Joe Smillie

Martha Acosta

Owner of charred Sequim building awaiting more details

SEQUIM –– The owner of a building that burned last Monday is waiting until it is inspected this Tuesday before determining what she and the… Continue reading

Martha Acosta
Martha Acosta

Owner of charred Sequim building awaiting more details

SEQUIM –– The owner of a building that burned last Monday is waiting until it is inspected this Tuesday before determining what she and the… Continue reading

Martha Acosta

Sequim School Board mulls future bond measure after voters reject ballot item

By Joe Smillie Peninsula Daily News SEQUIM –– School officials plan to pare down a list of construction items and have more discussions with community… Continue reading

Zoophilia advocate sentenced to prison for parole violation in Jefferson County

SEATTLE –– An advocate of zoophilia — sex between humans and animals — who was arrested at his Discovery Bay home for allegedly violating court… Continue reading

Sequim School Board mulls future bond measure after voters reject ballot item

By Joe Smillie Peninsula Daily News SEQUIM –– School officials plan to pare down a list of construction items and have more discussions with community… Continue reading

Zoophilia advocate sentenced to prison for parole violation in Jefferson County

SEATTLE –– An advocate of zoophilia — sex between humans and animals — who was arrested at his Discovery Bay home for allegedly violating court… Continue reading

Zoophilia advocate sentenced to prison for parole violation in Jefferson County

SEATTLE –– An advocate of zoophilia — sex between humans and animals — who was arrested at his Discovery Bay home for allegedly violating court… Continue reading

Online appeal from the family of Lauryn Garrett.

Active investigation in Port Townsend nearing finish in search for Sequim woman

THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED — Police think missing woman left Peninsula on own, now along I-5 corridor: https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20140520/NEWS/305209970 PORT TOWNSEND –– The investigation into… Continue reading

Online appeal from the family of Lauryn Garrett.
Firefighters view the remains of the building that housed Baja Cantina and Sequim Consignment on West Washington Street in Sequim late Monday afternoon.  —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

‘Heart, sweat and tears’ up in smoke: Sequim’s Baja Cantina, consignment shop destroyed [with VIDEO and PHOTO GALLERY]

SEQUIM –– Firefighters spent much of Monday afternoon battling a blaze that destroyed the building that was home to Baja Cantina and Sequim Consignment Co.… Continue reading

Firefighters view the remains of the building that housed Baja Cantina and Sequim Consignment on West Washington Street in Sequim late Monday afternoon.  —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
Aaron Scott Markishtum

UPDATE — Police arrest, add charges on suspect in Joyce, Carlsborg burglaries

PORT ANGELES –– A 6-foot-7 transient is in Clallam County jail without bond on burglary charges after police say he kicked down the doors of… Continue reading

Aaron Scott Markishtum
Firefighters from Clallam County Fire District No. 3 and Port Angeles train water on the building that housed Baja Cantina and Sequim Consignment on West Washington Street in Sequim today.  —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

UPDATE — Fire destroys Sequim restaurant, consignment shop

SEQUIM –– Firefighters spent much of Monday afternoon battling a blaze that destroyed the building that was home to Baja Cantina and Sequim Consignment Co.… Continue reading

Firefighters from Clallam County Fire District No. 3 and Port Angeles train water on the building that housed Baja Cantina and Sequim Consignment on West Washington Street in Sequim today.  —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
Sharon Kanichy shows off the victory shirt awarded to winners at the fifth annual Team Lynn 3-on-3 basketball tournament held in honor of Kanichy’s mother

Annual basketball tournament in Neah Bay yields funds for cancer research

NEAH BAY –– Dozens of teams competed this weekend in the fifth annual Team Lynn 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament to once again help provide a boost… Continue reading

Sharon Kanichy shows off the victory shirt awarded to winners at the fifth annual Team Lynn 3-on-3 basketball tournament held in honor of Kanichy’s mother
Online appeal from the family of Lauryn R. Garrett.

Search for missing Sequim woman continues with tip on sighting in Seattle

PORT TOWNSEND –– A tip that the Sequim woman missing since May 1 had been spotted in suburban Seattle has yet to yield any information… Continue reading

Online appeal from the family of Lauryn R. Garrett.
Lauryn R. Garrett

Search for missing Sequim woman continues with tip on sighting in Seattle

PORT TOWNSEND –– A tip that the Sequim woman missing since May 1 had been spotted in suburban Seattle has yet to yield any information… Continue reading

Lauryn R. Garrett
Steve Markwell stands in front of the Forks warehouse in which he once housed 124 dogs as the Olympic Animal Sanctuary.  —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News. [Copyright &Copy; 2014

‘I’m not going to let anybody tell me where to live’: Former dog sanctuary owner returns to Forks

FORKS –– Living again at the same warehouse where last year he had housed 124 dogs that protesters said lived in inhumane conditions, Steve Markwell… Continue reading

Steve Markwell stands in front of the Forks warehouse in which he once housed 124 dogs as the Olympic Animal Sanctuary.  —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News. [Copyright &Copy; 2014
Harpoon on the bow

Makah whalers commemorate 15th anniversary of last legal whale kill (with photo gallery)

NEAH BAY –– Fifteen years after returning from their tribe's last legal whale kill, some members of the crew of Makah whale hunters who led… Continue reading

Harpoon on the bow
Steve Markwell stands in front of the Forks warehouse in which he once housed 124 dogs as the Olympic Animal Sanctuary.  —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News. [Copyright &Copy; 2014

‘I’m not going to let anybody tell me where to live’: Former dog sanctuary owner returns to Forks

FORKS –– Living again at the same warehouse where last year he had housed 124 dogs that protesters said lived in inhumane conditions, Steve Markwell… Continue reading

Steve Markwell stands in front of the Forks warehouse in which he once housed 124 dogs as the Olympic Animal Sanctuary.  —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News. [Copyright &Copy; 2014
Makah whalers celebrate atop a dead gray whale in Neah Bay after the successful hunt in this May 17

Makah group plans to mark whale hunt anniversary Saturday in Neah Bay

NEAH BAY –– A small flotilla of canoes is expected to set out into Neah Bay on Saturday to mark the 15th anniversary of the… Continue reading

Makah whalers celebrate atop a dead gray whale in Neah Bay after the successful hunt in this May 17
Olympic Animal Sanctuary's former director back in Forks

Olympic Animal Sanctuary’s former director back in Forks

FORKS –– Steve Markwell is back. Markwell, the former director of the embattled and defunct Olympic Animal Sanctuary, is again living in Forks at the… Continue reading

Olympic Animal Sanctuary's former director back in Forks
Pat Johansen stands in front of the Guy Cole Convention Center in Sequim on Tuesday. Johansen will lead an effort in the coming months to study a revitalization of the city’s seldom-used

Examination of Sequim’s Guy Cole Convention Center aimed at revitalization

SEQUIM –– City officials are taking another shot at modernizing the Guy Cole Convention Center in Carrie Blake Park. Longtime Sequim resident and political leader… Continue reading

Pat Johansen stands in front of the Guy Cole Convention Center in Sequim on Tuesday. Johansen will lead an effort in the coming months to study a revitalization of the city’s seldom-used