Paul Gottlieb

Nippon Paper, union talks scheduled next week

PORT ANGELES — They are talking again. A federal mediation session has been scheduled for Tuesday between Nippon Paper Industries USA and the Association of… Continue reading

Steve Markwell is shown with one of his shelter dogs giving a talk in Port Angeles in 2012. Peninsula Daily News

Forks abused-animal shelter to move, director says

FORKS — Executive Director Steve Markwell of Olympic Animal Sanctuary hopes to move the much-publicized shelter for abused and violence-prone dogs from Forks to unincorporated… Continue reading

Steve Markwell is shown with one of his shelter dogs giving a talk in Port Angeles in 2012. Peninsula Daily News

Clallam PUD OKs 75-cent mileage rate

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Public Utility District will pay 33 percent more than the income-tax rate to reimburse PUD employees and commissioners for… Continue reading

Warning tape surrounds the base of the Peninsula Plywood chimney stack

Former mill stack coming down in Port Angeles today

PORT ANGELES — It comes down today. Rain or shine, the 175-foot former Peninsula Plywood chimney stack is slated for destruction today with explosives at… Continue reading

Warning tape surrounds the base of the Peninsula Plywood chimney stack

Charges dropped against ex-Stevens Middle School teacher in child rape case

PORT ANGELES — Child rape and molestation charges against Stevens Middle School math teacher Paul A. Brinkmann were dismissed Friday, 10 days before his April… Continue reading

Rick Graff

Here the exact place — and explosives sequence — where Port Angeles’ PenPly stack will topple

PORT ANGELES — All that’s left to do is load and ignite the explosives and bring the stack down. Workers this week finished preparing the… Continue reading

Rick Graff
Personnel inspect the damage aboard La Rata Bastarda in the Platypus Marine yard on Tuesday.  -- Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Boat fire investigation continues; couple fear ‘total loss’ of their onboard home

PORT ANGELES — An investigation continued Tuesday into the cause of a Monday afternoon boat fire that dispatched thick, stinky smoke over Marine Drive and… Continue reading

Personnel inspect the damage aboard La Rata Bastarda in the Platypus Marine yard on Tuesday.  -- Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer

Congressman Kilmer still on fence over wilderness act

PORT ANGELES — U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer continues to seek a middle ground between increased logging and preserving land in Olympic National Forest, he said… Continue reading

U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer

Ex-county treasury employee’s lawyer vows Supreme Court bid

TACOMA — Within two hours of arguing her case Monday before the state Court of Appeals, Jordan McCabe, the Seattle lawyer for convicted public-money embezzler… Continue reading

Two plead to assisting suspected murderer

PORT ANGELES — Two people pleaded guilty to helping suspected double-killer John F. Loring, instead of contacting authorities before Loring died of a self-inflicted gunshot… Continue reading

Catherine Betts

State Court of Appeals to hear of missing Clallam County money

TACOMA — The state Court of Appeals will hear arguments Monday in the case of former Clallam County Treasurer’s cashier Catherine Betts, who was convicted… Continue reading

Catherine Betts

Border Patrol supervisor pleads guilty to assaulting fellow agent

TACOMA — A Border Patrol supervisor stationed in Port Angeles has pleaded guilty in federal District Court to misdemeanor assault on a federal officer. Mauricio… Continue reading

Man charged in ‘road rage’ incident near Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A 64-year-old Oregon man has been charged with second-degree assault with a deadly weapon in what the Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office… Continue reading

Man faces counts on rape, assault in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A 40-year-old man who was holed up inside a house for half-hour before he was arrested Tuesday will appear in Clallam County… Continue reading

Firm hired to look into Port Angeles Harbor sediment pollution

PORT ANGELES — A $1.8 million contract has been awarded to a Seattle consulting firm to complete an investigation of sediment pollution in western Port… Continue reading

Workers at the Nippon Paper Industries USA mill in Port Angeles start their lunch period Monday

Nippon mill back running ‘without an issue,’ manager says

PORT ANGELES — Union workers employed by Nippon Paper Industries USA returned to work Monday morning after walking off the job last week in protest… Continue reading

Workers at the Nippon Paper Industries USA mill in Port Angeles start their lunch period Monday
The smokestack that once serviced the now-razed plywood mill in Port Angeles slowly reappears from the plastic cocoon that shrouded it while its asbestos-laden surface was removed. Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News

Viewing area planned for Port Angeles stack’s tumble

PORT ANGELES — Spectators, including new state Ecology Director Maia Bellon, will watch the April 8 demolition of the former Peninsula Plywood mill's 175-foot stack… Continue reading

The smokestack that once serviced the now-razed plywood mill in Port Angeles slowly reappears from the plastic cocoon that shrouded it while its asbestos-laden surface was removed. Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News
Unionized employees of the Nippon Paper Industries USA mill file into a meeting at the Moose Lodge in Port Angeles on Saturday for a briefing by the Association of Western Pulp & Paper Workers.  -- Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Strike ending: Union updates members before resuming work at Nippon mill Monday

PORT ANGELES — The strike of 130 unionized workers at the Nippon Paper Industries USA plant will end at 7 a.m. Monday morning, when the… Continue reading

Unionized employees of the Nippon Paper Industries USA mill file into a meeting at the Moose Lodge in Port Angeles on Saturday for a briefing by the Association of Western Pulp & Paper Workers.  -- Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Plans for Clallam zipline are tossed

PORT ANGELES — Plans to build a world-class zipline park in the foothills have been abandoned after a request to extend the project’s conditional use… Continue reading

Pickets remain outside the Nippon Paper Industries USA mill in Port Angeles late Friday afternoon. They had not been told at that time of an apparent agreement to return to work Monday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Nippon’s union workers returning to work Monday

PORT ANGELES — A strike by 130 Nippon Paper Industries USA employees may be over. Mill Manager Harold Norlund sent Peninsula Daily News the following… Continue reading

Pickets remain outside the Nippon Paper Industries USA mill in Port Angeles late Friday afternoon. They had not been told at that time of an apparent agreement to return to work Monday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News