Sen. Jim Hargrove, D-Hoquiam, will help lead a new task force focused on informed decision-making in Washington’s criminal justice system, Senate Democrats announced last week.
In 2009, the evening news revisited the hijacking on the 38th anniversary of the event and replayed the original footage of the Boeing 727 Northwest Airlines Flight 305. It was while watching this footage that Collins finally revealed to his wife, Robin, that he believed his father, Jack Collins, and uncle, Romaine ‘Bud’ Collins, were the men behind the hijacking and finally was going to put the mystery to rest by writing a book, Collins said.
On July 1, customers of Clallam County Public Utility District 1 saw a bump in their electric utility rates. It’s a familiar sight and something PUD officials say they should get used to.
Sequim hosts a few events on the Fourth of July, so check them out.
Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict reminds bounty residents that use of fireworks is limited to legal consumer fireworks at certain times.
While the state awaits first licensed retail marijuana retailers tentatively on July 7, local law enforcement officials find they’ll take a wait and see approach since they’ve been handling cannabis cases long before Initiative 502 passed.
To make a conference center or convention center remains one of many discussions about the revitalization effort at the Guy Cole Mini-Convention Center inside Carrie Blake Park.
For the past three years on the last Saturday of June the Sequim Valley Lions Club has hosted its major fundraising event — a Dungeness crab feed, raffle and silent auction, and this year was no different.
The Lighthouse Environmental Programs, a Whidbey Island-based nonprofit organization that manages the “Lighthouse License Plates Keep Washington Shining” program, has awarded the New Dungeness Light Station Association a $6,000 grant for the Keeper’s House Front Porch Project.
Sequim High School 2014 graduate William Duncan did what most high school seniors from around the country do near the end of their high school year — mail out graduation announcements. But unlike many of his fellow high school grads, Duncan sent an announcement to President Barack Obama. About three weeks later Duncan received a letter from the White House signed by Obama congratulating him on his hard work and dedication to his education.
With the help of RE/MAX Fifth Avenue, various members of the Sequim Association of Realtors, friends and family members, Marcus Oden of RE/MAX was able to fundraise $1,300 dollars for running his first marathon — the North Olympic Discovery Marathon in early June — for the Sequim Food Bank.
Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides access to medical, dental and behavioral health care for uninsured and underinsured adult patients, is seeking board members to obtain a fresh perspective as it embarks on a capital campaign to increase the capacity of its charitable care clinic.
Five canoes arrived at Jamestown Beach on June 21 to be hosted by the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe for dinner, singing and dancing and to camp for the night before taking off for Elwha landing at Hollywood Beach. This was the Jamestown landing of the Paddle to Bella Bella.