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State Department of Transportation representatives are ready to write a plan after 18 months of study and public gatherings on potential traffic safety improvements on state highways 19 and 20 between state Highway 104 and Port Townsend ferry terminal.

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

On Dec. 13, children in Sweden awake early. The girls don white robes with red sashes; the boys put on tall pointed hats with gold stars.

YAHOO! By Rachel Pritchett Sunday, November 8, 2009 Randee Mort of Bremerton cuddles one of Kathy Wood's stuffed dogs during Saturday's Christmas bazaar at First Lutheran Church of Poulsbo.

Leif Erickson unseated longtime incumbent Herb Beck while Dave Thompson kept his seat against challenger Bob Schuessler on the Port of Port Townsend commission, as the first results of Tuesday's general election were tallied.

Kevin Hansen makes a minor adjustment to an e-spinner. -- Photo by Jennifer Jackson/Peninsula Daily News Going for a spin: Small and portable, spinning wheels go from hobby to business 1A refinement of a spinning wheel that he made for his wife, Beth, while living aboard their sailboat, the shoe-box sized machines impressed everyone who saw them at ...

Three of the four candidates for two Port of Port Townsend commissioner seats -- the only countywide race in Tuesday's general election -- funded their campaigns at least to some extent out of their own wallets, according to records of contributions and expenditures the candidates made available to the Peninsula Daily News last week.

In the town of Chimacum, folks still talk about the state champion baseball team from a few years back.

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.

Mike Blair, superintendent of the Chimacum School District, believes the King County Superior Court trial over school funding -- in which he as a representative of Chimacum was a plaintiff -- went as well as it could have, he said.

While cases of H1N1 virus are on the rise in both Jefferson and Clallam counties, health officials are still frustrated by the slow delivery of vaccine needed to fight what is also known as swine flu.

Chimacum held off archrival Port Townsend in a nonleague volleyball match Monday.

Jose Amador brings his one-man show "El Hijo Prodigal de Boricua " to the Paradise Theatre School,l 161 Center Road in Chimacum.

Andy Mackie, seated, talks about the new shop class at Chimacum Schools his music foundation is underwriting with the help of an anonymous donor who saw a story about Mackie on CBS News last spring.

AS PART OF the monthlong Art Port Townsend festival at the Northwind Arts Center, writers are invited to view art and write about how it speaks to them.

Posted by Chuck Marunde on Oct 1st, 2009 and filed under Local News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 . You can leave a response or trackback to this entry A local newspaper serving Sequim, Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Forks, Quilcene, Port Hadlock, Joyce, Chimacum, and Port Ludlow is calling it quits.A The Olympic ...

Citing a more than $100,000 deficit, Jefferson County Parks Director Matt Tyler outlined a proposal to close four park facilities, cut almost three part-time staff positions and become heavily dependent on volunteers to maintain most other county parks.

Rushing Receiving Jason Haley, Bain 9 144 16.0 - Tackles Player Solo Ast Total Interceptions Player Total Cameron Johnson, PT 2 John Textor, Seq 2 Billy Davenport, Brem 2 C. Wilson, Brem 2 Nathan Stover, Oly 2 Dillon Douglas, NM 2 Stats reported by : Bainbridge, Bremerton, Chimacum, Kingston, North Kitsap, North Mason, Olympic, Port Townsend, ...

Chuck Tandy resigned Tuesday as chief of East Jefferson Fire-Rescue after eight months as head of Jefferson County's largest fire district, citing family issues.

As Greg Bryant, holder of the national Carnegie Medal for heroism, was honored with an award from Port Townsend Kiwanis last week, he was more concerned about the man whose wife died after he pulled her from a burning building.