Philip Watness

Port Ludlow: Company plans to build hundreds of homes

PORT LUDLOW -- The new owners of Port Ludlow will build a dozen new houses this coming year, but have plans for hundreds more in… Continue reading

U.S. Highway 101 may reopen soon

ELDON -- Eldon Store clerk Michelle Kenning fielded telephone calls Thursday afternoon inquiring about the landslide that had closed U.S. Highway 101 near Lilliwaup earlier… Continue reading

Port Hadlock: Health clinic closed

Jefferson County Health Department budget cuts have forced the closure of the Port Hadlock Family Planning Clinic and cutbacks in immunizations. The clinic in Shively… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Port commissioners prohibit tree planting at Kah Tai Lagoon

PORT TOWNSEND -- Port of Port Townsend commissioners formally decided Wednesday that no development of any kind will be allowed at Kah Tai Lagoon Park… Continue reading

Peninsula: Slides cut off U.S. 101

BRINNON -- Residents of southeast Jefferson County will have to find another way to reach Mason County after several small slides closed U.S. Highway 101… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Kolff named mayor

PORT TOWNSEND -- Kees Kolff was elected mayor and Freida Fenn deputy mayor Monday as the new City Council started its term. The City Council… Continue reading

Jefferson: OlyCAP coordinator moving into city spaces

PORT TOWNSEND -- Port Townsend and Olympic Community Action Programs begin a partnership today to coordinate volunteers. OlyCAP's Retired Senior Volunteer Program Director Michele Erickson… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Attorney waives jury trial in homicide case

PORT TOWNSEND -- The man accused of the 1992 stabbing death of a Quilcene girl will not be tried by a jury. Robert H. Froehlich,… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Legal questions cloud proposed City Council retreat

PORT TOWNSEND -- The efforts of four new City Council members to organize a retreat before three of them officially took office is not a… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Boy is first baby of new year in Jefferson County

PORT TOWNSEND -- Jacob Michael Williamson was in a rush to become Jefferson County's first baby. Jessica D. Williamson, 19, of Port Hadlock said her… Continue reading

Port Townsend: New council members plan retreat

PORT TOWNSEND -- The four new City Council members have already organized a council retreat in their enthusiasm to assume office. But continuing council members… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Old tugboat waking from deep sleep

PORT TOWNSEND -- The Sand Man has slowly been waking from its sleep at the Port Townsend Shipwright's Cooperative. Once called a "yacht among tugboats,"… Continue reading

Jefferson: Commissioners dip into reserves

PORT TOWNSEND -- The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office will have one less patrol deputy next year following the approval Thursday of the Jefferson County budget.… Continue reading

Jefferson: Domestic-violence program feels crunch of fewer subsidies

The needs are great but the money is getting tougher to come by as federal, state and county dollars dry up for local service organizations.… Continue reading

Peninsula: Group holds meeting Thursday to combat hate

Hate literature against Jews and blacks shows up on people's car windshields in Port Angeles. Self-styled Nazi newsletters appear in mailboxes and newspaper delivery boxes… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Library annexation on hold

PORT HADLOCK -- The resignation last month of Jefferson County Library Director Bill Mitchell and the election of four new City Council members render moot… Continue reading

Dungeness: Four stranded in spit lighthouse

SEQUIM -- Four New Dungeness Lighthouse Society members are stranded near the tip of Dungeness Spit by high winds and pounding surf that breached the… Continue reading

Jefferson: Glen Cove industrial area could be doubled

PORT TOWNSEND -- Glen Cove could double in size by spring under a strategy discussed Monday by Jefferson County commissioners. The commissioners instructed Community Development… Continue reading

Jefferson: Remapping commissioner district fall along party lines

All politics is local, said Tip O'Neill, the late former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. So it was no surprise Monday when a… Continue reading

Moviemakers need help to bring rain to North Olympic Peninsula

PORT TOWNSEND -- It wasn't a dark and stormy night as "Ring" production wrapped up Friday night. The multimillion-dollar DreamWorks SKG film had to simulate… Continue reading