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Olympic Angels launches foster care community read campaign

Author appearance, panel discussion set for Aug. 8 in Sequim

Olympic Peninsula News Group file photo Scott Nagel

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Scott Nagel, former Lavender Festival director, dies at 73

The former executive director of the Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival and Sequim Lavender Festival has died.

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COMMUNITY NEWS — July 22, 2026

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OMC Foundation awards medical scholarships to 36 local residents

$500,000 gifted in fourth round of allocations

Photo by Silas Crews/ An online open house is now available to review a package of documents related to the City of Sequim’s periodic review of its 2025 Comprehensive Plan related to growth, development and more. Those interested can visit sequimwa.gov/1301/2025-Comprehensive-Plan and/or attend an in-person open house from 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Aug. 4.

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Draft documents available for Sequim’s Comp Plan update

30-day online comment period open now

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

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State representative contenders debate issues

Primary election ballots mailed July 15

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 Monica Berkseth Kelly Iriye, director, Sequim Lavender Festival.

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Faces of Sequim: Lavender Festival Director Kelly Iriye finds her calling

As they pulled their RV into Rainbow’s End RV Park almost a decade ago, Kelly Iriye and her…

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

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Responder Blotter — July 15, 2026

The weekly blotter includes calls in the City of Sequim and in unincorporated Clallam County in the Sequim-Dungeness…

Photo by Matt MahAn “Cougar Coexistence” will be the topic of the Dungeness River Nature Center’s Sunset Speaker Series on Friday evening, July 17.

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River Center’s Sunset Speaker Series kicks off Friday, July 17

The Dungeness River Nature Center invites the community to its upcoming Sunset Speaker Series, a four-part evening program…

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