Joe Smillie

Victor

Puppy, shot at least three times, recovers while reward is offered for information

PORT TOWNSEND –– While a 6-month-old puppy recovers from gunshot wounds, the Humane Society of Jefferson County is offering a $500 reward for information that… Continue reading

Victor

Quilcene fire district may seek tax increase to save round-the-clock protection

QUILCENE –– Jefferson County Fire District No. 2 commissioners are considering asking voters in November for a property tax increase to prevent losing 24-hours-a-day fire… Continue reading

Crew with Anchor Ventures LLC

1st UPDATE: Relic anchor brought up for air after 222 years — now question begs: Was it Capt. Vancouver’s?

A salvage crew hoisted a 900-pound antique anchor from the bottom of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. It was headed for Port Townsend. The… Continue reading

Crew with Anchor Ventures LLC
Victor

Puppy, shot at least three times, recovers while reward is offered for information

PORT TOWNSEND –– While a 6-month-old puppy recovers from gunshot wounds, the Humane Society of Jefferson County is offering a $500 reward for information that… Continue reading

Victor
Wheel-In Motor Movie owner Rick Wiley shows off the new Barco PP2k-23B digital movie projector he has installed at the Port Townsend drive-in movie theater with the help of a Kickstarter campaign in which fans of the theater contributed more than $35

Wheel-In Motor Movie pulls off down-to-the-wire fundraising bid to keep Port Townsend drive-in alive

PORT TOWNSEND — Like Indian Jones sliding just under a closing temple door, the Wheel-In Motor Movie got just enough last-minute donations to complete its… Continue reading

Wheel-In Motor Movie owner Rick Wiley shows off the new Barco PP2k-23B digital movie projector he has installed at the Port Townsend drive-in movie theater with the help of a Kickstarter campaign in which fans of the theater contributed more than $35
Victor

Puppy, shot at least three times, recovers while reward is offered for information

PORT TOWNSEND –– While a 6-month-old puppy recovers from gunshot wounds, the Humane Society of Jefferson County is offering a $500 reward for information that… Continue reading

Victor
Wheel-In Motor Movie owner Rick Wiley shows off the new Barco PP2k-23B digital movie projector he has installed at the Port Townsend drive-in movie theater with the help of a Kickstarter campaign in which fans of the theater contributed more than $35

Wheel-In Motor Movie pulls off down-to-the-wire fundraising bid to keep Port Townsend drive-in alive

PORT TOWNSEND — Like Indian Jones sliding just under a closing temple door, the Wheel-In Motor Movie got just enough last-minute donations to complete its… Continue reading

Wheel-In Motor Movie owner Rick Wiley shows off the new Barco PP2k-23B digital movie projector he has installed at the Port Townsend drive-in movie theater with the help of a Kickstarter campaign in which fans of the theater contributed more than $35
Scott Grimm

222 years to the day: Pair plan this week to fetch old anchor that could be off Vancouver ship

PORT TOWNSEND –– Hoping to disprove decades of conventional wisdom, Doug Monk and Scott Grimm will lead an expedition Monday to retrieve an anchor they… Continue reading

Scott Grimm
The Seattle-based Sound and Fury Morris & Sword traditional British dance troupe does a jig at Pope Marine Park in Port Townsend as part of the Brass Screw Confederacy’s third Steampunk Festival on Saturday.  —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Goggled visitors take over Port Townsend for steampunk fest; ends today

PORT TOWNSEND –– The streets of Port Townsend have been taken over by parasols, periscopes and a little of the paranormal. Hundreds of goggled visitors… Continue reading

The Seattle-based Sound and Fury Morris & Sword traditional British dance troupe does a jig at Pope Marine Park in Port Townsend as part of the Brass Screw Confederacy’s third Steampunk Festival on Saturday.  —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
A trio of vintage P-51 Mustangs flies in a “V” formation during a flyover of Port Angeles on Friday morning. The flight

Vintage warplanes soar over Peninsula to mark D-Day anniversary [**Gallery**]

People gathered across the North Olympic Peninsula to watch a trio of vintage World War II fighter planes fly over in recognition of the 70th… Continue reading

A trio of vintage P-51 Mustangs flies in a “V” formation during a flyover of Port Angeles on Friday morning. The flight
A masked figure is shown carrying a 4-year-old child across Carrie Blake Park in Sequim in this scene from a YouTube video two brothers made April 13.

