Nominate volunteers for Clallam County Community Service Award

Now is the time to nominate your local hero. We are looking for people who make a difference in Clallam County — individuals who have… Continue reading

Nominate your community hero for Jefferson County Heart of Service award

Now is the time to nominate your local hero. We are looking for people who make a difference in Jefferson County — individuals who have… Continue reading

Patriot Guard Riders highlighted in film

PORT ANGELES — The Magic of Cinema film series starts Friday with “Patriot Guard Riders.” The film tells the story of motorcyclists who travel to… Continue reading

School would teach wood skills for historical buildings in — where else? — Fort Worden

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend School of Woodworking is seeking to train people to restore historical buildings, starting with the old Army structures in… Continue reading

Shane Park bowling fundraiser nets $2,000 for playground

PORT ANGELES — The Shane Park Playground Committee raised $2,000 Saturday at a bowling fundraiser at Laurel Lanes. With help from the city of Port… Continue reading

Unusual co-op space-sharing arrangement gains Team Jefferson ear

PORT TOWNSEND — A proposal to develop a cooperative working space where individual workers can share knowledge and resources is moving toward fruition and being… Continue reading

UPDATE: Man, 78, in stable condition after propane explosion on boat at John Wayne Marina [**Video**]

SEQUIM — Clallam County Fire District No. 3, the U.S. Coast Guard and Sequim police this morning were investigating a Tuesday boat explosion at John… Continue reading

Clallam adds second deputy to Blyn area

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County and the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe have teamed up to add a second deputy to enforce tribal and state law in… Continue reading

Clallam approves contingency for Carlsborg sewer soil study

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County has authorized $20,000 in contingency funds to study the soil in Carlsborg to revise a plan to put a sewer… Continue reading

Clallam Public Utility District gives nod on renewable-energy bills

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Public Utility District has echoed an earlier signal that power providers shouldn’t have to buy expensive renewable energy their… Continue reading

Fire on Agnew site linked to chimney

AGNEW — A Friday night fire that left most of a 3,800-square-foot home uninhabitable was caused by creosote built up in the fireplace chimney, investigators… Continue reading

Grays Harbor panelists battle wilderness plan

Grays Harbor County has become the first — and only — county on the Olympic Peninsula to officially oppose the expansion of protected forest and… Continue reading

JENNIFER JACKSON’S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Drug Court graduates get ’10 to life’

WE'VE ALL SEEN the ads — wrinkle creams that airbrush age, diet pills that dissolve fat, exercise machines that etch your abs — and thought:… Continue reading

Maybe Port Townsend’s cool, but not enough flaunt it — city sixth in nationwide survey

PORT TOWNSEND— Many residents think they live in the coolest small town in the country, but Port Townsend placed a distant sixth in a national… Continue reading

Port Townsend parents, fans go to bat for middle school athletics

PORT TOWNSEND­ — The budget-driven decision to discontinue team sports at Blue Heron Middle School has a deeper impact than kids not being able to… Continue reading

Port writes off $204,443 PenPly debt, but still might pursue it

PORT ANGELES — The $204,443 that now-defunct Peninsula Plywood owes the Port of Port Angeles has been written off by port commissioners. But whether the… Continue reading

Sequim uses $250-a-gallon repellent to fight poop in park from Canada geese

SEQUIM — Armed with expensive waterfowl-repellent spray, city employees are warding off Canada geese that invade the Water Reclamation Demonstration Park and leave evidence of… Continue reading

Upper Dungeness River Watershed meet to vet restoration

SEQUIM — Olympic National Forest Upper Dungeness River watershed restoration opportunities, which are being publicly vetted through a new U.S. Forest Service outreach approach to… Continue reading

Want to help others? Foster some vegetables

PORT ANGELES — Raising vegetables to help people requires a little water, a little work and a big heart. But foster vegetable growers don’t even… Continue reading

NEWS ALERT — Romney Wins Florida Primary, Regaining Momentum

MITT ROMNEY HAS won the Florida primary after aggressively beating back a challenge from Newt Gingrich and regaining momentum on his relentless march toward the… Continue reading

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