Daily Update Newsletter

Port Townsend Saturday Market to open for the season

Port Townsend Saturday Market to open for the season

Goats will take their traditional walk down the market stall aisles Saturday morning beginning at 9 a.m. to signal the start of… Continue reading

Port Townsend Saturday Market to open for the season

Port Angeles council bans thin plastic carryout bags

After three public hearings and months of debate, the Port Angeles City Council has banned thin plastic carry-out bags at stores within… Continue reading

Port Angeles council awards $770,000 contract for suicide barriers

Port Angeles council awards $770,000 contract for suicide barriers

In what was described as a “big win” for Port Angeles, the City Council has awarded a contract to raise suicide barriers… Continue reading

Port Angeles council awards $770,000 contract for suicide barriers
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe aims to re-establish oyster farm in Dungeness refuge

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe aims to re-establish oyster farm in Dungeness refuge

The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe seeks to re-establish an oyster farm in Dungeness Bay and will have its proposal heard by the Clallam County… Continue reading

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe aims to re-establish oyster farm in Dungeness refuge
Chapman rails at House GOP, takes issue with leaders who visited area recently

Chapman rails at House GOP, takes issue with leaders who visited area recently

Rep. Mike Chapman on Tuesday fired back at state House Republican leaders who visited Port Angeles last week. “Don’t come into my… Continue reading

Chapman rails at House GOP, takes issue with leaders who visited area recently
Nurse to challenge Chapman for district state rep seat

Nurse to challenge Chapman for district state rep seat

A licensed practical nurse who spearheaded the successful drive against an affordable housing initiative in Jefferson County last November announced her candidacy… Continue reading

Nurse to challenge Chapman for district state rep seat
Naval Magazine Indian Island holding exercises this week

Naval Magazine Indian Island holding exercises this week

Naval Magazine Indian Island is conducting exercises this week in and around its facility and in Port Townsend Bay near the installation’s… Continue reading

Naval Magazine Indian Island holding exercises this week
OPNET funding held up in sanctuary cities litigation

OPNET funding held up in sanctuary cities litigation

The Department of Justice is withholding approved funding for the Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team due to litigation of the federal government’s… Continue reading

OPNET funding held up in sanctuary cities litigation
Sequim man awarded Carnegie Medal for role in saving woman on Hood Canal Bridge

Sequim man awarded Carnegie Medal for role in saving woman on Hood Canal Bridge

A Sequim man who risked his life preventing a woman from jumping off the Hood Canal Bridge last year has recently earned a… Continue reading

Sequim man awarded Carnegie Medal for role in saving woman on Hood Canal Bridge
Kilmer talks with students: 6th District representative discusses congressional inaction

Kilmer talks with students: 6th District representative discusses congressional inaction

Many who attended U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer’s town hall meeting at Peninsula College expressed frustration with a congressional lack of action on… Continue reading

Kilmer talks with students: 6th District representative discusses congressional inaction
Continuing Robby’s legacy: Streett family remember Robby at showing of ‘Ready Player One’

Continuing Robby’s legacy: Streett family remember Robby at showing of ‘Ready Player One’

Twenty-six times over, it’s safe to say “Ready Player One” was Robby Streett’s favorite book. The nostalgic science fiction romp by Ernest Cline… Continue reading

  • Apr 6, 2018
  • By Erin Hawkins and Matthew Nash Olympic Peninsula News Group
  • Clallam County
Continuing Robby’s legacy: Streett family remember Robby at showing of ‘Ready Player One’

Colorado man sentenced for fatal crash

A Mancos, Colo., man has been sentenced to two years in prison for a high-speed crash last July that killed Robert Streett,… Continue reading

Sedro-Woolley man found guilty of Beaver home arson, other charges

An interview with authorities, voicemail messages and traces of DNA linking Marshall Jay Lewis to the torching of his ex-girlfriend’s Beaver-area home… Continue reading

Colorado man charged in Washington Net Nanny sting

A 62-year-old Colorado man has been charged with child sex crimes through a Washington state internet sting. Ten people were arrested between… Continue reading

Kent man charged in fatality in which woman stopped to help stranded motorist

A 33-year-old Kent man has been charged with felony hit and run in the fatality of a Belfair resident who had stopped to… Continue reading

Police step up distracted driving patrols

The Clallam and Jefferson County Target Zero Task Force is participating in a statewide effort to crackdown on distracted driving. Extra patrols from the Port… Continue reading

Olympic National Forest plans to reopen campgrounds for season

The Olympic National Forest plans to reopen campgrounds for the summer season this month and next. The Hood Canal Ranger District will open… Continue reading

Film about suicide to be screened free on Saturday

“The S Word,” a film about suicide, will be screened free at noon Saturday. The documentary, which follows people who have attempted… Continue reading

The National Park Service is considering raising entrance fees at Olympic National Park in an effort to work on a maintenance backlog. (Jesse Major/Peninsula Daily News)

Officials rethinking fee hikes: Olympic National Park officials await final plan

Olympic National Park officials are awaiting word from Washington, D.C., following reports that the… Continue reading

The National Park Service is considering raising entrance fees at Olympic National Park in an effort to work on a maintenance backlog. (Jesse Major/Peninsula Daily News)

Jefferson PUD to celebrate five years of providing electrical power

On Friday, the Jefferson County Public Utility District will celebrate power to the people. The Jefferson County Public Utility District (PUD) has… Continue reading