Brenda Hanrahan

Port Angeles: Week on a barge for a good cause

PORT ANGELES --Spending a week in November on a barge anchored in Port Angeles Harbor may not appeal to most people. But starting Nov. 18,… Continue reading

Peninsula: Getting ready for a night of frighteningly fun frolicking

Trick or treating with downtown merchants in Port Angeles, Sequim and Port Townsend, haunted houses and other treats, chills and spooky thrills are planned for… Continue reading

Port Angeles High School orchestras earn unprecedented honor

PORT ANGELES -- The young musicians of the high school symphonic and chamber orchestras played last weekend at the pinnacle of the Mercer Island Music… Continue reading

Clallam: Tribe completing 40-year dream of expanding old cemetery

PORT ANGELES -- Lower Elwha Klallam tribal officials will complete their long-term dream of expanding the tribal cemetery in the next two weeks. The project… Continue reading

Olympic National Park: Griff Peak fire finally out, rangers report

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- It's probably out. Finally. Heavy rains and light snow over the past few weeks have apparently snuffed out the 795-acre forest… Continue reading

Port Angeles: School district receives statewide diversity recognition

PORT ANGELES -- The Port Angeles School District has been recognized by the Washington School Directors Association for efforts to promote diversity and multicultural education… Continue reading

Olympic National Park: Officials think fixing rain damage will come in under $500,000

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- Heavy rainfall last week has left several roads within the park under water or severely damaged. Park officials don't expect the… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Evidence of ancient Native “kitchen” on graving site

Walking the site of the Hood Canal Bridge graving yard in Port Angeles, one can easily see evidence of where the Klallam Indians cooked. Discarded… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Graving site discoveries “disturbing”

PORT ANGELES -- A multitude of colored flags covers a small fenced-off area of the state Department of Transportation's Hood Canal Bridge graving yard site.… Continue reading

Port Angeles: When can the graving yard construction resume?

PORT ANGELES -- Why is it taking so long? Why can't they move faster? When it comes to reaching an agreement among all the agencies… Continue reading

Port Angeles: New shelter for homeless to be dedicated today

PORT ANGELES -- Officials with Serenity House of Clallam County will dedicate the long-awaited single-adult shelter for the homeless today. The dedication ceremony will begin… Continue reading

Neah Bay: One-lane road under construction around sinkhole

NEAH BAY -- Workers on Monday started building a one-lane gravel road around a 150-foot wide sinkhole that severed state Highway 112 at the entrance… Continue reading

Sequim: School Board OKs levy try in February

SEQUIM -- The School Board will ask voters to approve a two-year, $5.44 million maintenance and operations levy in an election Feb. 3. Sequim School… Continue reading

U.S. 101 closed south of Jefferson County because of mudslide

Heavy rains and winds contributed to two mudslides Monday near the Jefferson-Mason county line. The larger of the slides in Lilliwaup has closed U.S. Highway… Continue reading

Clallam: Sinkhole isolates Neah Bay as rains drench West End

Neah Bay was isolated from the rest of the Olympic Peninsula on Saturday night when a sinkhole took out both lanes of state Highway 112… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Valley Creek Estuary park to be dedicated Saturday

PORT ANGELES -- During a ceremony Saturday the city will be gifted a new park -- the Valley Creek Estuary. Members of Soroptomist International of… Continue reading

Clallam: Work still stalled at Hood Canal graving yard

PORT ANGELES -- Despite an "intense" four-hour meeting, an agreement has yet to be reached to allow work to resume at the Hood Canal Bridge… Continue reading

Peninsula: Possible suicide probed in Olympic National Park

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- Officials are investigating the apparent suicide of an unidentified man in the Royal Basin area southwest of Sequim. Two hikers on… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Candidate replaces campaign treasurer who disrupted School Board meeting

PORT ANGELES -- School Board candidate Pete Peterson changed treasurers Tuesday after police were asked to escort his former treasurer from a School Board meeting… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Construction, equipment delays postpone skills center opening

PORT ANGELES -- The doors to the North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center will not open in November as previously planned. Delays in construction and delivery… Continue reading