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Dental care for children and adults without insurance or with Apple Health (Medicaid) coverage is available this week and next week at the… Continue reading

Trailer rolls over, impedes traffic for four hours on U.S. Highway 101

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Landon Seibel 7 RBIs in one game

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Free tennis camp; Hillclimb returns to Deer Creek Road

There will be a free tennis camp for boys attending Port Angeles High School from July 5-8, hosted by high school head… Continue reading

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Arson, crash incident two-county case

Gas station employee puts out spreading fire

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Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News Forks' Trey Baysinger (40) was named the Most Valuable Player of the boys basketball 2B Pacific League last week.

BOYS BASKETBALL: Forks’ Baysinger named Pacific League MVP

Forks’ Trey Baysinger capped off his senior season for the Spartans by being named the Pacific League boys’ basketball MVP. Baysinger led the… Continue reading

Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News Forks' Trey Baysinger (40) was named the Most Valuable Player of the boys basketball 2B Pacific League last week.
Tia Berson, left, and Chloe Mandeville take a selfie just before their march onto the field at Crescent High School for graduation ceremonies Saturday afternoon. There were 12 members of Crescent's Class of 2021: Katelyn Baar, Brendan Bergstrom, Tia Berson, James Bruch, Ashley Girard, Lael Harris, Justin Irving, Zach Irving, Darren Lee, Chloe Mandeville, Wyatt Mattix and Colton O’Neel. There was no designated valedictorian this year. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Clallam County graduates: Oh, the places they’ll go

Tia Berson, left, and Chloe Mandeville take a selfie just before their march onto the field at Crescent High School for graduation ceremonies Saturday afternoon.… Continue reading

Tia Berson, left, and Chloe Mandeville take a selfie just before their march onto the field at Crescent High School for graduation ceremonies Saturday afternoon. There were 12 members of Crescent's Class of 2021: Katelyn Baar, Brendan Bergstrom, Tia Berson, James Bruch, Ashley Girard, Lael Harris, Justin Irving, Zach Irving, Darren Lee, Chloe Mandeville, Wyatt Mattix and Colton O’Neel. There was no designated valedictorian this year. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Mortar board art display on Chimacum graduating seniors during a ceremony at Memorial Field on Saturday in Port Townsend.
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Jefferson County seniors 2021: Oh, they places they’ll go

Chimacum graduating seniors display their creative side with mortar board art display during a commencement ceremony at Memorial Field in Port Townsend on Saturday. Chimacum… Continue reading

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Mortar board art display on Chimacum graduating seniors during a ceremony at Memorial Field on Saturday in Port Townsend.
Gone with the Wind, with a Port Angeles crew, arrived first in the Performance Handicap Racing Fleet (PHRF) B class in the Pacific Northwest Offshore Yacht Race. (Rebecca Close)

Peninsula team first in its class in yacht race

Port Angeles hosts awards ceremony after 193-mile route

Gone with the Wind, with a Port Angeles crew, arrived first in the Performance Handicap Racing Fleet (PHRF) B class in the Pacific Northwest Offshore Yacht Race. (Rebecca Close)
The heavy-lift vessel Zhen Hua, loaded with massive tower cranes and bound for the Port of Seattle, passes by the city of Port Townsend in the early Sunday morning. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Towering above the sea

The heavy-lift vessel Zhen Hua, loaded with massive tower cranes and bound for the Port of Seattle, passes by the city of Port Townsend in… Continue reading

The heavy-lift vessel Zhen Hua, loaded with massive tower cranes and bound for the Port of Seattle, passes by the city of Port Townsend in the early Sunday morning. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Officials going from pandemic to endemic

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LEFTIES: Port Angeles snaps losing streak with 5-1 win over Sweets

The Lefties snapped a four-game losing streak with an outstanding pitching effort from a trio of hurlers and getting clutch runs late… Continue reading

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Photo courtesy of WDFW Crabbing season returns to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Admiralty Inlet and most of the Hood Canal beginning July 1.

OUTDOORS: Crab seasons and proposed extra halibut days announced

Crab seasons in most areas of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and, Admiralty Inlet and Hood Canal will begin July 1. The… Continue reading

Photo courtesy of WDFW Crabbing season returns to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Admiralty Inlet and most of the Hood Canal beginning July 1.
Keith Thorpe/Peninsua Daily News A pair of vacant building pads, once surrounded by fencing, stand next to an unoccupied building on Front Street near Lincoln Street at the entry to downtown Port Angeles.

