Wire Service

Forks High School coaching, athletics staffing changes

By JOSHUA FEJERAN FORKS -- Robert King was hired last month as the head football coach and is now conducting spring practices, King confirmed Wednesday.… Continue reading

Sports: Sequim goes two and out

By JOSHUA FEJERAN TACOMA -- The Sequim High School fastpitch team went two and out on Friday, losing to Hanford 2-1 in a 10-inning game… Continue reading

Sports: Two Peninsula state titlists

By JOSHUA FEJERAN CHENEY -- Clallam Bay's Adam Lovik and Sequim's Brian Savage are two happy campers. Lovik took the state title in the shot… Continue reading

Sports: Three fastpitch teams in state playoffs this week

JOSHUA WASHBURN The North Olympic Peninsula is sending three fastpitch teams to the state championships this weekend. The Chimacum Cowboys, winners of the West Central… Continue reading

Film from Port Angeles screenwriter’s script about Vietnam angst to make premiere

By Laura Rosser When screenwriter Ken Miller moved to Port Angeles in 1983 after retiring from the Army, the former Green Beret was seeking the… Continue reading

Sports: Sequim eliminated after losing both opening round baseball games

By Joshua Washburn TACOMA -- From a rain-out to an early morning bus ride, things just didn't add up for the Sequim baseball team as… Continue reading

Dealing with the North Olympic Peninsula’s yellow streak: Scotch broom

TOM THOMPSON To many passers-by, it's a bright yellow flowery masterpiece this time of year. But don't let the brilliant color along roadsides and hillsides… Continue reading

Sports: Riders beat Shelton in rainy baseball game

By Joshua Washburn PORT ANGELES -- The Port Angeles baseball team treated their fans to a wet-and-wild ride as the Roughriders defeated Shelton 10-6 in… Continue reading

Sports: Sequim boys, girls both enter postseason play at home tonight

By Joshua Washburn SEQUIM -- For most schools, getting one of your varsity teams to the postseason is a job well done, but for the… Continue reading

Middle school class raises more than $6,000 for tsunami relief

By Tom Thompson PORT ANGELES -- When the world was stunned by the magnitude of the earthquake and tsunami disaster in South Asia, a sixth-grade… Continue reading

Fans of medieval lore don the gear to fight with ferocity

By Tom Thompson As Society of Creative Anachronism members prepare for mock medieval battles Sunday at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles, donning a steel helmet… Continue reading

Winner of car in Port Angeles turns out to really need it

By Tom Thompson PORT ANGELES -- When a car fell from the sky in the form of a golf ball Saturday to name the winner… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Former city economic development director worried over diminishing harborfront industrial lands

By Michelle Payne PORT ANGELES -- Harborfront land slated for the Hood Canal Bridge graving yard has sustained the community for centuries. And it would… Continue reading

Sports: Port Angeles swimmers show well at season opener

By Joshua Washburn POULSBO -- The Port Angeles High School boys swimming team tacked up 13 district qualifying times in its season-opening meet Thursday, defeating… Continue reading

Sports: Port Angeles girls 0-2 in Babe Ruth World Series

SETH JOHNSON FOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS ABBEVILLE, La. -- Port Angeles jumped out to a 1-0 lead early in their second pool play game of… Continue reading

Peninsula Spotlight: Take a trip across the Nile de Fuca

By Laura Rosser In just a couple weeks, crossing the Nile into Ancient Egypt won't be very difficult at all for North Olympic Peninsula residents.… Continue reading

Peninsula: They”re best in the state, too!

By Tim Roach CHENEY -- Crescent's Ruth Wilhelm and Forks' McKinnon Hanson broke state Class 2A and B meet records on their way to winning… Continue reading

West End: State catch-and-release proposal catches wrath of Forks officials

By Paul Queary - Associated Press FORKS -- This is a fish story, but not about the one that got away. It's about the fish… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Our waterfront columnist takes a smooth, quiet ride on the ‘new’ MV Coho

By Dan Hart One word describes the ride aboard the Port Angeles-Victoria ferry, MV Coho, with her new engines: Excellent. I took the 44-year-old ferry's… Continue reading

Sports: Port Townsend girls eliminated from state tourney

By Tim Roach YAKIMA -- The Port Townsend High School girls basketball team ended its run in the Class 2A state tournament Friday with a… Continue reading