Port Angeles News

Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series. Day 1: Washougal to Discovery Bay About mid-morning Saturday, we started north from Washougal, Wash., to our first destination, near the Canadian border of Discovery Bay, just east of Port Angeles.

All Points Charters & Tours again is offering Christmas light tours this season.

The Port of Port Angeles officially bid farewell to Commissioner Paul McHugh on Monday at the commissioners' regular meeting, the final one of the year.

Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken will come to the Port Townsend Library, 1220 Lawrence St., for a celebration of poetry this Thursday.

It will take three or four months for the State Patrol to complete its investigation into the Nov. 29 three-vehicle wreck that involved Trooper Travis Beebe, a spokesman said Monday.

Port of Port Angeles commissioners have approved a 1.5 percent raise for non-union employees and 1.6 percent for the unionized in 2014.

The state Department of Natural Resources announced it will purchase more than 1,200 acres of private timber lands on the Olympic Peninsula and other parts of Western Washington.

The Red Crow band will alight inside the Black Diamond Community Hall for another night of contra dancing - with all ages and abilities welcome - this Saturday night.

Despite an unexpected turn of events, maestro Dewey Ehling and the Port Townsend Community Orchestra will present their holiday concert Saturday night.

Temperatures plunged into the teens and 20s across Western Washington overnight as entrenched frigid air tightened its grip on the region.

Now the State Patrol is looking for more witnesses to the incident that happened near the Morse Creek Hill on Highway 101 Friday evening.

Roosevelt Elementary School was locked down for 10 minutes Tuesday morning after an unauthorized, unarmed man entered unhindered through the front door.

A Port Angeles man who shot and killed his next-door neighbor in June 2011 will be sentenced Jan. 14, a Clallam County Superior Court judge has ruled.

Now in rehab for heart problems, Marie Routh sits with her partner, Richard Dicks, and their dog, Cain.

The Peninsula Daily News reports the man left the building and was arrested by a deputy on the school campus.

Several environmental and timber groups are forming a partnership to find ways to boost timber harvests in Olympic National Forest while also improving forest health.

On Thanksgiving morning, Dewey Ehling didn't feel like himself. There had been "tipoffs," he said, such as an ache in his chest.

Initial evidence indicates that Trooper Travis Beebe, who destroyed his State Patrol car in a multivehicle crash Friday afternoon east of Port Angeles, caused the wreck, a patrol spokesman said Monday.

The time is right to draw a new map for economic development in Clallam County that could include new or different roles for the county's economic development groups, three speakers said Monday.

Editors note: There is a photo associated with this press release. The Port Angeles Food Bank was the real winner when a friendly competition among the 121 employees at Interfor's Port Angeles Sawmill led to a donation of 1,100 food items.