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Eleventh hour for repairs to Dosewallips Road's missing link; comment period ends today
Six years after floodwaters gouged out a stretch of Dosewallips Road, U.S. Forest Service officials are one step closer to deciding if Jefferson County's only vehicular road to Olympic National Park should be ...
Project to rid Jefferson waters of old creosote-laden pilings to resume
Another round of removing creosote-tainted pilings in Jefferson County commences along the Port Townsend waterfront beginning next week, a state Department of Natural Resources official says.
Woman whose peacock is missing finds only plumes - and fear that a cougar killed bird
The screaming started around 2 a.m. Wednesday, Angela Jacobsen said. "It was blood-curdling. I went out in my nightgown," to the woods surrounding her home on Toad Road.
The dilemma of Dosewallips: Road's future mired in years of controversy
The debate over whether to restore the Dosewallips River Road is black-and-white, as Quilcene-based Hood Canal District Ranger Dean Yoshina sees it.
The dilemma of Dosewallips: Road's future mired in years of controversy
The debate over whether to restore the Dosewallips River Road is black-and-white, as Quilcene-based Hood Canal District Ranger Dean Yoshina sees it.
Olympic Music Festival features virtues of Beethoven and riverside meditation
The Olympic Music Festival runs through Sept. 1 with concerts starting at 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
QUILCENE, WASH. -- For decades, the unwritten motto at shellfish hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest was "Better oysters through science." Scientists mated the heartiest, fastest-growing stock to produce ...
The virtues of Beethoven and riverside meditation, not far from Kitsap
What's Up goes Beyond Kitsap with a peaceful getaway to a barn in a field near Quilcene for the 25th annual Olympic Music Festival Lying reclined on a picnic blanket with my hands beneath my head, staring up ...
Expanded Quilcene Historical Museum keeps pioneering spirit alive
The can-do spirit of Quilcene's pioneering past is celebrated and displayed today at the community's newly expanded history museum.
Draft shoreline plan workshop next week; information available now
Documents outlining Jefferson County's draft updates to its shoreline master plan are available for viewing at neighborhood information booths.
Wylie Gustafson leads Wylie and his Wild West to Port Ludlow July 20 where they'll headline the daylong Music on the Green event at the Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Place off Paradise Bay Road.
Dabob Bay preserve land swap seen to protect timber trust revenues
A state proposal to expand the Dabob Bay Natural Area Preserve up to 3,200 acres has Jefferson County leaders and conservationists working toward a land swap to offset the loss of state timber trust land ...
from the Cover: Olympic Music Festival
Where: 7360 Center Road, Quilcene When: 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, June 28 to Sept.
West Coast shellfish biologists are engaged in a war against a species of bacteria that has been killing oyster larvae and threatening to cripple the $111-million-a-year shellfish industry.
Money woes end one senior citizen meal program, threaten others
Brinnon seniors and volunteers were surprised and upset to learn their nutrition program will close after the last meal is served today, and the man who made the decision hopes the service can be restored.
The 2008 graduating class of Quilcene High School graduated 26 students on Saturday.
A cappella trio Bella - from left, Susan Welch, Emily Groff and Georgia Brown - will be in concert at 7 p.m. June 21 at Island Music Guild, 10598 Valley Rd.
Bacteria is rapidly damaging Puget Sound shellfish
An invisible menace is invading one of the Northwest's most famous and valuable farming sectors, and shellfish farmers say it's already caused tremendous damage.
3 options for Dosewallips Road restoration
Dosewallis Road washed out in a storm six years ago - and ever since there has been intense controversy about rebuilding it.