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Matte re-elected to Makah Tribal Council

NEAH BAY -- Blanchard Matte has been re-elected to the Makah Tribal Council following an election Monday. There were 376 ballots cast, with Matte receiving… Continue reading

Peninsula Home Fund helps former caregiver

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another in a series of articles on the Peninsula Daily News Peninsula Home Fund. The next article will appear Sunday with… Continue reading

Clallam Transit board helps skills center by waiving bus pass fees for students

PORT ANGELES -- Free transit bus passes are guaranteed through August 2007 for North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center students. The decision, which is seen to… Continue reading

Forks pool reopens with recertifying lifeguards and interim director

FORKS -- The Quillayute Valley Aquatics Center reopened Monday as the pool's staff undergoes Red Cross recertification and a temporary director takes charge. The former… Continue reading

Little brother, classmates surprised by appearance of Air Force airman big brother

PORT ANGELES -- It was a classroom of smiles Friday at Jefferson Elementary School -- and second-grader Benjamin Fowler had the biggest of them all.… Continue reading

Elimination of subsidized bus rides seen as hindrance to already-declining skills center enrollment

PORT ANGELES -- The planned elimination of subsidized transit bus rides for students to attend the North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center could put the center… Continue reading

Mom gets hand up from Home Fund for a bigger house

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another in a series of articles on the Peninsula Daily News Peninsula Home Fund. The next article will appear Sunday. FORKS… Continue reading

It’s all hands-on for these future homebuilders

PORT ANGELES -- Hammers pounding, blades cutting and sawdust flying. A passer-by might not notice anything special about the construction site of a new home… Continue reading

Helping hand helps woman start hand-on massage career

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another in a series of Peninsula Daily News articles on the Peninsula Home Fund. The next article will appear Sunday. FORKS… Continue reading

Quileute will share Coast Guard tower rising in LaPush

LAPUSH -- The U.S. Coast Guard is bringing its disaster response services into the 21st century, and the Quileute tribe is along for the ride.… Continue reading

New reading program at Dry Creek School more popular than recess

PORT ANGELES -- Reading or recess, what do you prefer? Ask most elementary school students that question and the resounding answer is recess. But that's… Continue reading

Makah make skeleton of 1999 harvested whale a museum exhibit

NEAH BAY -- The Makah tribe's May 1999 harvest of a gray whale has come to a rafter-raising end. The skeleton of the 30-foot, 5-inch… Continue reading

Port Angeles brothers get to see their Disney-legend father receive award from President Bush

PORT ANGELES -- Once upon a time in a land not so far away, two men from the North Olympic Peninsula watched their famous father… Continue reading

Port Angeles school buses outfitted with cameras to keep watch on young riders

PORT ANGELES -- The guessing game of which black box has a camera in it will soon be over for school students who take the… Continue reading

Peninsula: Peninsula College spends $330,000 for emergency fix in Forks

FORKS -- What started as a leak turned into a $330,000 emergency fix of the Forks extension site for Peninsula College. When Matt Graves, the… Continue reading

Clallam: United Way director steps down

PORT ANGELES -- The executive director of United Way of Clallam County has quit, leaving the agency at a pivotal point in its $1 million… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Actor John Amos laments reality of reality TV

PORT ANGELES -- Actors aren't competing with other actors for paychecks these days, they're competing with the guy who will eat a bucket of worms… Continue reading

Clallam commissioners appear ready to join in east Port Angeles agreement

PORT ANGELES -- A phasing-in plan for Port Angeles' annexation of the urban growth area west of the city -- including a sewer line from… Continue reading

SNOWFALL PROMPTS CLOSURE OF HURRICANE RIDGE ROAD

PORT ANGELES -- The Heart 'O the Hills entrance to Olympic National Park along Hurricane Ridge looked desolate this weekend as the road was closed… Continue reading

Forks: Football coach relieved of duties for pushing student

FORKS -- Todd Fraker, a coach of the Forks High School varsity football team for the past 10 years, has been relieved of his coaching… Continue reading