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Razor Clam Festival returns — Can you dig it?

February 24

Long Beach’s original Razor Clam Festival, held in April 1940, featured the world’s largest frying pan, a colossal clam dig and handcrafted batches of chowder. Families flocked to the Peninsula for a weekend of fritters and fun; clouds of steam pouring off the giant frying pan wafted over festivalgoers; “Bathing Clam Beauties” in “clam-kinis” soon joined...

Sunday Afternoon Live keeps Raymond Theater rocking

February 16

Pacific County history has a pulse, and in few places does it beat stronger than the Raymond Theater. The tiny town on the Willapa River was founded in 1907 and boasted its biggest population in 1913. Less than two decades later, the town’s most-recognizable landmark, the Raymond Theater, rose downtown. Built of terra cotta and concrete, the theater...