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OUTDOORS: Changes could be coming to area rivers with North Coast Steelhead Advisors Group proposals

OUTDOORS: Changes could be coming to area rivers with North Coast Steelhead Advisors Group proposals

Editors Note: The state Department of Fish and Wildlife extended the public comment period on proposed rule changes developed by the North Coast Steelhead Advisors… Continue reading

OUTDOORS: Changes could be coming to area rivers with North Coast Steelhead Advisors Group proposals

OUTDOORS: Shaker chinook plentiful in Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound

Editors Note: The state Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Friday that anglers fishing for salmon in Marine Area 9 (Admiralty Inlet) will be allowed… Continue reading

OUTDOORS: Changes could be coming to area rivers with North Coast Steelhead Advisors Group proposals

OUTDOORS: Changes could be coming to area rivers with North Coast Steelhead Advisors Group proposals

Editors Note: The state Department of Fish and Wildlife extended the public comment period on proposed rule changes developed by the North Coast Steelhead Advisors… Continue reading

OUTDOORS: Changes could be coming to area rivers with North Coast Steelhead Advisors Group proposals
Sequim wide receiver Noah Christiansen gains yardage in the Wolves' win against Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

PREP FOOTBALL: Sequim in similar spot as last season; other area previews

BREMERTON — Same stuff, different year. Following a blowout loss to Olympic followed with a Thursday game against Bremerton in which a postseason spot on… Continue reading

Sequim wide receiver Noah Christiansen gains yardage in the Wolves' win against Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Sequim's Ella Christiansen returns the ball during the Wolves' 3-0 sweep of the Olympic Trojans in Bremerton on Tuesday. Jeff Halstead/for Peninsula Daily News

PREP SPORTS: Sequim punches postseason ticket with win over Olympic; other area reports

BREMERTON — Sequim swept Olympic in a crucial Olympic League volleyball match 25-17, 25-15, 25-15. The Wolves (7-5, 8-6) entered the match tied with Olympic… Continue reading

Sequim's Ella Christiansen returns the ball during the Wolves' 3-0 sweep of the Olympic Trojans in Bremerton on Tuesday. Jeff Halstead/for Peninsula Daily News
Volunteer Mike Thomas rakes the reconditioned surface of the second hole at Port Townsend Golf Club. A volunteer crew along with course staff removed a mossy stretch of green

GOLF: Port Townsend Golf Club makes move on moss

A STUBBORN MOSS accumulation on the north (left) side of the second green at Port Townsend Golf Club bugged head pro/general manager Gabriel Tonan for… Continue reading

Volunteer Mike Thomas rakes the reconditioned surface of the second hole at Port Townsend Golf Club. A volunteer crew along with course staff removed a mossy stretch of green

PREP VOLLEYBALL: Chimacum rolls rival Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — Chimacum swept rival Port Townsend 25-17, 25-8, 25-14 in an Olympic League 1A contest. Taylor Carthum was on fire from the service… Continue reading

Port Angeles' Gracie Long

CROSS COUNTRY: Port Angeles’ Long edges Sequim’s Shreffler for Olympic League girls crown; Sequim boys dominate, earn team title

SEQUIM — Port Angeles sophomore Gracie Long edged Sequim's Waverly Shreffler by less than a second to claim her second straight girls cross country title… Continue reading

Port Angeles' Gracie Long
Clallam Bay's Alan Greene attempts to avoid Tulalip's Nate Williams (77) while returning an interception. Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News

PREP FOOTBALL: Gritty Clallam Bay can’t complete comeback against Tulalip Heritage

CLALLAM BAY — There were many moments in Clallam Bay's 66-52 Northwest Football League loss to Tulalip Heritage in which the Bruins could have folded.… Continue reading

Clallam Bay's Alan Greene attempts to avoid Tulalip's Nate Williams (77) while returning an interception. Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News

PREP FOOTBALL: Port Townsend crushes Chimacum to remain unbeaten; other area reports

PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend played musical chairs offensively due to injuries, but the result was the same: another Olympic League 1A blowout, this time… Continue reading

Port Angeles senior Carter Juskevich swims the breaststroke during a meet against Klahowya at William Shore Memorial Pool. Patty Reifenstahl

PREP SPORTS: Port Angeles girls swimming wins fourth straight league title; other area reports

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles girls swim team celebrated senior night and clinched their fourth straight Olympic League title with a 127-55 win against… Continue reading

Port Angeles senior Carter Juskevich swims the breaststroke during a meet against Klahowya at William Shore Memorial Pool. Patty Reifenstahl
Port Angeles' Gracie Long

CROSS COUNTRY: Port Angeles’ Long edges Sequim’s Shreffler for Olympic League girls crown; Sequim boys dominate, earn team title

SEQUIM — Port Angeles sophomore Gracie Long edged Sequim's Waverly Shreffler by less than a second to claim her second straight girls cross country title… Continue reading

Port Angeles' Gracie Long
Clallam Bay's Alan Greene attempts to avoid Tulalip's Nate Williams (77) while returning an interception. Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News

PREP FOOTBALL: Gritty Clallam Bay can’t complete comeback against Tulalip Heritage

CLALLAM BAY — There were many moments in Clallam Bay's 66-52 Northwest Football League loss to Tulalip Heritage in which the Bruins could have folded.… Continue reading

Clallam Bay's Alan Greene attempts to avoid Tulalip's Nate Williams (77) while returning an interception. Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News
PREP FOOTBALL: Port Townsend crushes Chimacum to remain unbeaten; other area reports

PREP FOOTBALL: Port Townsend crushes Chimacum to remain unbeaten; other area reports

PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend played musical chairs offensively due to injuries, but the result was the same: another Olympic League 1A blowout, this time… Continue reading

PREP FOOTBALL: Port Townsend crushes Chimacum to remain unbeaten; other area reports

BOYS TENNIS: Port Angeles’ Pederson advances to districts

BREMERTON — Janson Pederson was the lone Port Angeles boys tennis player to advance to district play after the opening rounds of the Olympic League… Continue reading

OUTDOORS: Hoochies a hit out on the Strait of Juan de Fuca

HOOCHIES OR COHO Killer spoons. Those are the ways of the angler seeking silvers on salt water. Football analysts on television enjoy pointing out that… Continue reading

Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Jim Unsworth Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

OUTDOORS: Speak up because state Department of Fish and Wildlife is listening

SINCE TAKING OVER as director of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife last January, director Jim Unsworth has had a question. Unsworth has made… Continue reading

Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Jim Unsworth Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Jim Unsworth Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

OUTDOORS: Speak up because state Department of Fish and Wildlife is listening

SINCE TAKING OVER as director of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife last January, director Jim Unsworth has had a question. Unsworth has made… Continue reading

Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Jim Unsworth Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Forks wrestling coach Bob Wheeler gestures during Mat Classic XXV at the Tacoma Dome in 2013. Wheeler will be inducted into the Washington State Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame on Saturday. Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News

PREP WRESTLING: Forks coach Bob Wheeler to be inducted into coaches’ Hall of Fame

SEATAC — Longtime Forks wrestling coach and teacher Bob Wheeler estimates he's logged nearly 300,000 miles traveling from his Port Angeles home to Forks and… Continue reading

Forks wrestling coach Bob Wheeler gestures during Mat Classic XXV at the Tacoma Dome in 2013. Wheeler will be inducted into the Washington State Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame on Saturday. Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News
Clallam Bay's Kyle Keys fends off the defensive efforts of Crescent's Luke Leonard

PREP FOOTBALL: Clallam Bay’s speed bests Crescent’s brawn

JOYCE — Clallam Bay used the football field to full advantage in beating up on Crescent for the second time this season. The Bruins’ speed… Continue reading

Clallam Bay's Kyle Keys fends off the defensive efforts of Crescent's Luke Leonard