Paul Gottlieb

Port Angeles man plaintiff in national health care lawsuit that also includes 26 states

PORT ANGELES -- Kaj Ahlburg, a retired New York City investment banker who lives in Port Angeles, is among those suing the federal government over… Continue reading

‘B.C. bud’ importers sentenced after West End landing

TACOMA -- Two Canadian men who tried bringing 578 pounds of marijuana ashore in Clallam County's West End will be sentenced in March for conspiracy… Continue reading

It’s all logs over the dam: Work begins on jam caused by preliminary dam removal operations

PORT ANGELES -- Workers in two 16-foot motorboats began uncoupling a 10-acre flotilla of logs on Lake Mills on Friday and Saturday. For about four… Continue reading

Sequim woman died mere weeks before her conviction overturned by Supreme Court

SEQUIM -- Trish Schultz was 48 when she died Christmas Eve, her record stained by a drug conviction. On Thursday, barely three weeks later, the… Continue reading

Mobilisa gains patent on security device; could lead to millions

PORT TOWNSEND -- A patent issued this week to Intellicheck Mobilisa Inc. could help the wireless security systems company win a multimillion-dollar federal contract. Company… Continue reading

Boulders shore up Elwha levee to prepare for dams’ demolition

PORT ANGELES -- Trucks laden with huge boulders soon will no longer be seen trundling through the city to the Lower Elwha Klallam reservation. That's… Continue reading

Funeral service with offices in Sequim, Port Townsend sold

Former chiropractor Chris Price has purchased Linde Family Funeral Service, which has offices in Port Townsend, Sequim, Bremerton and Lakewood. The company will change its… Continue reading

Mag-lev inventor establishes office ‘to bring the world to’

PORT ANGELES -- After spending 14 years tucked away at Airport Industrial Park, a homegrown manufacturing company with a worldwide reach has planted its corporate… Continue reading

Immigration, customs agency in Port Angeles moves ahead in search for new quarters

PORT ANGELES -- The Immigration and Customs Enforcement office that covers Clallam and Jefferson counties will move into a new home this fall, federal spokesman… Continue reading

Eagles-Border Patrol building deal delayed

PORT ANGELES -- The waiting continues for both Eagles Aerie 483 and for Border Patrol agents stuffed into cramped quarters at the Richard B. Anderson… Continue reading

Court orders new control of Port Angeles office complex

PORT ANGELES -- An Olympia real estate company, operating under court order, recently took control of an office complex at 1601 E. Front St. that… Continue reading

Tax break restored for land conservation pacts

A land conservation program Congress sweetened in December by marrying land conservation with federal income tax breaks has created a win-win result for North Olympic… Continue reading

Paperwork done, felony assault case dismissed 7 years after settlement

SEQUIM -- Superior Court Judge Ken Williams earlier this month dismissed a felony assault case against businessman Jay Ketchum that involved a Clallam County sheriff's… Continue reading

Findings in permit appeal decision for biomass project OK’d by Port Angeles City Council

PORT ANGELES -- The City Council affirmed Tuesday its Dec. 6 decision supporting a permit for a $71 million biomass cogeneration project by unanimously approving… Continue reading

Brinnon resort’s path to visa denied

BRINNON -- The federal government has denied an application from The Statesman Group that the developer says is vital to its plans for a $300… Continue reading

‘I felt cheated’: How a FEDERAL law kept a STATE trooper from running for COUNTY office

CHIMACUM -- Last July, after 37 years in law enforcement including the last 24 with the State Patrol, Sgt. Ken Przygocki was just seven months… Continue reading

Licensing office to stay in West End; new location found after leak prompted closure

FORKS -- The state Department of Licensing is staying put in the West End but will move from 41 Bogachiel Way, where a sewage leak… Continue reading

Accused Ky. killer pleads not guilty in ex-Chimacum man’s death

WURTLAND, Ky. -- Accused murderer Beryl W. Smith has pleaded not guilty to killing former Chimacum resident Chadd E. Miller in this Ohio River town… Continue reading

Biomass boiler called crucial to way Nippon mill can survive, thrive in future

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series on this week's 90th anniversary of the Port Angeles paper mill now owned by Nippon… Continue reading

Nippon’s two machines churn out paper (***GALLERY***)

PORT ANGELES -- If the main boiler is the heart of the Nippon Paper Industries USA paper mill, its paper machines are its soul. As… Continue reading