OMC breaks into the black but challenges remain

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center emerged from the first quarter of 2008 with a positive operating margin of 2.1 percent, hospital commissioners learned Wednesday.… Continue reading

PA to review leasing out city building

PORT ANGELES — Two City Council subcommittees will review whether the city should lease the former On The Boardwalk restaurant building prior to completion of… Continue reading

PT school site considered for future affordable housing

PORT TOWNSEND — The idea of using the Mountain View Elementary School campus for affordable housing reaped the most interest of the possibilities for the… Continue reading

Carlsborg crematory gets initial OK

CARLSBORG — A crematory whose owner expects to incinerate 30 to 50 bodies each month received the stamp of approval Wednesday from Clallam County Hearings… Continue reading

County chooses Navy retiree as Veterans Assistant

PORT ANGELES — Scott Buck, a 25-year Navy enlisted man and officer, will be Clallam County's new Veterans Assistant. "I hope to be one of… Continue reading

Drug unit named Agency of the Year

PORT ANGELES — Cooperation was a key factor in the naming of the Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team as the Agency of the Year for… Continue reading

Fire station thefts suspect held in Arizona

PORT TOWNSEND — Two Jefferson County sheriff's deputies plan to fly to Arizona sometime next week to retrieve Christine F. Nelson, a former secretary of… Continue reading

PA council tightens public comment rules

PORT ANGELES — People who show up at City Council meetings might not have to wait as long as they do now to have their… Continue reading

Petition seeks to change PT government style

PORT TOWNSEND — John Sheehan is giving his petition to change city government another shot. Sheehan, a 35-year resident of Port Townsend, contends that the… Continue reading

3 in assault case charged with sex crimes

PORT TOWNSEND — Three people were charged Tuesday with the felony sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl after an investigation into the revenge beating of… Continue reading

PA schools cut budget; keep all-day kindergarten

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles School Board slashed more than $500,000 from the 2008-2009 budget, but retained all-day kindergarten after a heated discussion late-night… Continue reading

PT probes hollow ground under sidewalks

PORT TOWNSEND — Two men wielding what looked like a push broom linked to a computer on Monday and Tuesday were looking for hidden holes… Continue reading

Sequim, Battelle find way to expand utilities

SEQUIM — Faced with a proposal that promises to bring upward of 200 clean, green jobs to town, the City Council all but flung its… Continue reading

Spinks issues pep talk as interim city manager

SEQUIM — Police Chief — and now City Manager — Robert Spinks issued a written pep talk on Tuesday "to city staff, volunteers and elected… Continue reading

Former Clallam sheriff wears marshal’s badge

Peninsula Daily News news sources SEATTLE — Joe Hawe, former Clallam County sheriff, is the new U.S. marshal for Western Washington. Hawe, 58, was appointed… Continue reading

  • May 5, 2008
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New veterans assistant may be named today

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County veterans officials interviewed 10 applicants for the post of veterans assistant Monday and could announce an appointment as early as… Continue reading

Pair charged in bizarre assault, imprisonment incident

PORT HADLOCK — Five people have been arrested after a bizarre attack in which two of the five, a man and a woman, were allegedly… Continue reading

Port Ludlow woman dies in crash

BREMERTON — A Port Ludlow woman was killed in a car crash when the vehicle her husband was driving went off the road and hit… Continue reading

Sequim fires 8-year city manager

SEQUIM — In a move that came off like a bombshell in the Transit Center, the Sequim City Council voted on Monday to fire City… Continue reading

State Ferries to test reservations system

PORT TOWNSEND — The state ferry system will launch a pilot reservations system on the Port Townsend/Keystone ferry route starting May 19 to address the… Continue reading