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Panel urges Opportunity Fund money for Port of Port Angeles composites recycling center

PORT ANGELES — A proposed composites recycling center in Port Angeles will move $1 million closer to construction if a Clallam County advisory panel gets… Continue reading

Panel urges Opportunity Fund money for Port of Port Angeles composites recycling center

PORT ANGELES — A proposed composites recycling center in Port Angeles will move $1 million closer to construction if a Clallam County advisory panel gets… Continue reading

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society attorneys to attend Makah whaling meeting Wednesday in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A legal team from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be among the activists at a public meeting Wednesday who’ll oppose the… Continue reading

Clallam measles outbreak officially ends, Board of Health declares

PORT ANGELES — It’s not over till it’s over, but for now, at least, it’s over. It’s measles, of course. The Clallam County Board of… Continue reading

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society attorneys to attend Makah whaling meeting Wednesday in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A legal team from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be among the activists at a public meeting Wednesday who’ll oppose the… Continue reading

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society attorneys to attend Makah whaling meeting next Wednesday in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A legal team from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be among the activists at a public meeting Wednesday, April 29 who'll… Continue reading

Clallam measles outbreak officially ends, Board of Health declares

PORT ANGELES — It's not over till it's over, but for now, at least, it's over. It's measles, of course. The Clallam County Board of… Continue reading

The Port Angeles-based launch Brave Arrow departs the Polar Pioneer offshore oil platform atop the MV Blue Marlin cargo deck ship as it shuttles workers to shore in Port Angeles Harbor on Tuesday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Hotel, eateries and more see spike in business from massive oil rig in Port Angeles Harbor

PORT ANGELES — The expected blip in the city's economy from the oil rig that's commanding its northward views has bloomed into a full-grown bubble.… Continue reading

The Port Angeles-based launch Brave Arrow departs the Polar Pioneer offshore oil platform atop the MV Blue Marlin cargo deck ship as it shuttles workers to shore in Port Angeles Harbor on Tuesday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
The Port Angeles-based launch Brave Arrow departs the Polar Pioneer offshore oil platform atop the MV Blue Marlin cargo deck ship as it shuttles workers to shore in Port Angeles Harbor on Tuesday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Massive oil rig in Port Angeles Harbor provides shot in the arm for local businesses

PORT ANGELES — The expected blip in the city's economy from the oil rig that's commanding its northward views has bloomed into a full-grown bubble.… Continue reading

The Port Angeles-based launch Brave Arrow departs the Polar Pioneer offshore oil platform atop the MV Blue Marlin cargo deck ship as it shuttles workers to shore in Port Angeles Harbor on Tuesday. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Housing Resource Center Supervisor Veronica Fountain arranges her desk after unpacking at the new Serenity House Housing Resource Center at 520 E. First St. in Port Angeles on Tuesday. The center

Serenity moves its Port Angeles Housing Resource Center across the street — corrected

EDITOR'S NOTE: The new address of Serenity House of Clallam County's Housing Resource Center in Port Angeles has been corrected in this report. PORT ANGELES… Continue reading

Housing Resource Center Supervisor Veronica Fountain arranges her desk after unpacking at the new Serenity House Housing Resource Center at 520 E. First St. in Port Angeles on Tuesday. The center
The currently empty 2220 Building sits on the Port of Port Angeles Composites Manufacturing Campus near William R. Fairchild International Airport in Port Angeles. The port hopes to use the building as a composites recycling center. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Composites recycling center in Port Angeles gains funding, interest

PORT ANGELES — Hope is glowing brighter for a composites-recycling center at William R. Fairchild International Airport. Following her report to port commissioners last week,… Continue reading

The currently empty 2220 Building sits on the Port of Port Angeles Composites Manufacturing Campus near William R. Fairchild International Airport in Port Angeles. The port hopes to use the building as a composites recycling center. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

EYE ON OLYMPIA: Sen. Hargrove aims at education funding; he’d hike capital gains tax by 1/10 of 1 percent

OLYMPIA — The state Legislature hadn’t taken a shot for three months at funding basic education, so state Sen. Jim Hargrove last week drew a… Continue reading

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Now it’s whooping cough as measles fades as an outbreak on Peninsula

PORT TOWNSEND — No sooner does the threat of measles in Clallam County fade than cases of whooping cough shoot up in neighboring Jefferson County.… Continue reading

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The currently empty 2220 Building sits on the Port of Port Angeles Composites Manufacturing Campus near William R. Fairchild International Airport in Port Angeles. The port hopes to use the building as a composites recycling center. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Composites recycling center in Port Angeles gains funding, interest

PORT ANGELES — Hope is glowing brighter for a composites-recycling center at William R. Fairchild International Airport. Following her report to port commissioners last week,… Continue reading

The currently empty 2220 Building sits on the Port of Port Angeles Composites Manufacturing Campus near William R. Fairchild International Airport in Port Angeles. The port hopes to use the building as a composites recycling center. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Illustration by The New York Times News Service ()

Now it’s whooping cough as measles fades as an outbreak on Peninsula

PORT TOWNSEND — No sooner does the threat of measles in Clallam County fade than cases of whooping cough shoot up in neighboring Jefferson County.… Continue reading

Illustration by The New York Times News Service ()

Some Olympic Medical Center buildings could come down for new structure

PORT ANGELES — You can’t erect a new, big edifice without breaking up a few old, little ones, at least not on the block across… Continue reading

Illustration by The New York Times News Service ()

Now it’s whooping cough as measles fades as an outbreak on Peninsula

PORT TOWNSEND — No sooner does the threat of measles in Clallam County fade than cases of whooping cough shoot up in neighboring Jefferson County.… Continue reading

Illustration by The New York Times News Service ()
Rendering of Olympic Medical Center's new medical office building at Race and Georgiana streets in Port Angeles. ()

New building looms large for Olympic Medical Center; facility aims to answer need for space

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center's new medical office building at Race and Georgiana streets will dedicate 42,000 square feet of exam rooms, doctors' offices,… Continue reading

Rendering of Olympic Medical Center's new medical office building at Race and Georgiana streets in Port Angeles. ()
Rendering of Olympic Medical Center's new medical office building at Race and Georgiana streets in Port Angeles. ()

New building looms large for Olympic Medical Center; facility aims to answer need for space

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center's new medical office building at Race and Georgiana streets will dedicate 42,000 square feet of exam rooms, doctors' offices,… Continue reading

Rendering of Olympic Medical Center's new medical office building at Race and Georgiana streets in Port Angeles. ()

Gov. Inslee pledges $712,000 to develop Peninsula carbon-fiber composites center if Port of Port Angeles lands grant

PORT ANGELES — The Port of Port Angeles is $712,000 closer to making its proposed Composites Recycling Technology Center a reality. The port received Gov.… Continue reading