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Peninsula College opens doors of new health, childhood education facility

Peninsula College opens doors of new health, childhood education facility

Hospital and community health center CEOs lauded Peninsula College for its commitment to health care during the grand opening of its Allied… Continue reading

Peninsula College opens doors of new health, childhood education facility
Ferris wheel studied after three fall from gondola

Ferris wheel studied after three fall from gondola

A Ferris wheel from which three people fell some 15 feet will be examined for mechanical flaws, said the president of Funtastic… Continue reading

Ferris wheel studied after three fall from gondola
Jefferson County Library replacing its 32-year-old roof

Jefferson County Library replacing its 32-year-old roof

The Jefferson County Library is getting a new roof to replace one from 1985. The taller sloped sections of the roof have… Continue reading

Jefferson County Library replacing its 32-year-old roof
Suboxone treatment: Port Angeles clinic to triple capacity

Suboxone treatment: Port Angeles clinic to triple capacity

North Olympic Healthcare Network plans to nearly triple the capacity of a program that provides medication for addicts trying to get off… Continue reading

Suboxone treatment: Port Angeles clinic to triple capacity
A big find: Locals stumble upon mammoth molar on Sequim beach

A big find: Locals stumble upon mammoth molar on Sequim beach

Sequim residents Lori Christie and Dean Flowers were taking their regular walk along a Sequim public beach when they stumbled upon a rare… Continue reading

A big find: Locals stumble upon mammoth molar on Sequim beach
Port Townsend moving ahead on Water Street project

Port Townsend moving ahead on Water Street project

The city of Port Townsend is moving forward with a plan to rehabilitate Water Street, which is just one of $13.8 million… Continue reading

Port Townsend moving ahead on Water Street project
North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center in Port Angeles likely to close

North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center in Port Angeles likely to close

This is likely to be the North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center’s last year, leaving staff and students distraught and not knowing what… Continue reading

North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center in Port Angeles likely to close
Six honored with Jefferson Heart of Service awards; seventh gets surprise recognition

Six honored with Jefferson Heart of Service awards; seventh gets surprise recognition

Six community members, one of them a student at Port Townsend High School, were honored for their community service, and a seventh… Continue reading

Six honored with Jefferson Heart of Service awards; seventh gets surprise recognition
Joyce native plans to move business to Port Angeles; predicts 100 local jobs over 5 years

Joyce native plans to move business to Port Angeles; predicts 100 local jobs over 5 years

A Joyce native plans to bring his business — which designs advanced cooling systems for military sensors and lasers — to Port… Continue reading

Joyce native plans to move business to Port Angeles; predicts 100 local jobs over 5 years
An unaccounted-for fiber-optic line on the corner of Landes and 19th streets slows the moving of a two-story apartment complex in Port Townsend on Thursday. (Cydney McFarland/Peninsula Daily News)

Apartment building trucked through Port Townsend to provide low-cost housing

Traffic was detoured Thursday around the route of a two-story apartment building as the structure that was floated on a barge over… Continue reading

An unaccounted-for fiber-optic line on the corner of Landes and 19th streets slows the moving of a two-story apartment complex in Port Townsend on Thursday. (Cydney McFarland/Peninsula Daily News)
O’Brien Meadows residents object to proposed change

O’Brien Meadows residents object to proposed change

Ron and Barbara Carr moved to O’Brien Meadows for the promise that their quiet neighborhood would remain surrounded by open space. About… Continue reading

O’Brien Meadows residents object to proposed change
Women volunteer work building homes in Port Townsend

Women volunteer work building homes in Port Townsend

Nearly 50 local women volunteered their time last week building homes in Port Townsend for the annual Habitat for Humanity National Women… Continue reading

Women volunteer work building homes in Port Townsend
New trail opens on Miller Peninsula; organizer says project partners multiple agencies

New trail opens on Miller Peninsula; organizer says project partners multiple agencies

After three years of waiting for the go-ahead, Powell Jones, executive director of the Dungeness River Audubon Center, recently finished one of his… Continue reading

New trail opens on Miller Peninsula; organizer says project partners multiple agencies
Port Townsend sisters headed to reptile symposium

Port Townsend sisters headed to reptile symposium

Sisters Lauren and Grace Taracka are heading to New Mexico from Port Townsend to attend the International Herpetological Symposium after winning the… Continue reading

Port Townsend sisters headed to reptile symposium
Slow cleanup nets much frustration at Rayonier mill

Slow cleanup nets much frustration at Rayonier mill

Residents are irritated by the ongoing, two-decades-old environmental cleanup at the former 75.6 acre Rayonier pulp mill site and the adjacent waters… Continue reading

Slow cleanup nets much frustration at Rayonier mill
Residents pack Port Angeles council chambers to demand answers of experts on drug abuse

Residents pack Port Angeles council chambers to demand answers of experts on drug abuse

Residents who filled the Port Angeles City Council chambers and lobby Tuesday night said they were fed up with the heroin epidemic… Continue reading

Residents pack Port Angeles council chambers to demand answers of experts on drug abuse
Equine therapy program offered breast cancer survivors in Quilcene

Equine therapy program offered breast cancer survivors in Quilcene

Connected Hearts, a equine therapy facility in Quilcene, is starting a program to help breast cancer survivors recover mentally from the trauma of… Continue reading

Equine therapy program offered breast cancer survivors in Quilcene
Donations pour in after scholarship fund theft in Joyce

Donations pour in after scholarship fund theft in Joyce

Donations poured in after a break-in at Joyce’s Blackberry Cafe in which a scholarship fund was stolen in March. And then they kept… Continue reading

Donations pour in after scholarship fund theft in Joyce
Peninsula robotics teams compete in international contest

Peninsula robotics teams compete in international contest

Two high school robotics teams from the North Olympic Peninsula held their own at the FIRST Robotics Competition in Houston, which gathered… Continue reading

Peninsula robotics teams compete in international contest
Wet April sets new record on West End

Wet April sets new record on West End

Last month was the wettest April on record at Quillayute Airport near Forks, which has seen more than its share of rain since… Continue reading

Wet April sets new record on West End