Port Hadlock: Popular boat ramp to be replaced with better one

PORT HADLOCK -- The popular Port of Port Townsend Water Street boat ramp in Port Hadlock, often buried in silt and sand, will be replaced… Continue reading

Port Ludlow: Human error blamed for dispatching delay during condo fire

PORT HADLOCK -- Human error caused a temporary communication glitch during the response to an arson fire early Thursday that destroyed a four-unit condominium unit… Continue reading

Press failure disrupts delivery of PDN

FOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS The Peninsula Daily News' venerable printing press broke down early Wednesday morning, causing delivery delays and throwing a wrench into the… Continue reading

Sequim: City budget approved

SEQUIM -- The City Council formally adopted its 2005 spending budget at its Wednesday morning study session. The $14.87 million budget was approved by a… Continue reading

$1 million Port Ludlow fire was arson, investigators conclude

PORT LUDLOW -- Arson is the cause of an early morning blaze that destroyed and damaged condominiums early Thursday, fire officials said Tuesday night. "The… Continue reading

A note to our readers and advertisers

A major mechanical malfunction on our press caused our editions to be late for delivery today. We are making every effort to correct the problem… Continue reading

Aqua Express starts Kingston-Seattle service Jan. 18

KINGSTON -- Aqua Express will start its new passenger-only ferry service between Kingston and Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 18. Aqua Express General Manager Brian Grantham… Continue reading

Clallam: Commissioners hear from treasurer appointee candidates

Charge small fees for the financial services Clallam County performs for other governments, Duane Wolfe suggested. Count the many scraps of land that the county… Continue reading

Peninsula Home Fund helps families become stable

PORT TOWNSEND -- "If people only knew their stories . . ." George Thomas knows. Thomas oversees the emergency and transitional housing program for OlyCAP… Continue reading

Port Angeles: City Council votes for merging certain functions at City Hall

PORT ANGELES -- A controversial City Hall reorganization plan that merges parks and recreation with public works, and community development with economic development, was approved… Continue reading

Port Angeles: School Board agrees to proposed levy amounts

PORT ANGELES -- The Port Angeles School Board will vote on two separate levy proposals Monday geared to continue maintenance and operations revenues and purchase… Continue reading

Port Townsend: City Council raises property tax by 1 percent

PORT TOWNSEND -- Hearing no opposition, the City Council unanimously approved a 1 percent property tax increase to raise revenues for its proposed $31.6 million… Continue reading

Sequim: School district deals with head lice in children

SEQUIM -- Public schoolteachers here have a nit to pick with nits. Dealing with students who come to class with head lice -- tiny insects… Continue reading

Clallam: Commissioners to view “rural” designations as they visit growth plans today

Define "rural." That's rural as in "rural areas/lands," "rural character," "rural development" and "rural governmental services." This isn't a vocabulary exercise. The terms are cornerstones… Continue reading

Jefferson County commissioners poised to adopt $40.9 million budget

With fears of a state tax initiative "budget train wreck" threat behind them, Jefferson County commissioners are less than a week from adopting a proposed… Continue reading

Olympic National Park: Dive team which probed Lake Crescent crash site noted for work at Pearl Harbor memorial

Sixty-three years ago today, the USS Arizona came to rest on the floor of Hawaii's Pearl Harbor in an event that officially entered the United… Continue reading

Olympic National Park: Three skeletal remnants taken from Lake Crescent for DNA testing

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- Divers on Monday recovered two human femurs and a partial skull near the wreckage from a 75-year-old car crash in the… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Former city economic development director worried over diminishing harborfront industrial lands

By Michelle Payne PORT ANGELES -- Harborfront land slated for the Hood Canal Bridge graving yard has sustained the community for centuries. And it would… Continue reading

  • Dec 7, 2004
  • MICHELLE PAYNE

Port Townsend: County administrator glad to be here after dealing with floods, heavy snows and Mr. T

PORT TOWNSEND -- When you look at what County Administrator John Fischbach faced as city manager in Fort Collins, Colo., Jefferson County so far looks… Continue reading

Fire razes house south of Forks

Fire destroyed the West Jefferson County home of a man who loaded up and lighted his wood stove near Forks, left it to visit Port… Continue reading