Hoodsport businesses, port reach accord

Downtown Hoodsport business co-owner Katherine Yackel and the Port of Hoodsport appear to have settled their concerns about the community at the port’s Aug. 17 meeting.

Yackel, instructor and operations manager of YSS Dive in Hoodsport, acknowledged using the port’s park without an event form April 30. She said she’d been unaware of such event forms beforehand.

“I do apologize for that,” Yackel said. “We did instruct our divers to use the parking lot where we had our tents. We did have one tent on the beach, and I apologize for that as well. It won’t happen again.”

Yackel said she has no probl...