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Jefferson County commissioners discuss needs with state lawmakers

Jefferson County commissioners discuss needs with state lawmakers

Jefferson County commissioners told state lawmakers that the county needs help with funding and with affordable housing. They met Wednesday night with… Continue reading

Jefferson County commissioners discuss needs with state lawmakers
Highway subcontractor announces end to highway delays

Highway subcontractor announces end to highway delays

Officials from Strider Construction, a subcontractor performing the rock wall scaling, bolting and doweling along U.S. Highway 101 at Lake Crescent, announced… Continue reading

Highway subcontractor announces end to highway delays
Port Angeles School Board member quits, blasts system

Port Angeles School Board member quits, blasts system

Susan Shotthafer, who blazed her own trail during two years in elected office, has resigned her position on the Port Angeles School… Continue reading

Port Angeles School Board member quits, blasts system
Last year for holiday lights tours in Port Angeles

Last year for holiday lights tours in Port Angeles

Before Willie Nelson drives off into retirement, the All Points Charters & Tours operator will spend one more holiday season showing families… Continue reading

Last year for holiday lights tours in Port Angeles
Most beds full at Jefferson County Winter Shelter

Most beds full at Jefferson County Winter Shelter

Beds at the Jefferson County Winter Shelter are filling up and it’s only been open since November. “Most of our [28] built-in… Continue reading

Most beds full at Jefferson County Winter Shelter
Movie crew, Jeff Goldblum visit Sequim’s Blondie’s Plate

Movie crew, Jeff Goldblum visit Sequim’s Blondie’s Plate

Diners got a taste of Hollywood on Dec. 5 at Sequim’s Blondie’s Plate. Staff and customers spotted Jeff Goldblum (“Jurassic Park,” “Thor: Ragnarok”)… Continue reading

Movie crew, Jeff Goldblum visit Sequim’s Blondie’s Plate
AAUW names Woman of Excellence in Jefferson

AAUW names Woman of Excellence in Jefferson

A founding member of the Habitat for Humanity of East Jefferson County and a former City Council member has been named the… Continue reading

AAUW names Woman of Excellence in Jefferson
Olympic Medical commissioner announces resignation

Olympic Medical commissioner announces resignation

Olympic Medical Center Commissioner Jim Cammack has resigned from his seat, citing personal and health reasons, after 15 years of service. The… Continue reading

Olympic Medical commissioner announces resignation
Pact with PDA would move KPTZ Radio to Fort Worden

Pact with PDA would move KPTZ Radio to Fort Worden

Port Townsend’s KPTZ 91.9 FM could call Fort Worden home in the coming years after it entered into a memorandum of understanding… Continue reading

Pact with PDA would move KPTZ Radio to Fort Worden
Port Angeles City Council discusses long- and short-term measures to prevent bridge suicides

Port Angeles City Council discusses long- and short-term measures to prevent bridge suicides

An 8- to 9-foot curved chain-link fence, a vertical wire mesh fence of the same height or some combination of the two… Continue reading

Port Angeles City Council discusses long- and short-term measures to prevent bridge suicides
Parents criticize tactics: Chimacum High School discipline methods draw fire

Parents criticize tactics: Chimacum High School discipline methods draw fire

Parents frustrated with Chimacum High School’s recent approach to discipline told administrators during a well-attended parent forum Wednesday night that their students now… Continue reading

Parents criticize tactics: Chimacum High School discipline methods draw fire
Death leaves many questions in parents’ minds

Death leaves many questions in parents’ minds

Joseph Daniel Henry had unmedicated schizophrenia when he was released early from a Sedro-Woolley drug treatment center in mid-September. By the time… Continue reading

Death leaves many questions in parents’ minds
Saving a soul mate: Peninsula couple prepare for two surgeries

Saving a soul mate: Peninsula couple prepare for two surgeries

She would certainly give her soul mate her kidney if she could. But because Sasha Alder-Turk does not share 20-year partner Chad… Continue reading

Saving a soul mate: Peninsula couple prepare for two surgeries

Olympics building deep snowpack for skiiing, sledding season

Olympic Mountain snowpack was 268 percent of normal Thursday despite a series of atmospheric rivers in November, leaving a solid base of white stuff for… Continue reading

Olympic Hot Springs Road wrestles with Elwha River

Olympic Hot Springs Road wrestles with Elwha River

Flood-ravaged Olympic Hot Springs Road is battling an Elwha River swollen by rain and warm-temperature runoff, a waterway unleashed by the… Continue reading

Olympic Hot Springs Road wrestles with Elwha River
Warming Center to open in Sequim; more volunteers sought

Warming Center to open in Sequim; more volunteers sought

As winter breezes into town, one woman seeks support for warming those in need. Jean Pratschner has organized a warming center inside the… Continue reading

Warming Center to open in Sequim; more volunteers sought
Grieving fathers: Two dads urge bridge suicide barriers in Port Angeles

Grieving fathers: Two dads urge bridge suicide barriers in Port Angeles

Two bridges, two suicides, two grieving fathers. Enough is enough, Richart Wishart and Randy Henry said last week. They believe it’s time… Continue reading

Grieving fathers: Two dads urge bridge suicide barriers in Port Angeles
Peninsula College’s Building 202 renovations at Fort Worden win award

Peninsula College’s Building 202 renovations at Fort Worden win award

With an exterior restoration that honors its past and a state-of-the-art interior, Peninsula College’s Building 202 at Fort Worden was recently recognized… Continue reading

Peninsula College’s Building 202 renovations at Fort Worden win award
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News                                Clallam Transit’s Strait Shot bus approaches Port Angeles on U.S. Highway 101 on a recent run from the Bainbridge Island ferry terminal.

Holiday bus service expansion: Strait Shot broke records over Thanksgiving weekend

Clallam Transit’s Strait Shot bus to Bainbridge Island had record-high ridership over Thanksgiving weekend, prompting the agency to expand the direct service… Continue reading

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News                                Clallam Transit’s Strait Shot bus approaches Port Angeles on U.S. Highway 101 on a recent run from the Bainbridge Island ferry terminal.
McKinley Paper Co. selects equipment vendor; still targeting December 2018 for start-up

McKinley Paper Co. selects equipment vendor; still targeting December 2018 for start-up

McKinley Paper Co. has selected a vendor for equipment that will produce cardboard liner at the former Nippon Paper Industries USA papermaking… Continue reading

McKinley Paper Co. selects equipment vendor; still targeting December 2018 for start-up