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Enthusiastic youngsters participate in the annual Sun Fun Color Run on Saturday, March 7 at Carrie Blake Community Park.

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Joy shines at Sunshine Festival

Seventh-annual event features music, lights, fun

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Board members for Five Acre School have hired an interim development director to help the school start a capital campaign to help purchase the school’s building and five acres in Dungeness and achieve long-term financial sustainability.

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Five Acre School readies capital campaign to purchase its property

Development director hired to help secure funds, long-term stability

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Tanya and Dave Rose, founders of Nourish Sequim, a restaurant that features organic food grown by local farmers, hosted their final meal service on Sunday, March 8. The couple, who plan to travel in retirement, sold the business to new owners who plan to reopen the eatery in June.

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Nourish owners serve up final meals

Organic eatery sold to trio who are longtime friends and hospitality colleagues

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Clallam County Fire District 3 brought on seven new firefighters on March 2. They include, from back left, firefighter/EMT Ryan Beck, firefighter/EMT Cole Smithson, firefighter/EMT Aaron Polumsky, firefighter/paramedic Liam Bedenkop; front left, firefighter/EMT Jeramy Stewart, firefighter/EMT Tristan Lowman, and firefighter/paramedic Jacob Carrell.

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Firefighters join FD3 crew

Levy lid lift helps pay for additional staffing

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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

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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

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ For her high scoring and strong defensive efforts, Sequim’s Gracie Chartraw was named the Olympic League’s most valuable player for the 2025-26 season.

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Girls basketball: Chartraw wants to be role model as league MVP

Julmist, Wagner make the top-tier list too

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Sequim High School’s choir is sending 30-plus students to the State Solo and Ensemble Music Competition on April 23-25 at Central Washington University after winning 11 of 13 regional contests in Port Angeles in February.

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SHS Choir to send 34 to state Solo and Ensemble competition

After winning 11 of 13 vocal categories at the Regional Solo and Ensemble music competition in Port Angeles…

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Responder Blotter — March 11, 2026

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

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Community members and Clallam County officials celebrate the opening of the Rainshadow Golf Course in summer 2017 in Sequim. The Olympic Peninsula Disc Golf Association (OPDGA) has set several tournaments at the Sequim course and the Lincoln Park course this year.

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Disc Golf Association announces milestones, tournament schedule

Organizers of the Olympic Peninsula Disc Golf Association (OPDGA) said they’ve wrapped up a productive year highlighted by…

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Last year’s Sun Fun Color Run saw a record number of participants. It returns at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 7 to Carrie Blake Community Park.

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Festival marks seven years of sun fun

Drone show, color run, more return March 7

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Martha, played by Joodie Klinke, tries to seduce Nick (Colby Thomas) as his wife Honey (Courtney Thomas) becomes uncomfortable and Martha’s husband George (Vince Campbell) acts indifferent in OTA’s staging of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

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Fans, family stage ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ at OTA

Show continues through March 15

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According to staff with the North Olympic Library System, they’re awaiting an occupancy permit from the City of Sequim along with some finishing touches with their contractors before they announce a soft reopening date for the Sequim branch.

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NOLS to ask for levy lid lift in April

Library system last asked for tax increase in 2010