Port Angeles News

Howard Hatfield celebrated his 92nd birthday and took the oath of citizenship on Friday at the adult family home where he lives in Bremerton.

The Border Patrol's build up on the Olympic Peninsula is complete. Or at least the agency's deluxe new station is.

Hard liquor goes on sale at private North Olympic Peninsula stores for first time today -- 5/31/12 -07:22 PM THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA Rowing Club invites men and women, boys and girls 12 and older, to its third-annual Learn to Row Day on Saturday.

Volunteers will perform maintenance work on trails during National Trails Day on Saturday.

A community art fair, complete with displays and projects for all ages, will take over Hamilton Elementary School, 1822 W. Seventh St., this evening.

The Port Angeles Healthy Youth Coalition is looking for volunteers to help prevent substance abuse among youth, the Clallam County Department of Health and Human Services announced.

Entrepreneurs from both sides of the Strait of Juan de Fuca joined with city of Port Angeles officials this week for an enthusiastic, hopeful afternoon of trading tourism ideas.

Reading the history on sandhill cranes in the Northwest is like trying to "follow the bouncing ball." Population numbers have fluctuated widely over the past 150 years.

SEKIU HAD A nice halibut opener last week. "It was a decent fishery," Donalynn Olson of Olson's Resort said.

The Makah tribe will receive a $1 million federal Economic Development Administration grant to help design and permit a new fishing dock, warehouse and related office building to replace key, aging facilities, the U.S. Department of Commerce said this week.

For just about as long as there have been classrooms, there have been classroom pets.

And county officials say it will effect Clallam County, the National Park Service and the Lower Elwha tribe.

A new Border Patrol station east of downtown that can house up to 50 agents could be ready for occupancy by Thursday, and the operation that covers all of the North Olympic Peninsula will begin moving in within a few days.

Jeff Reynolds knows a thing or two about fishing. The life-long Port Angeles resident proved that point when he became the first two-time winner in the history of Port Angeles Salmon Club fish derbies.

One year ago today, Capt. Joseph W. Schultz, HI' `97 was killed in action in Northern Afghanistan, and to honor his sacrifice for our country, his mother Betsy Reed Schultz was invited to join President and Mrs.

'I'm enjoying it': Sea kayaker Duff reaches first destination in North Atlantic row to Iceland -- 5/28/12 -06:36 PM Projects that will give Clallam and Jefferson counties a foothold in the future of high-speed Internet connectivity are expected to go online this summer, and no later than August 2013.

An overflow crowd packed the Clallam County Veterans Center on Monday to pay their respects to U.S. service members who never came home.

More than tsunami debris and trash will be found on North Olympic Peninsula beaches during the next few weeks and months.

Nearly two dozen entrepreneurs from Victoria will visit Port Angeles on Wednesday for a public luncheon, a walkabout downtown and a conversation about how the two cities can strengthen the ties that bind them.

Trailing 4-0 to the Nationals, the Americans rallied to score six runs in the third and went on to win the Senior All-Star Baseball game 9-5 at Gene Lobe Fields at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds & Events Center Monday.