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Huge visitor calls on Port Townsend Bay
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The 1,092-foot supercarrier USS Nimitz is escorted by tugs as it makes a rare appearance in Port Townsend Bay on Monday to offload ammunition at Naval Magazine Indian Island and conduct training on board. The nuclear-powered carrier, which
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was commissioned in 1975, made only its fifth appearance in the bay, this time en route to its home port of Everett following carrier qualifications off California. The Nimitz will move to Bremerton for 16 months of maintenance and modernization next year.
Petitions on Sequim city bargaining filed
Downtown PA Voters might decide union group pulls out requirements of ‘United’ effort BY JOE SMILLIE
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PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Downtown Association board of directors has made it official: The association is withdrawing from efforts to consolidate with two other business groups under a PA United umbrella group without a vote of the general membership, as at first promised by board President Bob Lumens.
SEQUIM –– Calling for more accountability from both the city and the unions that represent 50 of its workers, and saying municipal employees should have the choice of joining a union, citizens’ advocates filed a pair of initiatives Monday they want to put before voters. “Cities are going bankrupt, and the bulk of their costs are employment,” said Susan Shotthafer of Port Angeles, one of the drivers behind the initiative petitions. “We want to make sure the taxpayers’ funds are better spent.” Proposition 1 would make collective bargaining negotiations between the city and unions public, while Proposition 2 would give UNITED/A8 employees the choice as to
“The Port A n g e l e s Downtown Association board of directors believes that dismantling three long-standing organizations is premature Lumens for a model that is un-proven,” board members said in a four-page email to the organization’s members. “We are still working on a way for you to express your opinion on this topic anonymously, but we wanted you to have the facts now,” they said. TURN
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Sequim City Clerk Karen Kuznek-Reese, right, stamps as received a pair of petitions aimed at reforming the way the city deals with employee unions brought in by Susan Shotthafer of Port Angeles. whether they join those unions. Shotthafer said public negotiations with the unions would give taxpayers an open chance to see what issues the two sides are negotiating. The city currently employs 73 people, with 50 of them being members of one of three unions
represented by the Teamsters Local 589: police sergeants, police patrol officers and non-uniformed employees. The other 23 employees are not union, meaning they are either in management or confidential positions. TURN
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Forks mulling limits on animal ownership BY ARWYN RICE
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Protesters of the practices of the Olympic Animal Sanctuary, background, hold signs last December that include demanding that the city of Forks step in legally. City Hall now is reviewing its animal-control ordinances.
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city, said Rod Fleck, city attorney. “In all that, people asked why we didn’t have a rule. We began to ask ourselves what such an ordinance would look like,” Fleck said. Fleck said the City Council received the first draft of the ordinance two weeks ago, and it is not yet scheduled for more discussion.
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FORKS — The City Council is working through the first draft of a new ordinance that would limit the number and type of pets a resident can own without special licenses. City officials began considering such an ordinance when allegations of abuse and neglect at the now-defunct Olympic Animal Sanctuary, operated by Steve Markwell, were brought to the
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