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Wed, Apr 22, 2009

Clallam County Fire District No. 5 Fire Chief Bob Wilson will be remembered for his tireless efforts to get improved communications equipment for firefighters in both Clallam and Jefferson counties.

Sequim Speaks its piece Thursday

Sequim-Dungeness Valley residents will have their first opportunity this week to participate in a new advisory committee designed to keep residents connected with their government.

Sequim residents help clean coast

More than 22 tons of waste, from plastic water bottles and household trash to lost fishing gear, disappeared from Washington state's coastline last weekend.

Sequim exchange students chosen

Twelve Sequim Middle School students have been selected to represent their families, the Sequim School District and the Sequim community in the fall 2009 educational exchange with Sequim's sister city, Shiso, Japan.

Sequim Christians coalesced for an interdenominational Holy Week

Guest Opinion, Carol Kindt

School cuts loom large

The cuts are coming. The only questions are where and how deep.

School Briefs

Public health workers keep food, water and people safe from harm

Guest Opinion

Practice burn offers 'live' experience

Once you realized it wasn't anyone's home, Saturday morning's practice burn by Clallam County Fire District No. 3 was a fascinating spectacle.

Police blotter

Planning starts for Sequim's centennial

It may be April 2009, but 2013 will be here before you know it, so planning is getting under way for Sequim's 100th birthday celebration.

Peninsula health providers prepare for bridge shutdown

With fewer than 10 days remaining before the six-week Hood Canal bridge closure, local health care advocates are telling Olympic Peninsula residents help is only a phone call away.

Peninsula College celebrates First Amendment with discussions and lectures April 29-30

Peninsula College's journalism department is celebrating First Amendment Week with special events on the college campus April 29-30. The events are free and open to community residents.

Park invites youths to junior ranger day

Children of all ages are invited to bring their favorite adult and come to the National Junior Ranger Day celebration anytime between 10 a.m.-

ONP sets Junior Ranger Day events

Children of all ages are invited to bring their favorite adult and come to the National Junior Ranger Day celebration, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at the Olympic National Park Visitor Center, 3002 Mount Angeles Road, Port Angeles.

Olympic Theatre Arts nears a fundraising grand finale

Olympic Theatre Arts opened its "curtains" this past week to reveal a new campaign, "$100,000 in 100 Days."

Officers arrest 2 for drugs

Detectives from the Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team and Sequim Police officers arrested two Sequim residents April 14 as a result of investigations into methamphetamine in and near the Sequim area.

News Briefs

Meetings Calendar

Local women run marathon for hero

She had the running gear, the appropriate training and a qualifying time to enter the Boston, the nation's premier marathon.

Letters to the editor

Hard lesson leads to gratitude

Good Grief

Earth Day comes early to community garden

Sequim Mayor Laura Dubois and other city volunteers celebrated Earth Day 2009 a few days early on Saturday as they prepared a plot at the Community Organic Garden of Sequim.

Cruise ship to call at Port Angeles

On May 7, the 1,250-passenger cruise ship Statendam of Holland America Line will call at Port Angeles harbor May 7 as part of a five-day Puget Sound tour that includes calls at Vancouver, Victoria and Port Alberni, British Columbia, and Seattle.

Classes offered for forest, farm owners

Upcoming workshops will introduce forest and farm landowners to topics including estate planning, marketing environmental services and low-impact logging techniques.

City moves to ban smoking in cop cars

A prohibition on police officers smoking or chewing tobacco in their patrol cars will be included as part of an ongoing overhaul of the police department's 500-page policy manual due out June 1, said Police Chief Robert Spinks.

Calhoun files for port seat

Port of Port Angeles Commissioner John Calhoun of Beaver announced he will seek re-election to the seat he won in 2003.

Business Briefs

Brain tumor didn't dim this candle

His hair will grow back, but the giant scar on Isaac Boekelheide's head always will remind the Sequim High School senior that he barely escaped death.

Award-winning documentary to play at college Friday

A powerful, award-winning documentary investigation of the rape and killing of hundreds of women along the Mexican_American border in Juarez, Mexico, will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday, April 24, in Peninsula College's Little Theater, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.

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