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Port Townsend: Port commissioners hear plan for $2 million marine trades building

PORT TOWNSEND — A Bremerton company wants to design a $2 million multipurpose marine trades building on the…

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Port Townsend: Enhancement Days coming to Fort Worden this weekend

PORT TOWNSEND — The third of Fort Worden’s four celebrations marking its 100 year anniversary begins Friday. Enhancement…

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Jefferson: Foes pound the keyboards in opposition to “pit-to-pier” gravel project

Jefferson County commissioners and other county officials have been inundated with nearly 200 e-mails and letters by opponents…

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Port Townsend: Councilwoman asks colleagues to act locally while thinking globally — with nuclear weapons ban endorsement

PORT TOWNSEND — City Council member Freida Fenn wants the city to enact a resolution supporting a nuclear…

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Jefferson: Kinetic kraziness koncludes after mediocre run

Kinetic kraziness kame to a klose Sunday night with a Port Townsend kraft konquering kompetitors and kollecting the…

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Jefferson: Sheriff candidates debate qualifications

PORT TOWNSEND– Candidates for Jefferson County Sheriff sparred Monday in what is quickly becoming the most interesting race…

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Peninsula: Fewer juveniles facing criminal charges

Fewer juveniles are seeing the inside of a courtroom as a defendant in Jefferson and Clallam counties. According…

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Port Townsend: Tall ship getting a Disney makeup job

PORT TOWNSEND — In the Port of Port Townsend Ship Yard, Lady Washington skipper Brad Sousa joked that…

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Port Townsend: City projection sees more lean budget times ahead

PORT TOWNSEND — With expenses expected to outpace revenues the next five years, city officials are looking to…

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Shine: Hood Canal Bridge stuck open for nearly an hour

SHINE — Drivers were delayed for more than an hour Tuesday morning after the eastern half-span of Hood…

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Jefferson: County raises cell phone tax

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County commissioners voted 2-1 Monday to raise the cellular telephone excise tax from 25…

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Jefferson: County deputy administrator leaving post

PORT TOWNSEND — The second highest-ranking executive in Jefferson County government is set to leave next month after…

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Jefferson: County officials unveil preliminary 2003 budget

Jefferson County officials unveiled a preliminary 2003 budget Monday that largely maintains mid-year cuts. The $11.04 million general…

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Jefferson: Rodgers, Wrinkle appear headed toward general election face off for commissioner

Republican Pat Rodgers and Democrat Wendi Wrinkle emerged from a field of six candidates Tuesday as the two…

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Chimacum: Fire levy failing

CHIMACUM — Voters in Jefferson County Fire District No. 1 (Chimacum) were rejecting a 50-cent property tax increase…

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Jefferson: Park and ride land purchase may be completed this year

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County officials are hoping to purchase 40 acres near the intersection of state Highways…

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Jefferson: Tax levy measures on Tuesday’s ballot

Measures to increase the sales tax by one-tenth of a penny and to boost the levy rate for…

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Jefferson: Fred Hill sales plan “workable,” state agency says

SHINE — State Department of Revenue officials recast their opinion Thursday about Fred Hill Materials Inc.’s plans to…

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Jefferson: Victims’ names read one by one

Matthew D. Garvey. Adam David Rand. Marian H. Serva. Gerald Fisher. Those were among the 3,025 people whose…

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Remembering 9/11: Hood Canal Bridge security enhanced since terrorist attacks

SHINE — It’s the main link to the North Olympic Peninsula for drivers. It spans the waterway for…