James Casey

Clallam: – County gets a bargain for juvenile health care

PORT ANGELES -- How can they resist? The three Clallam County commissioners today will waive competitive proposals to provide health care at the juvenile detention… Continue reading

Clallam: County girds for budget gap

PORT ANGELES -- Clallam County government may have smooth skating through 2007, but a big hole in the ice looms in 2008, County Administrator Jim… Continue reading

Peninsula: Storm to boost snow on Hurricane Ridge

HURRICANE RIDGE -- Let it snow (today)! Let it snow (tonight)! Let it snow (Tuesday night)! A winter storm warning is in effect for the… Continue reading

Peninsula: Storm to boost snow on Hurricane Ridge

HURRICANE RIDGE -- Let it snow (today)! Let it snow (tonight)! Let it snow (Tuesday night)! A winter storm warning is in effect for the… Continue reading

Property tax re-evaluations stun Clallam homeowners

PORT ANGELES -- Robin Rush, who owns a small house on five acres of land on Tara Lane, was stunned when he received his re-evaluation.… Continue reading

Veterans Day tribute: Port Angeles man was witness to a lasting image

PORT ANGELES -- The image is etched into America's memory: Five United States Marines and a Navy corpsman planting the Stars and Stripes on Iwo… Continue reading

Rosand edging her boss for Clallam County auditor

PORT ANGELES -- Clallam County auditor's employee Patty Rosand seemed to be unseating her boss, Cathleen McKeown, Tuesday night. Rosand led, 8,030 to 6,448, with… Continue reading

Rains swell rivers; homes cut off on Peninsula

Heavy rains, high tides and a storm surge combined to wreak watery havoc across the North Olympic Peninsula on Monday. A slide of mud and… Continue reading

Tax increase looming for Olympic hospital district

PORT ANGELES -- The question doesn't appear in the election that ends Tuesday, but the time to answer it soon will probably arrive: Must Clallam… Continue reading

Hospital names Eric Lewis as interim CEO

PORT ANGELES -- Eric Lewis will lead Olympic Medical Center into 2007 and perhaps beyond, hospital commissioners announced Thursday. Lewis, currently chief financial officer at… Continue reading

Murray likes idea of ‘virtual VA clinic’

PORT ANGELES -- Lots of warm good intentions but no fiery calls to specific action greeted the "virtual VA clinic" proposal during U.S. Sen. Patty… Continue reading

State grants seed money to spur business in Clallam, Jefferson counties

The agency that made collaboration a hallmark of Clallam County civic enterprise has received two grants totaling $68,500 from the state Department of Community, Trade… Continue reading

BEAVER: NORMALLY WET WEST END TOWN GOES DRY

BEAVER -- A part of the rainiest corner of the country is hard up for water. The Lake Pleasant Mobile Home and RV Park has… Continue reading

Speakers debate Initiative 933

PORT ANGELES -- Initiative 933 either will preserve property rights or saddle Washington taxpayers with a $1,000-per-payer burden. It either will loosen government regulations on… Continue reading

Clallam: Groups to discuss emergency shelter in PA

PORT ANGELES -- Clallam County's network of shelter providers will receive an update Wednesday on an Overnight Emergency Outreach Shelter planned east of downtown Port… Continue reading

Blue Glacier on Mount Olympus used to gauge global warming

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- Blue Glacier is a study in trickle-down ecology -- with a warning that soon there may be nothing left to trickle.… Continue reading

Dicks will push for ‘virtual VA clinic’

PORT ANGELES -- U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks promised veterans Thursday he'll draft a bill to make a "virtual VA clinic" a pilot project on the… Continue reading

Clallam: Hospital CEO to step down Dec. 1

PORT ANGELES -- Olympic Medical Center Administrator Mike Glenn, fresh from forging a plan to preserve primary care in eastern Clallam County, will resign Dec.… Continue reading

Port Angeles: – Farmers, fliers will share 65 acres in new development

PORT ANGELES -- A subdivision that will embrace both airplanes and agriculture won approval Tuesday from Clallam County Commissioners. On Dave LeRoux's Discovery Trail Farm… Continue reading

Clallam: Olympic Memorial Hospital to purchase former VM Eighth Street clinic

PORT ANGELES -- Olympic Medical Center will buy the former Virginia Mason Eighth Street clinic and make it the cornerstone of a community health care… Continue reading