PORT TOWNSEND -- Unanticipated expenses related to the arrest, double-murder trial and jury conviction of Michael J. Pierce approach $350,000. Some -- probably most --… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- A small force of volunteer weed-pulling warriors attacked concentrations of poisonous hemlock and noxious Scotch broom last week in an effort to… Continue reading
PORT HADLOCK -- Jefferson County Public Utility District commissioners may decide Monday if the agency will go into the electrical power business. Nearly 18 months… Continue reading
PORT HADLOCK -- OlyCAP Thrift Shoppe is planning an open house to celebrate the addition of its new furniture annex. The 800-square-foot store room is… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- United Good Neighbors of Jefferson County plans a celebration after it surpassed its fundraising goal. "We are a little bit over the… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- The Port of Port Townsend hopes to acquire the Chilkat Express, one of the fastest passenger vessels in U.S. waters, "if all… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- Fairwind's Winery owner Mike Cavett saw the need for a van transportation service to wineries such as his, and Bill Balle stepped… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- The state Department of Ecology today reissued the air operating permit for Port Townsend Paper Corp.'s pulp and paper mill after a… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- Fred Weinmann remembers in October 2008 when East Jefferson Fire-Rescue control-burned the Kah Tai Prairie Preserve, leaving behind a blackened acre in… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- Port Townsend Farmers Market, now ranked as the seventh largest in the state, is adding under its umbrella the Chimacum Farmers Market… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- East Jefferson Fire-Rescue officials are cautiously optimistic that voters on Tuesday will pass three levy proposals to maintain and boost financial support… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- Ella Piatt has a special attachment to the aging Jefferson County Memorial Athletic Field park and wants it kept open and in… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- The state is doing what it can to help small businesses survive in the wake of the worst economic times since the… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- Gov. Chris Gregoire and her husband, Mike Gregoire, joined Scott Lundh's fourth-graders, parents, Quileute tribal leaders and others Thursday for a celebration… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- Marinas in Port Townsend and Brinnon marina have been certified under the Clean Marina Washington Program, which is a state effort to… Continue reading
CHIMACUM -- Anderson Lake will open for the start of the state lowland lake fishing season on Saturday. It will be the first time the… Continue reading
CHIMACUM -- Seeing lower levels of toxic blue-green algae, Jefferson County Public Health and state parks officials are giving the go-ahead to open Anderson Lake… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- The Jefferson Transit board will consider asking county voters to approve a sales tax increase. Hearing about the bus authority's dire financial… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- Jefferson Transit is offering the job of general manager to longtime Portland, Ore., TriMet transit operations manager Peggy Hanson. The board, after… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- The eight-member Conservation Futures Citizen Oversight Committee voted unanimously Monday to recommend that Jefferson County commissioners fund $200,000 in Conservation Futures dollars… Continue reading
