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Port Angeles: Downtown becomes a new gallery

BY Tristan Baurick PORT ANGELES -- The third annual "Art on the Town" streetscape project is set to unveil 30 new sculptures throughout downtown. Beginning… Continue reading

Where the field of study parallels your lunch

BY Tristan Baurick PORT ANGELES -- The Fiero Marine Life Center is offering summer science lessons to kids where geology is more than a subject… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Police buy new patrol cars from local dealership

By Tristan Baurick PORT ANGELES -- Police have bought three new Chevrolet Impalas from a local dealer to use as patrol cars. Purchased from Bill… Continue reading

Peninsula: Low snowpack may mean hot fire season

By Tristan Baurick Good news is not coming down from the mountain tops. Low snowpack and run-off levels could make for a dry summer with… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Peninsula College dedicates sports complex to Wally Sigmar

By Tristan Baurick Peninsula College's athletic complex was dedicated to Wally Sigmar on Tuesday during a ceremony that both honored and immortalized the college's late… Continue reading

PORT ANGELES: Energy workshop draws crowds

By Lee Zurcher PORT ANGELES --- The community hall at Unity in the Olympics was crowded over the weekend as people flocked to learn how… Continue reading

Not a room to spare

> By Cynthia Jones Some people were literally left out in the cold as motels across the North Olympic Peninsula were booked solid because of… Continue reading

PENINSULA: Tributes to fallen service members on Memorial Day today

> By Cynthia JOnes Pfc. Richard B. Anderson was just 22 when he grabbed a live grenade and tucked it into his midsection, saving the… Continue reading

Juan de Fuca Festival offers `rich and full” experience

> By Cynthia Jones PORT ANGELES -- The Juan de Fuca Festival of Arts makes for a rich and full experience, according to one musician… Continue reading

PORT ANGELES: Minesweepers dock at T-Pier

> BY Cynthia Jones PORT ANGELES -- Tourists boarding the two minesweepers Saturday at T-Pier were greeted by Seaman Ernesto Flores, who wore a smile… Continue reading

Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts highlights weekend

> By Nancy Rudolph Juan de Fuca Festival fever begins today and will keep going throughout the Memorial Day weekend. With more than 125 lively… Continue reading

PORT ANGELES: The Port Angeles BMX track knows how to raise money.

> BY Brian McLean The youthful BMX riders who compete on the track raised a record $9,690.50 on Sunday for the track's annual Race for… Continue reading

PORT ANGELES: Roughrider players slide through the puddles

> BY BRIAN MCLEAN PORT ANGELES -- Andrea Clapshaw and Tessa Ehrhorn couldn't resist. It rained so hard at ironically named Dry Creek Elementary School… Continue reading

FORKS: Hundreds gather at Rainfest

BY GRETCHEN HARNACK FORKS -- Artists gathered this weekend to display their works at the seventh annual Rainfest, presented by the West Olympic Council for… Continue reading

Abandoned baby returned to mother

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS AND THE CALGARY HERALD TORONTO -- A five-year-old boy found in a Calgary, Alberta, supermarket last August has been returned to his… Continue reading

REVERED PORT ANGELES COACH IN STATEWIDE HALL OF FAME

BY BRIAN MCLEAN PORT ANGELES -- Jan Urfer didn't intend on becoming a gymnastics coach when she first arrived in Port Angeles 36 years ago.… Continue reading