Contract to recruit aviation-related business to airport pondered

PORT TOWNSEND - The Jefferson County Economic Development Council board is expected to approve a contract Nov. 15 allowing the nonprofit job-creating organization to recruit… Continue reading

Gateway project to close part of Lincoln Street

PORT ANGELES - The portion of Lincoln Street between Front Street and Harbor Towne Mall will close to vehicle and pedestrian traffic Nov. 8-10 and… Continue reading

Sequim Irrigation Festival gets a new ‘ride’

SEQUIM - The mission: Keep the Ford station wagon cool. Joe Borden, chairman and mechanic for the Sequim Irrigation Festival, accepted that as he and… Continue reading

Business survey under way in Sequim

SEQUIM - Hattie Dixon hopes it'll be easier this year for eastern Clallam County business people to express themselves. Dixon, president of the Sequim-Dungeness Chamber… Continue reading

Charter commission will meet, attempt to close legal loophole that could void election

PORT ANGELES - Clallam County's Charter Review Commission will have one last meeting today to plug a legal leak in the charter changes they've proposed… Continue reading

Demolition done, new bridge over Tumwater Creek begins

PORT ANGELES - Out with the old, and bring in the new - a full two months before New Year's Day. Concrete was poured Thursday… Continue reading

Football game canceled after player contracts MRSA; campus to be disinfected this weekend

PORT TOWNSEND - The Port Townsend High School football season ended early Thursday after a player was diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant strain of… Continue reading

Parks board passes ‘bubble’ building proposal to City Council

PORT ANGELES - A plan to acquire an inflatable building big enough to cover a football field received a nod from a city parks advisory… Continue reading

Woman petitioning for return of cats flees courthouse before being served

PORT ANGELES - A woman from whom nearly three dozen cats were seized in a police raid last month left the courthouse Thursday before she… Continue reading

2-1-1 calls increasing across Peninsula

Three little numbers are producing impressive statistics for helping people across the North Olympic Peninsula. The 2-1-1 non-emergency help line received 863 calls from Clallam… Continue reading

Dedication of Makah veterans park delayed until May

NEAH BAY - A veterans park overlooking the waterfront on Neah Bay will be formally dedicated May 17, about nine months from original plans. "We… Continue reading

First meeting tonight on proposed ‘bubble’ sports facility for Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES - The air-supported building for indoor tennis and soccer matches - the subject of a special parks board meeting tonight - looks like… Continue reading

Peninsula streets fill with crafty costumes

Angels and devils, little animals, superheroes, pirates and more. They all were spotted along the downtown streets of Port Angeles, Port Townsend and Sequim on… Continue reading

Port Townsend, Jefferson County leaders disappointed by Navy’s Indian Island rejection

PORT TOWNSEND - Port Townsend and Jefferson County leaders joined activists in expressing disappointment Wednesday over the Navy's rejection of their requests for an environmental-impact… Continue reading

Bids under budget to remodel Clallam jail

PORT ANGELES - Clallam County batted one for three Tuesday in bids on public projects, but the hit was a home run. Two proposals to… Continue reading

Justice upholds teacher’s firing, but only for insubordination

PORT ANGELES - The firing of a special-education teacher for ignoring Port Angeles School District orders to stay away from the boy she was tutoring… Continue reading

Port Townsend’s aging school problem to be laid out at community forum

PORT TOWNSEND - The Port Townsend School District will lay out its hopes, dreams and concerns when it hosts a community forum Thursday to discuss… Continue reading

Sequim trio seeks to put community-oriented FM station on the air

SEQUIM - Ears on the East End may have a new noncommercial radio station to listen to by next summer. Three Sequim men have applied… Continue reading

Spook-tacular ghost stories of the Peninsula

Ears are perked to hear those things that go bump in the night on Halloween, a time fit for ghoulish visitors. Some North Olympic Peninsula… Continue reading

Such a deal: Port Angeles indoor tennis-soccer field house could come on the cheap

PORT ANGELES - Backers of an indoor field house for soccer and tennis - stalled around the time voters sacked a municipal aquatics center proposal… Continue reading