Peninsula Daily News

SPORTS: Chimacum baseball team wins crucial league game

TACOMA -- Landon Cray did a little of everything to help Chimacum beat Cascade Christian in a crucial Nisqually League game Thursday at Tacoma Community… Continue reading

SPORTS: North Olympic Peninsula girls basketball players receive all-state honors; boys get honorable mention

SEATTLE -- The girls are all right. Two North Olympic Peninsula high school girls basketball players were named first-team All-State selections by The Associated Press… Continue reading

Dicks expected at two dedications Friday in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES -- Congressman Norm Dicks is expected to be on hand for the Friday dedications of water treatment plants instrumental to the planned demolition… Continue reading

State takes comment on Peninsula management plan

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife is accepting public comment on a draft management plan that outlines goals for areas from Morse Creek to… Continue reading

Memorial service set for teenager killed in crash

SEQUIM -- A memorial service for a teenager killed when he swerved his truck to miss a deer has been set for Saturday, April 10.… Continue reading

SPORTS: Ronnie Harrell sparks Port Townsend boys golf to win over Port Angeles; other prep reports — SEE GALLERY

PORT ANGELES -- Port Townsend's Ronnie Harrell led the experienced Redskins to a solid win over rival Port Angeles in boys golf Wednesday. The course… Continue reading

Newly released scenes from ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’

Here are newly released photos from Summit Entertainment of scenes from “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” to be released midsummer. The Twilight saga, of course, is… Continue reading

Port Angeles Food Bank benefit dinner set for Thursday

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Food Bank will hold its “No Foolin’ Around” April Fool’s Day spaghetti dinner fundraiser at the Elks Naval Lodge,… Continue reading

Quileute tribe starts Twilight-inspired items online

LAPUSH -- The Quileute tribe has launched a Web site to sell Twilight-themed merchandise handcrafted by tribal artisans. Cedar wolf rattles and paddles, woven cedar… Continue reading

Maritime center in Port Townsend poised to meet fundraising goal today

PORT TOWNSEND -- Northwest Maritime Center representatives expect to be celebrating today after meeting a fundraising goal to meet two challenge grants from the Bill… Continue reading

Obama to open offshore areas to oil drilling, New York Times reports

The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of… Continue reading

Author Meyer to write book on ‘Twilight’ character

Attention "Twilight" fans: Stephenie Meyer has a new book coming out. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will release "The Short Second Life of Bree… Continue reading

Kenmore Air joins Alaska Airlines’ ticketing, frequent-flier plan

PORT ANGELES — Kenmore Air, which flies between Port Angeles and Seattle's Boeing Field, now has a frequent-flier and ticketing partnership with Alaska Airlines. The… Continue reading

Victims in truck crash south of Sequim identified

PORT ANGELES -- Tyler Braithwaite, 17, of Sequim, died Sunday afternoon when he apparently swerved to avoid hitting a deer on a wet gravel road… Continue reading

VFW Ladies Auxiliary in Port Angeles gathers, mails blankets to U.S. soldiers

PORT ANGELES -- Sixty blankets of donated fleece are headed to a military hospital in Afghanistan because of the efforts of women with Veterans of… Continue reading

A list of Washington state’s troubled banks

WHILE MOST OF the state's 90-odd banks and thrifts are at least reasonably healthy, more than two dozen, including two with branches on the North… Continue reading

A consumer’s guide to the new health care bill

THE NATIONAL HEALTH-CARE bill is more than 2,400 pages long — with hundreds more to come from federal regulators filling in the details. It will… Continue reading

Ashlee Nollette named 2010 Rhody queen

CHIMACUM — There were only two contestants, and Ashlee Nollette, right in the photo, was crowned queen for the 75th annual celebration of the Rhododendron… Continue reading

Clallam libraries closed this week to help mend budget

The Port Angeles, Sequim, Forks and Clallam Bay public libraries will be closed this week to save money in light of an anticipated $163,000 budget… Continue reading

Quilcene School freezer fixed; classes to resume Monday

QUILCENE -- Quilcene School will resume classes on Monday after a faulty valve that destroyed more than $10,000 worth of food in the kitchen freezer… Continue reading