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Paula Watson, director of Peninsula College’s dental hygiene program, shows visitors the school’s nearly completed dental clinic, where the first cohort of 10 students will begin learning radiology, digital imaging, teeth cleaning and other preventive dental care as part of the new program that will launch this fall. The college developed the program with significant financial support from U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Seattle, and from Delta Dental of Washington to help workforce shortages and address gaps in dental care. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

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New dental program at Peninsula College set to launch this fall

Two-year program in Port Angeles boosted by federal funding

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash A new effort through Sequim Education Foundation and Sequim High School students called the Student Community Partnership Initiative has set a $20,000 matching grant to support students and families through St. Vincent de Paul. Donors can provide funds to the Sequim nonprofit through June 30 by mail to “St. Vincent de Paul, P.O. Box 2114, Sequim, WA 98382.” <ins>Some of those involved in the effort, include, from left Executive Director Lauren Denton with Sequim Education Foundation, SHS junior Olive Bridge, SHS freshman Kendall Adolphe, SHS senior Laila Sundin, Ed Koszykowski with St. Vincent de Paul, SHS senior John Pehrson, and Mike Flynn with St. Vincent de Paul. </ins>

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Students form board to support families, nonprofits

New initiative group looks to connect kids, community

Sequim Gazette photos by Matthew Nash The cast of “Dorothy in Wonderland” through Olympic Peninsula Academy hosts three shows this weekend at Sequim High School Auditorium. Showtimes are 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, May 29-30, and 1:30 p.m. May 30. The play “Stone in the Road” runs before the first two shows, and “Dorothy in Wonderland” actors present a “Gag Reel” at the final performance.

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OPA brings ‘Dorothy in Wonderland’ to stage this weekend only

Younger students open two shows with ‘Stone in the Road’

Photos courtesy Charles Meyer Cindy Zechenelly was honored on May 19 with a Lifetime Achievement Award through the President’s Volunteer Service Award program managed by Points of Light. She’s served more than 4,000 hours as a co-founder of Sequim’s Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT), sponsored by Clallam County Fire District 3. Here Zechenelly is recognized by fire commissioner President Bill Miano, left, and Fire Chief Justin Grider.

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CERT co-founder receives lifetime achievement award

For nearly 10 years, Cindy Zechenelly has been dedicated to helping prepare Sequim residents.

Photo by Andrea Starr, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Leaders with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the City of Sequim said the entities are planning to bring city water services to PNNL-Sequim on West Sequim Bay Road to support a modernization effort at the campus along with future development of a “Bench to Bay Deployment and Applied Sciences Laboratory.”

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PNNL seeks City of Sequim water extension

Sewer lift station on hold along West Sequim Bay Road

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