Clallam County unemployment came down to 7.6 percent, while Jefferson County’s jobless rate dipped to 7.2 percent, officials said.
The county Sheriff’s Office will provide one or more deputies on an as-needed basis while the city recruits two officers to fill a pair of vacancies, officials said.
In its 26-year history, the nonprofit has permanently protected more than 3,200 acres of farmland, forest land and fish habitat across the county, a land trust official said.
The long-planned course sits on 40 acres of county land on the Miller Peninsula about 9 miles east of Sequim and 2 miles from the Jefferson County line.
County planners have simplified proposed rules for vacation rentals.
“The reason is there’s been a lot of work done already in Clallam County to protect the [northern spotted] owl,” Bill Peach said.
Steven Chester Pope is sentenced to more than 23 years in prison and lifelong community custody.
Clallam County Superior Court Judge Brian Coughenour issued a 31-month sentence.
Cory Joe Stokes had been released from custody to attend the birth of his child in Seattle.
Douglas J. Allison, 55, said he would seek counseling in prison and repeatedly said, “I’m sorry.”
The preliminary roll-up budget shows flat revenues of $34.7 million and roll-up expenditures of $37.2 million in the county’s general fund for day-to-day operations.
A 33-year-old Forks woman was given nearly four years after pleading guilty.
Biologists say adult chinook salmon, sockeye salmon, steelhead and bull trout have been spotted in the upper stretches of the river.
The mascot? An Olympic marmot.
Sine Tveit, 41, was described as a Sequim-area transient who had camped nearby.
The new team starts play in Port Angeles next June.
Commissioners voted to approve the after hearing concerns from East Sequim Bay Road residents over a proposed 32,000-square-foot bed-and-breakfast.
The scenic trail will be shut from the Lyre River trailhead to the McFee Tunnel for the next phase of improvements.
His defense attorney said he had not yet received the results of a psychological examination.
Steven Chester Pope of Port Angeles pleaded guilty in June.
