Port Angeles council votes to fund 11 projects

PORT ANGELES -- The city will use about a half-million dollars that it saved last year to fund 11 capital projects, including repairs to the… Continue reading

Port Angeles loses bid for NOAA facility; area politicians checking possibilities

PORT ANGELES -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration skipped over Port Angeles' bid to be the new home for its research ships, selecting instead… Continue reading

Port Townsend City Council approves lease agreement for school campus

PORT TOWNSEND -- One more step is needed before the campus of the former Mountain View Elementary School is put into city hands. The Port… Continue reading

Port Townsend Film Festival reveals final clue

PORT TOWNSEND -- "Granny and Jed" are mentioned in the third and final clue for the 10th annual Port Townsend Film Festival's Guess the Guest… Continue reading

Port Townsend regulates door-to-door peddlers

PORT TOWNSEND -- Door-to-door vendors now are required to undergo background checks and pay for licenses if they wish to peddle their wares within the… Continue reading

Public ambulance fee changes won’t affect residents

PORT ANGELES -- The City Council approved increasing the cost of a ride in a public ambulance Tuesday -- but city residents won't pay more.… Continue reading

Sand sculpture takes People’s Choice award

PORT ANGELES -- Damon Farmer's "Australia's Great Barrier Reef," with turtles and coral rendered in sand, won the People's Choice award in the Arts in… Continue reading

Scouts stop recycling newspapers

SEQUIM -- After 67 years, Sequim's Boy Scout Troop 490 is shutting down its newspaper collection boxes. "We have no choice but to stop the… Continue reading

Sequim marine science lab gets more congressional attention

SEQUIM -- Seventy-seven scientists and staff, with offices on the edge of Sequim Bay, share a national mission and an ocean of potential. So said… Continue reading

Shoreline program updates OK’d

PORT TOWNSEND -- After months of review and revision, Jefferson County commissioners accepted the county Planning Commission's proposed recommendations for updating the county Shoreline Master… Continue reading

Three bids evaluated for wastewater plant

PORT TOWNSEND -- Jefferson County has received three bids for the design and membrane reactor equipment to support the construction of a multimillion-dollar Port Hadlock… Continue reading

UPDATE — Cantwell vows to fight NOAA move to Oregon: Her statement

Cantwell Statement on NOAA Decision to Move Marine Operations Center from Lake Union to Newport, Oregon: WASHINGTON, DC –Today, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) issued the… Continue reading

  • Aug 4, 2009
  • From the Office of Sen. Maria Cantwell

URGENT — NOAA skips over Port Angeles in favor of Newport, Ore.

PORT ANGELES — The Port of Port Angeles was not selected to house new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facilities, the organization said Tuesday. NOAA… Continue reading

Bonneville Power Administration proposes reduced rate to Port Townsend paper mill

Peninsula Daily News News Sources Bonneville Power Administration proposes selling electricity at a reduced rate to Port Townsend Paper Co. and two aluminum smelters. BPA… Continue reading

  • Aug 4, 2009
  • Peninsula Daily News News Sources

Clallam PUD approves bid for Carlsborg warehouse

PORT ANGELES -- Clallam County Public Utility District awarded a $1.38 million bid to Drury Construction to convert the vacant Costco Wholesale building in Carlsborg… Continue reading

Goodwill program helps seniors in need find paid jobs, training

PORT ANGELES -- At 61 years old, Alana Collins of Forks had earned a master's degree, but she couldn't find work. Collins, who earned a… Continue reading

Help arrives to help battle Olympic National Park fires

BRINNON -- Three large fires and two smaller blazes -- all ignited by lightning -- continue to burn in the Olympic National Park as reinforcements… Continue reading

History camps set to become Port Townsend tradition

PORT TOWNSEND -- The success of two weeklong history camps that the Jefferson County Historical Society hosted last week calls for an encore, said historical… Continue reading

Insurance commissioner in Port Angeles: Health care must change

PORT ANGELES -- National health care needs a reform, and there is a small window of opportunity in which to do it, State Insurance Commissioner… Continue reading

Kendra’s day of dreams comes true

PORT ANGELES -- Kendra Sullivan's weekend of fame -- granted by the Make-A-Wish Foundation -- was full of paparazzi and star treatment. "It was so… Continue reading