Other Jefferson County elections

A levy for the Port Townsend School District appeared to be winning while a Port Townsend city measure to raise the tax on phone and… Continue reading

Patients back docs in contract impasse with Olympic Medical Center

PORT ANGELES - Olympic Medical Center commissioners likely will face a hostile audience of primary care clinic patients when they meet tonight at the hospital,… Continue reading

Port Angeles school tax levy leading

PORT ANGELES - A Port Angeles School District replacement levy was rolling toward victory Tuesday night with 65.70 percent of the ballots received so far… Continue reading

Sequim School District eyes ‘virtual education’

SEQUIM - Some children cannot thrive with stone-cut schedules, clamoring classmates, long bus rides or all of the above. And some teenagers must care for… Continue reading

Bush again proposes selling national forest land, but Dicks says plan is dead on arrival

Peninsula Daily News and The Associated Press WASHINGTON - North Olympic Peninsula congressman Norm Dicks flexed his new political muscle Monday and declared a Bush… Continue reading

  • Feb 5, 2007
  • Peninsula Daily News and The Associated Press

Clallam will meet rising sewer cost to new Wal-Mart

PORT ANGELES - Clallam County commissioners are expected today to assume the increased cost of extending a Port Angeles city sewer line eastward to a… Continue reading

Planning commissioner wants to define ‘public interest’ in a growing Sequim

SEQUIM - The words are slippery as young salmon, but Sequim Planning Commissioner Mark Ozias hopes to get his arms around them. "The public interest… Continue reading

Proposed hospice building could get license exemption

SEQUIM - Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County could get the go-ahead later this year to build its proposed six-bedroom Hospice House on a one-acre lot… Continue reading

Public views expansion plans for historically sensitive Port Townsend Library

PORT TOWNSEND - The majority of public comments taken over the weekend on the city library's preliminary expansion designs are favorable, the library's director said… Continue reading

Freeholders to interview Clallam commissioners

PORT ANGELES - The 15 people chosen to review Clallam County's charter will interview county commissioners and their administrator tonight with an eye on how… Continue reading

Nature spares Olympic National Park landmark chalet

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK - With all the stress of cleaning up after the big storms in November and December, Olympic National Park officials can rest… Continue reading

New map to guide bird lovers to 54 hot spots

SEQUIM - Hearing this birder talk is a trip in itself. "For bald eagles, this is a hot and heavy time of the year. The… Continue reading

Cougars stalk home near Sequim

SEQUIM - It may be a few weeks before Caroline Caldwell feels safe in her yard again. Two young cougars have been killed in her… Continue reading

Cargo ship with tipsy containers stops briefly in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES - No missing cargo is floating in Port Angeles Harbor, although there might be some in the Bay of Alaska. The Ever Unific,… Continue reading

Parents, their infant await call for liver transplant

PORT ANGELES - A hospital room is already a familiar place for 6-month-old Maxxon. His parents, Mandi and Mike Ray, and friends of the family… Continue reading

Cheer up: Here’s a free pizza

PORT HADLOCK - Scott Browning can sell pizza, but the Ferino's Pizzeria owner hasn't been able to give much of it away. For the past… Continue reading

New Coast Guard radio system taking the ‘search’ out of ‘search and rescue’

PORT ANGELES - Two seconds doesn't seem like enough time to accomplish much. But in the time it takes to say "mayday, mayday" into a… Continue reading

Outdoor amphitheater, community theater among ideas to boost Quilcene community center

QUILCENE - Every morning, Bob Rosen goes for a jog, making a loop that takes him from his home on Lake Leland out to the… Continue reading

Trip of the Week: Spruce Railroad Trail offers winter respite

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK - One of the trails that has survived fall and winter storms in the Olympic National Park is the Spruce Railroad Trail… Continue reading

Residents to have a say in library planning Saturday

PORT TOWNSEND - Residents will get a look and have a say Saturday when preliminary interior and exterior designs are unveiled for the Port Townsend… Continue reading