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PT teacher in custody until hearing Threats to principal alleged BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT TOWNSEND — A Port Townsend High School teacher who allegedly threatened the school principal and entered his former classroom after being banned from campus remained in custody Saturday as the court

awaits the results of a Thursday competency hearing. Bail for James Keith Miller, 52, remained at $150,000 after Superior Court Judge Keith Harper denied a motion to reduce it during a hearing Friday. Harper said the results of a competency hearing at the Jeffer-

are received and evaluated, not indicate intent for theft, police according to Michael Haas, Jeffer- have said. son County prosecuting attorney. Miller’s attorney, Richard Davies, said Friday his client sufBurglary, harassment fers from bipolar disorder. Miller, standing next to his Miller is being held for investi- attorney, criticized the proceedgation of one count each of burings during the hearing. glary in the second degree and “I am extremely competent. I harassment-threats to kill. can recite quadratic formula,” the Under Washington RCWs, burmath teacher said, “and have glary is defined as entering a helped with this case.” property or structure with the intent to commit a crime and does TURN TO TEACHER/A6

son County jail in Port Hadlock were essential in the determination of the next step. Results were expected in time for a court appearance at 11:15 a.m. this coming Thursday at the county courthouse, 1820 Jefferson St., Port Townsend. Trial had been set for May 16-17 after an arraignment March 25. The case is on hold until the results of the competency hearing

Jury finds for former PA official in lawsuit

Extra, extra! Read all about it! Region’s paper salutes 100 years

Ziomkowski given $1.5M plus earnings

Founded April 1916 as the Port Angeles Evening News

BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

BY LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

This newspaper is 100 years old today. Now the Peninsula Daily News, it was born as the Port Angeles Evening News on Monday, April 10, 1916, one of a swarm of newspapers that proliferated in Clallam County during the late 1800s and early 1900s. When A.A. Smith and E.B. Webster formed the daily, its first edition had eight pages, a circulation of a little more than 1,000 and cost 1 cent a copy, 5 cents a week or 20 cents a month. That’s according to Olympic Leaders: The Life and Times of the Websters of Port Angeles, a book published in 2003 by Helen Neal Radke and Joan Ducceschi, wife of former publisher Frank Ducceschi. The first front page included accounts of fighting between the French and Germans at Verdun, France, in World War I, the pursuit of Mexican bandit and revolutionary Pancho Villa by American cavalrymen in West Texas — along with local news. Since then, the newspaper has covered such milestones as the establishment of Olympic National Park and a road built to Hurricane Ridge. It has published stories about the rising and falling fortunes of the timber industry as well as the debates over protection of old growth forest and the creatures that live there and in the sea. It covered the controversial legal Makah whale hunt in 1999 — and an illegal one in 2007 — as well as the dis-

Above, the first edition of the Evening News, dated April 10, 1916. At left, co-founder E.B. Webster and his wife, Jessie. covery of the ancient village of Tse-whitzen in 2003 and the subsequent loss of jobs from a graving yard that had been planned on the Port Angeles waterfront. Most recently, it has published accounts of drought in a land where rain seems to fall for months at a time, and a

dispute over what should be added to the water residents drink. Throughout, the newspaper keeps readers up to date on local wrecks, power outages and what the police and courts are doing. TURN

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PORT ANGELES — A Clallam County Superior Court jury has awarded a former Port Angeles finance director $1.5 million in damages and $113,471 in lost earnings after deciding her termination was prompted by gender discrimination. The eight-woman, four-man panel determined 10-2 Friday that Yvonne Ziomkowski, 62, was subject to a hostile work environment and disparate treatment because of her gender when then-City Manager Ken Myers fired her March 15, 2012. “I feel that finally my name and reputation [have] been restored,” Ziomkowski said. The jury’s verdict brought Ziomkowski to tears, she said later Friday, adding she was “still shaking.” Ziomkowski, a Polish woman who fled communism with her husband and young children in her 20s, said she has isolated herself at her home for the past four years. “I stopped doing anything,” she said. “I just wanted to die. “Now I will start living again. ” City Attorney Bill Bloor said Friday afternoon that the city is evaluating the pros and cons of an appeal, which must be filed within 30 days of a judgment being entered. City Manager Dan McKeen will not be in his office until April 21, according to his voice mail. “The city is disappointed in the decision,” said Abbi Fountain, human resources manager. “We are taking some time to review the decision and evaluate our options.” Bloor, Fountain and city Finance Director Byron Olson would not comment Friday on how the city would pay the judgment if it comes to that. The jury began deliberations Friday at 9 a.m. in the three-week civil trial, which included 174 exhibits and lengthy testimony from Ziomkowski, before announcing its decision just hours later, shortly before noon. TURN

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