Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Michael Smith, Shipley Center’s executive director, points to future amenities in its new space at 651 W. Washington St. He’s standing atop future multi-use courts that can host indoor pickleball, basketball, volleyball and ping pong.
Image by Roy Hellwig of Tormod Hellwig/ Shipley Center’s proposed floor plan will come in at about 29,000-square-feet compared to its current 11,000-square-feet building.
Image courtesy of Shipley Center The lobby of Shipley Center will feature a dance hall to the left in this sketch with a reception area straight ahead.
Leaders with Shipley Center, Sequim’s senior center, hope to move into the former JCPenney by the end of 2026.
“We’re very optimistic, and getting more excited by the day as we approach getting the building permit,” said Executive Director Michael Smith.
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Sequim Gazette photo by Jacques Star Isaac Edgecomb, left, a 15-year-old sophomore at Sequim High School, and his sister, 18-year-old Arrow Edgecomb, a senior, prepare sack lunches for distribution at the Sequim Boys & Girls Club and other locations throughout Sequim. The teens are paid employees of the summer food program and had to apply and interview for the positions. This was Isaac’s second summer with the program, and Arrow’s fourth.
With help from teens in Sequim and Port Angeles, the Boys & Girls Clubs served thousands of meals this summer to children.
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For the third year, locals are invited to bring out or rediscover their inner child at The Olympic Peninsula Toy and Collectibles Show this weekend from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30 in the Guy Cole Event Center.
The event is free to attend.
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Council enacts moratorium on Master-Planned Overlay applications | Sequim Gazette
Decision was to review city code, not single out Westbay, attorney says
The City of Sequim is taking a six-month pause on processing all Master-Planned Overlay applications, such as Westbay, a proposed 600-lot development on West Sequim Bay Road.
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After receiving their diplomas, Sequim High School’s Class of 2025 stands and moves their tassels to the left side of their caps to signify they’ve graduated.
Jozie Mills shows her diploma with enthusiasm at Sequim High School’s graduation on June 6.
Asher Bascue and Nekadius Scouller sport fun shades while listening to staff speaker Bill McFarlen at graduation.
Kansas Jackson happily accepts her diploma from Sequim School Board director Patrice Johnston.
Sequim High School graduates celebrated completion of their senior year on June 6 with a commencement ceremony before hundreds of family and friends.
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New Dungeness Nursery celebrates 10 years | Sequim Gazette
Cockburn family and their employees are firmly planted in local landscaping industry
New Dungeness Nursery is celebrating its 10th anniversary, but as father and son Doug and Stew Cockburn (pronounced Coburn) tell it, that decade is just one marker in a long history of their professional relationship with plants. www.sequimgazette.com/business/new...
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Skylar Krzyworz stands outside Walmart on March 7th when she hit the milestone of selling her 25,000th box of Girl Scout cookies. “Girl Scouts has been something that I never realized was going to have such a big impact on me,” she said. “And then after being in it for 13 years, I don’t know what I would do without it in my life.” Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash
As a kindergartener, Skylar Krzyworz sold 118 boxes of Girl Scout cookies and the next year her total jumped up to 1,003 boxes sold. Photo courtesy of Heidi Krzyworz
Skylar Krzyworz of Sequim recently reached the milestone of selling her 25,000th box of Girl Scout cookies.
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Eighth grader Annalise Castelletti, on left, reads “Archie the Daredevil Penguin” to kindergarteners Jesse Maas and Ivory Lyckman at Greywolf Elementary for Sequim’s Read Across America event on March 7.
Damien Enges, left, and Alyx Smith share a laugh while reading an “Arthur” book at Greywolf Elementary for Read Across America Day in Sequim.
Sophomore Stanley Baker, left, reads Dr. Seuss books with third graders Jethro Welch and Beckett Thomas during Sequim’s Read Across America Day.
Otis Karabotsos, an eighth grader in center, shares a laugh with second graders Sophia Maguire and Eli Medina while reading about Captain Underpants during Sequim’s Read Across America event. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash
Students continued another chapter in Sequim’s Read Across America Day tradition last week.
Upper grades from Sequim Middle and High Schools traveled to the elementary schools on March 7 to read classics, graphic novels, nonfiction and more.
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