Paul Gottlieb

March demolition date set for Port Angeles smokestack

PORT ANGELES — A 175-foot smokestack on the western edge of downtown has less than two months remaining. The structure, a symbol of the North… Continue reading

Public invited to federal agencies' meeting on Border Patrol policy tonight

Public invited to federal agencies’ meeting on Border Patrol policy tonight

PORT ANGELES — Representatives from three federal agencies will take input at a meeting tonight on a new Border Patrol policy under which agents no… Continue reading

Public invited to federal agencies' meeting on Border Patrol policy tonight
Lucky 13: American Spirit adds another Port Angeles, Port Townsend visit to itinerary

Lucky 13: American Spirit adds another Port Angeles, Port Townsend visit to itinerary

PORT ANGELES — A 13th cruise has been added to American Cruise Line’s itinerary of full-day, overnight stops that begin April 29 in Port Angeles… Continue reading

Lucky 13: American Spirit adds another Port Angeles, Port Townsend visit to itinerary

County auditors gearing up for election filings

PORT ANGELES — North Olympic Peninsula election officials are in countdown mode for the Nov. 5 off-year election with 91 nonpartisan seats up for grabs… Continue reading

Air monitoring devices installed in Port Angeles; one coming to Sequim next month

PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Region Clean Air Agency is completing the installation of three new air-quality monitors in Port Angeles and hopes to have… Continue reading

At first glance

Old plywood-mill buildings to be gone by Friday; smokestack wrapped in tarp for its eventual demise

PORT ANGELES — A plywood mill building the size of the local Walmart Supercenter should be leveled by Friday, a Port of Port Angeles official… Continue reading

At first glance
The 200-foot American Spirit is shown in this American Cruise Lines photo from www.americancruiselines.com.

Small cruise ship will make dozen stops in Port Angeles, Port Townsend this year

PORT ANGELES — American Cruise Lines will make 12 stops in Port Angeles and Port Townsend this spring and fall in an upscale, 100-passenger vessel.… Continue reading

The 200-foot American Spirit is shown in this American Cruise Lines photo from www.americancruiselines.com.
Bill McMillan  [Photo by Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News]

New Forks hospital CEO focuses on red ink

FORKS — New Forks Community Hospital CEO Bill McMillan is settling in as the head of this town’s largest employer — and is working to… Continue reading

Bill McMillan  [Photo by Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News]
Will the Peninsula turn to pot? It'll grow here all right, but would it be a cottage industry?

Will the Peninsula turn to pot? It’ll grow here all right, but would it be a cottage industry?

The soil and climate that support the cultivation of berries and vegetables on the North Olympic Peninsula also are suitable for growing marijuana and fulfilling… Continue reading

Will the Peninsula turn to pot? It'll grow here all right, but would it be a cottage industry?
Killer of Clallam County sheriff's deputy in 2000 dies in prison

Killer of Clallam County sheriff’s deputy in 2000 dies in prison

Thomas Martin Roberts, who was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the murder of Clallam County Sheriff’s Deputy Wally Davis in… Continue reading

Killer of Clallam County sheriff's deputy in 2000 dies in prison

Mobilisa plans hires after contract award

PORT TOWNSEND — Intellicheck Mobilisa Inc. is continuing to increase its workforce after being awarded a software-license agreement to deploy security software at a luxury… Continue reading

Doug Sandau

Port of Port Angeles looks ahead to new airport terminal; seeks funding for road extension

PORT ANGELES — Federal grant funding of nearly $1 million is being sought for a road extension project at William R. Fairchild International Airport to… Continue reading

Doug Sandau

Air quality worsens in Port Angeles; Jefferson County spared

The shroud of stagnant air that blanketed Clallam and Jefferson counties last week has tightened around Port Angeles, increasing chances for a Stage 1 burn… Continue reading

Lawmaker, Audubon forge proposed deal to keep some jogging, horses at Dungeness refuge

SEQUIM — A plan has been proposed by state Rep. Kevin Van De Wege and members of the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society under which jogging… Continue reading

Brinnon resort looks back on track, with study set

BRINNON — A Seattle consulting firm is set to begin an environmental study on a long-planned 252-acre resort on Hood Canal that the builder hopes… Continue reading

No cause found for DNR fire in Forks

FORKS — The cause has been ruled “undetermined” for a Jan. 2 fire that gutted a 7,400-square-foot building at the Department of Natural Resources’ Olympic… Continue reading

The trial for 23-year-old Kevin A. Bradfield had been set for Feb. 4. Instead

Port Angeles man to plead guilty to Pimentel death

PORT ANGELES — Kevin A. Bradfield will plead guilty today to first-degree murder in the October 2011 strangulation death of Jennifer Pimentel, 27, lawyers involved… Continue reading

The trial for 23-year-old Kevin A. Bradfield had been set for Feb. 4. Instead

Hearing takes comments on Nippon cooling tower permit

PORT ANGELES — A hearing this week on Nippon Paper Industries USA’s cooling tower permit application for the company’s biomass-burning cogeneration plant prompted a cascade… Continue reading

The 175-foot smokestack that towers over the former PenPly plywood mill is a landmark — but is it historical?

Old Port Angeles mill’s smokestack is history, should be preserved, port commissioners told

PORT ANGELES — Save the stack? That's what some North Olympic Peninsula residents want to do: preserve the 175-foot chimney that rises over downtown Port… Continue reading

The 175-foot smokestack that towers over the former PenPly plywood mill is a landmark — but is it historical?

Some asking port to preserve old plywood mill smokestack

PORT ANGELES — Some North Olympic Peninsula residents are urging the Port of Port Angeles to preserve the 175-foot smokestack that rises over downtown Port… Continue reading