Port Townsend branch of the American Association of University Women is excited to has named Zhaleh Almaee as its 2024 Woman of Excellence.

Port Townsend AAUW name Woman of Excellence

Port Townsend branch of the American Association of University Women has named Zhaleh Almaee as its 2024 Woman of Excellence. The annual… Continue reading

Port Townsend branch of the American Association of University Women is excited to has named Zhaleh Almaee as its 2024 Woman of Excellence.
Pictured, from left to right, are Billie Jean Liedahl, Sandra Lytle, Sarah Kincaid, Mandy-Tsoi Hallam, Jodi Jones and Stephanie Day.

Republican women announce officers

Billie Jean Liedahl, the president of the Washington Federation of Republican Women, installed new officers of the Republican Women of Clallam County at a brunch… Continue reading

Pictured, from left to right, are Billie Jean Liedahl, Sandra Lytle, Sarah Kincaid, Mandy-Tsoi Hallam, Jodi Jones and Stephanie Day.

South jetty on time for March deadline

In-water work close; walkway is next in Port Townsend

Port Angeles Public Works and Washington State Department of Transportation officials examine a sinkhole in the middle of Fifth and Lincoln streets in Port Angeles on Wednesday after water from a broken water main tore up the pavement. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Port Angeles Public Works and Washington State Department of Transportation officials examine a sinkhole in the middle of Fifth and Lincoln streets in Port Angeles on Wednesday after water from a broken water main tore up the pavement. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Clallam Fair royalty to be crowned Saturday

Silent auction to help raise money for girls’ college scholarships

Forks agrees to increase pay for police officers

Raises will be in 2025 and 2026

Bruce Emery.

Regulations on farms, tiny homes proposed

Clallam County DCD working on ordinances

Bruce Emery.

Ballots to be mailed for special election

Voters asked to fund school, hospital levies

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe/Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Jamestown S’Klallam tribal fisherman Josh Chapman and Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe shellfish manager Liz Tobin measure Dungeness crab samples as part of the genetics project.

Crab DNA study examines possible distinct populations

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe partners are considering genetics

  • Jan 24, 2024
  • By Tiffany Royal Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
  • Clallam County
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe/Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Jamestown S’Klallam tribal fisherman Josh Chapman and Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe shellfish manager Liz Tobin measure Dungeness crab samples as part of the genetics project.
Tracy Bloom.

Sequim entrepreneur, volunteer remembered

Sudden death shocks family, friends

Tracy Bloom.

Video tour of underwater laboratory to be featured at Studium Generale

Deborah Kelley, a marine biologist and professor in the University of Washington’s School of Oceanography, will be the speaker Thursday during Peninsula… Continue reading

Fire Commissioner Dan Huff, left, is sworn in for a six-year term by Clallam 2 Fire-Rescue Chief Jake Patterson.

Clallam County Fire District 2 Commissioner sworn in

Dan Huff was sworn in as a commissioner at a recent meeting of the commissioners of Clallam County Fire District 2. Huff,… Continue reading

Fire Commissioner Dan Huff, left, is sworn in for a six-year term by Clallam 2 Fire-Rescue Chief Jake Patterson.

Jefferson commissioners ask DNR to consider swap

Agency may ‘donate’ conservation acres to Clallam County

Port of Port Angeles director talks of 100 years into future

The Port of Port Angeles is looking ahead to the next 100 years of expansion and new ventures while standing by its… Continue reading

Night lane closures this week at Morse Creek

Contractors for the state Department of Transportation will replace plants in the median of U.S. Highway 101 in the Morse Creek curve… Continue reading

Deputy chief Justin Grider with Clallam County Fire District 2, center, has accepted an offer to become Fire District 3’s next fire chief. Here he stands with, from left, Port Angeles Fire Department Chief Derrell Sharp, Joel McKeen, Port Angeles Fire Department assistant chief, Joyce Fire and Rescue chief Greg Waters and Fire District 3 interim fire chief Dan Orr. (Jay Cline)

Fire District 3 chooses Grider as new chief

Finance manager, new district leader set to start March 1

Deputy chief Justin Grider with Clallam County Fire District 2, center, has accepted an offer to become Fire District 3’s next fire chief. Here he stands with, from left, Port Angeles Fire Department Chief Derrell Sharp, Joel McKeen, Port Angeles Fire Department assistant chief, Joyce Fire and Rescue chief Greg Waters and Fire District 3 interim fire chief Dan Orr. (Jay Cline)
Sequim City Council members Rachel Anderson and Brandon Janisse were voted in by fellow council members to serve as deputy mayor and mayor through the end of 2025. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Janisse elected mayor by Sequim City Council

A tenured city council member is Sequim’s mayor after newly elected and re-elected council members were sworn in at the first council meeting… Continue reading

Sequim City Council members Rachel Anderson and Brandon Janisse were voted in by fellow council members to serve as deputy mayor and mayor through the end of 2025. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

OMC CEO updates on staffing, legislation

Hospital says it lost about $24 million in 2023