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Seattle wins 4-2 to end Dallas unbeaten streak
SEATTLE - Seattle's Eddie Johnson scored twice as the Sounders ended Dallas' nine-game MLS unbeaten streak with a 4-2 victory on Saturday.Johnson's second goal of the game came in the 62nd minute, just one minute after Dallas completed a comeback from a 2-0 deficit when Michel drilled a corner from the right into the upper left roof of the Seattle net to equalize.The Sounders ...
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Bonney Lake Tyee Seattle Christian in semifinals | Boys Soccer
Bonney Lake (3A) and Tyee (2A) reached the final four for the first time in school history, while four-time champ Seattle Christian (1A) also ...
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Bill-job conflict Its not unusual in Olympia
Rep. Steve Kirby says he kept busy during the Legislature’s brief hiatus this month by training for his new job at a Tacoma-area credit union. It’s a field that intersects with his work at the Capitol. As the chairman of the House Business and Financial Services Committee, Kirby has the power to decide the fate of finance-industry bills - including those that affect his new employer, ...
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McCarver a natural candidate for experimentation
McCarver Elementary School was an obvious choice for the Tacoma Housing Authority’s experiment. Built in 1925 and located in the heart of the Hilltop, the school serves Tacoma’s poorest population. Its approximately 400 students draw heavily on the shelters and transitional housing scattered across the hill. This year, which is typical, 96 percent of McCarver’s students qualify ...
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Reputation earns housing authority some latitude
Housing authorities in most cities don’t have the flexibility to try experiments such as the McCarver Program. They’re bound by strict U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development protocols that determine who gets assistance and ...
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Years of detective work reunites teens accused of 88 gang shooting
The key was patience, with a dash of cunning. John Ringer, a longtime Tacoma police detective and gang expert, knew what went down the day 17-year-old Bernard Houston was killed. He knew six rival gang members in two cars boxed Houston in at a Hilltop intersection and gunned him down. He knew where they were seated in the vehicles, what they said before shots rang out and that the drive-by was ...
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Thurston needs 3 candidates
The Thurston County auditor has announced a three-day special filing period seeking candidates for three offices that did not draw candidates for the upcoming election. The deadline for initial filing ended May 17 with no declarations of candidacy for the three ...
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The home and school connection
ABOVE: Shawna and Mike Allen and their family study together at the dining room table. The Allens, along with 49 other families, are part of Tacoma Housing Authority’s McCarver Program, which offers families low-cost housing, counseling and parenting classes in exchange for a commitment to enroll their children at McCarver Elementary School through fifth grade and to play an active role in ...
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Seattle Times honored at SPJ awards
Seattle Times news, photography and online staffs won top awards in the annual Society of Professional Journalists competition. Twenty-six individual staff members also won ...
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10 to receive Jefferson County Heart of Service award Tuesday
Jefferson County Heart of Service awardees include Cass and Tom Brotherton, lauded for their work with "Count Me In For Quilcene," Quilcene Village Store, the Quilcene Conversations forum and other south county volunteer activities. By Peninsula Daily News ...
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Destruction tourism Visitors rubber-neck take photos in bulldozer-attack neighborhood
Photography student Cody Kreider of Port Angeles takes photos of bulldozer-inflicted destruction on Baker Street in the Gales Addition east of Port Angeles on Friday as a motorist takes photos from a nearby car. -- Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News By Jeremy Schwartz Peninsula Daily ...
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‘Pit-to-pier’ not over yet company says
SHINE — The ';pit-to-pier'; project isn’t dead, its manager said, despite a conservation agreement in the works between the state and the Navy that would prohibit new construction along areas of Hood Canal.';We’re going to be going forward,'; said Dan Baskins, project manager for the Thorndyke Resources Project, before referring inquiries to the ...
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Ninety-six entries in Rhody Parade mostly dry weather make it ‘great’
Rhody Festival Queen Emma White Thunder is presented with a whole salmon from Jacob Genaw of Key City Foods during the Grand Parade in Port Townsend on Saturday. -- Photo by Charlie Bermant/Peninsula Daily News By Charlie Bermant Peninsula Daily ...
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Port Angeles fetes sidewalk ferry dock opening
Rian Anderson, district manager of Black Ball Ferry Line, left, speaks during a grand opening ceremony for the company’s new Port Angeles dock Saturday as Ryan Malane, Black Ball sales manager, looks on. At far right is Greg Scherer, owner of Pacific Rim Hobby, a business owner along Railroad Avenue who was affected by city waterfront redevelopment. By Jeremy Schwartz Peninsula Daily ...
