Diane Urbani de la Paz

`I just remember closing my eyes”

SEQUIM -- Adrien Gault's holiday season is busier than usual. Other teenagers he's never met keep walking up and saying, "Are you Adrien? Whassup?" Then… Continue reading

Lighthouse Web cam to offer a peek at serenity

DUNGENESS -- "Welcome to serenity," reads the sign near the Dungeness Lighthouse, a 5-mile beach trek away from Sequim's outskirts. Let's face it. Most of… Continue reading

Lighthouse Web cam to offer a peek at serenity

DUNGENESS - "Welcome to serenity," reads the sign near the Dungeness Lighthouse, a 5-mile beach trek away from Sequim's outskirts. Let's face it. Most of… Continue reading

$10,000, better late than never

SEQUIM -- The check's in the mail, Charles Morgan promised Tuesday. More precisely, it's on the Federal Express plane. Morgan, architect of the Vintage at… Continue reading

Affordable housing project winds way through Sequim approval process

SEQUIM - After much lamenting among city leaders about a lack of affordable rentals here, a large lower-rent apartment complex is at last making its… Continue reading

Affordable housing project winds way through Sequim approval process

SEQUIM -- After much lamenting among city leaders about a lack of affordable rentals here, a large lower-rent apartment complex is at last making its… Continue reading

Sequim’s next big crop: sugar-free fruit treats

SEQUIM -- Karen Junell started baking sugar-free apple pies for her diabetic husband, John, about 10 years ago. He devoured the pies, shared with his… Continue reading

Pearl Harbor survivors share memories, gratitude for life

SEQUIM -- Syd Carr remembers seeing a Japanese submarine surface in Pearl Harbor around 6:30 a.m. one day 65 years ago. That day has, of… Continue reading

Sequim annexes nearly 200 acres, OKs `urban village”

SEQUIM -- Swaths of land plus plans for an "urban village" appeared on the city's horizon Monday night. In the latest in a series of… Continue reading

Bucks and barks for dog park

SEQUIM -- Picture the cure for cold-weather blues: a love-fest, a dog day, a frolic in the sun. Yes, those seem an awfully long way… Continue reading

Memberships question holds up golf course sale

DUNGENESS -- The Jamestown S'Klallam tribe soon will close its deal to purchase the Dungeness Golf Course, said Jerry Allen, assistant general manager of the… Continue reading

Sequim marketers hope to put sunshine on Seattle TV

SEQUIM -- It could be a solar-powered generator of money for the city. A magnet for soggy Seattleites. An on-screen portal to peace and quiet… Continue reading

Animal shelter seeks increase of funds from Sequim

SEQUIM -- Dr. John Miles believes $2.39 per person is not so steep. That's how much Miles, president of the Clallam County Humane Society, is… Continue reading

Sequim: Clallam Co-op celebrates seven decades in Sequim

SEQUIM -- The Clallam Co-op could have been a dinosaur, but those in charge did their homework and averted extinction. "We did a lot of… Continue reading

Sequim: Wisteria Cottage assisted living to close; 37 residents must move

SEQUIM -- Wisteria Cottage Assisted Living has been sold and will close at the end of the year, displacing 37 residents and 21 staff members.… Continue reading

Sequim: Council green-lights City Hall funding study

SEQUIM -- A two- or three-story City Hall could take shape here next year and have its grand opening in late 2008. If the 20,000-square-foot… Continue reading

‘An act of a broken heart’

FORKS -- Kasey Scarlett remembered the phone call last Sunday that told her about the death of her friend Jacob Hanson. The 19-year-old had taken… Continue reading

As Sequim grows, so grows spending

SEQUIM -- Teenagers, homeless animals, a $6 million City Hall and an upgraded wastewater treatment plant: Those are four potential recipients of Sequim funding in… Continue reading

Peninsula rivers recede as quickly as they rose

Rivers across the North Olympic Peninsula that rose quickly on Monday had fallen just as rapidly by midday Tuesday, leaving residents from LaPush to Duckabush… Continue reading

Sequim to examine ‘urban village’ without civic center

SEQUIM -- It sounds like a city within a town: an "urban village" with 548 housing units, a central plaza, miniature parks and 239,000 square… Continue reading