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Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES - Tickets go on sale this weekend for all four events at the Festival of Trees in Port Angeles, one of the most popular and festive holiday season events on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Sarah Methner said she is ready to go to work after she won 64.07 percent, or 3,277, of the votes for the four-year Port Angeles School District No.

The contest for Port of Port Angeles commissioner -- the only countywide race on the Clallam County ballot -- is too close to call.

Federal and state aviation officials are advising pilots that airspace restrictions for the Winter Olympics in British Columbia will extend into northwestern Washington.

Life-saving devices are riding in patrol cars and awaiting emergencies in both Sequim and Port Angeles, thanks to a $9,600 investment by the Olympic Medical Center Foundation.

The arraignment of a farmer accused of being a bank robber has been delayed in federal court.

The City Council earlier this week pulled the plug on an idea for a costly hybrid car for the city's vehicle pool while also giving the nod to possibly allocating nearly $900,000 for vehicles, including three new police cars and a fire engine in the 2010 budget.

A long standing dispute between Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County and the city of Port Angeles over 580 feet of West 16th Street is now in Clallam County Superior Court.

To clear up budget confusion, Clallam County would charge the city of Port Angeles a fixed annual fee for District Court cases under a proposed agreement before the three commissioners.

Campaign finance records made public this week show that eight Port Angeles City Council hopefuls have raised more than $22,000 in their quests for public office -- efforts that some have financed, to an extent, out of their own pockets.

HERE IS A list of contributions and expenditures for the Port of Port Angeles Position 3 election, in which incumbent John Calhoun faces challenger Brad Collins in Tuesday's general election.

Contractor misrepresentations and fraud in advertising is common place, according to the Washington Attorney General. As a retired real estate attorney I’ve known this for many years, and that’s why I provide consumers with free public information, such as this blog. There are many great contractors out there, but consumers can get caught by fraudulent advertising if they are not careful.

Peninsula Daily News Here is Port Angeles City Council member Cherie Kidd, at right in photo, discussing the impact of the "Twilight" series of books to the North Olympic Peninsula during an interview with Raffaella Serini, a writer for the Italian edition of Vanity Fair magazine on Wednesday at Port Angeles City Hall.

REALTOR BROOKE NELSON will stay in the race for Port Angeles City Council, her campaign spokesman said Friday.

City Council candidate Max Mania was once again on the offensive against his opponent, Edna Petersen, at a forum last week.

It's a one-two punch to knock the cloudy-afternoon blues: a movie titled "Strong Coffee" and free-flowing organic, fair-trade java.

Proposed increases in water utility rates were too much for some City Council members to swallow this week.

Fire gutted the building that formerly housed Grandma's Attic antique store at 321 W. Eighth St.

The City Council on Tuesday night unanimously passed a resolution opposing Initiative 1033, which is on the statewide ballot.

The only nontribal casino in Clallam and Jefferson counties has run out of luck.