Leah Leach

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: Port Townsend church puts out welcome mat for weddings next Sunday

PORT TOWNSEND — Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship will put out the welcome mat for gay couples seeking to be married next Sunday. The church at… Continue reading

Steps outlined to dissolve Clallam Business Incubator

PORT ANGELES — The final steps for the dissolution of the Clallam Business Incubator are likely to be taken Tuesday, three years after the agency… Continue reading

Controversial Dungeness water rule signed by Ecology director, near finish

SEQUIM — A controversial new state rule to manage water use, including individual wells, in the Dungeness River watershed will go into effect Jan. 2.… Continue reading

Retired Coast Guard officers Diana Wickman

Peninsula wedding plans blossom following passage of same-sex marriage referendum

SEQUIM — Happy Valley residents Diana Wickman and Judy Persall hope to get married as the new year begins, now that the passage of Referendum… Continue reading

Retired Coast Guard officers Diana Wickman

Crews continue oil cleanup in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Cleanup crews will be removing heavy oil from the side of a barge, the Tesoro Terminal’s fuel dock and the pilings underneath… Continue reading

Cellphone donation drop sites to help troops

PORT TOWNSEND — Gently used cellphones can be recycled to help troops and veterans through New Day Learning Academy in Port Townsend. Collection cans for… Continue reading

Peninsula Red Cross chapter sends 12 in Sandy’s wake

SEQUIM — Twelve trained volunteers with the Olympic Peninsula chapter of the American Red Cross are helping out on the East Coast in the wake… Continue reading

UPDATED — Deer hunter dies after fall near Tarboo Lake in Jefferson County

PORT TOWNSEND — A 66-year-old Silverdale man died Oct. 27 after falling from a large cedar tree during a deer hunting trip near Tarboo Lake… Continue reading

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Canadians for Obama come to Port Angeles, officials say

PORT ANGELES — Canadians have been visiting the Clallam County Democratic Party headquarters to stock up on Obama campaign buttons, bumper stickers and T-shirts, county… Continue reading

Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News
Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News

Canadians for Obama come to Port Angeles, officials say

PORT ANGELES — Canadians have been visiting the Clallam County Democratic Party headquarters to stock up on Obama campaign buttons, bumper stickers and T-shirts, county… Continue reading

Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News

Coast Guard to fire blank rounds, test green laser

SEATTLE — If you hear the sound of shots and see glimpses of a green laser light on the Hood Canal on Wednesday, it is… Continue reading

Tribal chairwoman hails directive on feathers

PORT ANGELES — Lower Elwha Kallam Chairwoman Frances Charles welcomed a federal Justice Department clarification of its policy concerning the possession of eagle feathers by… Continue reading

Anderson Lake neurotoxin nearly 300 times safe level

PORT TOWNSEND — The level of a potentially lethal nerve toxin in Anderson Lake is almost 300 times above the safety threshold. The lake in… Continue reading

Anderson Lake toxins jump to 100 times safe limit

PORT TOWNSEND — The level of a potent nerve toxin in Anderson Lake has soared to more than 100 times the safe level. The skyrocketing… Continue reading

Word ‘pursue’ key in Jefferson fish farming letter

PORT TOWNSEND — The key to understanding the direction that Jefferson County is taking in regard to net pen aquaculture lies in how one defines… Continue reading

New toxin-producing algae found in Anderson Lake

PORT TOWNSEND — Something new is growing in Anderson Lake, and it isn’t good. “For the first time ever, we have a new genus of… Continue reading

Chloe and Eliza Dawson use clues to find out what killed the orca named Hope at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center. Wendy Feltham

The clue to the stranded orca: New Port Townsend exhibit

PORT TOWNSEND — An exhibit about ocean pollution and orcas, dominated by the skeleton of an orca found beached at Dungeness Spit, will open at… Continue reading

Chloe and Eliza Dawson use clues to find out what killed the orca named Hope at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center. Wendy Feltham

Proposal would cut Port Townsend’s two-boat ferry service by eight weeks a year

PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend officials and some Puget Sound lawmakers said they’ll try to find alternative funding for the ferry system to prevent service… Continue reading

Anderson Lake has seen its toxin levels rise and fall. Margaret McKenzie/Peninsula Daily News

Anderson Lake toxins climb again

PORT TOWNSEND — The level of a potentially deadly nerve toxin has climbed to unsafe levels again in Anderson Lake after a couple of weeks… Continue reading

Anderson Lake has seen its toxin levels rise and fall. Margaret McKenzie/Peninsula Daily News
Anderson Lake has been closed for most of the summer. Margaret McKenzie/Peninsula Daily News

Anderson Lake to stay closed despite test results

PORT TOWNSEND — Although toxins are low, Anderson Lake will stay closed for the rest of the season. Test results of samples taken the weeks… Continue reading

Anderson Lake has been closed for most of the summer. Margaret McKenzie/Peninsula Daily News