Witnesses confirm deputies’ account of shooting of gunman last September

SEQUIM -- Several witnesses heard Clallam County sheriff's deputies order Shawn Matthew Roe to surrender before they shot him Sept. 20 at the Longhouse Market… Continue reading

Coast Guard cutter Active returns home to Port Angeles

PDN news sources PORT ANGELES — Coast Guard cutter Active and its crew returned to Port Angeles this afternoon. The Active spent eight months in… Continue reading

  • Dec 11, 2008
  • PDN news sources

Long effort to pipe water to Marrowstone Island nearly finished

PORT HADLOCK -- The final chapter is near its close in Jefferson County Public Utility District's six-year battle to extend water service to Marrowstone Island,… Continue reading

Makah past points to tribe’s future of justice, health

NEAH BAY -- The Makah tribe is working hard to restore its culture -- and restorative justice along with it, the tribal chairman says. Restorative… Continue reading

Peninsula College awaits word on how deep cutbacks will be in 2009

PORT ANGELES -- Peninsula College administrators are waiting on the edges of their seats for the governor's proposed budget to be released later this month.… Continue reading

Port Angeles council chooses city manager

PORT ANGELES -- Kent Myers of Hot Springs, Ark., will be sworn in as the new city manager at the Port Angeles City Council's regular… Continue reading

Port Ludlow to keep fighting quarry plan

PORT LUDLOW -- The Port Ludlow Village Council will continue its legal fight against a proposed rock quarry near the community, no matter how long… Continue reading

Port of Port Townsend raises moorage, hangar fees 3%

PORT TOWNSEND -- Despite opposition from marine trades operators and boat moorage tenants, the Port of Port Townsend commissioners on Wednesday formally adopted 3 percent… Continue reading

Sequim hikes fees required of developers

SEQUIM -- Despite lectures from real estate agents and others, the City Council decided this week to steeply hike the fees developers pay to build… Continue reading

Brown arraignment on vehicular homicide charge rescheduled; victim’s mother speaks out

PORT ANGELES -- The untimely death of her son, Benjamin Merscher, has shattered her family emotionally, said Mitzi Sanders, after watching the woman accused of… Continue reading

Christian team’s show irks Jewish father, who pulls children from school

SEQUIM -- Karl Wood, a Jewish father of four, found out the night of Nov. 19 from another Sequim parent that the Power Team, a… Continue reading

Council talks over city manager post

PORT ANGELES -- The City Council on Tuesday met for the first time to discuss selection of a permanent city manager since members interviewed four… Continue reading

Federal prosecutors to seek longer sentencing for terrorist caught in Port Angeles

By GENE JOHNSON AP Legal Affairs Writer SEATTLE — Prosecutors are seeking yet another sentencing for would-be millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam — this time without… Continue reading

  • Dec 10, 2008
  • By GENE JOHNSON AP Legal Affairs Writer

Ferry contract by Christmas, construction by June, shipbuilder exec says

PORT TOWNSEND -- Todd Pacific Shipyards' chief executive officer expects to sign a contract to build a 64-car, 750 passenger Port Townsend-Keystone ferry before Christmas.… Continue reading

Marina dredging planned this winter

PORT TOWNSEND -- Caicos Corp. will return to Point Hudson Marina to finish dredging this winter after the Port of Port Townsend commissioners approved on… Continue reading

Port Angeles city, port panels examine Harbor-Works’ Rayonier goals

PORT ANGELES -- The City Council and two Port of Port Angeles commissioners were told Tuesday that the intention of the Harbor-Works Public Development Authority… Continue reading

Testing . . . testing: Sequim’s nonprofit radio station on air

SEQUIM -- KSQM, Sequim's non-commercial FM radio station, is on the air with a sweeping definition of "oldies" music, community-event announcements and volunteer disc jockeys.… Continue reading

BREAKING NEWS: Missing Gardiner fisherman’s body found on Oregon beach

TILLAMOOK, Ore. — The body of a crab fisherman from Gardiner has been found on a beach near where the fishing boat on which he… Continue reading

Clallam County may cut share of pool election costs

PORT ANGELES -- The three Clallam County commissioners may step back from their promised plunge into the Save Our Pool campaign. Specifically, they may not… Continue reading

First Federal CEO speaks frankly about the economic meltdown and banks in talk to Chamber of Commerce

PORT ANGELES -- Most community banks have the capital to survive the current recession, the head of one of them told the Port Angeles Regional… Continue reading