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Low rumblings, loud booms: What are they? to the Peninsula Daily News’ Facebook page describing the sounds, which some say have been heard up and down the he rumbling of stomachs eager to Strait of Juan de Fuca for months, if not take in a Thanksgiving meal last longer. week didn’t seem to be the only “Yeah, it’s kind of strange,”said John such noises heard across the central part Robinson, who lives off Finn Hall Road of the North Olympic Peninsula. along the Strait between Port Angeles Residents between Port Angeles and and Sequim. Sequim reported hearing low, sustained “Everybody around here hears it. It rumblings and in some instances loud rattles windows.” booms from Tuesday to Thursday last Robinson said Friday neither he nor week. his family members ever see any ships in the Strait nor planes overhead accomAt least 15 people posted comments BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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panying the rumbling sounds, which he described as being heard “just about every day” last week. “If you’ve never heard it before, it almost sounds like a big ship maybe reversing propeller,” Robinson said.
Nighttime reports Others living in the Graysmarsh area of Sequim and up on Black Diamond Road also reported the rumblings Tuesday and Wednesday night. “It’s just another peculiarity of the
North Olympic Peninsula,” one person wrote on the PDN’s Facebook page. A Diamond Point resident said that people in that area hear “this all the time.” Mike Welding, public affairs officer at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, said Navy jets were practicing all last week, except on Thanksgiving, and for most of November at the station’s Ault Field, just north of Oak Harbor and about 60 miles east of Port Angeles. TURN
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Data will be used for state air-quality study BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Shoppers converge on Swain’s General Store in Port Angeles on Friday, the traditional first day of the Christmas shopping season.
Retailers happy with early sales BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Post-Thanksgiving shopping was encouraging for many North Olympic Peninsula merchants who reported gains over last year as the holiday shopping season moves into December. And many local owners of shops in
Clallam and Jefferson counties were hoping to build on the previous day’s sales Saturday. Small Business Saturday festivities and sales were planned in Port Angeles and Port Townsend. The day after Thanksgiving traditionally kicks off holiday season sales and
prompts a rush of shoppers to stores that offer special promotions and, in some cases, longer hours. On the West End, Forks Outfitters store manager Dave Gedlund said his first glance at preliminary sales figures seemed to show an uptick compared with last year’s. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — By Friday, Olympic Region Clean Air Agency officials expect a $90,000 device to have been installed in the Port Angeles fire station that will monitor and provide data on ultrafine particles. The monitor appears to be the first on the North Olympic Peninsula. The study also will look at ultrafine particles from Port Townsend Paper Corp.’s $55 million, 24-megawatt biomass cogeneration expansion project, which is expected to go online in 2014 or 2015. A timeline for the study focuses only on Port Angeles. The monitor is part of an “aerosol characterization study” on ultrafine particles in the air in Port Angeles, including those that emanate from Nippon Paper Industries USA’s biomass cogeneration plant, said Odelle Hadley, the agency’s senior airmonitoring specialist. She said the study will produce data on the composition and sources of the ultrafine particle emissions in the city and will be examined by University of Washington scientists. Analysis is expected by next summer, according to the project timeline. TURN
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Highway 101 collision involving trooper probed BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — The State Patrol continued to investigate Saturday a wreck on U.S. Highway 101 in which a state trooper’s patrol car crossed the centerline and struck two other vehicles Friday afternoon near Morse Creek. Trooper Travis D. Beebe, 39, was taken to Olympic Medical Center with back and neck pain, according to Trooper Russ Winger, State Patrol spokesman.
Beebe was not listed on the OMC patient roster late Saturday morning. The State Patrol said the fully marked 2011 Ford Crown Victoria patrol car was westbound at about 4:30 p.m. when it crossed the centerline and collided with two other vehicles, a 2009 Honda sport utility vehicle driven by Tigran Gyonjyan, 34, of Sammamish and a 2011 Toyota Tundra pickup truck driven by Dana M. Thompson, 28, of Sequim.
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