Paige Dickerson

Clallam fair ends with a lot of mudslinging

PORT ANGELES - Competitors braved the muck and mire Sunday to participate in the Clallam County Fair following a steady rain overnight. But fewer onlookers… Continue reading

Some Peninsula law-enforcers clipped by ammunition shortage

Some North Olympic Peninsula law enforcement agencies have felt the sting of ammunition use in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Troops training for and fighting… Continue reading

Family spots cougar up a tree

PORT ANGELES - A cougar found itself up a tree over the weekend. The full-grown female cougar was spotted outside of Eric and Gerri Olson's… Continue reading

Weekend to give visitors a peek into the past of Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES - Tour guides and costumed volunteers will escort groups on a trip back in time on Saturday and Sunday. The sixth annual Heritage… Continue reading

State’s largest madrona tree ailing, but help is on the way

PORT ANGELES - The state's largest madrona tree is ailing, and an attempt to save it will cost $900. Tree specialists from all over the… Continue reading

Teens traipse to Forks to explore setting of popular novels

FORKS - Six teenage girls and two moms spent a twilight at Second Beach. Characters and scenery that had existed only on the pages of… Continue reading

Celebration marks New Dungeness Lighthouse’s 150th birthday

SEQUIM - Living in the lighthouse on Dungeness spit while he was in the U.S. Coast Guard was paradise, Bill Byrd said at a celebration… Continue reading

$250,000 bail set for woman arrested in stabbing

PORT ANGELES - Bail for Andrea Jenette Freese was set Monday at $250,000. Freese, 32, has not been charged in the Saturday stabbing death of… Continue reading

Candidates debate at Port Angeles chamber meeting

PORT ANGELES - The three candidates for City Council Position 6 talked about their plans for the city at Monday's noon meeting of the Port… Continue reading

Port Townsend-Keystone ferry fails; traffic is snarled

PORT TOWNSEND - Traffic was snarled with 90-minute to three-hour waits for boarding the Port Townsend-Keystone ferry when the MV Illahee had a steering problem… Continue reading

Sequim man dies in crash on Highway 112

PORT ANGELES - A Sequim man died when his pickup crashed into a tree near Freshwater Bay on state Highway 112 early Sunday. Douglas J.… Continue reading

Woman arrested in connection with Saturday stabbing

PORT ANGELES - A Port Angeles woman is being held at the Clallam County jail in connection with the stabbing death of an elderly man… Continue reading

Town of Joyce getting its first-ever sidewalk

JOYCE — The first sidewalk in Joyce, which stretches most of the length of the community, will be officially opened Aug. 4. A ribbon-cutting ceremony… Continue reading

Fred Norton, Clallam GOP chairman and hospital board candidate, dies following surgery

PORT ANGELES - Fred Norton, chairman of the Clallam County Republican Party and a candidate for a hospital district board position, died Wednesday of complications… Continue reading

Free shuttle carts visitors to Cape Flattery from Neah Bay

NEAH BAY - A free shuttle is available from the Makah Cultural and Research Center on Bay View Avenue to Cape Flattery while a road… Continue reading

Family member recounts RV tragedy: ‘He didn’t know there was a ravine there’

PORT ANGELES - Austin Owens remembers his father desperately trying to slow the speeding motor home, uselessly pounding the brake pedal as helplessness and terror… Continue reading

Three routed by fire that destroys small apartment building

PORT ANGELES - Investigators are continuing their search into the cause of a spectacular fire early Monday that destroyed a three-apartment building on East 10th… Continue reading

No sun? No problem at Sequim’s Lavender Festival

SEQUIM - The groups who roamed inside the wafts of calming air of the lavender festival weren't deterred by the gloomy weather, said Brigid Woodland,… Continue reading

Tribal Journey pauses at Jamestown; PT on next leg

JAMESTOWN - About 20 canoes glided onto shore at Jamestown on Sunday as the Jamestown S'Klallam tribe prepared to welcome about 600 visitors on the… Continue reading

Sunday Showcase/The high cost of Lost and Found: Search for lost hiker to cost about $102,000

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK - The cost of a four-day search for missing hiker Mary O'Brien earlier this month will probably total more than $100,000 once… Continue reading