Tom Callis

Business holds bake sale to help save Port Angeles pool

PORT ANGELES -- Port Angeles Power Equipment's owners and employees put their cooking skills on the line last week for the William Shore Memorial Pool.… Continue reading

Western Washington to get biomass plant; legislator hopes to see it built on Peninsula

A Sequim legislator hopes to see a biomass power plant slated for Western Washington built on the North Olympic Peninsula. Public utility consortium Energy Northwest… Continue reading

Business owners return to view destruction after Port Angeles fire

PORT ANGELES -- The cause of a Tuesday night fire that destroyed two businesses in a building on Marine Drive remained unknown on Wednesday as… Continue reading

Lonely H to perform at hometown pool benefit Friday

PORT ANGELES -- Plenty of tickets are still available for the William Shore Memorial Pool benefit concert this Friday, which will feature The Lonely H,… Continue reading

When animals attack: Aggressive deer send couple all the way to Olympia

DIAMOND POINT -- For the last three years, Jerry and Anne Stiles say they have been living with an infestation. But it's not the creepy,… Continue reading

What her garden grows: Resident on whose property trace dioxin was found will ‘go on living like we always did’

PORT ANGELES -- Dorothy Skerbeck, once an avid gardener, said the discovery of dioxin on her property wouldn't keep her from growing or eating vegetables.… Continue reading

Higher ground for Hoh tribe before Congress

The North Olympic Peninsula's congressional delegation has reintroduced legislation expanding the Hoh reservation and giving the tiny West End tribe land out of the reach… Continue reading

Q&A about dioxin from the state Department of Ecology in light of Port Angeles findings

PORT ANGELES -- The state Department of Ecology released the preliminary test results of 85 soil samples last week taken from areas not disturbed by… Continue reading

Casino bets on March: Lower Elwha tribe prepares opening

PORT ANGELES -- The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe is preparing for a March opening of its first casino. The tribe will have a more solid… Continue reading

Cape Flattery-area wave-energy project halted

NEAH BAY -- A pioneering wave-energy project off the coast of the Makah reservation has been dropped after its British Columbia-based developer decided to halt… Continue reading

State agency finds trace amounts of dioxin in Port Angeles soil samples

PORT ANGELES -- Just over half of 85 soil samples taken in and around Port Angeles by the state Department of Ecology last year detected… Continue reading

Port of Port Angeles makes proposal for NOAA fleet

PORT ANGELES -- Port of Port Angeles Executive Director Bob McChesney traveled more than 2,500 miles this week to hand-deliver a proposal to the National… Continue reading

Harbor-Works wants Rayonier agreement by April

PORT ANGELES -- The Harbor-Works Public Development Authority wants to have a purchase and sales agreement signed with Rayonier Inc. for the company's 75-acre property… Continue reading

Work begins again on The Gateway

PORT ANGELES -- After three months of little or no activity, workers returned Wednesday to complete The Gateway. Completion of the downtown $14.7 million transportation… Continue reading

Harbor-Works seeks more money from Port Angeles city, port

PORT ANGELES -- The Harbor-Works Public Development Authority will ask for more money from the city of Port Angeles and the Port of Port Angeles,… Continue reading

Sequim man — legal immigrant — released from federal detention center

SEQUIM -- Federal authorities in Tacoma released an eight-year legal immigrant from Sequim on Monday, citing uncertainty over whether he qualifies for deportation. Jose Antonio… Continue reading

Gateway work gets go-ahead for completion in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES -- The city of Port Angeles gave the go-ahead to Primo Construction to finish The Gateway on Friday, but the jury is still… Continue reading

Immigrant arrests prompt protest in Sequim

SEQUIM -- The arrests of two Sequim men by the Border Patrol sparked a small protest at the intersection of Sequim's busiest intersection on Saturday.… Continue reading

It all depends on the weather, says manager

PORT ANGELES -- Completion of the two Eighth Street bridges is dependent on the weather, the Exeltech construction manager said. Long Painting of Kent, which… Continue reading

Businesses falter while bridges stay closed

PORT ANGELES -- With project managers unable to predict with any certainty when the two Eighth Street Bridges will open, some nearby business owners are… Continue reading