Brinnon News

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.

The North Hood Canal Chamber of Commerce is interested in cooperation and collaboration, but when it comes to joining a proposed countywide chamber of commerce, it will pass.

Some Jefferson County sheriff's deputies are operating more silently and efficiently since the office began bike patrols in a few areas of the county.

North Mason YAHOO! By Christopher Dunagan Tuesday, September 1, 2009 BREMERTON - Building a new sewage treatment plant in Belfair turns out to be a wise step toward solving Hood Canal's dissolved oxygen problem, experts agreed Tuesday, but other measures probably are needed to restore the waterway to health.

Tickets are on sale to see Elvis, Buddy Holly, Janis Joplin and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

The membership of the North Hood Canal Chamber of Commerce, which represents the communities of Brinnon and Quilcene, is considering joining a proposed countywide chamber of commerce.

Aug 25 News Release Interagency News Release For Immediate Release 9:00 a.m. Aug 25, 2009 Michelle Fidler 360-565-3124 Five fires within the Heatwave Complex remain active, burning in the remote wilderness of Olympic National Park.. "Fire activity and smoke has increased with warmer, drier weather as expected," said Incident Commander Todd Rankin.

Despite flames one Duckabush Road homeowner described as "like Roman candles" and thick smoke visible as far away as Olympia last week, the 750-acre 10 Mile fire has moved only about a half-mile closer to human habitation since it began June 13.

Buddy Holly. Elvis. Janis Joplin. Stevie Ray Vaughn. These musical legends and their songs will be recreated in two fund-raising shows for the Peninsula Daily News' Peninsula Home Fund on Sunday, Sept.

The 11-week old Ten Mile fire, charring old-growth forest that hasn't felt the bite of flames in a century, ate another 136 acres in a week, as dry weather and dense forest-floor duff fueled the oldest and largest of the Heatwave Complex fires.