Coast Guard suspends search for missing boater

Posted on October 29, 2015January 5, 2016 by usrv

SEATTLE — The Coast Guard suspended a search Tuesday afternoon for a 54-year-old Bainbridge man who went missing Monday evening in Rich Passage. Crews in three boats and two helicopters searched over 400 miles. The Coast Guard received a report from Bainbridge Island police around 6:30 p.m. Monday of a 15-foot unmanned boat adrift. A[…]

Diver had been harvesting eelgrass for mill site cleanup project

Posted on October 29, 2015September 20, 2016 by usrv

PORT GAMBLE — Pope Resources employees are “badly shaken” by the death Oct. 19 of a diver harvesting eelgrass for the mill site cleanup. Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe members were joining for a prayer circle on the beach at Point Julia, across the bay from the mill site, at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 20. “Our company[…]