Carlsborg News

Jeff Monroe, left, owner of Monroe House Moving of Carlsborg, orchestrates the move of a 400,000-pound floating home Tuesday night at the Port of Port Townsend boat yard.

Workers with Monroe House Moving of Carlsborg remove a section of fence Monday morning between the Port of Port Townsend boatyard and the Larry Scott Memorial Trail, the east trailhead to the Olympic Discovery Trail, in preparation for launching a 2,000-square-foot floating home built by Little & Little Construction of Port Townsend.

Clallam County has authorized $20,000 in contingency funds to study the soil in Carlsborg to revise a plan to put a sewer there.

Meetings and events across the North Olympic Peninsula have been canceled because of severe weather.