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Clallam, Jefferson counties target heroin overdoses by planning to offer kits with antidote

North Olympic Peninsula counties are expected to start offering naloxone injection kits to heroin addicts and their families this year through syringe exchange programs. The… Continue reading

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Is Peninsula as dangerous as figures boast? Crime statistics from FBI analyzed

SEQUIM — Be afraid. Be very afraid. Be especially afraid of home security system salespeople slinging statistics. A kerfuffle last fall over Sequim's rank among… Continue reading

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Cut timber lies in piles at the Port of Port Angeles log yard near William R. Fairchild International Airport. — Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News ()

Port of Port Angeles pares $320,660 from spending; topside repairs, logs lead losses

PORT ANGELES — Sinking log exports and topside repairs that were shanghaied to Singapore have led the Port of Port Angeles to trim its spending… Continue reading

Cut timber lies in piles at the Port of Port Angeles log yard near William R. Fairchild International Airport. — Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News ()
A collection of temporary buildings

Port Angeles port commissioners reject sale of acreage to waterfront company

PORT ANGELES — The Port of Port Angeles rang up “no sale” Tuesday on 4 acres of harbor front that Platypus Marine Inc. wants to… Continue reading

A collection of temporary buildings
Sandy Smith of the Olympic Medical Center staff demonstrates one of the therapy pool's features: monitoring her underwater movements on a video monitor. (James Casey/Peninsula Daily News)

Matching donor saves Olympic Medical Therapy and Rehabilitation pool from going down drain

PORT ANGELES — All right, everybody get back into the water. Olympic Medical Therapy and Rehabilitation last week dedicated its refurbished aquatic therapy pool —… Continue reading

Sandy Smith of the Olympic Medical Center staff demonstrates one of the therapy pool's features: monitoring her underwater movements on a video monitor. (James Casey/Peninsula Daily News)
A typical naloxone injection kit. ()

Clallam, Jefferson counties target heroin overdoses by planning to offer kits with antidote

North Olympic Peninsula counties are expected to start offering naloxone injection kits to heroin addicts and their families this year through syringe exchange programs. The… Continue reading

A typical naloxone injection kit. ()

Work nearing end on Olympic Medical Center capital improvements for ER, home health

PORT ANGELES — Even as it prepares to start erecting a new medical office building, Olympic Medical Center is finishing some smaller capital improvements. CEO… Continue reading

EYE ON OLYMPIA: Legislature back starting Tuesday to finish special session; politicians expect needing more time to tackle revenue

OLYMPIA — Lawmakers will return to the state capital Tuesday for the three days that remain in their current special session, but they expect to… Continue reading

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Is Peninsula as dangerous as figures boast? Crime statistics from FBI analyzed

SEQUIM — Be afraid. Be very afraid. Be especially afraid of home security system salespeople slinging statistics. A kerfuffle last fall over Sequim's rank among… Continue reading

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Chamber of Commerce audience hears pros, cons of Platypus bid to buy Port of Port Angeles property

PORT ANGELES — The Port of Port Angeles will consider May 26 selling 4 acres of land near its waterfront to Platypus Marine Inc. Ken… Continue reading

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State Sen. Hargrove: New Carbon Pollution Accountability Act will yield education funds

OLYMPIA — State Sen. Jim Hargrove continues trying to jimmy open a source of funds for basic education. Already sponsor of a bill to hike… Continue reading

Volunteers from Port Angeles welcome passengers as they disembark from the cruise ship ms Statendam on Saturday. —Photo by James Casey/Peninsula Daily News ()

Cruise ship passengers say Port Angeles is friendly, unique, quaint

PORT ANGELES — “Quaint.” That’s how Port Angeles impressed a plurality of people in a rambling, random sample of passengers from the ms Statendam. The… Continue reading

Volunteers from Port Angeles welcome passengers as they disembark from the cruise ship ms Statendam on Saturday. —Photo by James Casey/Peninsula Daily News ()
Volunteers from Port Angeles welcome passengers as they disembark from the cruise ship ms Statendam on Saturday. —Photo by James Casey/Peninsula Daily News ()

Cruise ship passengers say Port Angeles is friendly, unique, quaint

PORT ANGELES — “Quaint.” That’s how Port Angeles impressed a plurality of people in a rambling, random sample of passengers from the ms Statendam. The… Continue reading

Volunteers from Port Angeles welcome passengers as they disembark from the cruise ship ms Statendam on Saturday. —Photo by James Casey/Peninsula Daily News ()
In April 2012

SEE FOR YOURSELF: Changing mouth of Elwha River documented in aerial photos

PORT ANGELES — Elwha River, open wide. Well, open your mouth, lengthen your channel and stick out what might become a new spit east of… Continue reading

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Port Angeles clinic receives federal health center status; designation will widen services to Peninsula

PORT ANGELES — Family Medicine of Port Angeles will become a new federal community health clinic with the aid of a $700,000 grant and widening… Continue reading

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Incentives to be offered for Port Angeles air service; airlines, aircraft vary in different proposals

PORT ANGELES — One wing looks ready to fly. Now for the prayer. Scheduled air service from William R. Fairchild International Airport could take off… Continue reading

Teachers at a rally in Olympia last month. (The Associated Press)

PA, Sequim, Chimacum teachers plan 1-day strikes — and officials decide what they’ll do about it (corrected)

EDITOR'S NOTE: This report has been corrected to reflect that after school extra-curricular activities scheduled for May 18 in Port Angeles schools have been cancelled… Continue reading

Teachers at a rally in Olympia last month. (The Associated Press)
Teachers at a rally in Olympia last month. (The Associated Press)

PA, Sequim, Chimacum teachers plan 1-day strikes — and officials decide what they’ll do about it (corrected)

EDITOR'S NOTE: This report has been corrected to reflect that after school extra-curricular activities scheduled for May 18 in Port Angeles schools have been cancelled… Continue reading

Teachers at a rally in Olympia last month. (The Associated Press)
In April 2012

SEE FOR YOURSELF: Changing mouth of Elwha River documented in aerial photos

PORT ANGELES — Elwha River, open wide. Well, open your mouth, lengthen your channel and stick out what might become a new spit east of… Continue reading

In April 2012
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Port Angeles squeaks by Santa Barbara in Best Town balloting — next up: Bainbridge Island

PORT ANGELES — David's done slayin' Goliath. Next up: that ol' Queen of Sheba. In a face-off sponsored by Outside magazine, Port Angeles outpolled Santa… Continue reading

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