Paige Dickerson

Recent teen suicides prompt Port Angeles schools to plan session for parents

PORT ANGELES -- A program on Thursday will discuss with Port Angeles School District parents how to identify and help students who are might contemplate… Continue reading

Longtime Forks educator leaves Quillayute Valley board

FORKS -- Quillayute Valley School Board member Sam McElravy resigned his position about 11 months before he was up for re-election. McElravy, who was elected… Continue reading

Clallam County Historical Society to teach people how to take oral histories

PORT ANGELES -- What's the story? And what's the best way to tell it? The Clallam County Historical Society will teach locals how to draw… Continue reading

Sequim students perform comedy sketches

SEQUIM -- Seniors at Sequim High School want to keep their audience rolling in the aisles. The Senior Night Laugh In: One Hundred Years of… Continue reading

Port Angeles full of projects this year, city manager says

PORT ANGELES -- Projects by the city of Port Angeles abound in 2011, including the planning stages for logging and redevelopment of Lincoln Park in… Continue reading

Dogs attack Sequim pedestrian and pet

SEQUIM -- Two dogs jumped their owner's fence and attacked a woman and her small dog walking about a block from their house -- severing… Continue reading

Decking the old fire hall: Port Angeles Garden Club pulls weeds, helps clean up Lincoln Street structure

PORT ANGELES -- It was a garden party of a different kind. About 10 members of the Port Angeles Garden Club joined City Council member… Continue reading

Forks pool on track to reopen with fitness center through public-private partnership

FORKS -- Charlotte Wedrick is diving into a new location for her business, Health First Fitness Center. Wedrick and the Quillayute Valley Park and Recreation… Continue reading

Peninsula College sets another enrollment record

PORT ANGELES -- Peninsula College continued to grow to record enrollment highs in the winter quarter with an 11 percent increase to 1,785 over the… Continue reading

Forks residents complain of cable outages

FORKS -- Residents and city officials are wrestling with how to deal with outages of cable television service that they say have become common. At… Continue reading

Forks ponders what dawn will break after Twilight hype wanes

FORKS -- What happens after Twilight? The concern over the possibility of a dwindling of the phenomenon -- and its tourist revenue -- dominated a… Continue reading

Port Angeles woman plans her own party to celebrate 100th birthday

PORT ANGELES -- Fun and good health habits have sustained Florence Ninke through her century of life. Ninke, who will turn 100 on Tuesday, said… Continue reading

Port of Port Angeles writes off half-million dollars as Harbor-Works loan loss, awards board members

PORT ANGELES -- Port commissioners Monday closed the final chapter on the defunct Port Angeles Harbor-Works Development Authority by writing off $564,053.86 in loans that… Continue reading

State seeks to expand apprenticeship program on Peninsula

PORT ANGELES -- The state Department of Labor and Industries' apprenticeship program is working to expand on the North Olympic Peninsula. The program already works… Continue reading

Bear Creek couple’s ‘Price is Right’ 50th anniversary trip fruitful for family friend (***GALLERY***)

BEAVER -- All Barbara Ray wanted for her 50th wedding anniversary from husband Wayne was to go on a family vacation to Los Angeles and… Continue reading

North Olympic Peninsula selected as one of top 41 to visit

The North Olympic Peninsula has captured the attention of travel writers everywhere and kicked off the year with a bang, landing the region in a… Continue reading

Out of the ashes: Burned landmark motel on U.S. 101 nearly ready to reopen [**Gallery**]

INDIAN VALLEY -- A year after a fire destroyed a newly renovated two-bedroom manager's apartment and office of the landmark Indian Valley Motel, the owners… Continue reading

Two children questioned about fire in abandoned Sequim farmhouse

SEQUIM -- Two children have been questioned and are suspected in the arson of a vacant home earlier this week. The children, who were not… Continue reading

Motorcyclist involved in head-on collision making slow, painful recovery

PORT ANGELES -- About 30 times since his motorcyclist brother was severely hurt in a head-on collision with a car in early December, Sam Paxton… Continue reading

Wanted man arrested in home following 90-minute standoff

PORT ANGELES -- About a dozen law enforcement vehicles surrounded a house across Lauridsen Boulevard from Lincoln Park for more than 90 minutes Tuesday while… Continue reading