Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Sequim road concerns

Over the last 30 plus years, I have witnessed the increase in pedestrians, bicyclists, boats, trucks and traffic on West Sequim Bay Road. Chains of… Continue reading

  • Aug 23, 2025

LETTER: Continue to speak out

If you were to study the history of the 20th century, it would be easy to see similarities between Germany in the 1930s and the… Continue reading

LETTER: Quarles for Port Townsend council

Dylan Quarles is the best candidate for Port Townsend City Council, position 1. His willingness to engage and understand contrary positions will fit well with… Continue reading

  • Aug 16, 2025

LETTER: Safety over glamping

The glamping company Under Canvas has proposed a project out on the West End in the upper Sol Duc Valley. Clallam County’s Department of Community… Continue reading

  • Aug 16, 2025

LETTER: Tribal gratitude

I am writing to express my immense gratitude, and awe, for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. They graciously welcomed thousands of tribal and First Nations… Continue reading

  • Aug 16, 2025

LETTER: Corn roast props

I was fortunate, mostly through notification through the Marchant family and a haphazard, if not lazy attitude approach on my part, to attend the 28th… Continue reading

  • Aug 9, 2025

LETTER: Economic treason

The Trump political cult intends to destroy Social Security and Medicare by using their benefit funds to repay the national debt and cut taxes for… Continue reading

  • Aug 9, 2025

LETTER: Following wrong leader

Do you remember how every time tragedy struck a blue state, a liberal city, or the LGBTQ+ community, the so-called Christian Republicans, especially the MAGA… Continue reading

  • Aug 9, 2025

LETTER: Doe shot

An open letter to the person who shot a doe on lower Dan Kelly Road on July 21. The doe that you shot with a… Continue reading

  • Aug 2, 2025

LETTER: Done with meat

I was a regular meat eater up until I listened to the Coast to Coast AM radio show, “Meat Industry Expose with Gail Eisnitz’” She… Continue reading

LETTER: More transparency

At the July 15 Port Angeles City Council meeting, the purchase of a new Kubota tractor was approved following public concern. As a resident, teacher… Continue reading

  • Aug 2, 2025

LETTER: Red light, green light

How many of you remember the schoolyard game of red light, green light? There was a leader and players behind the leader. The leader would… Continue reading

  • Aug 2, 2025

LETTER: Don’t feed wildlife

Stop feeding wildlife. Seriously, just stop. It might feel cute or kind, but you’re doing far more harm than good. Wild animals aren’t your pets.… Continue reading

  • Jul 26, 2025

LETTER: Ennis legacy

Few local issues have attracted my ire as Rayonier’s disregard for environmental destruction on their former mill site. Rayonier trashed its approximately 80-acre property before… Continue reading

  • Jul 26, 2025

LETTER: Full cleanup

This week’s special Port Angeles City Council meeting offered a rare moment of clarity and consensus, and I urge all Port Angeles residents to take… Continue reading

  • Jul 26, 2025

LETTER: Two types of war

There are two types of war: geopolitical and religious. In most cases, they are interchangeable, both striving for total servitude of the masses by force… Continue reading

  • Jul 26, 2025

LETTER: Vote out Republicans

The new Republican bill cut Medicaid, called Apple Health in Washington state, by $1 trillion. More than one-third of citizens in Clalllam County will lose… Continue reading

  • Jul 26, 2025

LETTER: Celebrating Trump’s success

With the streets of Sequim strangely quiet this past weekend, I panicked. Did I miss the latest “No Kings” rally? Then I realized everyone must… Continue reading

  • Jul 19, 2025

LETTER: Children are starving

My outrage is way too much to fit here. Let me give you one example and then just one more. The president and his administration… Continue reading

  • Jul 19, 2025

LETTER: Ferries too expensive

The July 5 article about the new hybrid ferries was a real eye-opener. The cost to the Washington state taxpayers of these three ferries is… Continue reading

  • Jul 19, 2025