Jeremy Schwartz

Anonymous donation impels Forks Library revamp forward

FORKS — Work on Forks Library renovations could begin sometime this year now that fundraising efforts have received a boost from an anonymous donor. The… Continue reading

A half-block section of North Oak Street in downtown Port Angeles is closed Thursday as excavators remove old sewer pipe for replacement. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Oak Street closed to vehicle traffic next week

PORT ANGELES — The northernmost half of North Oak Street will be closed to all vehicle traffic starting the middle of next week, though pedestrians… Continue reading

A half-block section of North Oak Street in downtown Port Angeles is closed Thursday as excavators remove old sewer pipe for replacement. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Maher Abed

Port Angeles hires deputy director of public works operations

PORT ANGELES — City officials have hired a new deputy director of operations in the city's Public Works and Utilities Department. Maher Abed has taken… Continue reading

Maher Abed

Port Angeles lays out timeline for landfill work

PORT ANGELES — City public works staff want to start work no later than summer 2014 to prevent a shoreline bluff abutting the city’s landfill… Continue reading

Makah tribe is finalist for $750,000 grant

NEAH BAY — The Makah tribe is one step closer to securing funding for a communal space and longhouse proposed for Neah Bay after being… Continue reading

EYE ON OLYMPIA: Runaway youth bill passes state Senate

OLYMPIA — A bill, sponsored by a 24th District legislator, that would give licensed youth shelters and other programs that take in runaway youth more… Continue reading

North Oak Street lane closed starting Monday

PORT ANGELES — The southbound lane of North Oak Street in downtown Port Angeles will be closed starting Monday as part of the city’s combined… Continue reading

Philip Curtis Shelly

Port Angeles rapist has history of failing to register

PORT ANGELES — A convicted sex offender from Port Angeles who remained at large Saturday has a criminal record in at least three states, according… Continue reading

Philip Curtis Shelly
Greg Scherer

Port Angeles’ waterfront businesses holding fast as construction continues

PORT ANGELES — Strolling along West Railroad Avenue in downtown Port Angeles isn’t as easy as it used to be because construction crews are working… Continue reading

Greg Scherer
Earl Gann and his daughter

Record 470 find help at Homeless Connect

PORT ANGELES — More than 470 took advantage of services offered at Friday's Project Homeless Connect in what the coordinator said was the best-attended of… Continue reading

Earl Gann and his daughter
Emily Balser

Sentient statues breathe life into reopening of Webster’s Woods [ *** GALLERY *** ]

PORT ANGELES — A light drizzle did not dampen the spirits of the roughly dozen people who turned out for Saturday's grand reopening of the… Continue reading

Emily Balser
Susan Feiro

Wife of marine lab founder dies at 82

PORT ANGELES — Susan Feiro, the wife of Feiro Marine Life Center co-founder and namesake Arthur Feiro, has died. She was 82. Mrs. Feiro died… Continue reading

Susan Feiro
Port Angeles High School sophomore Jessica Zhu

Students to test bridge designs in contest

PORT ANGELES — The Popsicle-stick bridges designed and built by three Port Angeles High School students will be judged and tested in a regional competition… Continue reading

Port Angeles High School sophomore Jessica Zhu
Bereket Piatt crosses the finish line of a North Olympic Peninsula cross-country meet for Port Townsend High School in 2009. Keith Thorpe/Copyright &Copy; 2013

Kidnapping, robbery charges filed against former Port Townsend track star

EDITOR'S NOTE — For our previous story, "Everett bank robbery, kidnapping suspect is former Port Townsend sports champion," click on https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20130203/NEWS/302039989 EVERETT — Kidnapping and… Continue reading

Bereket Piatt crosses the finish line of a North Olympic Peninsula cross-country meet for Port Townsend High School in 2009. Keith Thorpe/Copyright &Copy; 2013
Philip Curtis Shelly

Search continues for rapist who cut GPS tracking anklet

PORT ANGELES — State Department of Corrections officials and area law enforcement officers continued Tuesday to seek a convicted sex offender who cut off his… Continue reading

Philip Curtis Shelly

Tharinger, Van De Wege plan telephone town hall today

The North Olympic Peninsula's two voices in the state House of Representatives will host a telephone town hall for thousands of 24th District voters from… Continue reading

Man pleads not guilty to domestic violence [CORRECTED]

PORT ANGELES — A 27-year-old Port Angeles man recently extradited from California has pleaded not guilty to multiple domestic-violence charges and was denied a request… Continue reading

PENINSULA POLL BACKGROUNDER: Peninsula lawmakers split on state gun-control proposal

OLYMPIA — A bill introduced in the state House of Representatives last week that would require criminal background checks for all firearm sales in Washington… Continue reading

Main Street supported a recent Girls Night Out event in Port Townsend. Shown are Christy Taylor and Gail Boulter at the Clothes Horse. Charlie Bermant/Peninsula Daily News

Tax-credit programs bolster Port Townsend, Port Angeles downtown associations

PORT TOWNSEND — A tax- credit program for businesses making donations led to Port Townsend Main Street receiving $133,333.33 in 2012 — the maximum allowed… Continue reading

Main Street supported a recent Girls Night Out event in Port Townsend. Shown are Christy Taylor and Gail Boulter at the Clothes Horse. Charlie Bermant/Peninsula Daily News
Bereket Piatt crosses the finish line of a North Olympic Peninsula cross-country meet for Port Townsend High School in 2009. Keith Thorpe/Copyright &Copy; 2013

Everett bank robbery, kidnapping suspect is former Port Townsend sports champion

EVERETT — A former Port Townsend High School cross-country star was in the Snohomish County jail Saturday after being arrested for investigation of kidnapping and… Continue reading

Bereket Piatt crosses the finish line of a North Olympic Peninsula cross-country meet for Port Townsend High School in 2009. Keith Thorpe/Copyright &Copy; 2013