James Casey

Permits granted for dam removal in Clallam

PORT ANGELES - A Clallam County hearing examiner Wednesday approved permits for 15 of 16 projects sought by the National Park Service for removing the… Continue reading

Clallam may lend deputies to depleted Forks force

FORKS - Two Clallam County sheriff's deputies are likely to be called in to fortify the Police Department while the city searches for new officers.… Continue reading

Clallam considers junk-car ordinance — but how tough?

PORT ANGELES - Two, four, six, eight: How many junk cars must you abate? An ordinance Clallam County commissioners are considering would outlaw a single… Continue reading

Big pay raises for elected Clallam County officials urged

PORT ANGELES - Jim Jones thinks Clallam County is getting good government on the cheap. Jones, county administrator since July, said the county charter ought… Continue reading

Patients back docs in contract impasse with Olympic Medical Center

PORT ANGELES - Olympic Medical Center commissioners likely will face a hostile audience of primary care clinic patients when they meet tonight at the hospital,… Continue reading

Clallam will meet rising sewer cost to new Wal-Mart

PORT ANGELES - Clallam County commissioners are expected today to assume the increased cost of extending a Port Angeles city sewer line eastward to a… Continue reading

Freeholders to interview Clallam commissioners

PORT ANGELES - The 15 people chosen to review Clallam County's charter will interview county commissioners and their administrator tonight with an eye on how… Continue reading

Census finds fewer homeless people in Clallam; Jefferson’s census numbers awaited

OLYMPIA - Clallam County shelter providers will lobby legislators today with Point in Time census numbers that show a significant drop in homelessness since 2006.… Continue reading

Coast Guard investigator will fill undersheriff’s post

A former state fish and wildlife agent who's now a Coast Guard criminal investigator will be Clallam County's new undersheriff. Sheriff Bill Benedict said Monday… Continue reading

Peninsula exceeds state average in selling smokes to youth

Youngsters can buy cigarettes illegally twice as easily in Clallam and Jefferson counties as they can - on average - in the rest of the… Continue reading

Friends of Animals tames ex-alley cat

Alexandra, "a beautiful little Russian blue kitty," is one of the animals that Catherine Burke rescued and took to Peninsula Friends of Animals, the no-kill… Continue reading

She’s keeper of the 9 lives — for 14 years

PORT ANGELES - The sun hasn't risen over the horizon and the temperature barely has climbed above freezing when Catherine Burke's little SUV rolls into… Continue reading

Invisible people — the homeless –prove hard to see in Clallam County

Come join the search for invisible people. They're unseen because they're homeless. Some of us simply don't notice them; others see them but pretend they… Continue reading

Farmers, Realtors join to conserve land

PORT ANGELES - Joshua Alpert wants to wish "sweet dreams" to some very strange bedfellows - Friends of the Fields and the Sequim and Port… Continue reading

Olympic Medical Center, no longer just a hospital, dominates health care

PORT ANGELES - Olympic Medical Center commissioners gathered Wednesday night at the same time, in the same place and wearing the same faces. Their role,… Continue reading

Lewis named permanent CEO of Olympic Medical Center

Eric Lewis dropped "interim" from his title of administrator of Olympic Medical Center on Wednesday. In a surprise move - but one widely expected -… Continue reading

Hospital buys clinic, but no contract with doctors

PORT ANGELES - Olympic Medical Center commissioners Wednesday bought the former Virginia Mason clinic on Eighth Street, but were silent about negotiations with its nine… Continue reading

State wants to rebuild trestle it once scrapped

SEQUIM - The Olympic Discovery Trail will follow a long and winding road through Sequim Bay State Park - at least until the state can… Continue reading

Nature takes toll on eagles’ perches

PORT ANGELES - Two trees fell last week in Port Angeles that, though no one may have heard them crash, sounded a deep sadness among… Continue reading

Clallam schedules yearly count of homeless people

You can't count homeless people by knocking on their doors. That's why more than 100 volunteers will fan out across Clallam County the weeks of… Continue reading