Fence blocking panhandlers removed

Buyer in the wings for parcel

Keith Thorpe/Peninsua Daily News A pair of vacant building pads, once surrounded by fencing, stand next to an unoccupied building on Front Street near Lincoln Street at the entry to downtown Port Angeles.

A GROWING CONCERN: Summer means mow chores to do

WELL, WE ARE close … today is Day 3 of late late-spring, and next Monday, June 21, is the beginning of summer! In theory, that… Continue reading

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Carver Jeff Eshom uses a gas torch on Thursday to burn sections of a wood sculpture his is creating at the site of the new Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles.

Carvings enliven Dream Playground

Felled trees provide stumps for creativity

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Carver Jeff Eshom uses a gas torch on Thursday to burn sections of a wood sculpture his is creating at the site of the new Dream Playground at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles.
Port Townsend artist Jonah Trople sculpted the city's Creative District "art markers" from local fir. The wayfinding markers will be cause for celebration at five sites around town this Tuesday at 5:15 p.m. photo courtesy PT Main Street Program

Creative District markers invite discovery in Port Townsend

Celebration scheduled Tuesday

Port Townsend artist Jonah Trople sculpted the city's Creative District "art markers" from local fir. The wayfinding markers will be cause for celebration at five sites around town this Tuesday at 5:15 p.m. photo courtesy PT Main Street Program
There have been a number of break-ins and burglaries recently in the Forks area. The Forks police Dept and the Clallam County Sheriffs office would have the details. I know there were occurrences in Valley View and Terra Eden areas around Forks last night and also and burglary at the Smokehouse Restaurant which has been hit twice. There was also a recent report of trespassers on Trout Avenue north of Forks a few days ago. Lonnie. image 31=I took this photo this morning outside the Smokehouse restaurant in Forks where Clallam County Sherriff Sergeant Brian King (left) and City of Forks police officer Mike Gentry examine the grounds for clues to the break in. Note the liquor bottle. Liquor was stolen but I don't know if this bottle was part of the robbery or not. Only the police could tell you. Lonnie.

Forks pays $333,000 to family of man shot, killed by police

The City of Forks has paid $333,000 to settle a civil-rights lawsuit filed by relatives of… Continue reading

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There have been a number of break-ins and burglaries recently in the Forks area. The Forks police Dept and the Clallam County Sheriffs office would have the details. I know there were occurrences in Valley View and Terra Eden areas around Forks last night and also and burglary at the Smokehouse Restaurant which has been hit twice. There was also a recent report of trespassers on Trout Avenue north of Forks a few days ago. Lonnie. image 31=I took this photo this morning outside the Smokehouse restaurant in Forks where Clallam County Sherriff Sergeant Brian King (left) and City of Forks police officer Mike Gentry examine the grounds for clues to the break in. Note the liquor bottle. Liquor was stolen but I don't know if this bottle was part of the robbery or not. Only the police could tell you. Lonnie.
Sequim and Port Angeles high school equestrian teams take a break at the Washington High School Equestrian Team District 4's third and final meet in Elma before state finals. They are bottom row, from left, Haley Bishop (PA), Katie Marchant (PA), Libby Swanberg (S), Keri Tucker (S), Sydney Hutton (PA), Abby Garcia (S), Sara Holland (PA) and Amelia Kinney (PA); top row, from left, Susannah Sharp (S) and Rainey Bronsink (S). (Photo courtesy of Katie Newton)

HORSEPLAY: Port Angeles, Sequim equestrians ready to head to state finals

SEQUIM AND PORT Angeles high school equestrian teams did an outstanding job at the third and final state high school Equestrian District 4 meet of… Continue reading

Sequim and Port Angeles high school equestrian teams take a break at the Washington High School Equestrian Team District 4's third and final meet in Elma before state finals. They are bottom row, from left, Haley Bishop (PA), Katie Marchant (PA), Libby Swanberg (S), Keri Tucker (S), Sydney Hutton (PA), Abby Garcia (S), Sara Holland (PA) and Amelia Kinney (PA); top row, from left, Susannah Sharp (S) and Rainey Bronsink (S). (Photo courtesy of Katie Newton)