Nordland News

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.

Marrowstone Island residents Susie and Brad Clinefelter chat on the dock at Mystery Bay State Park on Monday morning after they responded to the sinking 1920s vessel Yankee Sundowner in Mystery Bay, background, pumping out water that had caused the vessel to list and nearly sink, threatening the shellfish-rich bay with a diesel fuel spill.

Kirstie Young, center, gets ready to cut the ribbon officially opening the Joe Kurtzo Pavilion at the Nordland Garden Club on Marrowstone Island on Wednesday.

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The state Department of Health has issued a warning that the outer area of Mystery Bay will be closed to commercial shellfish harvest in early August because of too many mooring buoys and boats.

A state Department of Health official assured his audience that the inner waters of Mystery Bay would remain open to commercial shellfish harvests, but the outer bay would likely be closed later this summer.

By Jeff Chew Peninsula Daily News NORDLAND -- The Jamestown S'Klallam and Port Gamble S'Klallam tribes say that federal, state and county government representatives involved in the protection of Marrowstone Island's Mystery Bay have forsaken the enforcement needed to protect tribal shellfish beds in the bay, a direct threat to their treaty rights.