Clallam County

Port Angeles School District board discusses waning enrollment at skills center

Waning student enrollment has always fated the North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center for probation or closure, Port Angeles School Board member Sandy… Continue reading

Health expo set for women veterans

The North Olympic Peninsula Veteran Community Partnership will host a free one-day health expo for women veterans living in Clallam, Jefferson and… Continue reading

Six Peninsula wastewater treatment plants net state award

Six wastewater treatment plants on the North Olympic Peninsula have received awards for outstanding performance in 2016 from the state Department of Ecology. The award… Continue reading

Amendment to Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s gaming compact moving forward

An amendment to the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s gaming compact, which would allow the tribe to have another casino and for slot machines to… Continue reading

Founding member of Lonely H band remembered

Founding member of Lonely H band remembered

Nashville drummer and Port Angeles native Ben Eyestone, one of the founding members of the Lonely H band, has died at the… Continue reading

Founding member of Lonely H band remembered
Viola Penn Riebe, center, flanked by children, welcomed home with family and friends the Viola canoe during a ceremony at the Olympic Natural Resources Center in Forks. (Michael McNerney)

Canoe returned with ceremony to its homeland on West End

The Viola canoe has been returned to its homeland after 50 years.  In the culture of the Hoh, Quileute and other Northwest Tribes… Continue reading

Viola Penn Riebe, center, flanked by children, welcomed home with family and friends the Viola canoe during a ceremony at the Olympic Natural Resources Center in Forks. (Michael McNerney)

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

Luncheon meetings are usually Wednesdays at noon at Blakeslee’s Bar & Grill, 1222 S. Forks Ave. The chamber is on… Continue reading

Invasive green crab count hits 87 on Dungeness Spit

Invasive green crab count hits 87 on Dungeness Spit

As crabbing season reaches its midpoint in the area, state and federal resource managers report they’ve caught 87 of the invasive European green… Continue reading

Invasive green crab count hits 87 on Dungeness Spit
Confession in decades-old murder case to be questioned at hearing

Confession in decades-old murder case to be questioned at hearing

Whether a confession that accused murderer Tommy Ross Jr. gave 19 years ago should be used as evidence in his newly scheduled… Continue reading

Confession in decades-old murder case to be questioned at hearing
Decision on Carlsborg manufactured homes site expected by Aug. 11

Decision on Carlsborg manufactured homes site expected by Aug. 11

Clallam County Hearing Examiner Andrew Reeves will make a decision by Aug. 11 on whether 73… Continue reading

Decision on Carlsborg manufactured homes site expected by Aug. 11
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray

Investigator found in 1984 that Seattle mayor abused foster son

Three decades before Ed Murray was elected Seattle’s mayor, an Oregon child-welfare investigator found that he had sexually abused his… Continue reading

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray

Free outdoor concerts to offer dance music across Peninsula

Get out your sunglasses, your sunscreen and your dancin’ shoes. It’s time to boogie. Free outdoor concerts are planned in Sequim on Tuesday, Port Angeles… Continue reading

‘Electrifying Science’ planned on Peninsula

levitation, maybe a few flames and glowing objects — will come… Continue reading

NEWS BRIEFS: Firefighters aid hiker near park road … and other items

Clallam County Fire District No. 2 firefighters helped Saturday in what they called an “unusual rescue.” Firefighters aided an Italian hiker… Continue reading

Cougar sightings cause concern in west Port Angeles neighborhood

Cougar sightings cause concern in west Port Angeles neighborhood

Some Port Angeles residents are concerned after recent sightings of a cougar on the west end of town. Vera Phillips, who lives… Continue reading

Cougar sightings cause concern in west Port Angeles neighborhood

A GROWING CONCERN: Constant vigilance increases garden health

WITH LAST WEEK’S column, I now embark on my third decade of writing about gardening. My first column was published July 2, 1997. So let… Continue reading

Annual show’s featured quilter focuses on big show, big quilts

Annual show’s featured quilter focuses on big show, big quilts

When Murph Gerber, 74, quilts, she likes to go big. “I mostly make king-size quilts,” she… Continue reading

Annual show’s featured quilter focuses on big show, big quilts
Behind-the-scenes look at Emily Carr’s life in Victoria set for Aug. 3

Behind-the-scenes look at Emily Carr’s life in Victoria set for Aug. 3

She was called Klee Wyck, “the laughing one” in the Chinook language:… Continue reading

Behind-the-scenes look at Emily Carr’s life in Victoria set for Aug. 3

BIRD WATCH: Water brings many bird sightings

THANKS TO OUR cold, wet spring, the weeds took over various parts of the yard. One of those was the manmade waterfall and its stream… Continue reading

Brush blaze fight near Port Angeles involves many agencies

Brush blaze fight near Port Angeles involves many agencies

A 100-foot-by-100-foot brush fire at the end of Baker Farm Road was extinguished through the efforts of multiple agencies by about 11:30… Continue reading

Brush blaze fight near Port Angeles involves many agencies