Paul Gottlieb

SPECIAL REPORT: Tse-whit-zen museum, curation center held up by dispute over three words

PORT ANGELES — An impasse over three words in the 2006 Tse-whit-zen settlement agreement is holding up progress on building a curation facility and museum… Continue reading

Port Angeles port selects 4 finalists for vacancy

PORT ANGELES — Four finalists for Jim McEntire’s vacant Port of Port Angeles commission position were selected Wednesday from 12 applicants. Port of Port Angeles… Continue reading

7 Cedars Casino workers save heart attack victim

BLYN — The man had stopped breathing and was close to death as he lay on the floor of 7 Cedars Casino. But casino employees,… Continue reading

Revamped plan for Pleasant Harbor mega-resort looks to the environment

BRINNON — A draft supplemental environmental impact statement is due in about two months on a massive resort that has stirred passions both at home… Continue reading

Colonel Hudson’s to offer customers add indoor to outdoor dining in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — When they bought the building at 536 Marine Drive in 2006, Malik Atwater and his wife, Vivian Wai, had planned to eventually… Continue reading

Convicted thief out of prison less than week after sentencing for three years

PORT ANGELES — Convicted thief Staci Allison was released from prison this week pending her appeal of a three-year sentence for stealing $8,644 from the… Continue reading

OlyCAP names director to serve for year

Janet Anderson, the chief operating officer of Olympic Community Action Programs, is succeeding Executive Director Tim Hockett on an interim — but potentially permanent —… Continue reading

It’s over for PenPly: Port of Port Angeles to tear down 70-year-old plywood mill

PORT ANGELES — The Port of Port Angeles took back full control Tuesday of a parcel under lease to Peninsula Plywood with every intention of… Continue reading

Ecology rejects Port Angeles’ bid for seat on council assessing natural resource damages at former Rayonier site

PORT ANGELES — The state Department of Ecology has rejected the city's request to be represented on a committee that is assessing natural resource damages… Continue reading

Border Patrol arrests down from last year; manpower just one reason cited by agency spokesman

Border Patrol apprehensions totaled less than two a day in a vast area that includes Clallam and Jefferson counties for the fiscal year that ended… Continue reading

Package of Ecstasy pills among items seized, Border Patrol says in latest report

Someone will not be receiving an illegal Christmas present. Border Patrol agents Dec. 1 seized a package of 1,000 pills of the synthetic drug Ecstasy… Continue reading

Twelve apply for soon-vacant Port of Port Angeles commissioner position

PORT ANGELES — Twelve Sequim-area residents, including Paul McHugh and Sterling Epps, have applied to fill Jim McEntire’s soon-to-be-vacant District 1 Port of Port Angeles… Continue reading

Demolition begins on New Peking Restaurant

PORT ANGELES — Demolition has begun on a landmark that has become an eyesore since it burned in July: the burned-out hulk of the New… Continue reading

Ex-Clallam sheriff’s employee gets three years for evidence room theft

PORT ANGELES — Former Clallam County Sheriff's Office employee Staci Allison was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for stealing $8,644 from the evidence… Continue reading

Port of Port Angeles hires, fires, rehires and fires employee again

PORT ANGELES — David Hagiwara has been fired from the Port of Port Angeles for the second time. Port of Port Angeles Executive Director Jeff… Continue reading

Water for sprint-boat track reviewed at Port of Port Angeles meeting

PORT ANGELES — The Port of Port Angeles has applied for a water right that would enable sprint-boat races to occur at the port’s former… Continue reading

Olympic Community Action Programs executive director to leave

Tim Hockett, the enthusiastic executive director of Olympic Community Action Programs, is departing his position. Hockett, 61, of Port Angeles said Friday that after 22… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Peninsula retailers stressing ‘small-town charm’ on first big shopping day of holiday season

Today’s traditional start of the holiday shopping season was set to begin late Thanksgiving night for some North Olympic Peninsula residents, before sunrise this morning… Continue reading

Roadless-area bill reintroduced in Congress

Legislation to ban most road-building in national forests, including 46,000 acres in Clallam and Jefferson counties, has been reintroduced in Congress by U.S. Sen. Maria… Continue reading

Update: Flood, wind watches in place through Thanksgiving

A high-wind watch, along with plenty of rain but no snow, is in effect for tonight through Thanksgiving Day in Clallam and Jefferson counties, the… Continue reading