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Photo courtesy Sarah Ketchum, Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County/ Sarah Ketchum, store manager of Sequim Habitat Boutique, accepts a table that was returned by Sequim Police Officer Abraham Blaylock on Friday, July 17. Sequim and Port Townsend Police Departments worked together to find the table and arrest a woman allegedly linked to the theft.

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Expensive table stolen from, later returned to Habitat store

Law enforcement find item in Jefferson County

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Sergio Gonzalez, owner of Meli’s Lavender, and his brother Mario Gonzalez, owner of Find Lavender, will be together during the Sequim Lavender Festival at Sergio’s farm selling lavender products and providing wreath making demonstrations.

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Family at the forefront of Sequim’s lavender industry

Whether they’re spouses, siblings, or generations of grandparents to grandchildren, at the core of each lavender farm is…

Sequim Gazette file photo by Matthew Nash David Herbelin, former executive director of Olympic Theatre Arts, pictured in February, died on July 1 after four years battling colorectal cancer. He resigned from the theater in February to spend more time with family as the cancer had spread through his body, he said.

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Former OTA executive director dies following cancer battle

Herbelin’s Lavender Melodrama plays for two more weekends

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash B&B Family Farm, 5883 Old Olympic Highway, hosts visitors daily through Sept. 30 and is one of more than 15 farms open during Sequim Lavender Weekend, July 17-19. They offer tours, U-pick, products, ice cream, and more.

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Lavender Festival marks 30th year with sights, smells galore

Events fill Sequim-Dungeness area July 17-19

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Victor Gonzalez, owner of Victor’s Lavender, stands with thousands of lavender plants he’s grown to deliver to Ohio where he’s started a distribution center through a new lavender farm called White Barn and Blooms Lavender Farm. Gonzalez said about 70% of his business comes from the East Coast, and he wants to have closer accessibility for customers to pick up or receive his plants due to increasing shipping costs and a higher chance for damaging plants.

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Victor’s Lavender expands to Ohio

Gonzalez looks to better serve clientele in Midwest, East Coast

Photo courtesy Jennifer Thomas Jennifer Thomas, seen performing for her music video “Etude for the Dreamer” in 2022 at Nelson’s Duckpond & Lavender Farm will perform her first outdoor concert at the farm’s pond on Aug. 8. Find tickets for the one-night-only concert at jenniferthomasmusic.com/pages/concerts. Sequim artist Ryan Stewart will also perform.

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Sequim composer to release ‘Game of Shadows’ spy album

Outdoor concert set for Aug. 8 at Nelson’s Duckpond

Photo courtesy Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club The Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club’s raffle quilt has tickets available at A Stitch in Time Quilt Shoppe in Sequim and other businesses leading up to the club’s quilt show Aug. 7-8 at Sequim Community Church.

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Sunbonnet Sue’s show to return in August

Raffle quilt to appear across community

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ A grand opening for Jamestown Salish Seasons is set for Aug. 26 with the voluntary admission psychiatric evaluation and treatment clinic accepting its first patients on Sept. 28. Patients are anticipated to be only from Clallam and Jefferson counties and tribal citizens of Washington’s recognized tribes, who are experiencing acute psychiatric symptoms such as depression, typically suicidal, and those who cannot meet their basic needs of health and safety due to a psychosis of some kind.

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Sequim psychiatric treatment clinic set for Aug. 26 grand opening

Voluntary patients accepted starting Sept. 28

PhotoS courtesy Mark Klinke Olympic Theatre Arts’ melodrama “Lavender Liberty” is a sequel to last year’s show that brings the characters up against change and the fear of doing things differently.

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OTA’s lavender melodrama serves up a sequel

Audience encouraged to cheer, jeer and laugh

Sequim Gazette file photo by Matthew Nash Sequim School District will host a 2026-27 budget hearing on July 20. Board directors are considering options for an approximate $730,000 shortfall.

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School district sets budget talk for July 20

Administrators exploring new alternative learning option

Photo courtesy Heidi Krzyworz Skylar Krzyworz of Sequim receives her Gold Award, Girl Scouts’ highest achievement, on June 7 in Federal Way from CEO Andrea Anderson of Girl Scouts of Western Washington.

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Sequim Girl Scout earns Gold Award accolade

Krzyworz, PLU student, hopes more girls stick with program

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ Clallam County Fire District 3 will raze a house at 305 S. Fifth Ave. it purchased in 2015. District staff will demolish and remove the home and garage for a cost up to $110,000.

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Fire District 3 to raze home next to Sequim station

Firefighters to tentatively use property for training before demolition

Photo courtesy Tyler Benedict The North Olympic Winds Honor Bands had Dr. Ken Bergevin, a retired music educator, conducting the Middle School Honor Band. The day featured six school band programs from across the North Olympic Peninsula.

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Honor Band program returns after two decades

North Olympic Peninsula sends 107 students from six programs

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