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Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Victor Gonzalez, owner of Victor’s Lavender, stands with thousands of lavender plants he’s grown to deliver to Ohio where he’s started a distribution center through a new lavender farm called White Barn and Blooms Lavender Farm. Gonzalez said about 70% of his business comes from the East Coast, and he wants to have closer accessibility for customers to pick up or receive his plants due to increasing shipping costs and a higher chance for damaging plants.

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Victor’s Lavender expands to Ohio

Gonzalez looks to better serve clientele in Midwest, East Coast

Photo courtesy Jennifer Thomas Jennifer Thomas, seen performing for her music video “Etude for the Dreamer” in 2022 at Nelson’s Duckpond & Lavender Farm will perform her first outdoor concert at the farm’s pond on Aug. 8. Find tickets for the one-night-only concert at jenniferthomasmusic.com/pages/concerts. Sequim artist Ryan Stewart will also perform.

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Sequim composer to release ‘Game of Shadows’ spy album

Outdoor concert set for Aug. 8 at Nelson’s Duckpond

Photo courtesy Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club The Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club’s raffle quilt has tickets available at A Stitch in Time Quilt Shoppe in Sequim and other businesses leading up to the club’s quilt show Aug. 7-8 at Sequim Community Church.

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Sunbonnet Sue’s show to return in August

Raffle quilt to appear across community

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ A grand opening for Jamestown Salish Seasons is set for Aug. 26 with the voluntary admission psychiatric evaluation and treatment clinic accepting its first patients on Sept. 28. Patients are anticipated to be only from Clallam and Jefferson counties and tribal citizens of Washington’s recognized tribes, who are experiencing acute psychiatric symptoms such as depression, typically suicidal, and those who cannot meet their basic needs of health and safety due to a psychosis of some kind.

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Sequim psychiatric treatment clinic set for Aug. 26 grand opening

Voluntary patients accepted starting Sept. 28

PhotoS courtesy Mark Klinke Olympic Theatre Arts’ melodrama “Lavender Liberty” is a sequel to last year’s show that brings the characters up against change and the fear of doing things differently.

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OTA’s lavender melodrama serves up a sequel

Audience encouraged to cheer, jeer and laugh

Sequim Gazette photos by Monica Berkseth People fill the field in front of the James Center for the Performing Arts on July 4 to hear the Sequim City Band and Peninsula Singers for their joint concert “Sounds of America.”

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Party in park highlights another fun Fourth of July

Newcomers and regulars made a day of the Fourth of July in Carrie Blake Community Park celebrating America’s…

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

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Responder Blotter — July 8, 2026

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

Sequim Gazette file photo by Matthew Nash Sequim School District will host a 2026-27 budget hearing on July 20. Board directors are considering options for an approximate $730,000 shortfall.

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School district sets budget talk for July 20

Administrators exploring new alternative learning option

Photo courtesy Heidi Krzyworz Skylar Krzyworz of Sequim receives her Gold Award, Girl Scouts’ highest achievement, on June 7 in Federal Way from CEO Andrea Anderson of Girl Scouts of Western Washington.

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Sequim Girl Scout earns Gold Award accolade

Krzyworz, PLU student, hopes more girls stick with program

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ Clallam County Fire District 3 will raze a house at 305 S. Fifth Ave. it purchased in 2015. District staff will demolish and remove the home and garage for a cost up to $110,000.

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Fire District 3 to raze home next to Sequim station

Firefighters to tentatively use property for training before demolition

Photo courtesy Tyler Benedict The North Olympic Winds Honor Bands had Dr. Ken Bergevin, a retired music educator, conducting the Middle School Honor Band. The day featured six school band programs from across the North Olympic Peninsula.

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Honor Band program returns after two decades

North Olympic Peninsula sends 107 students from six programs

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Vern Frykholm, dressed as George Washington, walks in the Sequim Irrigation Festival Grand Parade this year with The New Dungeness Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and others. He’s portrayed Washington for 14 years and has found many memorable moments and encounters.

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Sequim man keeps first president speaking

Frykholm takes portrayal to busiest year yet

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City extends moratorium into 2027 for master-planned overlays

Decision could be lifted if Sequim’s Comprehensive Plan is approved

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