Westport News

For the ninth year, Westport Wash & Wax has turned over Good Neighbor Day receipts to Interfaith Housing Association /Homes with Hope.The day-long fund-raiser was held last week.

Eating your way through the Taste of Tacoma - it's a combat for your concentration, fighting for the focus of your taste buds - but Donavan Maples hopes that Half Moon Bay Bar and Grill's first appearance at the food festival this weekend will provide a taste seafood lovers won't want to forget.

For the ninth consecutive year, Westport Wash and Wax at 791 Post Road East has held a "Good Neighbor Day" in which owners Scott and Craig Tiefenthaler donated all of the day's proceeds to the Interfaith Housing Association /Homes with Hope.

The state's lead forecaster projects tax collections will drop an additional $482 million between now and 2011, continuing a long string of bad news for the state budget.

The unemployment rate on the North Olympic Peninsula dropped last month while it was on the rise statewide.

Washington State Parks offer unequalled beauty and diversity. From the almost inaccessible to right off the interstate many visitors flock annually to the state parks offered in Washington.

Gas, round-trip, 706 miles @ $2.50/gallon $70.60 Lunch en route $3.99 Lodging, The Gray Gull, Ocean Shores $111.30 Groceries $30.58 Admission, Aberdeen Museum of History $2 Wine-tasting fee, Westport Winery $5 Admission, Westport Maritime Museum $4 Dinner, Galway Bay Restaurant and Pub, Ocean Shores $20.32 Lunch, 7th Street Deli, Hoquiam TOTAL ...

WESTPORT, Wash. - A large sea lion is cruising through the Westport Marina this holiday weekend with an arrow sticking out of its side, and federal wildlife officials want to know who's responsible An agent with the National Marine Fisheries Service says the wounded sea lion was first seen on May 16 and has been seen daily around the marina since ...

Has it ever happened to you : its Friday and you are sitting in your office and daydreaming about the upcoming weekend , thinking about doing something fun, interesting and memorable so you will have something to tell your colleagues on Monday morning.

Westport's annual beach Perch Fishing Derby will be Saturday, on beaches from Westport to Tokeland.

Westport First Selectman Gordon F. Joseloff announced today that a citizens green bag luncheon will he held on Thursday, April 23, at noon in Rooms 309/307 of Westport Town Hall.

Anything that involves Dungeness crabs gets me excited, and since we can't go crabbing in Puget Sound until early July, this should soothe your crab fix.

Salmon anglers will have more fishing opportunities off Washington's coast and in the Columbia River this summer, while most recreational fishing in the Puget Sound will be similar to last year.

Salmon anglers will see an historic expansion of selective fishing for hatchery-marked salmon in Puget Sound this coming summer, as state fisheries managers finalized the fishing seasons at the Pacific Fishery Management Council meetings today.

Gusty winds have brought down trees and power lines, knocking out power to at least 20 thousand customers in the north Puget Sound area.

Here and There readers take note: You've come to expect my cetacean diatribes. Here comes another.

The International Pacific Halibut Commission has again imposed a scheme of shorter seasons and a smaller quotas for the Washington-Oregon-California coast, based on a perceived shortage of the big trophy flatfish.

And, when all of you 'tree huggers' from the eastside sell your gas guzzling SUV's and decide to vote for mass transit, I'll turn my lights off ........ tx Edmonds, WA 6 comments And I'll believe that the IPCC consensus isn't ideologically distorted when you can honestly tell me that the "consensus" and the "peer reviewed papers" won't conclude ...

Ocean anglers will see an increase in catch quotas for coho salmon this summer while fishing opportunities for chinook will likely be similar to last year.

The sport salmon fishing seasons off the Washington coast are expected to be very robust this summer.