Port Angeles School District Director Nancy Hamilton has taken her fight with the board majority to court.
In a complaint filed Tuesday afternoon in Clallam County Superior Court,
Port Angeles School District Director Nancy Hamilton has taken her fight with the board majority to court.
In a complaint filed Tuesday afternoon in Clallam County Superior Court, Hamilton asks a judge to declare Resolution 2526-18, the censure the board adopted 4-1 on June 18, "arbitrary, capricious,
A Washington State appellate court has ruled that a Pierce County judge went too far when he disqualified the entire Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney's Office from a criminal case because the alleged victim of one of the charges was a deputy prosecutor in that office.
In a published
A 26-year-old Port Angeles man pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Clallam County Superior Court to a charge of second-degree assault by strangulation, a domestic violence offense stemming from an alleged July 6 attack on a woman at her Port Angeles apartment.
Elijah D. Creed entered the plea
The Port Angeles School District should have bargained with its office professionals’ union before cutting secretarial hours as part of its 2025 budget reductions, an independent arbitrator has ruled, sustaining the union’s grievance and ordering the district to negotiate before any more bargaining unit work is moved out of
A federal judge in Tacoma will hear arguments Thursday on whether Jonathan E. Karns should remain jailed pending trial or be released to inpatient drug treatment.
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A Clallam County Superior Court judge on Friday postponed the felony rape trial of former Sequim police officer Christian Whitaker until November, granting a defense request for more time over the objection of prosecutors who argued the defense had already had nearly two years to get ready.
Judge Simon Barnhart
Washington’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction has permanently revoked the teaching certificate of Jordan Henderson, a former Evergreen Elementary School teacher convicted this year of sexually abusing four of his young students, and has permanently barred him from ever applying to teach in the state’s public schools
A Kitsap County man was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing fentanyl with intent to deliver it, capping a Clallam County prosecution that began with a March drug raid at the 7 Cedars Casino in Blyn.
Dylan C. Marsh-Backs, 36, pleaded guilty July
Six months ago, The Olympic Herald was launched with a single, uncompromising mission: to provide fearless, independent investigative journalism that holds power accountable.
Two hundred and fifty years ago this month, Thomas Jefferson wrote the job description for every honest newspaper that would follow: “let Facts be submitted to a
Earlier today, the Port Angeles School District released the first installment of records responsive to my June 22 Public Records Act request: the June 11 letter from Director Nancy Hamilton to the board and district counsel—the document at the center of last month’s censure fight.
Readers can download
The Washington State Court of Appeals has affirmed the convictions of Robert Aaron Estes, a Kitsap County man found guilty of six counts of second-degree child molestation involving two underage girls.
In an unpublished opinion issued July 7, the Division II appellate court unanimously upheld the August 2024 judgment
On Friday, I sent a formal demand letter to Superintendent Michelle Olsen, Board President Sandy Long, and the district’s public records officer.
📄 Tomashefsky July 3 Letter Re Prr (171KB ∙ PDF file)
It gives the Port Angeles School District a clear choice: start producing the censure records now, or defend
The fight for transparency in the Clallam County Superior Court escalated this afternoon as I filed a formal Petition for Internal Review challenging the court’s aggressive refusal to release years of judicial search warrant logs.
📄 NO. 2026-12 Petition Internal Review (275KB ∙ PDF file)
On February 27, I submitted
Two hundred and fifty years ago today, fifty-six men signed their names to an act of journalism.
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