Wed, Mar 11, 2009
Dinner kicks off spring season of festival fun
After a long and cold winter, the Irrigation Festival season is starting anew.
Port Angeles playersto read writers' works
"What a Family" is the topic for this year's readings of works by Port Angeles writers.
Commissioners reject assisted suicide at OMC
Olympic Medical Center has voted to "opt out" of participation in Initiative 1000, the law that makes assisted suicide legal in Washington.
Clallam County Superior Court
City to question Dungeness team
Sequim City Council has agreed unanimously to challenge the Dungeness River Management Team over its proposed in-stream flow rules and its allocation of the city's reuse water.
Cedar grows into garden
It's said art's meaning is in the eye of the beholder, and Tim Wafstet's cedar boxes have taken on a variety of meanings for his customers.
Business news
Baby bear bonanza
Babies are born all over the peninsula every day, but Sequim now hosts one that's not so common.
Police Blotter
A saga of a search for Tyler Peak
Discoveries
Workbook designed to help people achieve lifelong ambitions
Its size is small but the message is large.
Winery, Womanfest will honor activist Clara Carlson on March 18
Olympic Cellars and Womanfest will honor the memory of local activist Clara Carlson at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, during a post-International Women's Day celebration.
Water trust to start exchange
The foundation for further water management in the Dungeness River basin has been laid.
Was it luck or St. Pat that saved Charlie's life?
St. Patrick outdid himself on his special day in 1997.
Walking across Scotland
In the late summer of 1990, I was crossing the English/Scottish border by train on my way to the Outer Hebrides. I wanted to visit the enigmatic and rarely visited Standing Stones of Callinish.
Two Sequim students win $1,500 at youth challenge
A plan for expansion of their free weekly periodical "The Weekly Word" earned a pair of Sequim High School students one of two $1,500 cash prizes in the Entrepreneur Youth Challenge held Feb. 11 at Lincoln Center in Port Angeles.
Student Art Show opens at MAC
Sasquatch, Donald Duck and a plethora of birds made appearances at the opening of the 15th annual Student Art Show March 6.
State may protect Protection Island
Washington State Department of Natural Resources and People for Puget Sound - the site proponent for a proposed Protection Island Aquatic Reserve - host an open house-style public meeting March 25 in Gardiner to provide information and gather ideas regarding the proposal.
Slackers in novel work hard to avoid work
The Bookmonger
Sequim joins the prayer heard 'round the world
When people are in pain, it can be natural to pray for them.
Schuck's project will go before city Tuesday
The public will get its first chance next week to review and comment on plans for the Priest Road Center, which is slated to include a Schuck's Auto Supply plus three other retail, restaurant and office spaces.
School Briefs
Rescue tug full-time funding chugging toward governor's desk
Legislation to require oil companies, shipping companies, cruise lines and other operators of large ships to fund a year-round response tugboat at Neah Bay beginning in July 2010 has one more step to go before heading for the governor's signature.
Puppies pilot to Port Angeles airport
It's a bird. No, it's a plane. Actually, it's puppies on a plane.
PUD sewer system for Carlsborg could start service in April 2011
A sewer system for Carlsborg could start operating as soon as April 2011, according to a draft time line that Clallam County commissioners received Monday.
No one injured in carport fire
No one was injured in a Sunday afternoon fire in a carport at 516 E. Fir St. Estimated damage to the carport plus a vehicle and other contents was $40,000.
News Briefs
Museum reopens for art show gala
Looks of awe fill the Museum and Arts Center of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley at the First Friday Art Walk.
Minutemen outnumber foes of Border Patrol
Two groups, one for and one against the increased local Border Patrol presence and the agents' tactics, found their signs a bit waterlogged March 7 after several hours of standing in the cold, wet weather.
Miller now heads planning commmission
Planning Commission Vice Chairman Ted Miller became chairman at the panel's March 3 meeting, succeeding former chairman Larry Freedman, who resigned Feb. 23.
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