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Port Townsend/East Jefferson Community Chorus president Pam McCollum Clise (left) and chorus director Leslie Lewis (right) accept a $250 donation from First Federal's Port Townsend branch manager Laurie Liske.

Food donations sought in PA, Sequim . . . and other business briefs

By Peninsula Daily News staff and news services Food drive donations in PA, Sequim PORT ANGELES —Nonperishable food items may be dropped off at Strait… Continue reading

Port Townsend/East Jefferson Community Chorus president Pam McCollum Clise (left) and chorus director Leslie Lewis (right) accept a $250 donation from First Federal's Port Townsend branch manager Laurie Liske.
Key bills in limbo as lawmakers enter final push in Olympia

Key bills in limbo as lawmakers enter final push in Olympia

By Jonathan Kaminsky The Associated Press OLYMPIA — With the passage of a key deadline for non-budgetary bills in the state Legislature, the prospects for… Continue reading

Key bills in limbo as lawmakers enter final push in Olympia

Panel OKs ecosystem plan for West Coast fisheries

By JEFF BARNARD The Associated Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. — After three years of consideration, West Coast federal fisheries managers on has unanimously adopted their… Continue reading

Even in London they followed news of the PenPly smokestack that refused to fall

Even in London they followed news of the PenPly smokestack that refused to fall

ON THE WEBSITE of the Daily Mail newspaper in London this week, using articles, photos and videos from the Peninsula Daily News: "Going, going, er...… Continue reading

Even in London they followed news of the PenPly smokestack that refused to fall
Key bills in limbo as lawmakers enter final push in Olympia

Key bills in limbo as lawmakers enter final push in Olympia

By Jonathan Kaminsky The Associated Press OLYMPIA — With the passage of a key deadline for non-budgetary bills in the state Legislature, the prospects for… Continue reading

Key bills in limbo as lawmakers enter final push in Olympia

Panel OKs ecosystem plan for West Coast fisheries

By JEFF BARNARD The Associated Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. — After three years of consideration, West Coast federal fisheries managers on has unanimously adopted their… Continue reading

Seahawks reach deal with Brady Quinn as backup QB

Seahawks reach deal with Brady Quinn as backup QB

By Tim Booth The Associated Press SEATTLE — Brady Quinn is the new backup quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks after beating out three others during… Continue reading

Seahawks reach deal with Brady Quinn as backup QB
Victoria E. Tamblyn

UPDATE: Missing Sequim woman returns home safe

SEQUIM — A 47-year-old missing woman sought by the Clallam County Sheriff's Office has returned home on her own. "She was cold but apparently OK,… Continue reading

Victoria E. Tamblyn

[EXCLUSIVE VIDEO] ‘Very anticlimactic’: Sights and sounds of PenPly stack explosion from atop the bluff

PORT ANGELES — A third Peninsula Daily News video camera (video from the other two can be found on separate links off the home page)… Continue reading

[EXCLUSIVE VIDEO] Here’s a view of the PenPly stack explosion that nobody could see

Peninsula Daily News photojournalist Keith Thorpe set up an isolated video camera about 90 feet east of the Peninsula Plywood stack Monday afternoon in anticipation… Continue reading

Exclusive video: See the PenPly stack fall

EDITOR'S NOTE: See related story: https://giftsnap.shop/article/20130408/NEWS/304089988 PENINSULA DAILY NEWS photojournalist Keith Thorpe captures the falling of the 175-foot stack that once towered over the Peninsula… Continue reading

BULLETIN ——————— PenPly smokestack falls at 6:15 p.m.

BULLETIN ——————— PenPly smokestack falls at 6:15 p.m.

BULLETIN — The PenPly smokestack fell at 6:15 p.m., kicking up a huge cloud of dust. PREVIOUS STORY: THE LATEST FROM the site of the… Continue reading

BULLETIN ——————— PenPly smokestack falls at 6:15 p.m.
Puppy Pilots

North Olympic Peninsula business briefs

VA gives ‘Heart’ award to Home Health staffer PORT ANGELES — Emily Marcus, a medical social worker at Olympic Medical Home Health, has received the… Continue reading

Puppy Pilots
Margaret Thatcher The Associated Press

Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady, dead at 87

LONDON — Margaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady” of British politics, who pulled her country back from 35 years of socialism, led it to victory in… Continue reading

Margaret Thatcher The Associated Press
[KOMO-TV]

Early morning quake rattles Key Peninsula

KEY CENTER — A 3.5-magnitude earthquake shook the upper Key Peninsula northwest of Tacoma early this morning. Our news partner, KOMO-TV (www.komotv.com) reported there were… Continue reading

[KOMO-TV]
Tom Roorda/roordaaerial.com

Strait of Juan de Fuca’s newest beach keeps growing

An ever-changing plume of sediment courses out of the mouth of the Elwha River in this image taken last week by Port Angeles-based aerial photographer… Continue reading

Tom Roorda/roordaaerial.com
Anne Smedinghoff The Associated Press

And on the other side of the world . . . ‘Selfless, idealistic’ Anne Smedinghoff, young U.S. diplomat on mission to donate textbooks, among five Americans killed in Afghanistan

ISTANBUL (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday railed against the "cowardly" terrorists responsible for the attack that killed five Americans in… Continue reading

Anne Smedinghoff The Associated Press
Page design by Allison McGee/Peninsula Daily News

Exclusive tribute in today’s PDN: Marvelous memories of Port Angeles’ landmark plywood mill

Monday's scheduled 3:30 p.m. explosion of the smokestack finishes demolition of the 70-year-old Peninsula Plywood mill on the Port Angeles waterfront. Memories, historical vignettes and… Continue reading

Page design by Allison McGee/Peninsula Daily News
Frozen food recalled because of E. coli outbreak

Frozen food recalled because of E. coli outbreak

OLYMPIA — The state Department of Health is warning people about a recall of frozen food related to a national outbreak of E. coli. That… Continue reading

Frozen food recalled because of E. coli outbreak
In this Aug. 11

Korean War chaplain gets Medal of Honor 62 years after death

By The Associated Press IN THE COLD, barren hills of Korea more than 60 years ago, two teary-eyed soldiers stood in a prisoner of war… Continue reading

In this Aug. 11