EYE ON OLYMPIA: School funding, levy cliff remain top issues for legislators

Politics

EYE ON OLYMPIA: School funding, levy cliff remain top issues for legislators

OLYMPIA — The House has approved its long-awaited public education funding proposal with a 50-47 vote.

Clallam Sheriff’s Office seeks help in finding burglary suspect

Crime

Clallam Sheriff’s Office seeks help in finding burglary suspect

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office is asking the community for help in finding a burglary…

News

Port Angeles research center to reopen Tuesday after storm prompts leak, damage

By Michael Dashiell

News

Elwha River bridge open houses set Tuesday in Forks, Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — State Department of Transportation officials will review the status and future of the U.S. Highway…

“I suffered the whole time”: Sequim man, found safe, tells story of surviving in car for five days

News

“I suffered the whole time”: Sequim man, found safe, tells story of surviving in car for five days

SEQUIM — He thought he was as good as dead.

Olympic Medical Center limiting surgeries after sterilization equipment malfunctions

News

Olympic Medical Center limiting surgeries after sterilization equipment malfunctions

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center’s Operating Department has temporarily stopped performing non-emergent and elective surgeries after a…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Here’s what a ‘fine-tuned machine’ looks 30 days into the presidency

Here is a short summary of President Donald Trump’s first 30 days in office:

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: A modest proposal to help save the environment

Since last year’s election, I have grown weary of the protesting and demonstrating by various groups that can’t…

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Conservatives, are you tired yet of the immature snake-oil salesman you elected?

So, conservatives, are you tired yet?

Letters to the Editor

LETTER: I’m pinning my hopes on Trump, not the divisions in our country

At election time, there is always a call to unify our country.

Business

EYE ON BUSINESS: This week’s meetings

• Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce — Twice-monthly breakfast meetings are held at 11:45 a.m. on the second and…

Life

A GROWING CONCERN: Let’s look forward as temperatures rise, days lengthen

WHAT A FABULOUS event the Northwest Flower &Garden Show really is, especially when shared with a busload of…

Life

BIRD WATCH: Tempers erupt among yard’s bushtits

DAYS ARE GETTING longer and temperatures are rising just a little.

The recovery boiler and smokestack at Rayonier pulp mill in Port Angeles topple in a controlled implosion Oct. 30, 1998. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

News

Rayonier: 20-year anniversary sees site still dormant, with 2026 as cleanup target

PORT ANGELES — Tuesday marks the 20th anniversary of the Rayonier Inc. pulp mill’s demise, the death of…

News

Port of Port Angeles backs call to extend halibut fishing season

PORT ANGELES — The Port of Port Angeles has joined the city of Port Angeles in its efforts…

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Public hearing set in March for Port Townsend short-term rentals

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend City Council has set a public workshop for March to further discuss…

Erin Hawkins/Olympic Peninsula News Group                                Clockwise from top left are 2016 Sequim Citizen of the Year candidates Dave Bekkevar, giving a thumbs-up in September 2010 after successfully sawing off a piece of wood with an old-fashioned chain saw at his family’s farm centennial celebration near Blyn; Deon Kapetan at the Sequim Irrigation Festival float unveiling at 7 Cedars Casino in Blyn in 2016; 10-year-old River Jensen of Carlsborg handing out gift bags full of socks, hats and toiletries at the Salvation Army in Port Angeles on Dec. 20; and Patsy and David Mattingley.

News

Sequim chamber picks finalists for Citizen of Year award

SEQUIM — The Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Citizen of the Year nominees have been announced, and a…

News

NEWS BRIEFS: Artist’s reception today at Port Angeles coffeehouse … and other items

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles artist Megan Davis will feature in an artist’s reception from 1 p.m. to…

HORSEPLAY: Soggy ground causes sinking feeling

Life

HORSEPLAY: Soggy ground causes sinking feeling

IT’S NOW FEBRUARY, and I must confess I feel as if I’m going more backward than forward down…

PENINSULA KITCHEN: Cure for a cold? Make chicken broth

Life

PENINSULA KITCHEN: Cure for a cold? Make chicken broth

IS THERE ANYONE out there who hasn’t been the unwitting target of a cough or sneeze recently?