Man mistakenly freed from jail after alleged altercation with sheriff’s deputy back in custody

PORT ANGELES –– The man mistakenly set free by Clallam County prosecutors Monday following a Sunday night arrest for allegedly assaulting a sheriff's deputy turned… Continue reading

Formal request filed with NBA to move Kings franchise to Seattle

The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — NBA Commissioner David Stern says the group that has reached agreement to purchase the Sacramento Kings has formally filed to… Continue reading

  • Feb 6, 2013
  • The Associated Press
Judge S. Brooke Taylor issued a warrant for Matthew K. McDaniel's arrest Tuesday after McDaniel was erroneously released from the Clallam County jail.

Earlier report: Bench warrant issued for man accidentally freed from jail

Matthew K. McDaniel turned himself into to authorities this morning, the PDN has learned. See top of home page. EARLIER REPORT: PORT ANGELES –– Fewer… Continue reading

Judge S. Brooke Taylor issued a warrant for Matthew K. McDaniel's arrest Tuesday after McDaniel was erroneously released from the Clallam County jail.
Brian Hageman

Interim manager takes over at Fort Worden State Park for year

PORT TOWNSEND — Fort Worden State Park's new interim manager will be in place through the end of this year. After that, the job could… Continue reading

Brian Hageman

Gardeners alert — deadline is Feb. 12 to order native plants

PORT ANGELES — Deadline is Tuesday, Feb. 12, to order native plants through Clallam Conservation District's annual Native Plant Sale. The bare-root tree and shrub… Continue reading

Sally Jewell The Associated Press

Obama chooses REI executive to lead Interior Department

By New York Times News Service WASHINGTON — President Obama has selected Sally Jewell, the chief executive of Recreational Equipment Inc., to lead the Interior… Continue reading

  • Feb 6, 2013
  • By New York Times News Service
Sally Jewell The Associated Press
A close up detail of a Boy Scout uniform worn by Brad Hankins

Boy Scouts delay decision on admitting gays

By NORMAAN MERCHANT The Associated Press IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America put off a decision Wednesday on whether to lift its… Continue reading

  • Feb 6, 2013
  • By NORMAAN MERCHANT The Associated Press
A close up detail of a Boy Scout uniform worn by Brad Hankins
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe The Associated Press

Postal Service to cut Saturday mail to trim costs

By PAULINE JELINEK The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Apparently trying an end-run around an unaccommodating Congress, the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service says it… Continue reading

  • Feb 6, 2013
  • By PAULINE JELINEK The Associated Press
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe The Associated Press

Clallam awards bid for asphalt upkeep

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County has awarded a $644,438 contract to Lakeside Industries of Port Angeles to supply asphalt for road maintenance this year. The… Continue reading

Clallam commissioners grilled on Dungeness water rule

PORT ANGELES — Concerns over a new water-management rule for the Dungeness Valley that began Jan. 2 dominated a breakfast meeting appearance by Clallam County… Continue reading

Volunteer Susan Rose looks through shelves of resource materials Tuesday at the new home of the Clallam County Genealogical Society and Research Center on Lauridsen Boulevard and Peabody Street in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Clallam genealogical society center opens

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Genealogical Society's new research center is now open to the public. The center at 402 E. Lauridsen Blvd. —… Continue reading

Volunteer Susan Rose looks through shelves of resource materials Tuesday at the new home of the Clallam County Genealogical Society and Research Center on Lauridsen Boulevard and Peabody Street in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Snowshoeing at Hurricane Ridge — top to bottom

How to go snowshoeing at Hurricane Ridge

EDITOR'S NOTE: — For more information, click on our Peninsula Family article on "Play in the Snow —Winter Walks," https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/section/pdntabs#penfam . WITH RELATIVELY FLAT terrain,… Continue reading

Snowshoeing at Hurricane Ridge — top to bottom
Mary Rose Elizabeth Halberg

In case you missed this: Anonymous love letters to be written, left around Port Angeles (with KOMO-TV video)

EDITOR'S NOTE: A replay our Tuesday story, with the addition of the KOMO-TV video that was aired Tuesday evening. A meeting on this project is… Continue reading

Mary Rose Elizabeth Halberg
Bereket Piatt crosses the finish line of a North Olympic Peninsula cross-country meet for Port Townsend High School in 2009. Keith Thorpe/Copyright &Copy; 2013

Kidnapping, robbery charges filed against former Port Townsend track star

EDITOR'S NOTE — For our previous story, "Everett bank robbery, kidnapping suspect is former Port Townsend sports champion," click on https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20130203/NEWS/302039989 EVERETT — Kidnapping and… Continue reading

Bereket Piatt crosses the finish line of a North Olympic Peninsula cross-country meet for Port Townsend High School in 2009. Keith Thorpe/Copyright &Copy; 2013

Migrant students to show ‘Who We Are’ in PA, Forks

Some call us lazy. They think we can't understand what they're saying about us. But we do, say the teenagers in “Who We Are,” the… Continue reading

The Forks combined high school-middle school jazz band plays under the direction of Erika Rudnicki

Music program inches into Forks High School

FORKS — Although the sounds of drums and brass and woodwind instruments have yet to echo through the hallways of the new Forks High School… Continue reading

The Forks combined high school-middle school jazz band plays under the direction of Erika Rudnicki

Port Angeles man held on bail in three felonies

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man was being held Tuesday on $5,000 bail in the Clallam County jail for investigation of three felonies after… Continue reading

Lisa Doray shows Grant Street Elementary student Ellijah Eickmeyer how to make a dog's head for the upcoming production of "The Odyssey

Port Townsend students prepare for ‘Odyssey’

PORT TOWNSEND — A portable classroom at Grant Street Elementary School is bursting with activity this week as students prepare for a districtwide play adaptation… Continue reading

Lisa Doray shows Grant Street Elementary student Ellijah Eickmeyer how to make a dog's head for the upcoming production of "The Odyssey
Philip Curtis Shelly

Search continues for rapist who cut GPS tracking anklet

PORT ANGELES — State Department of Corrections officials and area law enforcement officers continued Tuesday to seek a convicted sex offender who cut off his… Continue reading

Philip Curtis Shelly

Tharinger, Van De Wege plan telephone town hall today

The North Olympic Peninsula's two voices in the state House of Representatives will host a telephone town hall for thousands of 24th District voters from… Continue reading