Noise foe offers suggestion for resolving Security Systems Northwest dispute with Jefferson County

PORT TOWNSEND -- A Discovery Bay-area resident who was a prime opponent of shooting range noise at Gardiner-based Security Services Northwest wants to mediate an… Continue reading

OMC postpones clinic purchase, doctor contracts

PORT ANGELES -- Olympic Medical Center commissioners will meet Wednesday but not to buy the former Virginia Mason clinic on Eighth Street or sign contracts… Continue reading

  • Dec 19, 2006

Security lax in courthouse, Jefferson County commissioners told

PORT TOWNSEND -- Unlike at some courthouses throughout the state and nation, entering the historical Jefferson County Courthouse does not conjure up images of airport… Continue reading

Storm damage to historical lighthouse reported to Coast Guard

PORT TOWNSEND -- Wind-whipped waves that threatened to pummel Point Wilson Lighthouse last week took out a foghorn but failed to flood the historical lighthouse.… Continue reading

Therapy dogs provide relief for youngsters, oldsters alike

SEQUIM -- The dogs are doing it again: Bringing people together, making them feel all right. That's the canine capability and the reason a dozen… Continue reading

Catalytic converters stolen off Port Townsend vehicles

PORT TOWNSEND -- A resident of a central Port Townsend neighborhood says he has been the victim of thieves who cut the catalytic converters off… Continue reading

  • Dec 18, 2006

Hood Canal Bridge pontoons due to be floated today

TACOMA -- The first three huge concrete pontoons built in Tacoma to replace part of the Hood Canal Bridge are set to be towed to… Continue reading

  • Dec 18, 2006

Power slowly going on across windblown Peninsula

Some homes east and west of Port Angeles remained without electricity Sunday night as Clallam County Public Utility District employees continued to repair damage by… Continue reading

  • Dec 18, 2006

Second Port Angeles-built 164-footer takes to the water

PORT ANGELES -- Having built a $30 million yacht, Westport Shipyard now will try its best to break it. Evviva, the second 164-foot-long craft to… Continue reading

Second Port Angeles-built 164-footer takes to the water

PORT ANGELES - Having built a $30 million yacht, Westport Shipyard now will try its best to break it. Evviva, the second 164-foot-long craft to… Continue reading

`I just remember closing my eyes”

SEQUIM -- Adrien Gault's holiday season is busier than usual. Other teenagers he's never met keep walking up and saying, "Are you Adrien? Whassup?" Then… Continue reading

Giving back after help from Peninsula Home Fund

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another in a series of articles on the Peninsula Home Fund. Click on the "Peninsula Home Fund" button at left to… Continue reading

Man traps bobcat who was killing his ducks

PORT ANGELES -- The last duck is safe, for now, if perhaps a bit nervous. The bobcat blamed for eating several of its companions is… Continue reading

Point Wilson Lighthouse feels nature’s watery fury again

PORT TOWNSEND -- Regardless of $250,000 in manmade rock armoring, when Mother Nature whips up powerful wind-driven waves around Point Wilson Lighthouse, there's little that… Continue reading

Power coming back on after storm

The lights were expected to be back on by tonight in most Clallam County homes after Western Washington's strongest storm in more than a decade… Continue reading

Two arrested in death of man at trailer park

PORT ANGELES -- Two people were arrested Saturday afternoon in the shooting death of a 32-year-old man early Friday morning at a mobile-home park on… Continue reading

67 mph gusts close Hood Canal Bridge

The Hood Canal Bridge was closed to traffic at 8:15 p.m. Thursday when wind gusts reached 67 mph in what forecasters were calling the fiercest… Continue reading

  • Dec 15, 2006

Advocate of recalling two Jefferson County commissioners pleads case in court

PORT ANGELES -- Acting as his own attorney, Mats Mats resident Mike Belenski argued Thursday that two of Jefferson County's three commissioners should be recalled.… Continue reading

Citizens can tour Clallam County jail

PORT ANGELES -- Members of the public can tour the Clallam County jail from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The half-hour walks will include… Continue reading

  • Dec 15, 2006

Let it glow, let it glow, let it glow!

Whoa Prancer, hand me some sunglasses! Across the North Olympic Peninsula, holiday cheer can be so infectious that it overtakes a family's home. It climbs… Continue reading

  • Dec 15, 2006