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Fallen Tacoma firefighter lived life filled with discoveries explorations and love for all
Al Nejmeh steers the 156-foot schooner Te Vega in the Baltic Sea alongside the Rainbow Warrior II in 1989. He joined the Tacoma Fire Department in 2001. (DAN EINBENDER/Courtesy ...
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Foster Farms recalls grilled chicken breast strips for containing allergens
With much of the country in severe drought conditions, America's farms are getting hit hard, which means food prices will only continue to rise well into 2013. Here's how you can protect your wallet from drying ...
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Heart of Service recipients tip collective hat to community
The 2013 recipients of the Jefferson County Heart of Service awards are from left, Linda Kostenbader, Tom Brotherton, Cass Brotherton, Jim ';Kiwi'; Ferris, Christopher Pieper, Gayle Moore, who received the award for her late husband Charlie Moore, Fred Spann, Seth Rolland and Don Bolen. The awards were presented at a lunch at the Northwest Maritime Center on Tuesday. By Charlie ...
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Transcript of complaint describes arrest at Sequim bar
SEQUIM –– The transcript of Morgan Weimer’s video-filed complaint against Police Officer Grant Dennis for punching him during an arrest outside The Oasis Bar and Grill just after midnight May 12 was released to the Peninsula Daily News on Tuesday. Weimer’s complaint was video-recorded by officers. Weimer, 45, told the PDN last week that he planned to file a complaint ...
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Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center names new executive director
SEQUIM –– A Kansas recreation center supervisor and Grays Harbor native will return to the Northwest as executive director of the Sequim Aquatic and Recreation CenterThe SARC Board of Directors on Tuesday selected Scott Deschenes of Mission, Kan.Laid off by budget cuts last December, Deschenes, 41, had been the recreation program supervisor at a community center in Mission, southwest ...
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Port Angeles high-schoolers letter for community service work
Mercedes Harris, left, and Sydney Roberts, right, display their varsity letters for service to the community at Monday’s Port Angeles School Board meeting. They were presented with the Youth United awards by United Way coordinator Scott Brandon, second from left, and AmeriCorps coordinators Jen Jacques, center, and Jacob Salzman. By Arwyn Rice Peninsula Daily ...
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Outdoors artist goes indoors at Port Angeles Fine Arts Center on Friday
Barbara De Pirro of Shelton in inset assembles ';Lucid,'; a new art installation made of plastic milk jugs, wire and staples, at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. De Pirro will give a talk on ';Lucid'; at the center this Friday. By Diane Urbani de la Paz Peninsula Daily ...
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KAREN GRIFFITHS HORSEPLAY COLUMN Peninsula riders thrive at Kitsap rodeo
Peninsula Junior Rodeo teammates are, from left, Amelia Hermann, Ally Billings, Sidney Balkan, Kaitlyn Meek, Emily VanAusdle, Micayla Weider, Anne Meek, Saydee Hermann and Cassie Moore, with Rhett Wilson in the ...
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MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN Recalling Venturi’s “heroic” U.S. Open win
BITS AND PIECES, dribs and drabs, there are many smaller events set to create a sizeable amount of golf happenings set for the North Olympic Peninsula.Before we get to those, let me take a moment to recognize the passing of former player and longtime CBS golf analyst Ken Venturi.Since I’m relatively late to the game, I associated Venturi predominately with his coverage of the Masters and ...
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SPORTS Sequim Port Angeles advance to state softball tournament other prep reports
Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News Sequim’s Rylleigh Zbaraschuk gets a base hit against Sumner. The Wolves lost to the Spartans, but beat Kingston and Olympic to advance to the 2A state tournament. Peninsula Daily ...
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10 to receive Jefferson County Heart of Service award today
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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LEGISLATURE Laws on mentally ill will change next year
Changes to the state’s laws on detaining potentially dangerous patients with mental illness should finally take effect in mid-2014 after 21/2 years of ...
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PIERCE COUNTY Man convicted of killing relative at storage facility
A Pierce County jury on Tuesday convicted a man of second-degree murder for shooting a relative to death last year at a Tacoma storage ...
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4 teachers get layoff notices 95 may move
Four Tacoma teachers have received layoff notices from Tacoma Public Schools, and 95 others may be displaced to other jobs and schools around the ...
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Panel OKs contract to design Paine Field passenger terminal
EVERETT -- An airline terminal at Paine Field could materialize soon, at least on paper.A Snohomish County Council panel has given its go-ahead to a $650,000 contract with an engineering firm to design a terminal big enough to handle passengers for 23 commercial flights per day proposed for the county's airport.The full council is expected to vote on the contract Wednesday. ...
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Out with the bad plants
Forestry Service worker Mason Hopkins hoists a section of a dead tree that was home to a bird nest back up into a tree for the birds to return to it. Volunteers spent Saturday clearing out invasive plants like ivy, holly and blackberries from the property at the corner of Madison Street and Morgan Road in ...
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Red Cross volunteers ready to help Okla. heal
Bob Leighton is always ready to go and eager to help. After Hurricane Sandy last fall, his three-week stay on the East Coast was his 15th deployment as a Red Cross volunteer."I am tentatively packed all the time," the Edmonds man said Tuesday.The morning after ...
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New chancellor at UW-Bothell
BOTHELL -- A professor and president of a technology university in New York has been named the next chancellor of the University of Washington ...
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Front Porch New public radio station to start later this year
A new independent, commercial-free, public radio station is in the works. KXIR-FM, 89.9, will reach people from Stanwood and Marysville south to Mountlake Terrace, Edmonds, Lynnwood and Mukilteo and west to Langley, Oak Harbor and Port Townsend. KXIR is scheduled to start later this year. Until then people can listen to sister station 90.7 KSER-FM in Everett. Interested people are asked by May ...
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Maurer returns home in finale with Halos
Mariners rookie Brandon Maurer has pitched in Anaheim before, but never in the Major Leagues. Maurer will start for Seattle on Wednesday in the finale of a two-game series at Angel Stadium, about 12 miles from where he grew up in Costa Mesa, Calif. For Maurer, the homecoming means his first chance to pitch in front of friends and family, which brings some extra pressure. "I've ...
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Harang bullpen knocked around in Anaheim
SEA@LAA: Seager makes a tough play at the hot corner ANAHEIM -- Aaron Harang gave up seven runs in 3 2/3 innings Tuesday in his first start since being sidelined by a stiff back last week as the Mariners' losing string reached a season-high five games with a 12-0 thumping by the Angels. Seattle closes out a nine-game road swing Wednesday against the Angels, looking to salvage something ...
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Vandals cut mooring line to cruise ship in Port Townsend
The American Spirit started making regular trips to Port Townsend and Port Angeles this spring. By Charlie Bermant Peninsula Daily ...
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Peninsula infested with tent caterpillars
Laurel Moulton of WSU Clallam County Extensions examines shrubbery infested with tent caterpillars in Port Angeles. By Rob Ollikainen Peninsula Daily ...
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Speed limit may be lowered near site of fatal crash
Bryan Crawford, 52, died in Monday's three-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 101 in the road-widening construction zone between Sequim and Port Angeles. By Paul Gottlieb Peninsula Daily ...
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Sheriff 1 dead after Lincoln County boating accident
SPRAGUE, Wash. (AP) - The Lincoln County sheriff says a man is dead and a woman has been taken to a hospital after a boating accident on Sprague Lake about 35 miles west of Spokane.Sheriff Wade Magers said the two were in a boat that apparently capsized about 3 p.m. Tuesday. Witnesses reported that both people began swimming to shore.The Spokesman-Review reports (http://is.gd/HwaUon ) that ...
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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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