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PHOTO GALLERY: Victims remembered at event marking completion of bridge barriers

PHOTO GALLERY: Victims remembered at event marking completion of bridge barriers

Port Angeles city officials hosted a community gathering and a concert on the Eighth Street bridge over Valley Creek to celebrate the… Continue reading

PHOTO GALLERY: Victims remembered at event marking completion of bridge barriers
Jefferson County airport runway to get funding, facelift

Jefferson County airport runway to get funding, facelift

The Jefferson County International Airport runway will be redesigned using a $414,328 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration. Interim Executive Director Jim… Continue reading

Jefferson County airport runway to get funding, facelift
Jefferson Healthcare: Planning essential for emergency response

Jefferson Healthcare: Planning essential for emergency response

Jefferson Healthcare workers have been practicing for emergencies and continue to prepare for small, local events or regional major catastrophes. “Every hospital… Continue reading

Jefferson Healthcare: Planning essential for emergency response

Water main breaks on West 10th Street in Port Angeles

City crews were working to repair a water main that had broken at West 10th and N streets late this afternoon. Crews… Continue reading

Port Townsend Film Festival rolls out welcome mat

Port Townsend Film Festival rolls out welcome mat

Going to the Port Townsend Film Festival, which starts Friday and runs like a freight train through Sunday, isn’t much like moviegoing… Continue reading

Port Townsend Film Festival rolls out welcome mat
Port Angeles club for youth seeks funds for new facility

Port Angeles club for youth seeks funds for new facility

A haven for children needs help from adults. The Port Angeles branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula… Continue reading

Port Angeles club for youth seeks funds for new facility

Homeless pacts extended to give more time for consideration

Interlocal agreements between Jefferson County and the city of Port Townsend for homeless housing and affordable housing that were set to expire… Continue reading

International 10-year salmon preservation plan advances lowered harvest

International 10-year salmon preservation plan advances lowered harvest

Canada and the U.S. states of Alaska, Oregon and Washington would all reduce their catch of… Continue reading

  • Sep 19, 2018
  • By Gillian Flaccus The Associated Press
International 10-year salmon preservation plan advances lowered harvest
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News                                The Eighth Street bridge over Valley Creek in Port Angeles will be the site of a celebration of the installation of suicide barriers tonight.

Suicide barriers draw praise in Port Angeles

Two fathers with painful connections to the Eighth Street bridges lauded the recent addition of suicide barriers along the 100-foot-tall spans. Randy… Continue reading

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News                                The Eighth Street bridge over Valley Creek in Port Angeles will be the site of a celebration of the installation of suicide barriers tonight.
Chimacum Backpacks For Kids program starts another season of boosting nutrition

Chimacum Backpacks For Kids program starts another season of boosting nutrition

A new season of helping the Chimacum Backpacks For Kids program is underway after a couple dozen volunteers got to work filling… Continue reading

Chimacum Backpacks For Kids program starts another season of boosting nutrition

Hearing on Jefferson shooting facility ordinance delayed

A public hearing on a draft commercial shooting facility ordinance has been postponed to Oct. 1 after originally being set for Monday,… Continue reading

Take 2 for Washington state: Carbon fee on fall ballot

Take 2 for Washington state: Carbon fee on fall ballot

Voters in Washington state will be asked this fall to do what state and federal leaders have… Continue reading

  • Sep 17, 2018
  • By Phuong Le The Associated Press
Take 2 for Washington state: Carbon fee on fall ballot

Meeting tonight for proposed ice skating rink in PA

A community meeting will be held tonight to inform and organize residents around establishing a downtown skating rink this fall. The meeting… Continue reading

Olympic National Park absorbing closed North Shore Resort at Lake Quinault

Olympic National Park absorbing closed North Shore Resort at Lake Quinault

Once described on an Olympic National Park visitor website as “the jewel of the lake,” the North Shore Resort on Lake… Continue reading

Olympic National Park absorbing closed North Shore Resort at Lake Quinault

Man arrested for investigation of Port Townsend arson

A man with no known address has been arrested for investigation of arson and other crimes. Jay A. Baker, 56, remained Saturday… Continue reading

Navy’s Peninsula submarine escort facility in use now

Navy’s Peninsula submarine escort facility in use now

A ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Port Angeles Coast Guard Station marked the startup of the nation’s second submarine escort pier facility. Cooperation… Continue reading

Navy’s Peninsula submarine escort facility in use now

State waives make-up days for new Port Townsend elementary school

The State Board of Education has approved a waiver for Salish Coast Elementary that means the students and staff will not need… Continue reading

Two Port Angeles council members walk out of joint meeting in protest

Port Angeles City Council members Jim Moran and Cherie Kidd left a joint meeting with the city Planning Commission in protest last… Continue reading

Port Angeles hotel robbed; police say suspect was wearing red, yellow contacts

Port Angeles hotel robbed; police say suspect was wearing red, yellow contacts

City police on Saturday were investigating an early-morning robbery at the Port Angeles Days Inn. A man entered the main lobby of… Continue reading

Port Angeles hotel robbed; police say suspect was wearing red, yellow contacts

Searchers find overdue mushroom hunter on West End

An overdue mushroom hunter was rescued by Clallam County Search and Rescue in a West End forest today. Curtis Price, 53, of Forks… Continue reading