Vanessa Renee Casavant

Proposed Port Angeles school changes raise fears for programs

PORT ANGELES -- The brick and mortar aspect of proposed school closure plans in the Port Angeles School District are concrete but the residual effects… Continue reading

Marine’s long journey from Iraq to Forks ends in hero’s welcome

FORKS -- It was a hero's homecoming, staged in the silence of sadness. Thursday, hundreds of people lined the streets of Forks to wave flags,… Continue reading

Fallen Marine’s hometown gathers for community memorial

FORKS -- Creedence Clearwater Revival music sounded through the loudspeakers of the Forks High School gym Wednesday as more than 600 people gathered to remember… Continue reading

Crescent board approves temporary school administrator

JOYCE -- Crescent School District's administrative assistant Kathy Silva will assume the duties of Superintendent Doug Kubalek until an interim superintendent can be found. Kubalek,… Continue reading

Body of Marine killed in Iraq comes home today

The body of Marine Lance Cpl. Jason Hanson will be escorted by a military motorcade from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Port Angeles late this afternoon.… Continue reading

Crescent schools superintendent suffers stroke

JOYCE -- Crescent School District Superintendent Doug Kubalek was listed in serious condition at a Seattle Hospital on Monday after suffering a stroke Saturday evening.… Continue reading

Let the fun — and blackberries–begin!

JOYCE -- It's time once again to get dazed in a town that doesn't take itself too seriously with streets named Bytha Way and Itsa… Continue reading

Wildlife plan finished 15 years after spill

NEAH BAY -- A milestone was reached Tuesday in the careers of several oil spill emergency response workers. They gathered in Neah Bay for a… Continue reading

Both Makah canoes involved in fatal accident provide emotional finale to Canoe Journey in Seattle

SEATTLE -- Paddling side by side, Makah canoeists on Many Hands and Hummingbird somberly sailed to shore Monday on Lake Washington. The two canoes were… Continue reading

Canoe victim’s personal paddle to be carried in his honor to end of journey

JAMESTOWN -- The personal canoe paddle of Jerry Jack, who died Wednesday in the only water fatality in nearly two decades of tribal canoe journeys,… Continue reading

Rough waters? No problem for canoeists who employ modern means to arrive in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES -- Perseverance is the pride of a puller when it comes to the Inter-Tribal Canoe Journey. However, safety trumped perseverance Tuesday as canoeists… Continue reading

Paddle journey due to arrive in Port Angeles today

It's the beginning for some, the middle for others, but the end for none. At about 3 p.m. today on Port Angeles' Hollywood Beach, the… Continue reading

Quileute Days to be held in LaPush this weekend

LAPUSH -- Get your dancing shoes, blankets and appetite ready for Quileute Days this weekend. Among the many festivities are two street dances, a parade,… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Crash survivors continue recovery

PORT ANGELES -- Three-year-old Abheek Biswas of Beaverton, Ore., who survived a wreck that killed her father and sister, may have family arriving from South… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Heroes amid flames in tragedy

PORT ANGELES -- Ordinary people became heroes amid the flames of Monday's fatal car crash on U.S. Highway 101 east of Port Angeles. One of… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Third fatality identified

PORT ANGELES -- Troopers have identified a man who died on Monday in a fiery crash east of Port Angeles. Robert Norman, 39, of Port… Continue reading

3 die in head-on collision on U.S. 101 near PA

PORT ANGELES -- Two men and a child were killed Monday in a two-car crash on U.S. Highway 101 near Blue Mountain Road. Passersby pulled… Continue reading

PORT ANGELES: TRIBE CELEBRATES ANCIENT RITE

PORT ANGELES -- Lower Elwha Klallam Elder Johnson Charles had not visited the Olympic Hot Springs near the Elwha River since he was a child.… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Urban kids visit backcountry for team training

A group of Los Angeles teenagers stepped outside a concrete jungle and into the wilderness of the Northern Olympic Peninsula this week. The nine-day adventure… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Decision on moving Choice School is off table

PORT ANGELES -- A recommendation to move Choice Community School to the Port Angeles High School campus is off the table for discussion indefinitely. The… Continue reading