Public hearing on Port Townsend school lease Monday

PORT TOWNSEND -- The city would pay $66,000 annually for use of the Mountain View school campus, according to a proposed lease agreement that will… Continue reading

Specially trained dogs to be used in Port Angeles archaeological survey

PORT ANGELES -- The city's archaeologist, Derek Beery, intends to employ specially trained dogs to sniff for human remains at least a century old for… Continue reading

Frontier Bank, Seattle Bank put on tighter leashes by regulators

Peninsula Daily News News Services EVERETT — The Federal Reserve has tightened its oversight of the parent company of Frontier Bank, restricting Frontier Financial Corp.… Continue reading

  • Jul 11, 2009
  • Peninsula Daily News News Services

PEAK leadership program seeks candidates for 2009-10

Peninsula Daily News News Sources PORT ANGELES — Last year, on Sept. 25, the PEAK leadership program’s inaugural class convened in Neah Bay for its… Continue reading

  • Jul 11, 2009
  • Peninsula Daily News News Services

Sweet rides for sweet causes at Ruddell Cruise-In

PORT ANGELES — The 13th annual Ruddell Cruise-In topped itself with a record number of attendees, money raised for charity and classic cars on display.… Continue reading

14 new posts created on Peninsula for AmeriCorps

PORT ANGELES -- The AmeriCorps on the North Olympic Peninsula received a $196,000 boost through the federal stimulus package. The one-year grant from American Recovery… Continue reading

Downtown Port Angeles spruced up, so it’s time for a party!

PORT ANGELES -- Welcome to the new Port Angeles. City organizers will dedicate the new-look downtown corridor with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Front Street between… Continue reading

Librarian turns new page in Sequim

SEQUIM -- In front of a crowd on First Street, Lauren Dahlgren turned, spun and outmaneuvered stereotypes about her profession. It was the Independence Day… Continue reading

Museum looks at 1900s life

PORT ANGELES -- Labor was a little more intensive at home in the early 1900s, a new exhibit at the Museum at the Carnegie illustrates.… Continue reading

Attorney for Stenson, convicted of Sequim murders, to appeal ruling affirming lethal injection method

Peninsula Daily News News Sources An attorney representing Darold Stenson, a death row inmate from Sequim, plans to appeal a Thurston County judge's ruling that… Continue reading

  • Jul 10, 2009
  • Peninsula Daily News News Sources

Arts camp offers intensive experience

PORT TOWNSEND -- Have you ever wanted to write a song that expresses your ideas? Create a chapbook that holds a collection of your own… Continue reading

Dismissal end of plan to build Carlsborg crematory, office says

CARLSBORG -- A petition appealing a decision against building a crematory was dismissed Thursday, the Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney's Office said. Clallam County Superior Court… Continue reading

Fred Hill asks for special designation; Jefferson County reviewing several projects

PORT TOWNSEND -- New legislation has prompted Fred Hill Materials representatives to ask Jefferson County to designate the company's proposed pit-to-pier project an "industrial project… Continue reading

Funding in works for Battelle tidal power research

SEQUIM -- The North Olympic Peninsula took a step closer Thursday to status as a global center for ocean energy. A unanimous vote in the… Continue reading

Port Angeles cuts pay for seasonal workers in light of budget woes

PORT ANGELES -- The city of Port Angeles drastically cut pay for new seasonal workers last week in light of continued drops in revenue. Until… Continue reading

Port Angeles, port, county aim for TIGER funds

PORT ANGELES -- Federal money would cover nearly all of the costs of 10 public works projects in Clallam County if a few local public… Continue reading

State plans to close outer Mystery Bay to shellfish harvest

NORDLAND -- The state Department of Health has issued a warning that the outer area of Mystery Bay will be closed to commercial shellfish harvest… Continue reading

Today’s Ruddell Cruise-In: Cars, dunk tank and strongmen

PORT ANGELES -- Gentlemen and ladies, start your engines! See a huge, chrome-filled array of cars and trucks, drop "local celebrities" into a dunk tank… Continue reading

Washington health officials prepare for more flu

The Associated Press SEATTLE — This spring’s swine flu outbreak hasn’t gone away in Washington state despite the summer weather, but health officials have a… Continue reading

  • Jul 9, 2009
  • The Associated Press

State Supreme Court: If you’re property isn’t fenced all around, it isn’t burglary

The Associated Press OLYMPIA — A man suspected of stealing aluminum auto wheels from a rural business was not guilty of burglary, because the property… Continue reading

  • Jul 9, 2009
  • The Associated Press