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Naval Magazine Indian Island holding exercises this week

Naval Magazine Indian Island holding exercises this week

Naval Magazine Indian Island is conducting exercises this week in and around its facility and in Port Townsend Bay near the installation’s… Continue reading

Naval Magazine Indian Island holding exercises this week
OPNET funding held up in sanctuary cities litigation

OPNET funding held up in sanctuary cities litigation

The Department of Justice is withholding approved funding for the Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team due to litigation of the federal government’s… Continue reading

OPNET funding held up in sanctuary cities litigation
Sequim man awarded Carnegie Medal for role in saving woman on Hood Canal Bridge

Sequim man awarded Carnegie Medal for role in saving woman on Hood Canal Bridge

A Sequim man who risked his life preventing a woman from jumping off the Hood Canal Bridge last year has recently earned a… Continue reading

Sequim man awarded Carnegie Medal for role in saving woman on Hood Canal Bridge
Kilmer talks with students: 6th District representative discusses congressional inaction

Kilmer talks with students: 6th District representative discusses congressional inaction

Many who attended U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer’s town hall meeting at Peninsula College expressed frustration with a congressional lack of action on… Continue reading

Kilmer talks with students: 6th District representative discusses congressional inaction
Continuing Robby’s legacy: Streett family remember Robby at showing of ‘Ready Player One’

Continuing Robby’s legacy: Streett family remember Robby at showing of ‘Ready Player One’

Twenty-six times over, it’s safe to say “Ready Player One” was Robby Streett’s favorite book. The nostalgic science fiction romp by Ernest Cline… Continue reading

  • Apr 6, 2018
  • By Erin Hawkins and Matthew Nash Olympic Peninsula News Group
  • Clallam County
Continuing Robby’s legacy: Streett family remember Robby at showing of ‘Ready Player One’

Colorado man sentenced for fatal crash

A Mancos, Colo., man has been sentenced to two years in prison for a high-speed crash last July that killed Robert Streett,… Continue reading

Sedro-Woolley man found guilty of Beaver home arson, other charges

An interview with authorities, voicemail messages and traces of DNA linking Marshall Jay Lewis to the torching of his ex-girlfriend’s Beaver-area home… Continue reading

Colorado man charged in Washington Net Nanny sting

A 62-year-old Colorado man has been charged with child sex crimes through a Washington state internet sting. Ten people were arrested between… Continue reading

Kent man charged in fatality in which woman stopped to help stranded motorist

A 33-year-old Kent man has been charged with felony hit and run in the fatality of a Belfair resident who had stopped to… Continue reading

Police step up distracted driving patrols

The Clallam and Jefferson County Target Zero Task Force is participating in a statewide effort to crackdown on distracted driving. Extra patrols from the Port… Continue reading

Olympic National Forest plans to reopen campgrounds for season

The Olympic National Forest plans to reopen campgrounds for the summer season this month and next. The Hood Canal Ranger District will open… Continue reading

Film about suicide to be screened free on Saturday

“The S Word,” a film about suicide, will be screened free at noon Saturday. The documentary, which follows people who have attempted… Continue reading

The National Park Service is considering raising entrance fees at Olympic National Park in an effort to work on a maintenance backlog. (Jesse Major/Peninsula Daily News)

Officials rethinking fee hikes: Olympic National Park officials await final plan

Olympic National Park officials are awaiting word from Washington, D.C., following reports that the… Continue reading

The National Park Service is considering raising entrance fees at Olympic National Park in an effort to work on a maintenance backlog. (Jesse Major/Peninsula Daily News)

Jefferson PUD to celebrate five years of providing electrical power

On Friday, the Jefferson County Public Utility District will celebrate power to the people. The Jefferson County Public Utility District (PUD) has… Continue reading

‘Light Still Shines’ in Port Townsend, Chimacum

‘Light Still Shines’ in Port Townsend, Chimacum

After a beat, a confession. “I do feel despair sometimes,” said Lynn Nowak, “about what’s happening,” 50 years after the assassination of human rights leader… Continue reading

‘Light Still Shines’ in Port Townsend, Chimacum
Pioneer family matriarch Margaret Lotzgesell dies at 93

Pioneer family matriarch Margaret Lotzgesell dies at 93

A mom and a farmer’s wife. A Scout leader. A tutor. A community volunteer. A lifelong friend. It seems easy to run out… Continue reading

Pioneer family matriarch Margaret Lotzgesell dies at 93
States, cities sue U.S. over census citizenship question

States, cities sue U.S. over census citizenship question

Washington and 16 other states, the District of Columbia and six cities, including Seattle, have sued the U.S. government,… Continue reading

  • Apr 5, 2018
  • The Associated Press
States, cities sue U.S. over census citizenship question
OUTDOORS: Salmon season proposals released

OUTDOORS: Salmon season proposals released

HEADING INTO THE back stretch of North of Falcon, the annual salmon season setting process, anglers should be cautiously optimistic about potential saltwater and Puget… Continue reading

OUTDOORS: Salmon season proposals released

Tsunami, quake information to be offered at workshops in Clallam, Jefferson

Tsunami and earthquake experts will be in Clallam and Jefferson counties April 13 for presentations focused on tsunami hazards, alert messages and… Continue reading

Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office investigating stolen campaign signs

Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office investigating stolen campaign signs

Approximately 50 Ryan McAllister campaign signs have been illegally removed from properties throughout the county in the past two weeks, according to the… Continue reading

Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office investigating stolen campaign signs