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Scientists closing in on mystery of auklets’ deaths About 400 of the birds have washed ashore since May BY JESSE MAJOR
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PORT TOWNSEND — Scientists are getting closer to understanding why hundreds of rhinoceros auklets, a seabird closely related to puffins, have been found dead in the eastern part of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. They may have starved. About 400 emaciated birds have washed ashore on beaches west of Port Angeles, near Victoria, and as far east as Whidbey Island since May, said conservation biologist Peter Hodum, an associate professor at the University of Puget Sound.
PORT TOWNSEND — It’s difficult for working-class families to find a place to live in Port Townsend, something City Manager David Timmons hopes to fix. Increasing market prices and the current lack of housing available in Port Townsend, specifically rentals, is making it difficult for employers to bring in new employees, he said. ”If you can afford to buy, there may be properties you can buy. But to just rent properties, they just aren’t out there,” he said. “We don’t have the rental housing stock, and we’re finding people are getting displaced.” His goal before he retires in 2018 is to develop a housing trust in Port Townsend that would help alleviate the problem by introducing more rentals into the city. Adequate housing for residents of all income groups, including sufficient housing affordable for low- and moderate-income groups, is among the goals of proposed revisions to the city’s 2016-36 Comprehensive Plan.
Possible pneumonia Necropsies of some of the birds performed by the U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center showed the birds may have died from bacterial pneumonia. What isn’t clear is whether they first caught pneumonia then starved, or if the birds couldn’t find food and then became more susceptible to pneumonia, Hodum said. TURN
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An adult rhinoceros auklet returns to Protection Island, left, with a bill full of sandlance to feed its chick. Since May, scientists have been trying to figure out why hundreds of the birds are washing ashore in the eastern part of the Strait. The auklets make their burrows in scrub brush, right.
Port Townsend’s Comprehensive Plan through 2036 includes goals of providing housing for residents of all income groups.
Ex-principal pleads guilty to sex charges 55-year-old faces 24 years in prison BY MATTHEW NASH
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SEQUIM — Douglas John Allison, former principal and teacher at Mountain View Christian School in Sequim, faces 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to molesting and raping two of his students. Allison, 55, accepted a plea offer in Clallam County Superior Court on Thursday. He pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree child molestation and two counts of first-degree rape of a child against two students. Michele Devlin, Clallam County chief criminal deputy
prosecuting attorney, recommended 288 months in prison — or 24 years — along with Allison losing the right to own a firearm and vote unless allowed by the court upon release. Sentencing is set for 9 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14, in Superior Court at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles. If he is sentenced to 24 years and serves the full term, he would be 79 upon his release. Devlin said victims and family members will read testimony at the sentencing hearing. Judge Brian Coughenour said that because of the nature of the crimes, Allison cannot be released
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went over the plea offer with Allison for an hour Wednesday and he felt confident Allison understood the agreement. Allison spoke a nearly inaudible “yes, sir” when admitting to the four charges. In his statement, Allison admitted to sexual contact and intercourse with the female victims, then 10 and 11 years old, starting in September 2015 during classes while other students studied. About 15 people sat in the courtroom to watch the hearing. They included family members and Allison’s wife, Judy Allison. Both were hired to work at the small private school in August 2013. Allison served as principal and taught grades 4-8 while his wife taught kindergarten through
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on bail, which previously was set at $100,000. He will remain in the Clallam County jail until sentencing. Allison had p r e v i o u s l y Allison pleaded, onApril 1, not guilty to eight counts of first-degree child molestation and four counts of firstdegree rape of a child. For each of the molestation charges, he was facing 149 to 198 months in jail, and 240 to 318 months for each count of rape. Clallam County Public Defender Harry Gasnick said he
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third grade. Allison was arrested March 29 after a Clallam County Sheriff’s Office investigation, which began March 23 when the mother of the child reported sexual abuse. He was placed on leave and eventually fired by the Washington Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which is heavily involved in decisions at the school along with the school board and the Sequim Seventh-day Adventist Church. Judy Allison took a leave of absence through the end of last school year. Heidi Baumgartner, communications director for the Washington Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, said the school is in operation and more details are forthcoming about the new school year.
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