top of Everest for second time

PORT TOWNSEND — Leif Whittaker added to his family's proud mountaineering legacy by conquering the summit of Mount Everest — a second time. The 27-year-old… Continue reading

Leif Whittaker
The Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild donated $29

Sequim hospital guild donates thousands

BLYN — The Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild donated $29,660 Wednesday to Sequim's free medical clinic, Olympic Medical Center and student scholarships in medical fields. The guild,… Continue reading

The Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild donated $29

Lack of donations flashes The End to free summer movies in Sequim

SEQUIM — A shortage of private donations has forced the city to cancel the movie portion of the 2012 Music and Movies in the Park… Continue reading

Expert warns of debris deluge to come

SEQUIM — Oceanographer Curt Ebbesmeyer finds it outrageous and unbelievable that a 150-foot Japanese fishing boat carrying 2,100 of diesel fuel was found hazardously adrift… Continue reading

A sign announces the opening of the satellite visitor center in downtown Sequim. Jeff Chew/Peninsula Daily News

Sequim to get second visitor center downtown

SEQUIM ­— As a service to merchants and summer visitors, the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce is opening a satellite visitor center through September in… Continue reading

A sign announces the opening of the satellite visitor center in downtown Sequim. Jeff Chew/Peninsula Daily News
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Sequim licensing office is shut down

SEQUIM — Clallam County Auditor Patty Rosand and other county staff worked diligently to pull computer records at the Sequim Vehicle/Vessel Licensing office. Karen Shewbert,… Continue reading

In a tense
Mike Gooch

Ranch to host a day of alpaca education

HAPPY VALLEY — Mike and Linda Gooch like to think of their 17 alpacas as happy animals that produce a fine, soft fiber that can… Continue reading

Mike Gooch