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Keith Ross/ Keith’s Frame of Mind This year’s Honored Pioneers for 2026’s Sequim Irrigation Festival include, from left, Beverly McInnes, Lou Pinnell, Lyle Brown, and Merle Holden.

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Honored Pioneers named for 2026

Dignitaries to ride in festival’s Grand Parade May 9

Joseph Bednarik

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FAITH NEWS — March 18, 2026

Joseph Bednarik will speak on the topic “Forgive and/or Forget” at Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1033 N. Barr…

A view of the aurora over a Norwegian fishing village.

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Traveler’s Journal: Wildlife of the Scandinavian Arctic

In November 2023, we traveled to Norway to see the aurora and photograph whales above the Arctic Circle.…

Diane Johnston

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Free talk looks at history of women’s undergarments

The North Olympic Library System (NOLS) and Humanities Washington will host a free virtual presentation “Hidden Layers: Women’s…

Photo by Monica Minyard Three teams competed in the Sequim Irrigation Festival’s first Trashion Challenge on March 7 using various garbage to create a fashionable look.

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Festival issues ‘trash’ fashion challenge

Sequim Irrigation Festival held its first Trashion Challenge on March 7 at Studio Bob in Port Angeles leading…

Sarah Morrison

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Borrow This Book: “Writing Mr. Wrong” by Kelley Armstrong

By Sarah Morrison

Photo by Shelly Deisch A Blue Orchard mason bee nesting box.

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Get It Growing: Attracting beneficial blue orchard mason bees

By Bev Hetrick and Shelly Deisch

Photo courtesy Olympic Peninsula YMCA Current women leaders in the Olympic Peninsula YMCA Association and at the Sequim branch gather for a photo to commemorate Women’s History Month and the role women leaders have played in the history of the Y. Pictured from left are Amanda Hazard, Tiffany Barnett, Rylee Carr, Sarah Scagliotti, Cally Tauran, Anne Dean, Wendy Bart, Tracey Durso, Virginia O’Neil and Jodi Minker-James.

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Find Your Y: Commemorating the trailblazing women leaders of the YMCA movement

By Jodi Minker

Bruce Bode

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FAITH NEWS — March 11, 2026

Rev. Bruce Bode will speak on the topic “The Best Cannot Be Told” at 11 a.m. Sunday, March…

Photo by Nicole Driggs Sequim resident and former educator Tom Green took up quilting more than 30 years ago. He holds a master’s degree in art and creates his own quilt patterns.

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Sequim man receives recognition for quilt-making talent

Former educator shrugged off teasing, embraced sewing hobby

Photos by Peter Davis, USFWS Gulls in flight on Protection Island.

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OPAS to present ‘The Story of Protection Island’

Free talk to take place at Dungeness River Nature Center

Sequim Gazette photo by Monica Berkseth Soroptimist International of Sequim volunteers, from left, Virginia Kostanich, Elaine Powlesland, Loree Conrad, Natasha Merkuloff-Nichols, Shirley Legg, Suzanne Plemmons, Becky Archer, Denise Bayer, Chris Snow, and Susan Coffee celebrate the opening of its new space for the group’s Medical Loan Closet. To make an appointment to request or return an item, or donate, call 360-504-0231.

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Soroptimists’ medical loan closet moves to new Sequim location

Volunteers say space is larger, more convenient

Photos courtesy Laura Gould Sequim School District sent 55 students with 47 from Sequim High School and eight from Sequim Middle School to the HOSA Future Health Professionals Washington Conference in early March.

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Sequim students win big at Future Health Professionals conference

Sequim’s HOSA (Future Health Professionals) club members in high school and middle school won multiple events at the…