Joe Smillie

Costly repairs force Sequim to consider water, sewer rate changes

SEQUIM –– With city funds being drained by a list of more than $25 million in water and sewer repairs, Sequim officials are eyeing adjustment… Continue reading

Sequim man settles over ticket received during park shutdown

TACOMA –– The federal government has dismissed a trespassing ticket issued to Sequim Army veteran Benjamin Schrenzel for picking mushrooms in Olympic National Park while… Continue reading

Sequim man settles over ticket received during park shutdown

TACOMA –– The federal government has dismissed a trespassing ticket issued to Sequim Army veteran Benjamin Schrenzel for picking mushrooms in Olympic National Park while… Continue reading

Eye on Olympia: Legislators make last push on drones, pot, toxics bills

OLYMPIA –– As bill season closes for the 2014 Legislature, the North Olympic Peninsula’s contingent of lawmakers spent the past week trying to finish off… Continue reading

A Puget Sound harbor porpoise breaches. Pacific Biodiversity Institute

Harbor porpoise calls tracked near Fort Worden with ‘C-Pod’ device

PORT TOWNSEND –– One of the more demure denizens of the Salish Sea has been passed the microphone. The Port Townsend Marine Science Center is… Continue reading

A Puget Sound harbor porpoise breaches. Pacific Biodiversity Institute
This is a Douglas fir that suffers from so-called root rot.  —Department of Natural Resources photo

Douglas fir root rot could worsen, state DNR study says [Corrected]

Foresters are looking to hone their management of Douglas fir trees in the wake of a new state report that says a changing climate likely… Continue reading

This is a Douglas fir that suffers from so-called root rot.  —Department of Natural Resources photo

Eye on Olympia: Legislators make last push on drones, pot, toxics bills

OLYMPIA –– As bill season closes for the 2014 Legislature, the North Olympic Peninsula’s contingent of lawmakers spent the past week trying to finish off… Continue reading

A Puget Sound harbor porpoise breaches. Pacific Biodiversity Institute

Harbor porpoise calls tracked near Fort Worden with ‘C-Pod’ device

PORT TOWNSEND –– One of the more demure denizens of the Salish Sea has been passed the microphone. The Port Townsend Marine Science Center is… Continue reading

A Puget Sound harbor porpoise breaches. Pacific Biodiversity Institute
Very little of the formerly 210-foot Glines Canyon Dam remains in this Saturday webcam photo as crews set explosives

‘We’re getting close to the bottom’: Blast at Glines Canyon Dam expected today

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK –– Another chunk of Glines Canyon Dam will be blown away sometime today as work on Elwha River dam removals nears an… Continue reading

Very little of the formerly 210-foot Glines Canyon Dam remains in this Saturday webcam photo as crews set explosives

Clallam Bay prison still on lockdown

CLALLAM BAY –– Visitations and a prison ministry program were called off this weekend as the Clallam Bay Corrections Center remained on lockdown after a… Continue reading

In this King County Sheriff’s Office photo

Quilcene man shot after chase involving heisted Port Townsend truck, Pacific police car

PACIFIC — A 41-year-old Quilcene man reportedly was recovering in Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center after being shot several times by police to end a chase… Continue reading

In this King County Sheriff’s Office photo
In this King County Sheriff’s Office photo

Quilcene man shot after chase involving heisted Port Townsend truck, Pacific police car

PACIFIC — A 41-year-old Quilcene man reportedly was recovering in Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center after being shot several times by police to end a chase… Continue reading

In this King County Sheriff’s Office photo

Clallam Bay prison still on lockdown

CLALLAM BAY –– Visitations and a prison ministry program were called off this weekend as the Clallam Bay Corrections Center remained on lockdown after a… Continue reading

The United States' Jamie Anderson

Olympians ride on Carlsborg-built snowboards in Sochi qualifying runs

CARLSBORG –– With the help of 209 people in Carlsborg, American snowboarder and gold medal favorite Jamie Anderson passed the qualifying round on the treacherous… Continue reading

The United States' Jamie Anderson
The United States' Jamie Anderson

Olympians ride on Carlsborg-built snowboards in Sochi qualifying runs

CARLSBORG –– With the help of 209 people in Carlsborg, American snowboarder and gold medal favorite Jamie Anderson passed the qualifying round on the treacherous… Continue reading

The United States' Jamie Anderson
Orchestra director Phil Morgan-Ellis walks a strings class through some early level songs at Greywolf Elementary School. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

WEEKEND: Sequim Community Orchestra concert today aims at region’s youth

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Feb. 7. SEQUIM –– As it celebrates reaching the ripe old age of 2, the Sequim Community Orchestra… Continue reading

Orchestra director Phil Morgan-Ellis walks a strings class through some early level songs at Greywolf Elementary School. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Elk dies of infected gunshot wound in Sequim pasture

SEQUIM –– An elk that died in a Happy Valley pasture apparently had an infection from a gunshot wound suffered during one of this winter’s… Continue reading

Uptown Theatre manager Carli Rose sits in the newly installed VIP section while inspecting the menu that will be served to patrons in that section. The renovated theater opened in January. Charlie Bermant/Peninsula Daily News

Port Townsend’s Upotown Theatre reopens with beefed-up interior, lighting

PORT TOWNSEND –– Like so many Hollywood stars whose age has started to show, the Uptown Theatre has made a grand reappearance with a comprehensive… Continue reading

Uptown Theatre manager Carli Rose sits in the newly installed VIP section while inspecting the menu that will be served to patrons in that section. The renovated theater opened in January. Charlie Bermant/Peninsula Daily News

Elk dies of infected gunshot wound in Sequim pasture

SEQUIM –– An elk that died in a Happy Valley pasture apparently had an infection from a gunshot wound suffered during one of this winter’s… Continue reading

New traffic monitoring signs have been posted on Sequim’s Spruce Street to gauge the speed of passing traffic after neighbors complained of excessive speeding.  —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Neighbors take speeding beef to City Hall

SEQUIM –– Complaining of traffic zipping through their neighborhood, residents of Spruce Street are asking the city for relief. Mary Somero recently complained to the… Continue reading

New traffic monitoring signs have been posted on Sequim’s Spruce Street to gauge the speed of passing traffic after neighbors complained of excessive speeding.  —Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News