Paige Dickerson

Crescent students, community aid needy

JOYCE - Crescent students got together to give back during the holidays. The Crescent School District held a canned food drive collecting enough food for… Continue reading

Hospital guild aids fire department training

SEQUIM - Clallam County Fire District No. 3 paramedics can practice using real cardiac equipment medical procedures on a new mannequin donated by the Sequim… Continue reading

Weather linked to 3 wrecks on U.S. Highway 101

PORT ANGELES - Black ice and freezing fog spun three vehicles off U.S. Highway 101 near Indian Valley within 45 minutes of each other early… Continue reading

Fired teacher’s case to be heard in federal court

PORT ANGELES - The wrongful-dismissal appeal of a teacher who was fired for insubordination in the Port Angeles School District will be heard by a… Continue reading

Oil giant BP donates $10,000 for purchase of new police K-9 officer

PORT ANGELES - The Police Department will have a new dog to replace Arco, the department's first K-9 officer which died in November. A grant… Continue reading

Group stages ‘Boston Tea Party’-inspired protest

QUILCENE - About 30 war protesters dumped about 10 gallons of sawdust into Quilcene Harbor on Sunday in an allusion to the Boston Tea Party.… Continue reading

Male lead of ‘Twilight’ cast

FORKS - The part of the mysterious Forks vampire Edward now has a face for the upcoming movie "Twilight," which will have some scenes shot… Continue reading

Faces on defaced Port Angeles mural cleaned of vandalism

PORT ANGELES - With soft rags and acetone, two Nor'wester Rotary Club volunteers and two city workers on Tuesday wiped away paint that defaced a… Continue reading

Breaking news: Port Angeles mural cleaned of hate epithets, vandalism

PORT ANGELES -- A mural depicting 18th-century Port Angeles Native Americans was cleaned today of spray-painted vandalism, including racial epithets, obscenities and a "white power… Continue reading

Forks High School ready for its close-up in ‘Twilight’

FORKS - The aging high school building, described by author Stephenie Meyer in her Twilight series of teen novels, will be used in the movie… Continue reading

Close call for Sol Duc resident; not so near Brinnon

The severity of flooding in Forks can be measured by the height of the rising waters at Ron Shearer's home. Shearer has lived in his… Continue reading

Museum at the Carnegie offers insights into history

PORT ANGELES - On a wet and dreary day, one doesn't have to venture outdoors to explore aspects of the history of the west side… Continue reading

Clallam, Jefferson storm costs rise

As power and communication lines were restored following Monday's monster storm, damage estimates continued to be tallied on Wednesday. A rough estimate for Clallam County… Continue reading

Outrageous games Friday to support United Way

PORT ANGELES - A wacky way to donate to the United Way of Clallam County will draw eight teams to compete in six outrageous events… Continue reading

Peninsula digs out of monster storm; roads reopened

Mudslides and fallen trees had made an island of the West End on Monday, but by early Tuesday evening, roads were reopened and power restored… Continue reading

High winds, floods close highways, cut power, phones

Winds whipped through most of the North Olympic Peninsula on Monday, and melting snow with drenching rain rose rivers toward flood levels. Monday's highest winds… Continue reading

High wind, flood watches issued for Olympic Peninsula

The first snow of the season that fell across much of the North Olympic Peninsula by midday Sunday has given way to warmer temperatures and… Continue reading

Port Angeles veteran’s Pearl Harbor memorabilia to be donated to Seattle museum

SEATTLE - Memorabilia from Port Angeles resident Lee Embree, who snapped the first known photographs of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7,… Continue reading

Port Angeles city manager gets pay raise to more than $148,000

PORT ANGELES - The Port Angeles City Council unanimously voted Sunday to give City Manager Mark Madsen a cost of living raise plus 2 percent.… Continue reading

Baby who endured five heart surgeries must undergo another

PORT ANGELES - Caydence Jade Barnett, hospitalized for the first four months of her life, spent her first Thanksgiving at home with her family on… Continue reading