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Primary contests shape up in Jefferson County
Candidates attend the ballot draw at the close of the filing period Friday. From left, Jefferson Healthcare board candidates Savannah Hensel and Jill Buher are joined by Port Townsend City Council hopefuls Pamela Adams and Catharine Robinson. Adams' husband, Mike Adams, is in the background. By Charlie Bermant Peninsula Daily ...
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Races stack up in Clallam elections
PORT ANGELES — One-term Port Angeles City Councilman Max Mania is not running for re-election, while a Sequim-area seat on the Port of Port Angeles commission has three candidates running for one position who will go up against each other in the Aug. 6 primary.And there was some juggling of candidates at the last minute, with two who had filed for positions having to withdraw because they ...
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This weeks North Olympic Peninsula business meetings — and business news briefs
University of Washington professor Thomas J. Montine, left, recently discussed the latest in Alzheimer's disease research with more than 40 local health care providers at special dinner presentation at Park View Villas in Port Angeles. Montine, Alvord professor, pathology department chair and adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the UW, is pictured with John LeClerc, executive ...
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Harbinger Winery wins gold medal for El Jefe wine
PORT ANGELES — Harbinger Winery of Port Angeles recently was awarded a gold medal at the 2013 Sunset International Wine Competition and took Best of Class for its 2009 El Jefe wine.The El Jefe is a reserve red wine blend made out of Rhone-style grapes. This is the second straight year Harbinger has been awarded gold medals at this event.Last year, the 2008 El Jefe and 2008 Barbera both ...
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PENINSULA POLL BACKGROUNDER Traditional TV networks see viewership plummeting
NEW YORK — This past week, the streets of midtown Manhattan swarmed with TV executives beginning the process to woo ad buyers to their upcoming fall lineups with splashy presentations, star-packed cocktail parties and plentiful swag.But there’s an air of urgency for the suits at the legacy networks — CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox. They’ve been rocked by an ominous first. A basic ...
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DAVID G. SELLARS ON THE WATERFRONT Shipwright’s canoes all in the details
Eric Bert begins the fiberglass and epoxy process on one of the three war canoes ...
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Scam Alert — Fraudulent medical equipment phone calls target local residents
CLALLAM COUNTY SHERIFF'S Sheriff's Office has issued an alert about a new scam in which a telephone caller claims to be from Olympic Medical Center and tries to sell Lifeline subscriptions and new equipment. The phone calls are not authorized by OMC, Olympic Memorial Hospital or Olympic Medical Home Health and are not legitimate, the sheriff's office said.After scam calls were ...
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Coach was in trouble over sexual comments
MOUNTLAKE TERRACE -- School officials already had decided to fire a Mountlake Terrace High School teaching aide and coach before he resigned earlier this ...
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The Herald recognized for general excellence
SEATTLE -- The Herald earned first place for General Excellence for newspapers with circulation between 25,001 and 65,000 at the Society of Professional Journalists awards banquet held Saturday in Seattle. Among the individual awards presented to Herald staff were: Andrea Brown: 1st place, Short Feature Story, for "The Zumba king"; 2nd place, Personalities Reporting, for "Rocket ...
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Man who helped homeport happen dies
Marina designer John Olsen, pictured here in 1966, an engineer with Reid Middleton, Inc., was involved in the homeport siting study that brought the U.S. Navy to Everett. He pushed for the Everett location and created the design for ship facilities at Naval Station ...
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Kentridge West Seattle break through to semis | Baseball
Kentridge reached the state semifinals for the first time since 1991, while West Seattle made school history with its first trip to the final ...
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Seattle fixing Mercer Mess
Seattle’s Department of Transport has plans to improve the Mercer Corridor or Mercer Mess as it is known to many residents of the city, Seattle news media have been reporting on the plans for some time, but a groundbreaking ceremony now marks the beginning of the major project.
The Mercer Corridor was built over forty years ago when the city’s transportation needs and traffic volumes were entirely different to present day. Mercer Street is a primary artery for the city of Seattle and over 80,000 people drive along it every day, but because of increased traffic and inefficient infrastructure, major bottlenecks occur at peak rush hour and limit access to the South Lake Union area, the Seattle Waterfront, the port, major highways and the Seattle Center. Read more
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