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Former Seattle Seahawk offensive lineman Wayne Hunter, center, watches as Sequim Middle School football player Michael Soto, right, runs a defensive line drill at the first annual 7th and 8th grade football camp put on by head coach Sam Salanoa and the SMS football coaching staff on Aug. 24. Sequim Gazette photo by Conor Dowley

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Hunter leads SMS football camp

Ex-Seahawk lineman wants to help kids on, off field

Back To School Fair a success as about 500 students receive supplies

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Back To School Fair a success as about 500 students receive supplies

Almost 500 students receive school supplies

From left to right, Stephany Shackelford, James Castell, Malachi Williams, Phil Castell, Saul Williams, Kelsey Sands, Andrea Wellman and Christy Francis stand in the Castell Insurance office on Aug. 24 after their annual shred event concluded as the Williams brothers hold the money raised. The fundraiser that supports the Boys & Girls Club and their efforts to provide school supplies to students and families in need raised over $9,000 this year. Sequim Gazette photo by Conor Dowley

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Shred Event raises big money for school supplies

More than $9,000 raised to help Boys Girls Club purchase school supplies

Football: Wolves gear up for 2019 campaign

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Football: Wolves gear up for 2019 campaign

In a look ahead at our SHS football season preview, the Wolves have questions to answer

Former Sequim High School theater director Christy Rutherford helps organize the cleanout of the SHS theater’s costume shop on Aug. 19. “We’ve never had a purge like this,” said current director Ashley Kramer. “We used to have four times this space, but we never got rid of anything.” Kramer was helped by Rutherford and Sequim Middle School teacher David McInnes on Aug. 19 after a work party including theater students on Aug. 12 “didn’t get everything out.” “We still have a lot of work to do, but you can actually move around in here now, and see up and down the aisles,” Rutherford said. Kramer said that the majority of the clothes taken out of the closet were donated to Goodwill, with some going to Sequim Serenity House. “They were happy to take it all with Halloween coming up,” Kramer said. Sequim Gazette photo by Conor Dowley

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A Costume Clean-Out

Former Sequim High School theater director Christy Rutherford helps organize the cleanout of the SHS theater’s costume shop…

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School district planning for “awfully bumpy” Fir St. to start year

School district still creating plan to work around the continuing construction

Several people from Sequim and Port Angeles work together to learn a new game at Opttacon 2019 at the Guy Cole Event Center on Aug. 17. Sequim Gazette photo by Conor Dowley

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Opttacon 2019 brings new games, gamers to Sequim

Smaller-than-expected crowd still had high spirits

Eagle Scout candidate Ian Thill, back, and Dylan Washburn, front, lift up the first section of the Pioneer Memorial Park storage shed roof as part of Thill’s Eagle Scout project. “This roof was in worse shape than we thought,” Thill said.

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Pioneer Memorial Park shed getting Scout-fueled facelift

Local Eagle Scout candidate working to improve park structure

Opttacon gaming convention returns this weekend

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Opttacon gaming convention returns this weekend

Tickets are still available online or at the door

Left: The reenactors portraying the British Army fire on the Colonial Minutemen at the Battle of Concord Bridge while the crowd watches on during the Northwest Colonial Festival’s portrayal. Below: David Rieve, right, discusses Revolutionary War-era gunsmithing with several families in his tent at the Northwest Colonial Festival. Rieve, who is a trained gunsmith and has made numerous muskets and firearms that would be found in that era, has been coming to the Colonial Festival for several years and said that he enjoys the experience. Sequim Gazette photos by Conor Dowley

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Colonial festival brings history to life

The Revolutionary War-era event was drizzly, but entertaining

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‘Big Dill’ bash at Carrie Blake

Janie Dicus, Ron Halpen, Sue Zennan and Carmi Standish play a doubles pickleball match during the Sequim Picklers’…

The Pet Posse veterinary transport vehicle parked in front of the Barks & Brews fundraiser event put on at the Peninsula Taproom on Aug. 10 to support the organization. Barks & Brews attracted more than 70 attendees and raised more than $5,000. Sequim Gazette photo by Conor Dowley

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Pet Posse gets boost from Barks Brews

Fundraising event raises $5,100 for volunteer-run organization

Henrikson, Sequim school board director, resigns position

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Henrikson, Sequim school board director, resigns position

Robin Henrickson resigns from the Sequim school board, admin changes announced