Remember the twin brothers who staged fake kidnapping in Sequim? Now they face a court date

SEQUIM –– Turns out “scaring the hell out of people” might be a crime. City Attorney Craig Ritchie filed misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct Monday… Continue reading

A masked figure is shown carrying a 4-year-old child across Carrie Blake Park in Sequim in this scene from a YouTube video two brothers made April 13.
Albert Haller Playfields hosts a recent youth soccer gathering. —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Sequim soccer playfields expansion not without critics

SEQUIM –– Plans are in the works to upgrade the Albert Haller Playfields next to the city’s Water Reuse Demonstration Site, but some community members… Continue reading

Albert Haller Playfields hosts a recent youth soccer gathering. —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
Air Force veteran Thomas Knee

‘The day when it all turned around’: North Olympic Peninsula veterans recall D-Day 70 years later

Whether they were sitting in the English Channel, on a mule in the Caribbean or working in a Japanese prison camp, North Olympic Peninsula veterans… Continue reading

Air Force veteran Thomas Knee
Ted Smithers

Is that legal? Man in Grateful Dead bear suit advertises for medical marijuana on Port Angeles streets

PORT ANGELES –– Can a guy in a bear suit sell weed on the sidewalk? Local city and law enforcement officials said that apparently, he… Continue reading

Ted Smithers
A masked figure is shown carrying a 4-year-old child across Carrie Blake Park in Sequim in this scene from a YouTube video two brothers made April 13.

Remember the twin brothers who staged fake kidnapping in Sequim? Now they face a court date

SEQUIM –– Turns out “scaring the hell out of people” might be a crime. City Attorney Craig Ritchie filed misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct Monday… Continue reading

A masked figure is shown carrying a 4-year-old child across Carrie Blake Park in Sequim in this scene from a YouTube video two brothers made April 13.
Albert Haller Playfields hosts a recent youth soccer gathering. —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Sequim soccer playfields expansion not without critics

SEQUIM –– Plans are in the works to upgrade the Albert Haller Playfields next to the city’s Water Reuse Demonstration Site, but some community members… Continue reading

Albert Haller Playfields hosts a recent youth soccer gathering. —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
A masked figure is shown carrying a 4-year-old child across Carrie Blake Park in Sequim in this scene from a YouTube video two brothers made April 13.

Remember the twin brothers who staged fake kidnapping in Sequim? They will go to court after all

SEQUIM –– Turns out “scaring the hell out of people” might be a crime. City Attorney Craig Ritchie filed misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct Monday… Continue reading

A masked figure is shown carrying a 4-year-old child across Carrie Blake Park in Sequim in this scene from a YouTube video two brothers made April 13.
Three conservation groups plan to try to stop a timber harvest in the West End that is planned for an area adjacent to habitat of the marbled murrelet

Timber harvest dispute over West End units centers on threatened bird species

Three conservation groups intend to ask Jefferson County Superior Court Judge Keith Harper to stop a state-approved harvest of 234 acres of timber on the… Continue reading

Three conservation groups plan to try to stop a timber harvest in the West End that is planned for an area adjacent to habitat of the marbled murrelet
Dianne Mcintosh with the purse she carried as part of a $21 outfit she modeled during the Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild's annual luncheon fashion show at 7 Cedars Casino. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild gives more than $32,000

SEQUIM — Local health agencies will be able to train more nurses, provide free treatment and improve scanning of bed-bound patients thanks to $32,406 in… Continue reading

Dianne Mcintosh with the purse she carried as part of a $21 outfit she modeled during the Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild's annual luncheon fashion show at 7 Cedars Casino. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
One of Tse-whit-zen's greatest treasures: an intricately carved bone comb. Peninsula Daily News file photo

Tse-whit-zen artifacts to be displayed on Peninsula (with photo gallery)

EDITOR'S NOTE — See related story today, "Tribe applies to National Register of Historic Places for Tse-whit-zen" — https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20140601/NEWS/306019924 PORT ANGELES –– After centuries underground… Continue reading

One of Tse-whit-zen's greatest treasures: an intricately carved bone comb. Peninsula Daily News file photo