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Sequim to hire firm for city manager search by MATTHEW NASH Sequim Gazette
With Sequim City Manager Steve Burkett planning to retire by the middle of the year, Sequim City Councilors have begun the
first steps for recruiting his replacement. On Monday, Jan. 12, councilors voted 5-2 with Councilors Genaveve Starr and Erik Erichsen opposed, to send out requests for proposals for
Possible shellfish farm in Dungeness Bay interest intensifies BY ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
The second floor of the Dungeness Schoolhouse was standing room only Saturday where community members gathered to learn about a possible 30-acre geoduck farm in Dungeness Bay. The well-attended meeting was coordinated by citizen representative for the Coalition to Protect Puget Sound, Laura Hendricks, and reviewed the potential adverse implications associated with shellfish aquaculture and specifically Taylor Shellfish Farms’ proposed geoduck farm in Dungeness Bay.
human resources director, perform the search, or hire a firm. He encouraged the council to pursue a firm because he felt adding on the city manager recruitment may take up too much of her time. Tentatively, Connelly
will recruit for the vacant public works director position vacated by Paul Haines in late 2014, and the administrative services director position and city attorney
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Spotlight on Sweets
Both Leslie Ann Rose, representing the Audubon Society, and retired University of Oregon law professor and member of Alliance For Puget Sound, Maradel Gale, gave short presentations, allotting the remaining time for a panel to answer public questions. The panel consisted of marine habitat specialist consultant Jim Brennan, Rose, Gale and Hendricks. “To me the idea of putting an installation right by a wildlife refuge is about as asinine as anything I can imagine,” Gale told those attending Saturday’s meeting. At their project location
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Looking back: Dungeness Wildlife Refuge marks 100 years by JOHN MAXWELL
Given That Takes the Cake has won KING 5 “Evening Magazine’s” The Best of Western Washington award for best wedding cakes for two consecutive years, owner of the bakery Sue Boucher, and her husband Paul received a visit Wednesday, Jan. 7, from members of “Evening Magazine’s” news team to film a segment for their show. Sequim Gazette photo by Alana Linderoth
For the Sequim Gazette Editor’s note: This is the first in a monthly series about the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge, past and present. — MD
One hundred years! On Jan. 20, Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge will be 100 years old. Visited by an estimated 80,000 people annually, the refuge’s primary purpose is to be a sanctuary for migratory birds and marine mammals. In 1792, the British Naval explorer Capt. George Vancouver
See REFUGE, A-10 Last week, Christopher Greimes, CEO of Allied Titanium, received the first of many machines to manufacture titanium products at the company’s western headquarters in Sequim. Sequim Gazette photo by Alana Linderoth
a search firm while spending $20,000-$30,000. The cost could include the firm’s fees and travel expenses for candidates. Burkett said the council had three options – recruit on its own, have Susanne Connelly,
That Takes the Cake to make TV debut by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
After winning the “best wedding cakes” award in western Washington, owner of That Takes the Cake, Sue Boucher, and her husband Paul,
received a welcomed visit last week from KING 5’s “Evening Magazine” news team to film a segment about the bakery. “We’re not sure when it’s going to air yet, but as soon as we know we’ll post to our Facebook,” Sue Boucher
said. “We know it will be sometime in February.” KING 5’s 2014 Best of Western Washington award for best wedding cakes is the second win for Boucher
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Allied Titanium gets ‘milestone’ machine by ALANA LINDEROTH Sequim Gazette
During the first week of January, Chief Executive Officer Christopher Greimes received two machines allowing him to begin
Although the corporate headquarters for Allied Titanium is in Delaware, the majority of its fabricating is done in China. In 2012, however, company officials established a western headquarters in Sequim with the longterm goal to fabricating titanium products in manufacture products in America America at the company’s western instead of overseas. headquarters in Sequim. The ability to create USA-made Nearly manufacturing “We’ve gotten a couple maproducts for Allied Titanium is a “milestone,” for the company, chines in and have fabricating Greimes said.
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