Photo courtesy Sequim Soroptimists
Young ladies who participated in Sequim Soroptimist International’s inaugural Dream It Be It program received a day of instruction intended to put them on the road to success. Various individuals, companies and organizations assisted with the program.

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Milestones — Soroptimists, OMC, Footprinters — May 27, 2026

Soroptimists launch Dream It Be It program

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

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Responder Blotter — May 27, 2026

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

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Coughing disease affecting dogs that have been to Sequim, PA parks

Outbreak small, but contagious, vet clinic warns

Photo courtesy Caleb Messinger
Ashtyn Messinger, a home-schooled sixth grader who participates in Sequim youth sports, displays the heart she made before going into surgery at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Doctors installed a defibrillator after Ashtyn suffered cardiac arrest on a soccer field at Carrie Blake Community Park on Sunday, May 17.

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Sixth-grade athlete recovering after cardiac arrest on the field

Sequim Junior Soccer coaches praised for quick actions that saved girl’s life

Bennet Gray, 10, Bodie Volker, 3, and Bryant Volker, 5, pet sheep at the farm animal petting zoo during the Shepherds’ Festival on May 25 outside the Sequim Prairie Grange. They attended with their mom Theresa Volker for the first time.

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Furry friends, fiber arts found at Shepherds’ Festival

The annual Shepherds’ Festival brought a herd of people to the Sequim Prairie Grange on Memorial Day.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash
Peninsula Singers, with conductor Steven Humphrey and accompanist Mark Johnson, rehearse songs for their upcoming concert “Unbound.” Shows take place at 3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, May 30-31 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.

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Peninsula Singers’ concert celebrates the human spirit

‘Unbound’ debuts local composer’s song ‘Psalm 130’

Sequim Gazette photos by Monica Berkseth
American Legion Post 62 Sergeant-at-Arms Mark Dunham salutes after laying a wreath at the base of the monument at Sequim View Cemetery during Monday’s Memorial Day Service.

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Veterans honored in Memorial Day ceremony at Sequim View, other cemeteries

Every year, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4760 and American Legion Post 62 take turns leading the Memorial…

Phillip Beck, the sales manger at Wilder Toyota, pulls the winning duck from a Wilder truck and hands it to be checked to Bruce Skinner, the executive director of the Olympic Medical Center Foundation. The sales of the 29,152 ducks will support the foundation’s purchase of needed medical equipment at the hospital. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Sequim man wins top prize in Great Peninsula Duck Derby

Wilder Auto donates a Toyota Corolla for fundraising event

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School district cuts $1.7M in staffing due to declining enrollment, rising costs

Additional $730k needed to cover 2026-27 deficit

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Ms. Pennywise (Angela Poynter), on left, manages the line for Public Amenity No. 9 in Olympic Theatre Arts’ production of “Urinetown the Musical.” Actors next to Poynter, from left, include Hayden Pomeroy as Bobby Strong, Joel Swenning as Old Man Strong, Marni Whitehead as Josephine Strong, August Maberry as Tiny Tom, Claire Wegner as Robby the Stockfish, Matt Forrest as Hot Blades Harry, Gretel Maberry as Billy Boy Bill, Susan Cates as Becky Two Shoes, Shoshanna Feist as Soupy Sue, and Diane Smith as Little Sally.

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OTA presents ‘Urinetown the Musical’ May 22-June 14

In Sequim where water is wealth and sometimes an elephant in the room, Olympic Theatre Arts takes a…

Local veteran groups, including American Legion Riders Post 29, lead a ceremony on Armed Forces Day honoring veterans who recently had tiles placed on Sequim Museum & Arts’ Veterans Monument.

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Veterans honored with ceremony, tiles at museum

Sequim Museum &Arts, 544 N. Sequim Ave., honored 150-plus veterans in a ceremony on Saturday, May 16 after…

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

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Responder Blotter — May 20, 2026

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

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Monika Livingstone of Blyn/Gardiner kneels by her propane tank she spent about a month designing and painting after feeling inspired by The Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine.

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Local woman channels ‘Yellow Submarine’ for propane tank art

Former mural artist finds inspiration after health issues