Port Townsend mulls rules on sandwich-board signs

PORT TOWNSEND -- There is still work to be done on what exactly will stay and go as far as "sandwich-board" style signs are concerned.… Continue reading

SPORTS: Port Angeles quartet takes second place at Spokane Hoopfest

SPOKANE -- Four Port Angeles athletes captured second place in the 40- to 50-years-old age group at the world-famous Spokane Hoopfest last weekend. The Hoopfest,… Continue reading

SPORTS: Wilder Baseball captures third at Longview tournament

LONGVIEW -- Wilder Baseball captured third place at the prestigious eight-team Lower Columbia Summer Classic last weekend. "We are starting to play better," Wilder coach… Continue reading

Water reuse site draws ideas from three groups

SEQUIM -- The name bears no glamour, but community groups clamor for a piece of it: Sequim's Water Reuse Demonstration Site, a nearly 28-acre swath… Continue reading

Downtown Port Angeles police officer program almost $50,000 richer

PORT ANGELES — The Police Department announced today that it has been awarded a $49,592.00 grant by the U.S. Department of Justice to help continue… Continue reading

Anyone missing a brown cow from the Olympic Peninsula?

Victoria city officials are trying to figure out what to do with the carcass of a brown cow that washed ashore at Clover Point --… Continue reading

Dry land farming in dry weather puts crops to test

PORT TOWNSEND -- Amaranth. Camelina. Quinoa. What sound like unusual girls' names are actually types of plants that should be familiar to farmers and gardeners… Continue reading

Group for young professionals to hold first gathering Thursday

PORT ANGELES -- Young professionals are invited to network, mingle and socialize at the first gathering Thursday for those 21 through 45 years old who… Continue reading

Lower Elwha hatchery construction to begin in the fall

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- The National Park Service plans to begin this fall the construction of the Lower Elwha Fish Hatchery, a necessary step toward… Continue reading

Missing man found dead of apparent suicide

QUILCENE -- A search for a man who went missing Saturday morning in Quilcene ended when rescuers found him dead in a wooded area near… Continue reading

Organ builders go for Baroque

PORT TOWNSEND -- An organist sits down at a pipe organ. The organ has 23 ranks of pipes replicating the instruments of a symphony orchestra.… Continue reading

Port Angeles council member seeks public input about bridges’ railings

PORT ANGELES -- City Council member Cherie Kidd wants the council to discuss the height of the railing on the Eighth Street bridges, but first… Continue reading

Produce travels to Seattle quiet as Whisper

SEQUIM ­-- Let us follow a strawberry, flush from the field as it travels on wind and water -- but without petroleum -- from Sequim… Continue reading

Program matches young workers with summer jobs

SEQUIM -- Carl Chastain isn't sure who's getting the better deal: the teenagers who will come to work for him this summer or the Pacific… Continue reading

Critics say state’s new Quilcene-area water rules a washout

PORT TOWNSEND -- A plan to cut the drawdown of new wells by tenfold compared to currently allowed levels in the Quilcene-Snow watershed got a… Continue reading

Affordable housing discussed by Port Townsend council, county commissioners

PORT TOWNSEND -- The Port Townsend City Council and Board of Jefferson County Commissioners have agreed to establish a list of parcels that could be… Continue reading

Wednesday Port Angeles Farmers Market to make new Gateway its home

PORT ANGELES -- After two weeks at The Gateway pavilion, the Wednesday Port Angeles Farmers Market will make the downtown transit center its home. The… Continue reading

Construction of span over Elwha River stretches toward September completion

11The two-deck structure already has taken shape. Clallam County public works officials said the bridge will likely open in late September. "It's the biggest job… Continue reading

Port Angeles pool to shut down — but it’s only for maintenance

PORT ANGELES -- The William Shore Memorial Pool will be closed from Saturday through Aug. 2 for annual maintenance. The maintenance includes several small repairs,… Continue reading

This ‘will save lives’: East Jefferson gains ability to use ‘clot buster’ drugs

PORT TOWNSEND -- An 88-year-old man suffering a heart attack was the first to benefit from new protocols for paramedics in East Jefferson County. The… Continue reading