Continuing periodic postings here of 19th-century Olympic Peninsula Native Indian history--a slightly-longer version of this particular brief account was included in my second volume of Port ...

The job is never over until the paperwork is done – so it goes with a wedding. Here's what you need to know about legal marriage in Washington state. Age requirements Persons applying for a … ...

Atop Morgan Hill in Port Townsend lives a writer who doesn't write. "I've told both my publishers, I'm not writing any more books," said Bill Porter, a translator, scholar of Chinese language and ...

It’s easy to grasp the visible expansion of Jefferson Healthcare on Sheridan Street and to understand that it benefits the community. We are a bit isolated here on the peninsula, and having ...

Second in a series on OlyCAP. This story first appeared in our May 30, 2012 print edition and e-edition. Les Rubin, the highest-paid chief financialofficer in the history of Olympic Community … ...

Jefferson Healthcare is set to open a new clinic Feb. 5 next door to the Emergency Department in the hospital’s new Emergency Services and Specialty Building (ESSB). The goal of the clinic is to … ...

Imagine driving the 140 miles northeast from Hoodsport to Forks and seeing mostly tree stumps and slash piles where the Olympic National Forest now stands. That destruction could easily be a … ...

Port Townsend was incorporated on January 16, 1860, just nine short years after the first white settlers showed up. The city was a bustling little town of 300 souls. The first local government was ...

A Port Townsend man entered a pleading of “not guilty” to vehicle assault Friday after he was charged for allegedly hitting a tree in Cape George in an April 2022 car wreck that sent a … ...

Officials with East Jefferson Fire and Rescue have found someone to take the reins of the fire department. The district’s board of commissioners has extended a job offer to Bret Black, … ...

On a sunny Wednesday afternoon at the Jefferson County Sportsmen’s Association gun range, the air was autumn fresh, orange leaves fell from trees, and every once in a while there was a ...

Do you like language humor? Me, too. Every so often I check the Washington Post’s annual Neologism Contest (big word there), in which readers supply alternate meanings for common … ...