Jan Rodak

Sequim: Kazakh girl charms way into local life

SEQUIM -- Her name is Sasha. She has short, pixie-cut brown hair that frames a face with chiseled features and icy blue eyes. She's a… Continue reading

Sequim: City’s newest annexation . . . just Priest Road

SEQUIM -- A confusing issue of public-road jurisdiction will likely be cleared up early next week when the City Council and Clallam County commissioners place… Continue reading

Sequim: Driver in crash that killed teen guilty of vehicular homicide

SEQUIM -- The driver in a single-car crash that killed a 13-year-old Sequim Middle School girl last summer has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide. Ray… Continue reading

Sequim woman had ‘Rosie the Riveter’ role on B-17 bombers

PORT ANGELES -- Her lifelong dream was to become a nurse, and eventually that materialized. But Maxilyn Miller took an interesting side trip along the… Continue reading

Sequim: Perils of modern day . . . identity theft and fraud

SEQUIM -- All it took was one betrayal to make a believer out of Marni Rice. The 53-year-old Port Angeles resident was living in southern… Continue reading

Sequim: City Council OKs zone modification that clears way for possible Fred Meyer-anchored shopping center

SEQUIM -- An application by a Bellevue developer to modify zoning on acreage near downtown -- and setting into motion a proposed regional shopping center… Continue reading

Sequim: Land-use appeal on shopping center abruptly withdrawn

SEQUIM -- A land-use appeal challenging a regional shopping center, possibly including a Fred Meyer store, was withdrawn Monday, just hours before the City Council… Continue reading

Sequim: School Board returns middle school principal to high school assistant post

SEQUIM -- For the third straight week, directors of the Sequim School District had a difficult decision to make as they held a special meeting… Continue reading

Sequim: City Council gives green light, and community center immediately torn down rather than renovated

SEQUIM -- All they needed was a nod from the City Council. They got that Wednesday morning. Within minutes, work crews from Fischer General Contracting… Continue reading

Clallam: Public safety officials, civic and business leaders huddle over ways to stop highway carnage

PORT ANGELES -- It was a veritable who's-who of public safety figures, traffic coordinators, elected officials and North Olympic Peninsula business representatives. And the objective… Continue reading

Sequim: Bye bye, community center? Old building may be torn down instead of remodeled

SEQUIM -- A project planned to turn the city's aging community center into a transit hub has become more complicated after work crews unearthed substantial… Continue reading

Sequim: Wal-Mart ruling appealed as construction continues on “supercenter””

SEQUIM -- Citizens group Sequim First has taken another land-use case to the state Court of Appeals. The group on Friday filed an appeal challenging… Continue reading

Sequim: School Board balks at immediately restoring program cuts made before levy victory

SEQUIM -- The School Board came to a meeting Thursday night prepared to discuss reversing a series of program cuts for the 2004-2005 school year… Continue reading

Sequim: City Council to consider 314-dwelling development on city’s east side

SEQUIM -- While accelerated development has for the past year focused on two large retail developments on the city's west side, a residential and commercial… Continue reading

Sequim: 10 school district employees rehired thanks to levy passage

SEQUIM -- Ten staffers in the Sequim School District can breathe a sigh of relief after the School Board voted late Thursday to rescind layoff… Continue reading

Sequim: World War II vets, others hailed at Memorial Day event at VFW hall

SEQUIM -- Eight days before the world commemorates the 60th anniversary of the Allies' D-Day invasion of Adolf Hitler's Atlantic Wall on the coast of… Continue reading

Sequim: Lavender Festival strategy session focuses on downtown plans, marketing

SEQUIM -- Merchants, farmers and others who benefit from the area's annual Lavender Festival were updated on plans for this year's event at a Sequim-Dungeness… Continue reading

Sequim: Construction of amphitheater and bandshell at Carrie Blake Park could begin in June

SEQUIM -- It's been a long time in coming, but construction of a highly anticipated amphitheater and bandshell at Carrie Blake Park might begin as… Continue reading

Sequim: Young historians making history of their own

SEQUIM -- For a modern-day student like Heather Smith, it's hard to imagine devoting countless hours and endless energy to a project, only to watch… Continue reading

Sequim: School Board expected to undo cuts planned before last week’s levy victory

SEQUIM -- It may be a rhetorical move, but directors of the Sequim School District will meet Thursday to talk about restoring cuts that were… Continue reading