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Sequim Community Church’s mission trip team members with new homeowners stand outside one of two homes they built in Mexico during spring break for local families. It’s the second time they’ve built homes in Vicente Guerrero in Baja California, Mexico.

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Sequim church’s teens spend spring break building homes in Mexico

Two families benefactors of youth group’s efforts

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Colin Banitch helps his son Finn, 5, reel in a trout during Kids Fishing Day with help from volunteers with the North Olympic Peninsula Chapter of Puget Sound Anglers.

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Hook, line and fun for Kids Fishing Day

Families circled the Water Reuse Demonstration Pond, 202 N. Blake Ave., on Saturday hoping to catch some of…

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ FORMA Construction was selected as the general contractor/construction manager (GC/CM) to remodel Sequim High School and build a new Career and Technical Education (CTE) building called the Ramponi Center for Technical Excellence. They’ll work with architecture firm Mahlum on the preconstruction process, a design, budgeting and permitting process.

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Designers, builders finalized for HHE, SHS, CTE buildings

Conceptual designs, logistics being worked on now

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Public input on the the City of Sequim’s draft for its Comprehensive Plan update will likely become available to residents in the coming months once consultants finish their work, according to city staff. The Sequim Planning Commission and Sequim City Council will host public hearings sometime in late summer or early fall with the council holding final approval.

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Updated: City’s Comprehensive Plan draft delayed to June

Blueprint document anticipated to be approved by fall

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Tim Williams, president of the 550-member Sequim Picklers, hopes the group can restart a partnership with the city that will lead to refurbishing the eight pickleball courts at Carrie Blake Community Park. He said the courts are deteriorating, leading to safety concerns and fewer people traveling to Sequim to participate in tournaments.

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Sequim Picklers seek new partnership with city to revamp courts

Sequim Picklers president Tim Williams hopes that a meeting that was scheduled with city representatives on Tuesday as…

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Lifelong area resident Roger Petroff has been chosen “Honorary Logger” for 2026 by the Sequim Logging Show, a nonprofit organization.

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Petroff named ‘Honorary Logger’ for 2026 Sequim Logging Show

Homage to logging industry set for May 8-9 during Irrigation Festival

Photo courtesy Sherrie Cerutti, Sequim Prairie Grange
The Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 Macleay Road, was one of 18 establishments to receive a perfect health inspection in March.

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Clallam County’s health inspections for March 2026

Here are Clallam County Environmental Health Services’ inspections in March of restaurants, food businesses, and a juvenile facility.

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Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe officials said if the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Land Transfer Act of 2026 was approved to transfer approximately 900 acres to the tribe, they’d continue to allow access to the Dungeness Spit and not develop on the property.

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Tribe: Land access will not change

Federal legislation would transfer refuge management to Jamestown S’Klallam

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Players with Troll Haven’s coach pitch baseball team take the field on April 11 for opening day of Sequim Little League’s season.

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Little League opens season with 350-plus players

Running through the rain, hundreds of ballplayers took the field on Saturday for Sequim Little League’s long-standing tradition…

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Responder Blotter — April 15, 2026

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

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As part of their 40th anniversary celebration, Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club members took group photos of club members by the decade they joined. For 1986-1995, club members include, from left, Joanne Thoma, Nancy Davis, Alicia Crawford, Marilyn Bosckis, and Norma Herbold.

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Sunbonnet Sue’s still stitching and quilting 40 years later

After 40 years, quilters with the Sunbonnet Sue Quilt Club all share a similar sentiment: they love quilting…

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City council delays decision to support tribe’s land transfer proposal

Sequim city councilors, at their regular meeting Monday evening, pushed a decision to the end of April on…

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Clallam County Fire District 3 fire commissioners continue to seek options to fund new stations, such as for Carlsborg Station 33, which firefighters say is too small and in poor condition. Commissioners voted down doing a survey of the community on a potential bond because they felt it was too costly and would conflict with a potential Emergency Medical Services levy lid lift in the coming years.

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Fire commissioners pause bond survey, board expansion talks

Port Angeles, Sequim area fire districts discussing joint regional strategies