James Casey

Preserve park at Dungeness, neighbors ask

DUNGENESS - Leave it alone for the locals. Most persons commenting at a meeting this week on plans for the Dungeness Recreation Area want it… Continue reading

Whaling opponents allege federal conflicts of interest

JOYCE - A group of whaling opponents says the federal agency that conducted a probe into an unauthorized Sept. 8 whale hunt has close ties… Continue reading

Tharinger, Forde repeat debate points before business group

PORT ANGELES - Candidates for Clallam County commissioner hammered familiar anvils Tuesday in a campaign face-off before the Port Angeles Business Association. Incumbent Steve Tharinger,… Continue reading

Lower Elwha settle lawsuits over graving yard and Tse-whit-zen village

OLYMPIA - The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe has settled its lawsuits over the failed Hood Canal Bridge graving yard and the ancestral village of Tse-whit-zen.… Continue reading

Clallam will tap reserves to bridge 2008 budget gap

Now you spend it, now you don't. The $575,000 that may change Clallam County's $1.1 million budget deficit to a $30,000 surplus will be a… Continue reading

Winter harbinger: Rescue tug returns Monday to Neah Bay

NEAH BAY - The rescue tug Gladiator will return to the Northwest's northwesternmost tip Monday for an abbreviated season of protecting the state's Pacific coast… Continue reading

Mix-up over Canadian cash almost costs Port Angeles a convention

PORT ANGELES - This Lion was seeing red at the Red Lion. The hotel wouldn't accept Sid Roemer's Canadian cash, he said. It wasn't a… Continue reading

Jefferson poised to pare clean water district plan, commissioners tell Clallam counterparts

PORT ANGELES - Jefferson County commissioners said Monday they may back away from their funding plan for a clean water district. "The big question becomes,… Continue reading

Clallam County’s 2008 deficit put at $1 million

PORT ANGELES - Clallam County officials will be punching new holes into their belts to slim down by $1 million for 2008. County Administrator Jim… Continue reading

Makah leaders promise to punish whale hunters

NEAH BAY - Makah tribal leaders promised Sunday to prosecute the five men "who took it on themselves to hunt a whale" a day earlier.… Continue reading

Makah leaders rush to Washington, D.C., today

NEAH BAY - Makah tribal delegates will fly to Washington, D.C., today, to assure the state's congressional delegation that the tribe did not approve the… Continue reading

No-strings prescription savings card coming to Peninsula

If numskulls weren't so crafty, this prescription drug card would be foolproof. Clallam County residents can take big deductions off the price of prescription drugs… Continue reading

Court ruling on salmon targets hundreds of Peninsula road culverts

SEATTLE — A federal judge’s ruling may open thousands of miles of Washington streams to salmon heading out to sea or returning to spawn. Hundreds… Continue reading

Taylor takes huge lead, may win Clallam judge outright

PORT ANGELES - A four-candidate race turned into a one-candidate triumph for Brooke Taylor in Tuesday's count of votes for a new, third Clallam County… Continue reading

Olympic Medical Center finally accepts bid to remodel Eighth Street clinic

PORT ANGELES - Olympic Medical Center finally hooked a keeper Monday in its fishing for a contractor to remodel the Eighth Street clinic. Unlike landing… Continue reading

State funds marketing study for future of resort in Sekiu

SEKIU - The state will fund half of a $100,000 economic prognosis of Olson's Resort and other recreational components of the Clallam Bay/Sekiu community. The… Continue reading

Military veterans show high interest in Peninsula’s new VA Clinic — but paperwork comes first

PORT ANGELES - Veterans on foot or by phone are pouring into the new VA Clinic - many of them prematurely. The problem is that… Continue reading

Murray, Dicks speak out on park fees, timber, Neah Bay tug

PORT ANGELES - U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks is trying to convince Al Gore to run for president. U.S. Sen. Patty Murray says she's too busy… Continue reading

VA Clinic ‘virtual’ no more as operations officially open

PORT ANGELES - The new Veterans Affairs Clinic lost its "virtual" Tuesday. "Starting today, I think we should eliminate the word 'virtual' because this clinic… Continue reading

Hospital versus hospice clash pits Assured against Olympic Medical Center

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second in a two-part series. The first article appears toward the bottom of this home page. PORT ANGELES - Hospital,… Continue reading