PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. _ Cindy Buxton woke up one night to the rancid smell of rotting eggs and the unnerving sound of her 10-year-old son violently vomiting. By the next day, the smell that had permeated her house _ the telltale odor of the local paper mill _ was gone and her son was better.

By Jonathan Martin, Seattle Times Feb. 19--PORT TOWNSEND -- Cindy Buxton woke up one night to the rancid smell of rotting eggs and the unnerving sound of her 10-year-old son violently vomiting.

By Susan Gilmore, Seattle Times Dec. 14--Gov. Christine Gregoire has proposed spending $100 million to replace four aging Steel-Electric Class ferries with three new boats.

By Susan Gilmore, Seattle Times Dec. 13--Gov. Christine Gregoire today proposed spending $100 million to replace four aging Steel Electric Class ferries with three new boats.

By Susan Gilmore, Seattle Times Dec. 11--It's likely to be a year or more before car-ferry service returns to the Port Townsend-Keystone route after state officials on Monday recommended four aging ferries, sidelined since Nov. 20, should be scrapped, not fixed.