Water main break fixed
PORT ANGELES — City crews have repaired a water main that broke at Tenth and N streets in west Port Angeles on Thursday.
Deputy Director of Engineering Teresa Reed-Jennings said 16 homes were without water for about four hours during the repair.
Crews had isolated the break by 4:46 p.m., according to a city announcement.
The break was caused by construction occurring along West Tenth Street, Reed-Jennings said Friday.
A 0.6-mile segment of Tenth Street between N and
I streets is being widened and resurfaced.
The $2.5 million project includes new driveway entrances, curb, gutter and stormwater conveyance between M and N streets.
Aging water mains are being replaced, and a new sewer crossing is being installed.
Art at PA Library
PORT ANGELES — Tapestry- and paper-makers Don and Era Hamaji Farnsworth of Oakland, Calif., will give a free presentation at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St., today.
In the 3 p.m. program in the library’s Raymond Carver Room, the pair will introduce their new exhibition, titled “I Forget I’m Human,” which opened Saturday at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center.
That show, featuring reimagined paper currency, tapestries and mixed-media art, is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays at the fine arts center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
In today’s talk at the library, the Farnsworths will discuss the variety of digital, analog, ancient and modern printing processes they use.
For information, see www.PAFAC.org, visit the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s Facebook page or phone 360-457-3532.
Ferry delayed
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND — The Bainbridge Island ferry was delayed 15 minutes when a Port Angeles man drove his vehicle through the entrance gate at the Bainbridge Island terminal at 11:32 p.m. Friday, the State Patrol said.
The man then got out of his vehicle and attempted to board the ferry via the pedestrian walkway, the State Patrol said. He was detained without incident.
Troopers said the man had experienced a psychotic event.
Hunt suspended
PORTLAND — Authorities in Oregon are ending a cougar hunt that was prompted by the fatal mauling of a hiker by one of the large cats earlier this month.
Hunters killed a roughly 3-year-old female cougar on Sept. 14 after its image was captured on a remote camera set up at the spot where 55-year-old Diana Bober’s body had been found four days earlier.
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife carnivore coordinator Derek Broman said Friday that it’s “highly probable” the animal is the one that fatally attacked the avid hiker from Gresham.
Forensic pathologists couldn’t recover DNA from the scene to match with the dead cougar’s DNA because heavy rains contaminated the evidence and several days passed before Bober’s body was found.
The cougar tested negative for rabies and appeared healthy.
Weekly flight operations announced
COUPEVILLE — There will be no field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island’s Outlying Landing Field in Coupeville slated for next week.
There will be field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island at Ault Field for Thursday afternoon.
Comments, including noise complaints, can be directed to the station’s comment line at 360-
257-6665 or via email at comments.NASWI@navy.mil.
All other questions can be directed to the public affairs office at 360-257-2286.
Migration cruise
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) will team up with Puget Sound
Express to offer a fall migration cruise from
1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on
Oct. 6 and Oct. 13.
The cruise will circumnavigate the Protection Island National Wildlife Reserve during the
peak of the fall migration.
The trip leaves from the Point Hudson Marina, 227 Jackson St.
Tickets are $80, $60 for PTMSC members.
For more information or to book a seat, visit www.ptmsc.org.
Seeking Projects
PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County Accessible Community Advisory Committee, (ACAC) is looking for additional projects.
Since 2015, the county has received more than $73,000 in funding for projects in education, access and barrier removal.
Some past projects that have qualified for grants include: ADA access at Jefferson County Fairgrounds; tracking devices for the Sheriff’s Office; ADA accessible doors at Public Health; assistive listening devices for the city of Port Townsend and co-sponsorship of two films connected with disabilities at the Port Townsend Film Festival.
For more information or to recommend a project, call 360-385-9410 or email amcenery@co.jefferson.wa.us.
