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Sequim Gazette photo by Kathy Cruz George and Cindy Lee, front, longtime owners of Moon Palace restaurant, stand at the service counter with employees Kayli Prorok, left, and Christine Burbank. Moon Palace, opened by George’s uncle Robert Young in 1975, has been a family-owned business in Sequim for more than 50 years. George bought the restaurant from his uncle at age 23 after Young developed health problems.

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Family-owned Moon Palace marks half a century

Eatery was Sequim’s first Chinese restaurant

Lea (Hopson) Bradley, a SHS 2011 graduate, starred in softball for the Wolves earning two Olympic League MVP honors, and helped Sequim win the 2011 class 2A state championship.

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Athletes named for third year of Sequim Hall of Fame ceremony

Teams, coach and players to be honored in September

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Sequim Gazette photos by Matthew Nash Volunteers with St. Vincent de Paul, board members with the Sequim Education Foundation, and students with The Student Community Partnership Initiative gather on July 13 to celebrate the successful completion of a $20,000 matching grant campaign to support Sequim families and children in need of housing, food, transportation and more. The students agreed to provide the funds using an Amazon donation to support St. Vincent de Paul, while St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church parishioners and community members donated $39,136 towards the matching grant.

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Community, students partner to help St. Vincent de Paul

Nonprofit to support families, students with food, utilities, transportation, more

Sequim Gazette photo by Tom Buscher An aerial view shows visitors moving among vendor booths, gathering areas and the James Center for the Performing Arts during the Sequim Lavender Festival at Carrie Blake Community Park on July 18. This year mark’s the 30th anniversary of the festival that features shopping, food, activities and live entertainment.

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The appeal of lavender continues 30 years later

International, cross-country and local visitors make up farms’ clientele

UPDATED Dungeness River Flow Chart

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‘We are on a downhill slope’: Experts warn of Dungeness River’s shrinking lifeline

League of Women Voters’ Water Committee seeks to raise awareness

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Autumn Piontek-Walsh will serve as Five Acre School’s interim executive director for the upcoming school year. She previously served as its director while owning the school from 2013-2019 before it became a 501(c)3 nonprofit. Recently, she joined the school’s board following a series of departures from the school, including the firing and rehiring of the former school director who is now the school’s Explorer Class lead (fourth-sixth grade).

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Former Five Acre School owner becomes interim executive director

Board looks for familiarity through transition

Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society (OPAS) volunteer Dow Lambert uses an app on his phone to check the nests of purple martins in nest boxes atop poles. Photo by John Gussman

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OPAS checks in on purple martin nest box tenants

Local nature photographer and Travel Journal speaker John Gussman went along with volunteers with the Olympic Peninsula Audubon…

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

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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Olympic Angels launches foster care community read campaign

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

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ City of Sequim staff look to use grant funding to design the restoration of Johnson Creek Trestle Bridge. Funding for construction has not yet been secured, city staff said.

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Design funding to restore Johnson Creek trestle moves forward

Funding to design the restoration of Johnson Creek Bridge west of Whitefeather Way in Sequim and along the…

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Responder Blotter — July 22, 2026

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

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