Paul Gottlieb

Port Angeles asbestos cost dispute settled

PORT ANGELES — A dispute has been settled between the city and a contractor over the cost of removing asbestos from the closed regional landfill.… Continue reading

Port Angeles Police Chief Terry Gallagher

WEEKEND REWIND: Citizen group pairs with police for Port Angeles patrols

PORT ANGELES — A recently formed civic group wants to help boost the city's cadre of police department citizen volunteers by adding their own shoe… Continue reading

Port Angeles Police Chief Terry Gallagher
Organizers of a campaign to purchase the shuttered Lincoln Theater in downtown Port Angeles have reset their fundraising goal lower

WEEKEND REWIND: Lincoln Theater group lowers fundraising sights after initial goal falls short

PORT ANGELES — Organizers bent on buying and bringing to life the shuttered Lincoln Theater fell $42,000 short of reaching their Jan. 31 fundraising goal… Continue reading

Organizers of a campaign to purchase the shuttered Lincoln Theater in downtown Port Angeles have reset their fundraising goal lower
Organizers of a campaign to purchase the shuttered Lincoln Theater in downtown Port Angeles have reset their fundraising goal lower

Lincoln Theater group lowers fundraising sights after initial goal falls short

PORT ANGELES — Organizers bent on buying and bringing to life the shuttered Lincoln Theater fell $42,000 short of reaching their Jan. 31 fundraising goal… Continue reading

Organizers of a campaign to purchase the shuttered Lincoln Theater in downtown Port Angeles have reset their fundraising goal lower
Port Angeles Police Chief Terry Gallagher

Citizen group pairs with police for Port Angeles patrols

PORT ANGELES — A recently formed civic group wants to help boost the city's cadre of police department citizen volunteers by adding their own shoe… Continue reading

Port Angeles Police Chief Terry Gallagher
Port Angeles Economic and Development Director Nathan West gives a presentation at the Port Angeles Business Association's breakfast meeting Tuesday. (Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News)

WEEKEND REWIND: City official: Major projects spur growth in building permits in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Fueled by six major projects, city building permit values increased nearly fourfold in 2015, according to the Port Angeles economic and development… Continue reading

Port Angeles Economic and Development Director Nathan West gives a presentation at the Port Angeles Business Association's breakfast meeting Tuesday. (Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News)
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WEEKEND REWIND: Effort to change Port Angeles city government ongoing amid questions

PORT ANGELES — Fluoridation opponents are pressing forward with a petition to change city government and elect a new City Council despite questions over the… Continue reading

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Fluoride opponents fill the hallway and stairs outside the City Council chambers at Port Angeles City Hall on Jan. 19. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

WEEKEND REWIND: Fluoride activists call for withholding water payments in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — In a call for civil disobedience, fluoride activists have mounted an effort to get city utility ratepayers to withhold payment of the… Continue reading

Fluoride opponents fill the hallway and stairs outside the City Council chambers at Port Angeles City Hall on Jan. 19. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Marshall Jay Lewis enters Clallam County Superior Court on Wednesday for a variety of charges related to the alleged New Year's Day arson fire of the Beaver-area home of a woman who cut off a dating relationship with him. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

WEEKEND REWIND: Suspect in Beaver arson due back in court Feb. 5

BEAVER — A former Forks resident accused of trying to burn down the Beaver-area home of an ex-girlfriend is slated to enter pleas next week… Continue reading

Marshall Jay Lewis enters Clallam County Superior Court on Wednesday for a variety of charges related to the alleged New Year's Day arson fire of the Beaver-area home of a woman who cut off a dating relationship with him. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Port Angeles residents to get November nonbinding vote on fluoride in water

Port Angeles residents to get November nonbinding vote on fluoride in water

PORT ANGELES — Forty years ago, Port Angeles residents overwhelmingly voted against fluoridating their non-fluoridated drinking water. City Council members then kept the water as… Continue reading

Port Angeles residents to get November nonbinding vote on fluoride in water
Port Angeles residents to get November nonbinding vote on fluoride in water

Port Angeles residents to get November nonbinding vote on fluoride in water

PORT ANGELES — Forty years ago, Port Angeles residents overwhelmingly voted against fluoridating their non-fluoridated drinking water. City Council members then kept the water as… Continue reading

Port Angeles residents to get November nonbinding vote on fluoride in water
Port Angeles' fluoridation advisory ballot has strange twist for election system [Corrected]

Port Angeles’ fluoridation advisory ballot has strange twist for election system [Corrected]

EDITOR'S NOTE: Corrected to reflect that the City Council held an advisory vote in 1975 but fluoridation didn't begin until 2006. PORT ANGELES — The… Continue reading

Port Angeles' fluoridation advisory ballot has strange twist for election system [Corrected]
UPDATE — Port Angeles' fluoridation survey will be done as an informal poll, won't be on the election ballot

UPDATE — Port Angeles’ fluoridation survey will be done as an informal poll, won’t be on the election ballot

PORT ANGELES — The fluoride question will not be posed to voters on the Nov. 3 general election ballot. It will be too difficult to… Continue reading

UPDATE — Port Angeles' fluoridation survey will be done as an informal poll, won't be on the election ballot
Port Angeles City Council decides on fluoridation poll by mail rather than ballot item

Port Angeles City Council decides on fluoridation poll by mail rather than ballot item

PORT ANGELES — The fluoride question will not be posed to voters on the Nov. 3 general election ballot. The City Council decided Tuesday that… Continue reading

Port Angeles City Council decides on fluoridation poll by mail rather than ballot item
Port Angeles City Council decides on fluoridation poll by mail rather than ballot item

Port Angeles City Council decides on fluoridation poll by mail rather than ballot item

PORT ANGELES — The fluoride question will not be posed to voters on the Nov. 3 general election ballot. The City Council decided Tuesday that… Continue reading

Port Angeles City Council decides on fluoridation poll by mail rather than ballot item

Survey on Port Angeles fluoridation to be mailed after October hearings

PORT ANGELES — Two public meetings in October will precede a single-question, nonbinding survey mailed in November to all residential and business addresses that receive… Continue reading

Survey on Port Angeles fluoridation to be mailed after October hearings

PORT ANGELES — Two public meetings in October will precede a single-question, nonbinding survey mailed in November to all residential and business addresses that receive… Continue reading

Will Port Angeles council members' fluoridation votes mirror survey results? So far, four noncommittal

Will Port Angeles council members’ fluoridation votes mirror survey results? So far, four noncommittal

PORT ANGELES — Four of the seven City Council members are noncommittal on abiding by the results of an upcoming survey of water users who… Continue reading

Will Port Angeles council members' fluoridation votes mirror survey results? So far, four noncommittal

Port Angeles water fluoridation survey to be monitored by retired Clallam County auditor

PORT ANGELES — A city of Port Angeles Nov. 6 water fluoridation survey will include oversight by retired Clallam County Auditor Patty Rosand and extensive… Continue reading

Port Angeles water fluoridation survey to be monitored by retired Clallam County auditor

PORT ANGELES — A city of Port Angeles Nov. 6 water fluoridation survey will include oversight by retired Clallam County Auditor Patty Rosand and extensive… Continue reading