Julie McCormick

Port Townsend City Council deals with budget, bonds and fee deferments

PORT TOWNSEND -- The City Council had some big business to do Monday night. There was the $28 million 2011 budget, a $3.8 bond issue… Continue reading

Court won’t review land use ruling; gun range owner D’Amico blames county for decision

GARDINER -- Joe D'Amico has lost another skirmish in his five-year battle with Jefferson County over a shooting range and training operation located on Discovery… Continue reading

Austin beats anti-incumbent fever in Jefferson County commissioner race

PORT TOWNSEND — In a year widely predicted to be a bad one for incumbents at all levels, Jefferson County District 3 Commissioner John Austin,… Continue reading

HALLOWEEN IN JEFFERSON: The ghost tale of Alice the Goon

Stories of spooks and ghosts are rampant in Port Townsend, where it is easy to envision the face of a disappointed lover driven to suicide… Continue reading

Jefferson County turns over documents sought by firearms training range operator; more e-mails coming

Jefferson County has produced some but not all of the e-mail records that Joe D'Amico requested two weeks ago as part of the five-year battle… Continue reading

Clallam’s unsolved mysteries: Last year’s discovery proves ‘cold cases’ can be solved, detective says

Norman Boullion's son, a teenager when his father disappeared, got some closure last year when the bones found at a Bean Road home in Port… Continue reading

Jefferson’s unsolved mysteries: Protection Island no longer focus of cold case investigation

Little Jeff Blankinship would have turned 41 years old this year. He might have attended Port Townsend schools, maybe married a local girl. His mother,… Continue reading

Port Ludlow council to appeal quarry decision

PORT LUDLOW -- A citizens group will appeal a visiting judge's decision preventing them from weighing-in on an ongoing legal dispute between Jefferson County and… Continue reading

Chicken-hunting bear trapped near Quilcene; new home to be deep in Olympic Mountains

QUILCENE -- A young black bear with a taste for fresh chicken was captured sometime during the night Tuesday near the Dabob Road home where… Continue reading

State auditor looking into Quilcene fire district issue

QUILCENE -- Questions about special-project wages paid by Fire District 2 in Quilcene to Commissioner David Ward -- who also approved the payments -- has… Continue reading

What does Protection Island hide? Investigators hope to search for bones in 37-year-old case

A 37-year-old Jefferson County missing-persons case has turned into a suspected triple murder case involving two jurisdictions with interest newly focused on Protection Island as… Continue reading