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Klallam

Klallam (klălˈəm), Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Salishan branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). They formerly occupied the southern tip of Vancouver Island, B.C., and the south shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Puget Sound. There are presently three bands of Klallam in the United States: the Jamestown, Lower Elwha, and Port Gamble, all in Washington state. They have a total population of about 1,500 and are engaged primarily in commercial fishing.

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A subsidiary of Sound Financial Bancorp Inc., Sound Community Bank is a Seattle-based community bank providing personal and business banking services in King, Pierce, Snohomish, Jefferson and Clallam Counties.

Sound Community Bank supports U.S. Chamber of Commerce fellowship program

* Clallam Title Co., Port Angeles, Wash.; fined $250,

Washington Commissioner Fined Carriers, Producers and Others $724K in June

Since 2009, several other counties in the State of Washington have successfully received voter approval for the same tax, and without a sunset clause, including the counties of Clallam, Cowlitz, Grant, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, Kitsap, Lincoln, Mason, Pacific, Skagit, Thurston, and Whitman.

Emergency Communication Systems and Facilities Tax

Hinda Omar, Minnesota Department of Health; Kelly Pung, Minnesota Department of Health Public Health Laboratory; David Doran, Christopher Frank, Clallam County Department of Health and Human Services, Port Angeles, WA; Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA; Washington State Public Health Laboratory; Ryan Novak, Division of Bacterial Disease, CDC.

Imported Toxin-Producing Cutaneous Diphtheria--Minnesota, Washington, and New Mexico, 2015-2018

Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict confirmed that more than a dozen shots were fired at the location.

Triple Homicide Of Father, Son, Unidentified Woman In Washington

Since it was funded in 2015, the First Federal Community Foundation has given nearly $3 million in grant awards to organizations in Clallam, Jefferson, Kitsap and Whatcom counties.

Whatcom awardees receive First Federal Community Foundation awards

Meanwhile, an estimated $4.8 million in public works projects in Clallam and Jefferson counties on the Olympic Peninsula came to a halt because of the strike, the Peninsula Daily News reported.

Western Washington operating engineers go on strike

Deposit increases were primarily the result of our continuing efforts to expand commercial and consumer deposit relationships in our new Kitsap and Whatcom County, Washington locations, as well as within our historic Clallam and Jefferson County, Washington locations.

First Northwest Bancorp reports net income of $1.5 million

Donald Holbrook, Superintendent at Washington State's Washington State Penitentiary, notes that their Group Violence Reduction Strategy (GVRS), Operation Place Safety, was implemented out of necessity due to increased group violence at Clallam Bay Corrections Center in December 2012 and in October 2015.

How focused deterrence principles can reduce violence in correctional facilities

Jeremiah Adams, 24, an Oswego East High School graduate, had not been seen since May 4 when he went for a day hike in Olympic National Forest, according to the Clallam County sheriff's office.

Navy sailor from Plainfield found dead

But two days after he disappeared in the waters, Clallam County Sheriff's deputies, along with other search-and-rescue teams, recovered his body, at a depth of around 85 feet.