State rejects bid for new smaller Port Townsend ferry

PDN news sources SEATTLE – Washington State Ferries today said it is rejecting a $26 million bid from Todd Pacific Shipyards to build a 50-car… Continue reading

  • Apr 3, 2008
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April recycling events planned in Clallam County

The time has come for a righteous cleansing. This month in Sequim and Port Angeles, gardeners may shed their cracked plastic plant pots, desk jockeys… Continue reading

Bridge over troubled Tumwater brings woes for some businesses

PORT ANGELES — You can keep on truckin' to Tumwater Truck Route businesses. Although the road remains closed to through traffic while giant girders for… Continue reading

How does he do it? Tour to tell how totem poles are made

BLYN — His creations loom high over Sequim Bay, taking many a traveler's breath away. It's thrilling, isn't it, to be Dale Faulstich, maker of… Continue reading

Online transit planning coming to North Olympic Peninsula

PORT TOWNSEND — By the end of the month, travelers are expected to be able to plan an entire trip in Jefferson County via public… Continue reading

Panel moves to give Indian Island County Park more identity

PORT HADLOCK — Peace Park? Lions Club Park? Second Beach? To different people, parts of the two-mile strip of land along the south shore of… Continue reading

85-ton, 155-foot bridge girders roll into Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Five trucks, each lugging a 170,000-pound girder the length of three semi-trailers, snaked through town early Tuesday morning. The girders, brought from… Continue reading

Chapman makes it official, declares candidacy as a Republican

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Commissioner Mike Chapman quietly has declared officially he'll seek re-election — as a Republican. Although Chapman didn't — and likely… Continue reading

Group wants cyclists back on Hurricane Ridge Road during repairs

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — A bicycling organization wants to sway the minds of Olympic National Park officials to allow bicyclists on Hurricane Ridge Road during… Continue reading

Legion transfers deed to park so that log cabin can rise again

PORT TOWNSEND — With the signing of names on a document, the resurrection of a log cabin for local Scouts is one step closer to… Continue reading

Sequim commercial building design standards under scrutiny after tiff over new developments

SEQUIM — Neither the architect nor the developer wants to talk much about Rock Plaza. But Dennis Lefevre, Sequim's planning director, has to talk about… Continue reading

State to decide soon whether to build first of three ferries over estimate — or just two larger vessels

PORT TOWNSEND — A decision is expected by the end of the week on whether a lone bid for construction of a new over-estimate 50-car… Continue reading

Clallam sheriff takes over county animal control today

Your neighbor's dog barks all night. Maybe there's a pack of strays roaming your neighborhood. Or is some pooch digging up your petunias? If you… Continue reading

Common ground found in Sequim — for a public garden

SEQUIM — Hope springs eternal, poet Alexander Pope said, and this spring in Sequim, hope will bear fruit. And vegetables. And flowers and herbs. The… Continue reading

Jefferson County commissioner to seek re-election

PORT TOWNSEND — Having tasted the fruit of politics, Jefferson County Commissioner Phil Johnson, D-Port Townsend, wants another bite. Johnson, a political neophyte four years… Continue reading

Marathon leader to run Port Angeles clinic for low-income

PORT ANGELES — Larry Little, director of the North Olympic Discovery Marathon, will assume the executive director post of the Volunteers in Medicine of the… Continue reading

Port Townsend landmark stands pat for now; town to get handicapped-accessible postal substation

PORT TOWNSEND — No decisions have been made about fixing accessibility issues facing the historic Port Townsend Post Office, and none is planned in the… Continue reading

Proposed recall ballot wording drafted; legal process begins

FORKS — The ballot wording for the proposed recall of Mayor Nedra Reed is now in the hands of Clallam County Superior Court and will… Continue reading

Sequim chamber severs dialogue with opposition group

SEQUIM — The Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce board will communicate no more with its loudest critics, board president Walt Schubert said Monday. "We're done,"… Continue reading

State ferries chief tells Port Townsend chamber that he’s listening

PORT TOWNSEND — Washington State Ferries' new director told a Chamber of Commerce audience Monday that the biggest challenge now facing his agency is restoring… Continue reading