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Bonneville Power Administration makes annual payment to US Treasury

The Bonneville Power Administration recently announced that it has paid the U.S. Treasury $1.05 billion. This was the administration’s 38th consecutive, on-time… Continue reading

Clallam Lodging Tax Advisory Committee accepting grants applications

The Clallam County Lodging Tax Advisory Committee is accepting applications for grants from the county’s lodging tax fund. Grants are available for… Continue reading

Climate change topic of Jefferson County Historical Society discussion

The Jefferson County Historical Society will present “Communicating Climate Change through Art, Science and Education: A Discussion with Maria Coryell-Martin, George Divoky… Continue reading

Contractors begin taking out Nelson Dam on Naches River

The city of Yakima was set to begin taking out the Nelson Dam on Monday following nearly three months of preparation and years… Continue reading

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Claiming her story in her own words

This is a 99 percent match for you, Netflix told me. Maybe the algorithm knows I live in Port Townsend, where “Maid,” the 10-episode series… Continue reading

Family of man shot by Pierce County deputy settles lawsuit for $3.5M

The estate of a man fatally wounded in Port Orchard by a Pierce County sheriff’s deputy after a car chase has settled… Continue reading

  • Oct 20, 2021
  • The Associated Press

Forks hospital board hopefuls answer questions

Commission expansion among topics

Genealogy class scheduled Saturday

The Clallam County Genealogical Society will present “I Know Nothing About Genealogy” at 1 p.m. Saturday. The free class will be taught… Continue reading

LETTER: Change council

The time to make change for the better is in this upcoming election for Port Angeles City Council. It has been my observation from the… Continue reading

LETTER: Climate change

I’m all for us living in an environmentally responsible way. Who wants to poison our own families with toxic chemicals? But the extremists have taken… Continue reading

LETTER: Fascist capitalism

The worst fear of our Founding Fathers was the destruction of our constitutional republic by a powerful malicious faction. That faction has materialized. It is… Continue reading

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Olympic Medical Center announces Leadership Award winner

Samantha Jacobson recently received Olympic Medical Center’s Leadership award for August. Jacobson is the operations manager for Olympic Medical Physicians. She has… Continue reading

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Olympic Theatre Arts offers ‘Tale Spinners’ on Oct. 30

Olympic Theatre Arts Center aims to offer a comfortable, safe storytelling evening for grown-ups with “Tale Spinners” — a new, monthly event that… Continue reading

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PAT NEAL: An answer to an age old queston

It was daylight on the river. We were sitting in the vapors of a fog-shrouded valley trying to solve the central problems of human existence.… Continue reading

Emily Roberts of Seattle stops to take a photograph of fall colors along the Elwha River in Olympic National Park. As autumn foliage reaches its peak on the North Olympic Peninsula, many trees are a riotous mix of reds, yellows and golds. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Peninsula beauty

Emily Roberts of Seattle stops to take a photograph of fall colors along the Elwha River in Olympic National Park. As autumn foliage reaches its… Continue reading

Emily Roberts of Seattle stops to take a photograph of fall colors along the Elwha River in Olympic National Park. As autumn foliage reaches its peak on the North Olympic Peninsula, many trees are a riotous mix of reds, yellows and golds. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Hailian Zhou and her daughters, Sophie Dewey, 6, and Charlotte Dewey, 3, travel the storywalk through Port Townsend’s Kah Tai Lagoon Nature Park on Tuesday. A permanent set of panels, currently depicting the book “The Cool Bean,” dot the trail. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)

Permanent storywalk opens in Port Townsend

Panels installed in half-mile stretch at Kah Tai park

Hailian Zhou and her daughters, Sophie Dewey, 6, and Charlotte Dewey, 3, travel the storywalk through Port Townsend’s Kah Tai Lagoon Nature Park on Tuesday. A permanent set of panels, currently depicting the book “The Cool Bean,” dot the trail. (Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News)
FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, then-Pierce County Sheriff's Dept. spokesman Det. Ed Troyer answers questions during a news conference in Tacoma, Wash. The Washington state attorney general on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, filed two misdemeanor criminal charges against Troyer, now the Pierce County sheriff, stemming from his confrontation with a Black newspaper carrier in January. Troyer has denied wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Pierce County sheriff charged over confrontation

Originally claimed Black man threatened him; later said it did not happen

  • Oct 20, 2021
  • The Associated Press
FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, then-Pierce County Sheriff's Dept. spokesman Det. Ed Troyer answers questions during a news conference in Tacoma, Wash. The Washington state attorney general on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, filed two misdemeanor criminal charges against Troyer, now the Pierce County sheriff, stemming from his confrontation with a Black newspaper carrier in January. Troyer has denied wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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PIERRE LaBOSSIERE COLUMN: The painful hassle of mallet finger

Yay, I have something in common with Russell Wilson. When Wilson injured his finger against the L.A. Rams last week, NBC showed a close-up of… Continue reading

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