Peninsula Daily News

PREP SPORTS: Port Angeles, Sequim, Port Townsend, Forks wrestlers at Island Invitational

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND -- The Port Angeles wrestling team capped a busy weekend by taking third place out of 11 teams at the Island Invitational at… Continue reading

SARC recreation center elects chairwoman; no fee hikes planned this year

SEQUIM -- Susan Sorensen, who has served on the Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center board since 2002, has been elected by her fellow SARC board commissioners… Continue reading

Activities after Dr. King Day, too

Events commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day are planned Tuesday and next week. Left.Pol, a Port Angeles political discussion group, will present a video of… Continue reading

Monday holiday activities both work, play

Both work and play are planned on the North Olympic Peninsula this holiday weekend. Monday's holiday commemorating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who… Continue reading

BREAKING NEWS: Highway 112 blocked indefinitely between Sekiu and Neah Bay

SEKIU — The state highway to Neah Bay remains blocked today because of a large landslide about 4 miles east of the Makah reservation boundary,… Continue reading

Empty Bowls to fill food bank in Sequim

SEQUIM -- A display of 91 empty bowls, plus two kinds of hearty soup, have started up a monthlong fundraiser. The Empty Bowls project, organized… Continue reading

SPORTS: Port Angeles and Sequim boys swimming teams pick up wins; Port Townsend and Quilcene boys basketball squads earn victories

SILVERDALE -- Tyler Burke won two events to spark the Port Angeles boys swimming team to an Olympic League win against Klahowya on Thursday. The… Continue reading

Updated: Olympic Game Farm founders Lloyd and Catherine Beebe die within two days of each other

DUNGENESS -- Lloyd and Catherine Beebe, founders of Olympic Game Farm, have died. Lloyd, 94, died last Thursday morning, and Catherine, 88, died two days… Continue reading

PREP BASKETBALL: Clallam Bay hangs on to beat Crescent 57-52

JOYCE -- Jacob Portnoy wasn't about to let early foul trouble get to him. The Clallam Bay junior scored 16 of his game-high 26 points… Continue reading

PREP SPORTS: Sequim’s centennial makes today’s Port Angeles confrontation above-average

SEQUIM -- This isn't your regular Sequim-Port Angeles basketball doubleheader. With Sequim High School will holding its 100th anniversary celebration today, a rivalry that needed… Continue reading

Clallam OKs contract for tourism

PORT ANGELES -- Clallam County commissioners signed a one-year, $340,000 contract with Olympic Peninsula Visitor Bureau to promote and develop tourism in the county. The… Continue reading

Fire so hot it melts smoke detectors

PORT ANGELES -- Smoke and damage from a fire so hot it melted the smoke detectors has left a home on the Lower Elwha reservation… Continue reading

Wild chase ends in arrest for Sequim man

BLYN -- State Patrol troopers arrested a Sequim man late Monday night on investigation of driving under the influence and felony eluding troopers after he… Continue reading

SPORTS: Chimacum boys and girls basketball teams split with tough Life Christian; other prep reports

CHIMACUM -- Life Christian ran away from a tight game in the third quarter to beat Chimacum 69-48 in Nisqually League boys basketball action Tuesday… Continue reading

SPORTS: Sites for regional prep basketball tournament announced

RENTON -- The road to state promises to be a lot more treacherous this winter. The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) executive board voted to… Continue reading

Airline scrapes minimum numbers to keep federal aid coming to port

PORT ANGELES -- A total of 10,183 passenger flights on Kenmore Air were logged out of William R. Fairchild International Airport in 2010. That's just… Continue reading

Equestrians hope to break ground on park this year

PORT TOWNSEND -- The Jefferson Equestrian Association hopes to break ground sometime this year on the first improvements for a horse park on 80 acres… Continue reading

Wounded bald eagle hoped to enter rehab soon

SEQUIM -- Caregivers for a juvenile bald eagle wounded last month hope to know soon when it can begin rehabilitation at the Northwest Raptor &… Continue reading

Peninsuladailynews.com king of the Internet on North Olympic Peninsula

Peninsula Daily News finished off 2010 by hitting a new milestone -- the newspaper's 12-year-old website, www. peninsuladailynews.com, logged 8.66 million page views. This is… Continue reading

PREP BOYS BASKETBALL: Neah Bay rolls over Crescent

NEAH BAY 80, CRESCENT 33 NEAH BAY -- The Red Devils (1-0, 8-2) blasted the Loggers Friday night in their NOL opener. Titus Pascua and… Continue reading