Winner of car in Port Angeles turns out to really need it

By Tom Thompson PORT ANGELES -- When a car fell from the sky in the form of a golf ball Saturday to name the winner… Continue reading

  • Jan 4, 2005
  • TOM THOMPSON

Graving yard on center stage today

The Hood Canal Bridge graving yard takes center stage again in Port Angeles and Port Townsend today. * In Port Angeles, state Transportation Secretary Doug… Continue reading

North Olympic Peninsula innkeepers find odd array of things that guests leave behind

Marilyn Lester never understood why someone had an electric meat grinder in their hotel room. The housekeeping manager at the Red Lion Hotel in Port… Continue reading

Political action committee forming in wake of graving yard misstep

Social activists who mobilized to safeguard a 17-century-old Klallam burial site in Port Angeles will form a political action committee on the North Olympic Peninsula.… Continue reading

Sequim Lavender Fest vendor applications now available

SEQUIM -- Applications are now available for street fair vendors at the 9th annual Sequim Lavender Festival July 15-17. The street fair includes a juried… Continue reading

DUI court working, its organizers say

PORT ANGELES -- It's 3:45 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon, and a group of mostly middle-aged men and women are seated on the cushioned benches… Continue reading

Family, friends describe girl, 15, found dead near Waterfront Trail

PORT ANGELES -- Intelligent. Creative. Caring. Kind and a go-getter. Melissa Leigh Carter was all these things in the words of her mother, brother and… Continue reading

Here they come: golf balls out of the sky!

PORT ANGELES -- Tina Breen won a golf ball Saturday. Wrapped around it was a restored 1975 Toyota Celica. Breen, who manages Landing's Restaurant, won… Continue reading

Major Jefferson County airport project under negotiation

PORT TOWNSEND -- An Illinois couple is negotiating with Port of Port Townsend officials to acquire land and build a flight-based operation of at least… Continue reading

Meetings planned Monday on graving yard issue in Port Angeles, Port Townsend

Discussions on the Hood Canal Bridge graving yard -- whether the partially built one in Port Angeles or the proposed one in Port Townsend --… Continue reading

More than 100 attend memorial service for Melissa

PORT ANGELES -- Family and friends attended a private memorial service for Melissa Leigh Carter at Olympic Vineyard Church on Friday. More than 100 people,… Continue reading

Record $93,240 to Peninsula Home Fund so far

Contributions are still coming in, but as of Thursday, $93,240.83 from people and organizations in Jefferson and Clallam counties had been donated to the Peninsula… Continue reading

Gregoire’s reversal of gubernatorial fortune costs Peninsula taxpayers $10,000

Christine Gregoire's victory in the gubernatorial race is a double win for the state Democratic Party and a nearly $10,000 cost to North Olympic Peninsula… Continue reading

Helicopter “hole in one” Saturday

PORT ANGELES -- Unless postponed by rain or wind, more than 8,000 golf balls will be dropped by helicopter on Saturday. The public is invited… Continue reading

Makah propose graving yard at Neah Bay

NEAH BAY -- The Makah Tribal Council has proposed using 21 acres on its harbor for all or part of the state Department of Transportation's… Continue reading

New Jefferson County commissioners part of briefing on Port of Port Townsend’s graving yard proposal Monday

PORT TOWNSEND -- A Port of Port Townsend official will brief Jefferson County leaders -- including two new county commissioners -- on the Port's effort… Continue reading

New Year’s revelry includes dip in Port Angeles, Nordland waters

Everyone pondering participation in a "polar plunge" on Saturday -- including events in Port Angeles and on Marrowstone Island -- should proffer a brief nod… Continue reading

Petition circulating in Port Angeles to halt Gateway Center

PORT ANGELES -- A petition is being circulated to downtown merchants which asks the City Council to cancel the planned Port Angeles International Gateway Transportation… Continue reading

Three-venue Port Townsend event to raise money for tsunami victims

PORT TOWNSEND -- Rebecca Wickens, a mother of three, feels the deep pain of families torn apart by Sunday's South Asian quake-tsunami disaster that has… Continue reading

Downtown Port Angeles merchants seek own police officer

PORT ANGELES -- Downtown merchants want a police officer dedicated to their business district in a funding partnership similar to the resource officer on the… Continue reading