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PORT TOWNSEND — It’s been relatively quiet on the campaign-contribution front this election season. Marc Mauney, incumbent Position 3 Jefferson Healthcare hospital commissioner, and challenger Matt Ready were the only
candidates in Tuesday’s general election who had filed contribution reports with the state Public Disclosure Commission, or PDC, as of Monday, the most recent official reporting date.
Combined, Mauney of Port Hadlock and Ready of Port Townsend had raised $10,948, almost all of it self-financed. Of Ready’s $7,297 in contributions, $5,000 was his own money in the form of a loan. All of Mauney’s $3,651 came out of his own pocket. In addition, committees for and against the Jefferson
County home-rule charter proposition and a committee in favor of the Port Ludlow-area Fire District No. 3 maintenance-andoperations levy have raised and spent money for their causes. Citizens for Port Ludlow Fire & Rescue has raised $5,885 to pass the levy, the PDC said. TURN
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Body found at bottom of PT bluff
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Weather, high tide hamper recovery bid BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ
“We have no other indication at this point of foul play, other than a body on a cliff side. . . . But we can’t confirm that until we get out there.” MICHAEL EVANS deputy police chief
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Masaru Motomura, a Nippon Paper Industries Co. Ltd. vice president, U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer and Port Angeles Mayor Cherie Kidd, from left, use mallets to break the lid of a ceremonial sake barrel during a ceremony to celebrate the dedication of a new cogeneration plant at Nippon’s Port Angeles paper mill. Story, more photos on Page C1.
PA mill hails its future 100 watch as Nippon Paper dedicates biomass plant BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — The Nippon Paper Industries USA mill is reinventing itself, company officials say. The mill on Ediz Hook will be the first of two biomass expansion projects on the North Olympic Peninsula to go online. The Port Townsend Paper Corp. has delayed its plant until next year or 2015.
Officials at the Port Angeles mill cut a ribbon, dedicated a plaque and proclaimed the virtues of generating electricity for sale at the paper manufacturing plant to about 100 community leaders and employees in a private ceremony Friday. It took place under a temporary shelter set up in the plant’s gated parking lot. “With electronic information taking center stage, the demand for printed telephone directory decreased by 50 percent compared to five years ago,” said Masaru Motomura, corporate executive vice president. TURN
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PORT TOWNSEND — Police officers and a search-and-rescue team with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office were preparing Saturday evening to hike to a beach below Elmira Street Park to recover a woman’s body found there that morning. Michael Evans, deputy police chief, said the body of an adult woman was found by a passer-by about 50 feet to 70 feet above the beach line between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Saturday. As of late Saturday afternoon, the search-and-rescue team had not been able to get to the body on North Beach because of high tide and choppy water conditions, Evans said.
where the body was found, roughly a 30-minute walk, once the tide was out far enough. “As soon as the tide allows us to get down there, we’re going to get down there,” Evans said earlier Saturday. “That’s the plan.” An estimated age is expected to be available after the body is recovered, he said. The cause may not be known until after an autopsy is performed, he added. Evans said he could not confirm how long the body had been there but estimated that it was fewer than 24 hours. “But we can’t confirm that until we get out there,” he added. On Oct. 13, a large portion of No sign of foul play the bluff where the body has been Evans could not offer many found collapsed into the Strait of details because the body has not Juan de Fuca. No one was in the path of the been recovered. “We have no other indication at small landslide when it occurred. ________ this point of foul play, other than a body on a cliff side,” Evans said. Reporter Jeremy Schwartz can be Evans said the search-and-res- reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5074, or at cue team planned to hike out to jschwartz@peninsuladailynews.com.
Sides begin sorting issues before murder retrial BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ORCHARD — A pretrial hearing in the relocated murder retrial of Michael J. Pierce focused on what issues can be resolved before the trial begins Feb. 24. “It’s important to determine
how many hearings we need to have before the trial,” said Kitsap County Superior Court Judge Sally Olsen at the beginning of the 10-minute hearing Friday. It was the first procedural hearing in the second retrial attempt for Pierce, 38, who is accused of killing Pat and Janice 3B907769
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fully argued that his post-arrest statements should be suppressed. The first retrial, in July, was stopped in its fourth day of testimony when a juror revealed that she may have witnessed a man, alleged to be Pierce, walking by the side of U.S. Highway 101 one evening, though she could not
recall the exact date. A change of venue was granted, and the case is being heard in Port Orchard. Pierce was present at Friday’s hearing through a Skype connection with the Jefferson County jail in Port Hadlock. TURN
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