Jeff Chew

Jefferson County commissioners urged to create tax for mental health, chemical dependency services

PORT TOWNSEND -- Lives are going to be lost in Jefferson County without additional funding to expand chemical dependency, mental health treatment services and drug… Continue reading

Restoration work, annex is saving historic City Hall and money, Port Townsend city manager says

PORT TOWNSEND -- Weary of public scrutiny during a heightening election season, City Manager David Timmons is defending a $6.7 million City Hall restoration and… Continue reading

Port Townsend asking residents to voluntarily conserve water

PORT TOWNSEND -- With a dry summer draining water resources, city officials are asking residents to voluntarily conserve water. The word from Ian Jablonski, Port… Continue reading

Jefferson County files suit against Discovery Bay training center

PORT TOWNSEND -- Jefferson County officials filed a lawsuit in Superior Court Wednesday in an effort to shut down a homeland security training operation on… Continue reading

Hood Canal Bridge opens early … again

SHINE -- Eighty hours? Who needs 80 hours? Despite repeated warnings that the second Hood Canal Bridge closure would not go as quickly as the… Continue reading

What’s next for Hood Canal Bridge?

SHINE -- Hood Canal Bridge is open once again, but there's still plenty of work to be done down the road. State Department of Transportation… Continue reading

Court appears next in spat over firing range noise

PORT TOWNSEND -- Jefferson County officials are expected to seek an injunction this week in Superior Court to halt a homeland security training center's operations… Continue reading

Bridge closure Part II: Hood Canal span shuts down Sunday night for eastern approach span replacement

SHINE -- As heavy as 100 gray whales and slower than a banana slug. That's how state Department of Transportation officials characterize the second Hood… Continue reading

Free passenger ferry to run between Port Ludlow-Kingston during bridge closure

PORT LUDLOW -- It's free but you better get in line early. So say Port Ludlow Chamber of Commerce officials coordinating next week's Aqua Express… Continue reading

Legal action looming against training center, Jefferson County official says

PORT TOWNSEND -- New legal action is expected to be taken against a Discovery Bay-based homeland security training operation early next week. Jefferson County Department… Continue reading

Landowner rejects $175,000 offer from Jefferson Transit

PORT TOWNSEND -- The owner of 10 acres on which Jefferson Transit officials want to build a new transit center has rejected a $175,000 offer… Continue reading

Shooting noise still reported from training center on Discovery Bay

DISCOVERY BAY -- In spite of a Jefferson County order shutting down their homeland security operations Thursday, Discovery Bay residents complained that Security Services Northwest… Continue reading

Jefferson County Fair turns 68 this weekend

PORT TOWNSEND -- Jefferson County Fair kicks off its 68th event today. With hundreds of open class, 4-H and Future Farmers of America entries scattered… Continue reading

Jefferson County orders homeland security training center to cease operations

PORT TOWNSEND -- Jefferson County's Community Development director issued a stop work order Thursday that in effect ends operations at a Gardiner-based homeland security training… Continue reading

Bridge closure likely to benefit two Peninsula towns

BRINNON -- Dorothy Land sees this weekend's Hood Canal Bridge construction closure as having huge business potential for Brinnon and Quilcene. Like many others trying… Continue reading

City, Port look at second life for Port Townsend’s Quincy Dock

PORT TOWNSEND -- The decrepit Quincy Street dock, used for about 50 years as a vehicle ferry terminal until the early 1980s, could be restored… Continue reading

300-plus round-trip tickets purchased for temporary Port Townsend foot ferry

PORT TOWNSEND -- Passengers have snapped up more than 300 round-trip tickets to catch a high-speed foot ferry from Port Townsend to Seattle this weekend.… Continue reading

Jefferson commissioners take step toward possible parks consolidation with Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND -- By a 2-1 vote, Jefferson County commissioners on Monday authorized the county administrator to work with Port Townsend's city manager on a… Continue reading

Jefferson Economic Development Council strategic plan should concentrate on job creation, leader says

PORT TOWNSEND -- The Jefferson County Economic Development Council is seeking comments on the agency's strategic plan, a blueprint for guiding the county's future economic… Continue reading

Courthouse bell rings out of control, is silenced

PORT TOWNSEND -- You could say Jefferson County Courthouse's bell went a little dingy late last week. County officials silenced the more than 100-year-old bell… Continue reading