Clallam County

2017 PREP PREVIEW: Roughrider gallop into season optimistic with chip on their shoulders

2017 PREP PREVIEW: Roughrider gallop into season optimistic with chip on their shoulders

A young varsity Port Angeles Roughriders team will be one year older, stronger and wiser this season. And they’ll be one year… Continue reading

2017 PREP PREVIEW: Roughrider gallop into season optimistic with chip on their shoulders

Hood Canal Bridge closures scheduled

SHINE – The Hood Canal Bridge will be closed intermittently between 2:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. Sunday for construction work. Crews working for the state… Continue reading

Plein air artists compete in painting the Peninsula

Plein air artists compete in painting the Peninsula

You may have stumbled across a picturesque scene on the North Olympic Peninsula and thought to yourself, “This should be framed.” Last… Continue reading

Plein air artists compete in painting the Peninsula
Port Townsend Film Festival to expand its reach in September alongside farm tour

Port Townsend Film Festival to expand its reach in September alongside farm tour

The 18th annual Port Townsend Film Festival will fall on the same weekend as the annual Jefferson County Farm Tour, and instead… Continue reading

Port Townsend Film Festival to expand its reach in September alongside farm tour
Overdose Awareness Walk returns next Thursday in Port Angeles

Overdose Awareness Walk returns next Thursday in Port Angeles

Port Angeles Citizen Action Network and Oxford House will host the third annual Overdose Awareness Walk in Port Angeles next Thursday with… Continue reading

Overdose Awareness Walk returns next Thursday in Port Angeles
Collapse at Skagit County salmon farm renews concerns about fish farming in Strait

Collapse at Skagit County salmon farm renews concerns about fish farming in Strait

A marine net pen holding 305,000 farmed Atlantic salmon that collapsed in Skagit County recently, releasing thousands of fish into Puget Sound,… Continue reading

Collapse at Skagit County salmon farm renews concerns about fish farming in Strait
Makah Days celebrates culture, citizenship

Makah Days celebrates culture, citizenship

Eleven years before the Makah people were deemed citizens of the United States, Dr. Joseph K. Dixon presented the tribe with an… Continue reading

Makah Days celebrates culture, citizenship
Saar’s owner buys Haggen building; plans Super Saver Foods by next spring

Saar’s owner buys Haggen building; plans Super Saver Foods by next spring

Saar’s is returning to Port Angeles under a new name. Greg Saar, who owns Saar’s Market Place and Super Saver Foods, announced… Continue reading

Saar’s owner buys Haggen building; plans Super Saver Foods by next spring

Panel discusses affordable housing crunch in Port Angeles

There is no shortage of reasons it’s difficult to find affordable housing in Port Angeles, officials said during an Economic Development Corp.… Continue reading

Jefferson County awaits final draft paperwork on development proposed in Brinnon

Jefferson County commissioners are awaiting final draft paperwork on the proposed Pleasant Harbor Resort in Brinnon, the county administrator said. The 252-acre… Continue reading

Clallam pet licensing program to be reinstated; sheriff hopes for court challenge

The Clallam County commissioners Monday directed the sheriff to reinstate the county licensing program as the county prepares to fill a public… Continue reading

Peninsula residents gather to share glasses, gawk in awe at partial solar eclipse

Peninsula residents gather to share glasses, gawk in awe at partial solar eclipse

Onlookers decades apart in age witnessed the event of a lifetime Monday as the first total solar eclipse to cross both coasts… Continue reading

Peninsula residents gather to share glasses, gawk in awe at partial solar eclipse

Investigation continues into possible Port Angeles data breach

A computer forensics company is still investigating a possible data breach that may have compromised credit cards of city customers who pay… Continue reading

NEWS BRIEFS: Elwha River bridge delays expected starting Monday … and other items

From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. this coming Monday through Thursday, drivers on the U.S. Highway 101 Elwha River bridge west of… Continue reading

Port Ludlow beaches closed to shellfish harvesting

The state Department of Health has closed Port Ludlow, including Mats Mats Bay, for recreational shellfish harvest. Shellfish samples from Port Ludlow… Continue reading

Olympic Timber Town hopes for crowd at weekend concert

Free camping, Dave Bunker’s touch guitar and all-ages entertainment will bring a “tumble” of fun to the future site of Olympic Timber… Continue reading

Port Angeles man accepts plea offer after pleading guilty to second-degree child molestation

A Port Angeles man accused of molesting a 13-year-old girl at a party last October has accepted a plea offer. Kevin Trae… Continue reading

Organizers of the Port Townsend Aero Museum plan to bring some antique planes to Sequim’s Olympic Peninsula Air Affaire and Sequim Valley Fly-In this weekend including a Curtiss Wright Jr. replica. Photo courtesy of Michael Payne

Air Affaire/Fly-In dives in to Sequim Valley Airport this weekend

Five years in and organizers of the Olympic Peninsula Air Affaire and Sequim Valley Fly-In emphasize… Continue reading

Organizers of the Port Townsend Aero Museum plan to bring some antique planes to Sequim’s Olympic Peninsula Air Affaire and Sequim Valley Fly-In this weekend including a Curtiss Wright Jr. replica. Photo courtesy of Michael Payne
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, center, talks with Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict, left, and Rotary members after the Sequim Sunrise Rotary meeting last Friday, where he stopped to pay a visit on his way to the ceremony naming the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness at Hurricane Ridge. (Erin Hawkins/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Attorney general visits Sequim Rotary, talks issues with residents

Sequim holds a special meaning for state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Ferguson paid homage to Sequim… Continue reading

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, center, talks with Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict, left, and Rotary members after the Sequim Sunrise Rotary meeting last Friday, where he stopped to pay a visit on his way to the ceremony naming the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness at Hurricane Ridge. (Erin Hawkins/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

BUSINESS BRIEFS: Jefferson Healthcare granted accreditation for cancer program … and other items

The Commission on Cancer, a program of the American College of Surgeons, has granted a three-year accreditation with commendation to the cancer… Continue reading