Jeff Chew

Railroads gone, but left mark on Peninsula; train lines often determined a town’s status (***GALLERY***)

DUNGENESS -- The North Olympic Peninsula's foremost railroad historian, Steve Hauff, has documented between 600 and 700 miles of rails that were laid, torn up… Continue reading

Jamestown S’Klallam tribe travels ‘long trail’ in short time; 30th anniversary of federal recognition celebrated [**Gallery**]

BLYN -- Although S'Klallam people have been around for millennia -- ages before the North Olympic Peninsula was first seen by white settlers, long before… Continue reading

Sequim chamber director quits — reluctantly

SEQUIM -- Vickie Maples, Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce executive director for more than two years, has reluctantly resigned to attend to out-of-state family-related health… Continue reading

New Sequim playfields becoming a reality

SEQUIM -- A group that aims to add kick to the inventory of Sequim's declining youth soccer fields has landed a $105,000 grant, thanks to… Continue reading

Splinter lavender group plans to base fair in Sequim park while rival festival downtown

SEQUIM -- The newly formed Sequim Lavender Farmers Association will base its July fair at Carrie Blake Park and the James Center for the Performing… Continue reading

Sequim senior apartment complex construction on hold

SEQUIM -- A 109-unit affordable senior apartment complex that the City Council recently approved, with some conditions, in a split vote has been put on… Continue reading

Transit sales tax measure close to win in Jefferson County

PORT TOWNSEND -- A countywide proposal to raise the sales tax by 0.3 percent to benefit budget-strapped Jefferson Transit Authority and avoid bus service cuts… Continue reading

Sequim planner talks about downtown plan

SEQUIM -- Improving the city's downtown core is all about attracting more people there. That's what interim city Planning Director Joe Irvin said Tuesday, addressing… Continue reading

Public will get chance to comment on Sequim’s proposals for downtown

SEQUIM -- Recommendations for land use, traffic changes and development opportunities in Sequim's downtown core will be presented at an open house Thursday. City leaders… Continue reading

Qwest presents grant to KinderKids; Boys & Club program will be able to expand

SEQUIM -- Qwest Foundation on Friday presented the Boys & Girls Club of the Olympic Peninsula a $12,500 grant check that will allow the club… Continue reading

Women rule inaugural fitness challenge in Sequim

SEQUIM -- Sequim and Port Angeles women dominated the first Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center New Year Fitness Challenge inside the North Fifth Avenue facility. Aimee… Continue reading

Historic Fairview Grange reinventing itself (***GALLERY***)

PORT ANGELES -- To fill the need for a community center, 37 farmers, loggers and business owners signed Fairview Grange's charter on Sept. 2, 1916,… Continue reading

Four compete for Irrigation Festival crown; pageant is Feb. 26

SEQUIM -- Four Sequim High School contestants are preparing to compete in a pageant for queen of the 116th Sequim Irrigation Festival. As the first… Continue reading

Sequim pedestrian, 88, seriously hurt

SEQUIM — An 88-year-old Sequim woman was listed in serious condition in intensive care in a Seattle hospital today after she apparently walked in front… Continue reading

Quilt stitches together memories of Sequim pioneers

SEQUIM -- The Questers Clallam C'lectors chapter in Sequim is creating a quilt for the Museum & Arts Center of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley that will… Continue reading

Peninsula trumpeter swan pelted with shot, killed; five dead since November

DUNGENESS -- State Department of Fish and Wildlife agents are investigating the fatal shooting of a trumpeter swan, whose carcass was found Monday in a… Continue reading

Red Ranch Inn in Sequim closed

SEQUIM -- Red Ranch Inn, one of the first motels in Sequim, has again been closed. It was unknown why the motel closed. The most… Continue reading

Sequim council, advisory boards have wide-ranging talks

SEQUIM -- City Council members and their chosen citizen advisers Monday talked about everything from improving communication to building design issues to the future of… Continue reading

Sequim council discusses eastward expansion of water, sewer service

SEQUIM -- City leaders are working to extend water and sewer service east to serve Sequim Marine Research Operations for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory… Continue reading

Lavender documents delivered in wake of split in Sequim

SEQUIM -- Scott Nagel, the former executive director of the Sequim Lavender Growers Association who abruptly left the organization last week for the newly formed… Continue reading