Brinnon News

A woman who pleaded insanity at her assault trial in 2008 will be allowed to return to Jefferson County -- under electronic monitoring -- on Christmas Day.

What: An easy walk along the closed road up the Dosewallips River. Where: Cross Hood Canal Bridge and follow Highway 104 to the Quilcene cutoff, follow it south to Quilcene and Highway 101, and take Highway 101 south to the Dosewallips River Road in Brinnon.

Jefferson County officials acknowledge a mistake was made more than three years ago, one that violated Mats Mats Bay resident Mike Belenski's First Amendment rights when his political sign's size was limited by county regulation.

Turkey and trimmings will be served in Jefferson County at several free community Thanksgiving feasts.

Work should be completed within the next two weeks on a washed out section of Dosewallips Road west of U.S. Highway 101 to one-lane traffic, a county roads official said.

Neal Richards, a 42-year-old state Department of Transportation worker killed by a falling tree limb Thursday, left the Forks Police Department in 1998 partially because of the inherent dangers of law enforcement.

Port Townsend artist Jesse Watson holds the portrait he painted of Andy Mackie playing his harmonica after attending Mackie's music festival in September.

A storm that kicked up Monday evening caused mudslides, flooding, cut power in several counties and blocked a major highway in Mason County.

Brinnon Fire District Commissioner Ken McEdwards has retained his seat, while Richard Quinnell is the apparent winner for the Gardiner Cemetery District commission -- although that race could go to a recount.

The outcome of many Jefferson County races could be decided today as the Jefferson County Auditor's Office prepares to run an additional 2,064 ballots in the general election.

Incumbent Brinnon Fire Commissioner Ken McEdwards said Tuesday he isn't impressed much by his lead of "three little votes." "With just those three votes we're going to have to wait and see," McEdwards said.

Election Day arrives in Jefferson County and across the state today, ending nearly three weeks of balloting in the all-mail election.

Both candidates for the Brinnon Precinct 204 commission want to ensure that money raised in an emergency medical service levy voters passed in August is spent properly.

The deadline to make comments on the potential ecological impact of a proposed 252-acre master-planned resort and golf course south of Brinnon is Nov.

New dictionaries and new eyeglasses to read them with -- those are the first two steps the Independent Order of Odd Fellows are taking in providing south East Jefferson County students with tools to be successful in their education.

Brinnon resident JoAnn Bussa said Wednesday that she was ecstatic and overwhelmed when she and the great-great grandson of venerable Klallam Chief Chetzemoka appeared before the state Transportation Commission.

A project to restore dwindling native Olympia oyster populations has shifted from planting oyster seeds to monitoring what remains of the silver-dollar-size mollusks nearly wiped out by overharvesting, pollution and loss of habitat during the past two centuries.

A 21-year-old Brinnon man was killed in a one-car crash Tuesday night on U.S. Highway 101, the State Patrol said.

It is a sunny Monday morning, and Karen Sickel is getting dressed to go to work.

Jefferson County commissioners on Monday took no action on a Fred Hill Materials' request to designate the company's proposed pit-to-pier project as an "industrial project of statewide significance.