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Sour economy delays tribe’s hotel project, but execs still optimistic about 7-story complex

BLYN -- Jerry Allen, CEO of the Jamestown S'Klallam tribe, is candid about what the national financial meltdown is doing to the tribe's longstanding plans… Continue reading

Three finalists for Sequim city manager

SEQUIM -- Two Midwesterners and a South Dakotan are in Sequim this weekend, hoping to land the city's top job. The finalists for Sequim city… Continue reading

Public reception Friday with Sequim manager hopefuls

SEQUIM -- Like the nation, this city will have a new boss come January. Sequim will have a permanent city manager around the first of… Continue reading

‘We all need each other’: Clallam County residents weigh historic election of Obama

Whether excited or dreading the next four years with Barack Obama as president, people living in Clallam County seemed to agree that the 2008 presidential… Continue reading

Store workers receive awards in solemn ceremony; they helped stop killer, sheriff says

BLYN — A little after 9 p.m. on the night of Sept. 20, cashier David Anderson noticed that a customer at the Longhouse Market &… Continue reading

Sequim mayor hopes sales-tax hike ‘squeaks through’

SEQUIM -- A measure to raise the sales tax inside the city of Sequim is too close to call. The proposal to hike the sales… Continue reading

Voters pick Dicks for 17th term

Rep. Norm Dicks was storming toward his 17th term in the U.S. House of Representatives, with 48,737 votes, or 68.22 percent of the turnout, while… Continue reading

Calendar captures splendor of Peninsula as noted photographer’s sight fades

SEQUIM -- Ross Hamilton, celebrant of the Olympic Peninsula's wild splendor, now sees only dark shapes and little color. Glaucoma and a series of eye… Continue reading

Sequim council struggles with teen club funding, other issues with unbalanced budget

SEQUIM -- Sequim's draft budget for 2009 calls for no employee layoffs, but that didn't mean no gnashing of teeth at Monday's City Council study… Continue reading

‘This is an intense time’: Therapists help clients face stress gracefully

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series on retirees worrying about finances. The first installments appeared Sunday and can be read at… Continue reading

Golden worries: Seniors fret not only over personal finances but state of the nation

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series on retirees worries about finances. SEQUIM ¬­-- Ask seniors in this retirement hot spot whether… Continue reading

Investment advisers aid seniors in crisis

SEQUIM -- Investment advisers on the North Olympic Peninsula are together in their prediction: The nation's financial picture will improve. But for the newly retired… Continue reading

Mexico shares art, energy with Sequim

SEQUIM -- Put a bunch of Sequim women together, set them down in San Cristobal de las Casas with the Mujeres de Maiz, and you… Continue reading

Advocate pulls for teen club; Sequim may cut support for center

SEQUIM -- It is not only about the cooking, art and fitness programs, said Jerry Sinn, president of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the… Continue reading

Two Peninsula men to spin on ‘Wheel of Fortune’

SEQUIM -- Two Sequim men know for sure: It pays to be enthusiastic while not taking yourself too seriously. Ross McCurdy, a 26-year-old waiter at… Continue reading

Sequim council wrestles with density issue

SEQUIM -- Growth has slowed here, but the growing pains still smart around the city's edges and in the council chambers. Members of the City… Continue reading

Farm Bureau to push for ‘essential workers’ program

PORT ANGELES - Merrill & Ring, owner of 60,000 acres of forest across Western Washington, cannot find enough native-born people to work in its woods,… Continue reading

Who will pick the crops? North Olympic Peninsula farmers lament lack of migrant workers

DUNGENESS -- Washington state's fields and forests are missing a key element during this fall's harvest, say two well-seasoned statesmen of agriculture. Migrant farm workers… Continue reading

Banner chances down by half in Sequim: Making damaged stand safe may cost city $30,000

SEQUIM -- A prime spot for promoting public events is about to become unavailable because of a malfunction. A few weeks ago, a wire on… Continue reading

‘Community-supported adventure’ yields bountiful harvest

SEQUIM — “Naked oats” helped Joe and Lisa Bridge dream up a new farming expression. The Bridges planted the naked grain — so named because… Continue reading