Port Angeles schools superintendent spends week at Defense installations on other side of world

PORT ANGELES - Fewer than 24 hours after returning from a trip which spanned more than 18,000 miles worldwide, Port Angeles School Superintendent Gary Cohn… Continue reading

Port Townsend public to help school district map future — especially if school closes

PORT TOWNSEND - The Port Townsend School District will give the public the opportunity Thursday to help it map its future - including the recommended… Continue reading

School administrator from Southern Washington named new Sequim superintendentÂ

SEQUIM - He knelt on one knee and clinched it. Bill Bentley, assistant superintendent of the 25,000-student Evergreen School District in Vancouver, Wash., will move… Continue reading

Driver of ill-fated vets’ van laments crash

PORT ANGELES - As James Walter Paul, 63, lay in a hospital bed at Olympic Medical Center on Friday evening, he knew the two passengers… Continue reading

Freshman lawmaker comes home, but not to rest

SEQUIM - The final day of the 2007 Legislature - which wrapped up around 9:30 p.m. April 22 - was much like election night in… Continue reading

Historical society volunteers take over key Peninsula visitors center

PORT LUDLOW - In the late 1800s, Port Townsend's dream of becoming the New York of the West collapsed, leaving the city caught in a… Continue reading

Montana educator pulls out of running for Sequim schools superintendent

SEQUIM - Kirk Miller, superintendent of Havre School District in Havre, Mont., has withdrawn from consideration for the Sequim School District superintendent position. Miller, who… Continue reading

Port Angeles police chief hailed on his 30-year retirement

Port Angeles' man of iron is in the homestretch of his 30 years carrying a badge. Port Angeles Police Chief Tom Riepe will retire Tuesday,… Continue reading

Sequim’s marine research lab eyes expansion

SEQUIM - Along the shore of Sequim Bay, where a stiff wind whips ice-blue waves, an ultramodern form of growth is occurring, and two governments… Continue reading

Military veterans’ van crashes into tree; 1 killed

SEQUIM - One military veteran is dead and another hospitalized after a van carrying veterans back from medical treatment in Seattle struck a tree on… Continue reading

First anchors for replacement half of Hood Canal floating bridge to be placed this week

SHINE - Workers replacing the eastern half of Hood Canal Bridge are scheduled this week to place near the bridge the first of 10 anchors,… Continue reading

Five Jefferson ‘heroes’ to receive Heart of Service Awards

PORT TOWNSEND - Five community heroes will be honored May 10 with the Jefferson County Heart of Service Award for 2007. The recipients are: Linda… Continue reading

Peninsula Daily News wins five awards in statewide competition

SEATTLE - The Peninsula Daily News won five writing awards in the annual Washington Press Association competition. The awards were announced at an awards luncheon… Continue reading

Port Angeles gets one proposal each for old fire hall, City Light building

PORT ANGELES - The city has received just one redevelopment proposal for the old fire hall at 215 S. Lincoln St., and one for the… Continue reading

Six volunteers receive Clallam Community Service Awards

PORT ANGELES - John Summers had not met Dick and Marie Goin of Port Angeles until last week, when he interviewed the couple to prepare… Continue reading

Clallam’s top citizens lauded

PORT ANGELES - Six "local heroes" were honored with the 2007 Clallam County Community Service Award on Friday night. The award honors the "dedication, sacrifice… Continue reading

Man gets three years for hit-run fatality in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES - Shawn Louis Newman, 19, of Port Angeles, was sentenced Thursday to 36 months in prison for driving under the influence of alcohol… Continue reading

Man linked to 2004 Port Ludlow condo fire to face federal court jury

TACOMA - A June 5 trial date has been set for a man charged with the 2004 arson fire of condominiums at the Resort at… Continue reading

Open house planned at newly expanded Peninsula cancer center

SEQUIM - At 45, Clare Bertucio has seen a lot of suffering. Yet Bertucio, who finished medical school at the Mayo Clinic in 1993 and… Continue reading

Sequim finishes viewing three schools superintendent finalists with interview of Montana candidate

SEQUIM - Kirk Miller knows life in a small town. He's superintendent of Montana's Havre School District, where he went to high school - and… Continue reading