PORT ANGELES - Heart-swelling highs, lows that sear the soul: That's motherhood. Julie Stockert knows both well, though she's never given birth. Julie and her… Continue reading
SEQUIM - This year's Irrigation Festival Grand Parade promises a larger-than-life luminary, promised Joe Borden, the festival's chairman. This figure, however, is not on the… Continue reading
BLYN - Before we show off our attributes to people in other regions, we'd best become friends, or at least partners. That was the message,… Continue reading
CARLSBORG - A sawdust explosion and subsequent fire drew a crowd to Mervin Manufacturing's snowboard factory Tuesday morning. No one was injured in the blaze,… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES - We're young, warm and willing to sweat. And that makes the North Olympic Peninsula a viable place for vineyards, according to Greg… Continue reading
SEQUIM - As another crop of big boxes takes shape on the edge of the city, planners are focusing on downtown's health, and envisioning ways… Continue reading
SEQUIM - Mercedes Meyer, comic-book composer, blows away assumptions about teenagers. She created one of her pen-drawn dramas recently about the consequences of teen sex,… Continue reading
SEQUIM - He knelt on one knee and clinched it. Bill Bentley, assistant superintendent of the 25,000-student Evergreen School District in Vancouver, Wash., will move… Continue reading
SEQUIM - The final day of the 2007 Legislature - which wrapped up around 9:30 p.m. April 22 - was much like election night in… Continue reading
SEQUIM - Along the shore of Sequim Bay, where a stiff wind whips ice-blue waves, an ultramodern form of growth is occurring, and two governments… Continue reading
SEQUIM - At 45, Clare Bertucio has seen a lot of suffering. Yet Bertucio, who finished medical school at the Mayo Clinic in 1993 and… Continue reading
SEQUIM - Kirk Miller knows life in a small town. He's superintendent of Montana's Havre School District, where he went to high school - and… Continue reading
SEQUIM - He's known by some around the country as the no-prayer guy. Bill Bentley, candidate for Sequim School District superintendent, received national attention -… Continue reading
SEQUIM - It's to be one of Sequim's bigger bashes, so the football field has been deemed the venue. Due to much phone-calling, at least… Continue reading
SEQUIM - High-rises, how tall to build City Hall and how to pay for the city's growth: Such were the topics that made for a… Continue reading
SEQUIM - The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula, in their ongoing saga of personnel and fundraising, have won some and lost one.… Continue reading
BLYN - This isn't a conversation. It's a headlong leap onto a bullet train. Ron Allen is the engineer, hurtling back and forth between the… Continue reading
SEQUIM - Warren Hunt, chairman of the Sequim Senior Softball Club, is looking for a little competition - and he also wouldn't mind finding a… Continue reading
CARLSBORG - A trio of youngsters scurried up to and away from Gary Smart's shop door recently - for the second time in as many… Continue reading
BLYN - Lori Athow has been called into Chief Financial Officer Linda Ruffcorn's office many times in the past year. "She can just look at… Continue reading
