Joe Smillie

State announces winners in retail marijuana lottery; licenses to be issued after screening

State announces winners in retail marijuana lottery; licenses to be issued after screening

OLYMPIA –– Winners of a state lottery are in line to run the 10 retail marijuana shops allocated for the North Olympic Peninsula. The results… Continue reading

State announces winners in retail marijuana lottery; licenses to be issued after screening
This chart shows the organization of PA United's task force structure.

PA United creates proposal for merger of Port Angeles business groups [Corrected]

SETTING IT STRAIGHT: To clarify a report Thursday on Page A1 of the Clallam County edition and Page A5 of the Jefferson County edition, the… Continue reading

This chart shows the organization of PA United's task force structure.

State announces winners in retail marijuana lottery; licenses to be issued after screening

OLYMPIA –– Winners of a state lottery are in line to run the 10 retail marijuana shops allocated for the North Olympic Peninsula. The results… Continue reading

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Free retreat for cancer survivors scheduled May 16-18 at Olympic NatureBridge

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK –– Openings are still available for the 2014 Healing Adventure, a free retreat for cancer survivors sponsored by Survivor's Outdoor Experience at… Continue reading

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Sequim's iconic grain elevator could house the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Museum asks to delay Sequim grain elevator sale as it considers landmark for new headquarters

SEQUIM –– The Museum & Arts Center could be the next occupant of the old Clallam Co-op grain elevator. Trustees of the Museum & Arts… Continue reading

Sequim's iconic grain elevator could house the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Court appearance coming today for ex-Sequim girls coach accused of improper behavior with teen

SEQUIM –– A former Sequim High School volunteer girls basketball coach accused of having a romantic relationship with a 15-year-old player will have his first… Continue reading

Court appearance coming today for ex-Sequim girls coach accused of improper behavior with teen

SEQUIM –– A former Sequim High School volunteer girls basketball coach accused of having a romantic relationship with a 15-year-old player will have his first… Continue reading

PA United

Port Angeles business groups to mull continuing merger talks

PORT ANGELES –– Should the Port Angeles Business Association, Port Angeles Downtown Association and Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce continue merger talks? That's the… Continue reading

PA United
Merchant booths line Washington Street in downtown Sequim during 2013's kickoff weekend of the Sequim Irrigation Festival. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

WEEKEND: First round of Sequim Irrigation Fest events begins today

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, May 2. SEQUIM –– The network of ditches that have watered farm fields in the Dungeness Valley will… Continue reading

Merchant booths line Washington Street in downtown Sequim during 2013's kickoff weekend of the Sequim Irrigation Festival. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Sequim's iconic grain elevator could house the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

MAC asks to delay Sequim grain elevator sale as it considers landmark for new headquarters

SEQUIM –– The Museum & Arts Center could be the next occupant of the Clallam Co-op grain elevator. Trustees of the Museum & Arts Center… Continue reading

Sequim's iconic grain elevator could house the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
This chart shows the organization of PA United's task force structure.

PA United creates proposal for merger of Port Angeles business groups

PORT ANGELES –– Leaders of the city's three most prominent business organizations will bring to their memberships a plan to merge into one economic development… Continue reading

This chart shows the organization of PA United's task force structure.

Clallam, public utility district to split cost on step in Old Olympic Highway widening project

PORT ANGELES –– Clallam County took an early step in widening a portion of Old Olympic Highway on Tuesday. Under a $907,567 contract signed last… Continue reading

North Olympic Library System to create citizen panel to mull Sequim building options

SEQUIM –– The North Olympic Library System, which oversees public libraries in Clallam County, will form a citizen advisory panel to guide its decision to… Continue reading

Sequim City Council to consider raises for city manager, council members at tonight’s meeting

SEQUIM –– City Council members will discuss pay raises for themselves and for City Manager Steve Burkett tonight (Monday). The agenda for tonight's meeting includes… Continue reading

Robbie Kessler

Anderson Lake reopening to fishing may be short-lived

CHIMACUM –– The fish were biting at Anderson Lake, and plenty of anglers turned out as the lake, often closed because of high toxin levels,… Continue reading

Robbie Kessler
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Pot TV on YouTube: Port Angeles growers tell world about their marijuana operation

PORT ANGELES –– Over a reggae track and amid a tall crop of marijuana plants, Port Angeles members of the first crop of legal marijuana… Continue reading

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Sequim school officials anticipate election costs

SEQUIM –– With the outcome unchanged by an updated count of ballots in the Sequim School District's rejected $154 million bond proposition, officials are awaiting… Continue reading

Settlement reached on Dungeness River fish release

OLYMPIA –– The state Department of Fish and Wildlife will not release Chambers Creek steelhead in the Dungeness River as part of a settlement with… Continue reading

Suquamish Chairman Leonard Forsman

U.S. Interior Secretary: Western Washington tribes ‘on point end of spear’ in climate change

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND –– The federal government has a “moral obligation” to act to offset rising sea levels and protect wildlife habitat threatened by a changing… Continue reading

Suquamish Chairman Leonard Forsman
The expansion of Jefferson Healthcare hospital in Port Townsend has been delayed due to rising cost estimates. — Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Jefferson Healthcare hospital delays $20 million expansion in light of increasing cost estimates

PORT TOWNSEND –– Jefferson Healthcare hospital officials say a boom in Seattle construction has raised the cost of building to the point that they must… Continue reading

The expansion of Jefferson Healthcare hospital in Port Townsend has been delayed due to rising cost estimates. — Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News