Port Townsend comprehensive plan amendments topic of meeting tonight

PORT TOWNSEND — Five topics are on the docket for the 2014 amendments to the city’s comprehensive plan and will be addressed at a special… Continue reading

Presidential mom’s life detailed in Port Townsend show opening night

PORT TOWNSEND –– Bringing up a president isn’t easy, and neither is trying to encapsulate that experience in a short stage show. But that’s what… Continue reading

A Clallam County sheriff's deputy

Assault in Forks sends one to hospital; investigation ‘active and ongoing’

FORKS –– Clallam County sheriff's deputies are investigating a Sunday night assault that reportedly led to the hospitalization of one man and the arrest of… Continue reading

A Clallam County sheriff's deputy
National Park Service webcam photos of Glines Canyon taken approximately 45 minutes apart Tuesday afternoon show the Glines Canyon Dam stub

Final blast at Glines Canyon Dam sets Elwha River free

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The Elwha River is free. The final 30-foot section of the Glines Canyon Dam was destroyed by an explosion at 4:12… Continue reading

National Park Service webcam photos of Glines Canyon taken approximately 45 minutes apart Tuesday afternoon show the Glines Canyon Dam stub

BOOM! Elwha River free for first time in a century

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The final remnant of Glines Canyon Dam, once a 210-foot-tall concrete monolith blocking the upper Elwha River, was exploded at 4:12… Continue reading

  • Aug 26, 2014
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Learn about a career in composites technology (aerospace, marine trades, more) on Wednesday

CLICK ON THE POSTER . . . there are two sets of open houses and tours on Wednesday.… Continue reading

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Activists on both sides of the issue picket in front of the Sequim Transit Center before Monday night's Sequim City Council meeting. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News (Click on photo to enlarge)

Measures to change union contact negotiations heat up Sequim City Council meeting

SEQUIM –– Changes in the way the city negotiates contracts with its three collective bargaining units heated up the already August-roasty Sequim City Council chambers… Continue reading

Activists on both sides of the issue picket in front of the Sequim Transit Center before Monday night's Sequim City Council meeting. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News (Click on photo to enlarge)
The concrete stub of Glines Canyon Dam next to the Elwha River

Glines Canyon Dam’s final blast scheduled for today

Peninsula Daily News and news sources [To see real-time views of the former Elwha River dam sites — including the remaining stub of Glines Canyon… Continue reading

  • Aug 26, 2014
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The concrete stub of Glines Canyon Dam next to the Elwha River
PDN's front page for today's Jefferson County readers. There's more inside that isn't online!

What’s up on the Peninsula? Check out today’s PDN Page 1

WHEN YOU GET home delivery of the Peninsula Daily News, the digital comes free. Subscribers to the print PDN (Sunday through Friday or Friday/Sunday only)… Continue reading

  • Aug 26, 2014
PDN's front page for today's Jefferson County readers. There's more inside that isn't online!
Port Angeles Fire Department and Clallam County Fire District No. 2 firefighters work to mop up a brush fire on the bluffs of the Rayonier Mill property just west of Ennis Creek in Port Angeles. — Arwyn Rice/Peninsula Daily News

Brush fire contained quickly in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A small brush fire burned on the Rayonier property bluffs east of the Ennis Creek mouth on Monday afternoon but was stopped… Continue reading

Port Angeles Fire Department and Clallam County Fire District No. 2 firefighters work to mop up a brush fire on the bluffs of the Rayonier Mill property just west of Ennis Creek in Port Angeles. — Arwyn Rice/Peninsula Daily News
ALL'S FAIR! It's time to vote for your favorite county fair photo!

ALL’S FAIR! It’s time to vote for your favorite county fair photo!

WE RECEIVED 45 great entries in our County Fair Photo Contest, and now it's your turn to vote and decide the winners! Three winners will… Continue reading

  • Aug 26, 2014
ALL'S FAIR! It's time to vote for your favorite county fair photo!

Association of University Women sends six Jefferson County girls to Tech Trek science, math camp

Six middle school girls from East Jefferson County recently attended Tech Trek, a weeklong science and math summer camp sponsored by the American Association of… Continue reading

Departing Jefferson County Sheriff Tony Hernandez

Chief criminal deputy appointed interim Jefferson County sheriff

PORT TOWNSEND — A Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy with 21 years on the job will serve as acting sheriff beginning Friday when the current sheriff… Continue reading

Departing Jefferson County Sheriff Tony Hernandez

Clallam commissioners split over pot regulations — and Chapman’s in the middle

PORT ANGELES — A split board of Clallam County commissioners debated the regulation of licensed recreational marijuana businesses Monday. And while no action was taken… Continue reading

Nancy Rotton of Seattle

Final Senior Games see hundreds of competitors in Port Angeles; revamp of events in new format in the works

PORT ANGELES — The 10th and final Olympic Peninsula Senior Games only ended Sunday evening, but organizers are already planning for the competition’s replacements. “It… Continue reading

Nancy Rotton of Seattle
John Goar with two of his telescopes. Olympic Astronomical Society

Have a starry, starry night at Hurricane Ridge

PORT ANGELES — Get lost in a spectacular sky before summer's end. John Goar of the Olympic Astronomical Society this week is winding up his… Continue reading

  • Aug 26, 2014
John Goar with two of his telescopes. Olympic Astronomical Society

Hunter hired by Washington state kills one wolf from Huckleberry Pack; three more are targeted following attacks on sheep

By Nicholas K. Geranios The Associated Press SPOKANE — One wolf has been killed by a hunter hired by Washington, a state where the animals… Continue reading

  • Aug 26, 2014
  • By Nicholas K. Geranios The Associated Press
U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer keynotes the Jefferson Democrats’ fish feast. —Photo by Charlie Bermant/Peninsula Daily News

Jefferson Democrats raise $15,000 at fish feast with Kilmer taking the floor

PORT TOWNSEND — It’s often said that elected officials use their family as props, but U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer’s young daughter has become a political… Continue reading

U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer keynotes the Jefferson Democrats’ fish feast. —Photo by Charlie Bermant/Peninsula Daily News

NEWS BRIEFS — Gun show scheduled Saturday in Sequim . . . and other items

SEQUIM — A Pacific Northwest Shooting Park Association gun show is set from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 3… Continue reading

NEWS BRIEFS — Mysterious crop circles discussed Friday in Port Angeles . . . and other items

Presentation on English crop circles set Friday PORT ANGELES — Crop circles in England will be discussed by Mark Schrader during a presentation in the… Continue reading