Ichiro reportedly will re-sign with Mariners

Peninsula Daily News news sources SAN FRANCISCO - Ichiro is closing in on a contract extension with the Seattle Mariners - and he showed his… Continue reading

  • Jul 11, 2007
  • Peninsula Daily News news sources

Dazed but safe, hiker tells his tale and warns others

DUNGENESS - Humbled, dazed and with hallucinations fresh in his mind, Craig Upton found his way out of the wilderness Tuesday morning after five days… Continue reading

Falling tree kills Forks logger

FORKS - A young Forks logger died when a tree fell on him on Tuesday. Shain Keys, 23, was pronounced dead by Clallam County Sheriff's… Continue reading

Mysterious package causes post office evacuation, road closure

THE PACKAGE IN the Port Angeles post office lobby looked suspicious - no address on the outside, or any markings on the box, for that… Continue reading

North Olympic Peninsula feels the heat

If you didn't know the weather was warm Tuesday, a glance at John H. Miller could have clued you in. Miller, director of Clallam County's… Continue reading

Port Townsend City Council OKs climate resolution

PORT TOWNSEND - The City Council on Monday night approved, with one dissenting vote, a joint resolution supporting collaboration with Jefferson County to reduce greenhouse… Continue reading

Clallam to meet with state agency to plug funding gap on new Elwha River bridge

PORT ANGELES - Clallam County officials will meet with state Department of Transportation managers today to try to span a funding gap for a new… Continue reading

Elk fence proponents in ‘standby mode’ as cost of 9-mile barrier is weighed

SEQUIM - For now, the Dungeness elk roam free across Happy Valley. But their future liberty is in limbo. The Roosevelt elk, which number about… Continue reading

Petitions seeking reconsideration of Port Townsend council-manager system submitted

PORT TOWNSEND - The leader of a petition drive to end the City Council-city manager form of government submitted petitions Monday bearing 523 signatures. Business… Continue reading

Vandal hurls 4-by-4 lumber through Port Townsend business’ big window

PORT TOWNSEND - Someone destroyed a $2,000 window fronting Vintage Hardware, and owner Ken Kelly is offering a $500 reward for the perpetrator's arrest and… Continue reading

Officials seek fix for chronic U.S. 101 crash site

SEQUIM — The spot is known to the State Patrol and the state Department of Transportation as SR101 MP269.18. It is where three serious car… Continue reading

Hiker to head home today

PORTLAND, Ore. - Mary O'Brien, the hiker lost last week in Olympic National Park, and her sister, Anne, are making plans to go back to… Continue reading

In memory of Robert

PORT ANGELES - Torment, then peace. Those two human elements confront the viewer in the latest piece of public art erected in downtown Port Angeles.… Continue reading

Toxic algae continues grasp on lake waters

QUILCENE - Lake Leland remains closed to swimming, while Anderson Lake State Park in Port Hadlock is still closed to all public access. Jefferson County… Continue reading

Tuesday’s Music in the Park features Manteca

SEQUIM - The Latin vibes of Manteca will resonate at the free outdoor Music in the Park concert in Sequim on Tuesday. The popular group… Continue reading

‘I could see . . . the lights’: How missing hiker walked out of wilderness safe

PORT ANGELES - Mary O'Brien surprised those searching for her Saturday when she walked out of Olympic National Park after five nights alone in the… Continue reading

Clallam charter change would limit candidates’ spending

PORT ANGELES - Clallam County Charter Review Commissioners hitched up their britches Monday and carried three more proposed changes a step farther on the road… Continue reading

It was all in the family while hiker was missing in Olympic National Park

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK - Mary O'Brien's relatives, three of whom joined the search for her, never gave up hope that she was safe. Earlier Saturday,… Continue reading

Murray praises refurbished marina, but doubtful about more funding for Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND - U.S. Sen. Patty Murray on Friday hailed the completion of the Port of Port Townsend's expanded Hudson Point Marina as a cornerstone… Continue reading

Recalling that championship season with the coach who made it so

JOYCE - It takes more than one season to define former Crescent High School head football coach Gary Kautz. After all, his was a career… Continue reading