News

Port Angeles School District to reduce budget by $1.9M

Additional cuts could come if government slashes Title 1 funding

Natalie Maitland.

Port Townsend Main Street hires next executive director

Natalie Maitland will start new role with organization May 21

Natalie Maitland.

Two people transported to hospitals after three-car collision

Two people were transported to hospitals after a three-car collision on state Highway 19. Janet Bruhn, 48, of Port Hadlock was traveling southbound… Continue reading

W. Ron Allen.

Allen to be inducted into Native American Hall of Fame

Ceremony will take place in November in Oklahoma City

W. Ron Allen.
Moses McDonald, a Sequim water operator, holds one of the city’s new utility residential meters in his right hand and a radio transmitter in his left. City staff finished replacing more than 3,000 meters so they can be read remotely. (City of Sequim)

Sequim shifts to remote utility meters

Installation for devices began last August

Moses McDonald, a Sequim water operator, holds one of the city’s new utility residential meters in his right hand and a radio transmitter in his left. City staff finished replacing more than 3,000 meters so they can be read remotely. (City of Sequim)
A family of eagles sits in a tree just north of Carrie Blake Community Park. Following concerns over impacts to the eagles and nearby Garry oak trees, city staff will move Sequim’s Fourth of July fireworks display to the other side of Carrie Blake Community Park. Staff said the show will be discharged more than half a mile away. (City of Sequim)

Sequim to move fireworks display

Show will remain in Carrie Blake Park

A family of eagles sits in a tree just north of Carrie Blake Community Park. Following concerns over impacts to the eagles and nearby Garry oak trees, city staff will move Sequim’s Fourth of July fireworks display to the other side of Carrie Blake Community Park. Staff said the show will be discharged more than half a mile away. (City of Sequim)

Weekly flight operations scheduled

There will be field carrier landing practice operations for aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Complex this week. There will be… Continue reading

Contested races emerge in Clallam, Jefferson counties

Filing week is a wrap, with 12 offices in Clallam County and 10 offices in Jefferson County that will be contested. Only… Continue reading

EYE ON THE PENINSULA: Commissioners to consider Opportunity Fund grants

Meetings across the North Olympic Peninsula

Olympic Medical Center’s losses half of 2023

Critical access designation being considered

Shellfish harvesting reopens at Oak Bay

Jefferson County Public Health has lifted its closure of shellfish harvesting from Oak Bay. The area had been closed to harvesting due… Continue reading

Leah Kendrick of Port Angeles and her son, Bo, 5, take a tandem ride on the slide in the playground area of the campground on Thursday at the Dungeness County Recreation area northwest of Sequim. The pair took advantage of a temperate spring day for the outdoor outing. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Photo

Tandem slide

Leah Kendrick of Port Angeles and her son, Bo, 5, take a tandem ride on the slide in the playground area of the campground on… Continue reading

Leah Kendrick of Port Angeles and her son, Bo, 5, take a tandem ride on the slide in the playground area of the campground on Thursday at the Dungeness County Recreation area northwest of Sequim. The pair took advantage of a temperate spring day for the outdoor outing. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Court halts watershed logging

Activists block access to tree parcels

Eighty-eight hopefuls file for public office

Candidate filing week ends today

FEMA to reduce reimbursement eligibility

Higher thresholds, shorter timeframes in communities

Gov. Bob Ferguson addresses the crowd at the Upper Hoh Road washout repair on Thursday afternoon. Local officials, business owners, contractors, workers from the Jefferson County Public Works department and a few individuals who donated funds to the project stand behind him. Before the ribbon was cut and the road officially opened, there were short statements from involved parties. Ferguson said he brought his hiking boots and joked that he wanted to be the first one to hit the trail. (Christi Baron/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Photo

Hoh Road reopens

Gov. Bob Ferguson addresses the crowd at the Upper Hoh Road washout repair on Thursday afternoon. Local officials, business owners, contractors, workers from the Jefferson… Continue reading

Gov. Bob Ferguson addresses the crowd at the Upper Hoh Road washout repair on Thursday afternoon. Local officials, business owners, contractors, workers from the Jefferson County Public Works department and a few individuals who donated funds to the project stand behind him. Before the ribbon was cut and the road officially opened, there were short statements from involved parties. Ferguson said he brought his hiking boots and joked that he wanted to be the first one to hit the trail. (Christi Baron/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Chimacum High School Human Body Systems teacher Tyler Walcheff, second form left, demonstrates to class members Aaliyah LaCunza, junior, Connor Meyers-Claybourn, senior, Deegan Cotterill, junior, second from right, and Taylor Frank, senior, the new Anatomage table for exploring the human body. The $79,500 table is an anatomy and physiology learning tool that was acquired with a grant from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and from the Roe Family Endowment. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Jefferson Healthcare program prepares students for careers

Kids from three school districts can learn about pathways

Chimacum High School Human Body Systems teacher Tyler Walcheff, second form left, demonstrates to class members Aaliyah LaCunza, junior, Connor Meyers-Claybourn, senior, Deegan Cotterill, junior, second from right, and Taylor Frank, senior, the new Anatomage table for exploring the human body. The $79,500 table is an anatomy and physiology learning tool that was acquired with a grant from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and from the Roe Family Endowment. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Forks man dies after tree falls at logging site

A 33-year-old Forks man died after he was struck by a falling tree at a logging site south of Clallam Bay, the… Continue reading

Chad Dobbs, a seasonal worker with the Port Angeles Parks and Recreation Department, smooths out a bed of wood chips on a traffic island on Tuesday in the parking lot at Port Angeles City Pier. Dobbs said the shredded wood adds a decorative touch for tourists and pier visitors. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Photo

Decorative touch

Chad Dobbs, a seasonal worker with the Port Angeles Parks and Recreation Department, smooths out a bed of wood chips on a traffic island on… Continue reading

Chad Dobbs, a seasonal worker with the Port Angeles Parks and Recreation Department, smooths out a bed of wood chips on a traffic island on Tuesday in the parking lot at Port Angeles City Pier. Dobbs said the shredded wood adds a decorative touch for tourists and pier visitors. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

15 offices with multiple candidates

Filing week continues through end of business Friday