Jeff Chew

Single ferry likely in Port Townsend’s future, transportation boss tells business audience

PORT TOWNSEND -- State lawmakers are likely to embrace a plan that would provide only one 64-car ferry for the Port Townsend-Keystone route, the state's… Continue reading

Longtime farmer new market director

PORT TOWNSEND -- Will O'Donnell, well known in Jefferson County's agriculture community and among artisan cheese makers, is the new director at Port Townsend Farmers… Continue reading

New rule affects county banking

Clallam and Jefferson county treasurers, seriously concerned in February upon learning about a new state rule that requires banks that hold public funds to prove… Continue reading

Port Townsend’s new visitor center offers wireless Internet

PORT TOWNSEND -- Wireless access to the Internet has expanded with the addition of an Intellicheck Mobilisa unit around the new Port Townsend Chamber of… Continue reading

Port of Port Townsend considers taking over state park

PORT TOWNSEND -- The Port of Port Townsend might one day hold down the fort. Old Fort Townsend State Park could get a local government… Continue reading

Jefferson Democrats host Border Patrol officers: ‘Don’t try to scare us’

PORT TOWNSEND -- Jefferson County Democrats on Wednesday urged federal Border Patrol agents to avoid creating fear and resentment. Libby Palmer, addressing U.S. Border Patrol… Continue reading

Jefferson land-use fees rise to stem staff cuts

PORT TOWNSEND -- The Jefferson County commissioners unanimously approved higher land-use permit fees to avoid deeper staff cuts in the county Department of Community Development.… Continue reading

Unusual school-based clinic opens at Port Townsend High School

PORT TOWNSEND -- A school-based medical and mental health services clinic has opened at Port Townsend High School. It is the first such facility on… Continue reading

Shoreline plan stirs concern in Jefferson County

PORT TOWNSEND -- Jefferson County has received 472 written and verbal comments on the proposed shoreline master program update, which have been divided into issues… Continue reading

More use syringes in Jefferson in 2008, but fewer turn them in for exchange

PORT TOWNSEND -- The number of drug addicts using Jefferson County's syringe program grew to 70 in 2008, but the number of syringes exchanged declined… Continue reading

New Port Townsend ferry at digital design phase

PORT TOWNSEND ¬­-- Todd Pacific Shipyards, Washington State Ferries and their design firms are six weeks into producing an electronic mock-up of the Port Townsend-Keystone… Continue reading

ACLU signs on immigrant rights to be posted in Jefferson Transit buses

PORT TOWNSEND -- Signs in Jefferson Transit buses will offer legal advice, beginning in early March, compliments of the American Civil Liberties Union. Signs telling… Continue reading

Steilacoom II lease extension discussed by state ferries, Pierce County

PORT TOWNSEND -- Washington State Ferries officials are expected to strike up a conversation next week with Pierce County leaders that could lead to extension… Continue reading

Jefferson Transit forced to serve in Kitsap when Hood Canal Bridge is out

PORT TOWNSEND -- Jefferson Transit has agreed in principle to provide temporary bus service in Kitsap County during the May-June Hood Canal Bridge construction closure… Continue reading

Jefferson airport eyed for groundbreaking ‘eco park’

PORT TOWNSEND -- Economic forces, including the Port of Port Townsend, Washington State University Team Jefferson and the Peninsula Development District, are banding together to… Continue reading

Group asks to keep Old Fort Townsend in state park budget

PORT TOWNSEND -- The Fort Worden State Park Advisory Committee is pleading with state parks officials and lawmakers to keep Old Fort Townsend State Park… Continue reading

Hood Canal Bridge out again this year — but only for six weeks in May, June

SHINE -- Could the Hood Canal Bridge's deteriorating eastern half -- scheduled to be replaced this year -- sink like the western half did in… Continue reading

When the Hood Canal Bridge sank 30 years ago

SHINE -- It was 30 years ago Friday that hurricane-force winds sank the west half of the Hood Canal Bridge, and those who witnessed the… Continue reading

Centrum names new director

PORT TOWNSEND -- An arts manager for more than 25 years from Sonoma, Calif., has been hired as Centrum's new executive director. John MacElwee, who… Continue reading

Steilacoom II returning for Port Townsend car ferry service Thursday

PORT TOWNSEND -- Car ferry service returns to the Port Townsend-Keystone route early Thursday morning after five weeks of maintenance and repairs on the 50-car… Continue reading