Joe Smillie

Makah whalers celebrate atop a dead gray whale in Neah Bay after the successful hunt in this May 17

Makah group plans to mark whale hunt anniversary Saturday in Neah Bay

NEAH BAY –– A small flotilla of canoes is expected to set out into Neah Bay on Saturday to mark the 15th anniversary of the… Continue reading

Makah whalers celebrate atop a dead gray whale in Neah Bay after the successful hunt in this May 17
Olympic Animal Sanctuary's former director back in Forks

Olympic Animal Sanctuary’s former director back in Forks

FORKS –– Steve Markwell is back. Markwell, the former director of the embattled and defunct Olympic Animal Sanctuary, is again living in Forks at the… Continue reading

Olympic Animal Sanctuary's former director back in Forks

Olympic Medical Center chief talks insurance, Medicare with Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce

SEQUIM –– “Obama­care” has been a success in providing health insurance to Clallam County, Olympic Medical Center CEO Eric Lewis told the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber… Continue reading

Esprit conventioneer Andi

WEEKEND: Esprit celebration dances to flash style in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES –– In a zebra-print dress and teal fingernails, Krystal flipped through a thick binder filled with pop music hits looking for the perfect… Continue reading

Esprit conventioneer Andi
Esprit conventioneer Andi

WEEKEND: Esprit celebration dances to flash style in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES –– In a zebra-print dress and teal fingernails, Krystal flipped through a thick binder filled with pop music hits looking for the perfect… Continue reading

Esprit conventioneer Andi
Olympic Animal Sanctuary's former director back in Forks

Olympic Animal Sanctuary’s former director back in Forks

FORKS –– Steve Markwell is back. Markwell, the former director of the embattled and defunct Olympic Animal Sanctuary, is again living in Forks at the… Continue reading

Olympic Animal Sanctuary's former director back in Forks
Makah whalers celebrate atop a dead gray whale in Neah Bay after the successful hunt in this May 17

Makah group plans to mark whale hunt anniversary Saturday in Neah Bay

NEAH BAY –– A small flotilla of canoes is expected to set out into Neah Bay on Saturday to mark the 15th anniversary of the… Continue reading

Makah whalers celebrate atop a dead gray whale in Neah Bay after the successful hunt in this May 17

Developers get $45,000 refund from city of Sequim over housing project’s parks fee

SEQUIM –– Doug and Leslee Francis will receive a $45,000 refund from the city for a parks fee they paid on a housing project that… Continue reading

Pat Johansen stands in front of the Guy Cole Convention Center in Sequim on Tuesday. Johansen will lead an effort in the coming months to study a revitalization of the city’s seldom-used

Examination of Sequim’s Guy Cole Convention Center aimed at revitalization

SEQUIM –– City officials are taking another shot at modernizing the Guy Cole Convention Center in Carrie Blake Park. Longtime Sequim resident and political leader… Continue reading

Pat Johansen stands in front of the Guy Cole Convention Center in Sequim on Tuesday. Johansen will lead an effort in the coming months to study a revitalization of the city’s seldom-used

Olympic Medical Center chief talks insurance, Medicare with Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce

SEQUIM –– “Obama­care” has been a success in providing health insurance to Clallam County, Olympic Medical Center CEO Eric Lewis told the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber… Continue reading

30,000 Clallam County electricity customers get 3.5% rate increase in July

PORT ANGELES –– Users of Clallam County Public Utility District electricity will see a 3.5 percent increase in rates starting in July. The increase adds… Continue reading

Sequim earns ‘Bicycle Friendly Community’ status

SEQUIM –– With its world-class trail, wide streets and, of course, its sunshine, Sequim has been recognized for its friendliness to bicycles. The 134-year-old League… Continue reading

David Halpern  [Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Decades-old criminal conviction unlikely to sink pot shop hopeful’s chances

SEQUIM –– A 1993 criminal conviction for smuggling so-called “Fountain of Youth” drugs into the country and selling them may have little effect on whether… Continue reading

David Halpern  [Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
Mayor Stu Rasmussen stands in the Silverton

Nation’s first openly transgender mayor to give keynote at 25th annual Esprit conference in Port Angeles

SILVERTON, Ore. –– After a successful political career that saw him serve as mayor of this small Willamette Valley city through the early-1990s, Stu Rasmussen took… Continue reading

Mayor Stu Rasmussen stands in the Silverton
Mayor Stu Rasmussen stands in the Silverton

Nation’s first openly transgender mayor to give keynote at 25th annual Esprit conference in Port Angeles

SILVERTON, Ore. –– After a successful political career that saw him serve as mayor of this small Willamette Valley city through the early-1990s, Stu Rasmussen took… Continue reading

Mayor Stu Rasmussen stands in the Silverton
Sequim farmer Gary Smith plows a field off Lotzgesell Road on Thursday to plant corn that will require a “tremendous” amount of irrigation water to mature.” Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Irrigation, central to growth of Dungeness Valley, now changing for farms with recent water rule

SEQUIM — Without irrigation, the Dungeness Valley would be a desert. “The Sequim prairie down there, right where the city sets now, it was about… Continue reading

Sequim farmer Gary Smith plows a field off Lotzgesell Road on Thursday to plant corn that will require a “tremendous” amount of irrigation water to mature.” Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
David Halpern  [Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Decades-old criminal conviction unlikely to sink pot shop hopeful’s chances

SEQUIM –– A 1993 criminal conviction for smuggling so-called “Fountain of Youth” drugs into the country and selling them may have little effect on whether… Continue reading

David Halpern  [Photo by Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

October trial set in Discovery Bay resort stabbing

PORT TOWNSEND ––An October trial has been set for a Port Angeles man accused of second-degree attempted murder after a stabbing at the WorldMark Discovery… Continue reading

October trial set in Discovery Bay resort stabbing

PORT TOWNSEND ––An October trial has been set for a Port Angeles man accused of second-degree attempted murder after a stabbing at the WorldMark Discovery… Continue reading

Members of the Sequim High School marching band perform as they march down Washington Street in the Grand Parade of 2013's Irrigation Festival. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Grand Parade, logging show, carnival at Sequim Irrigation Festival today

SEQUIM –– Princesses, monster trucks and loggers will take over the final weekend of the 119th Sequim Irrigation Festival today through Sunday — although not… Continue reading

Members of the Sequim High School marching band perform as they march down Washington Street in the Grand Parade of 2013's Irrigation Festival. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News