IT GOT AWFULLY cold on the North Olympic Peninsula, in more ways than one. Blown-out rivers made for some forgetful fishing during Thanksgiving weekend, the… Continue reading
Coaches tend to downplay the importance of the nonleague season in high school football. Yet it's hard to deny the sort of boost starting a… Continue reading
TIME TO COUNT your crabs. The summer recreational crab fishery comes to a close in Marine Areas 6 (eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca) and… Continue reading
• Pink pleasure -- There aren't too many times when one is guaranteed a fish. Yet that appears to be the case in Sekiu right… Continue reading
PERHAPS THERE WAS something to that Y2K bug after all. We just weren't looking in the right places. For it was the state's big-game hunting… Continue reading
A GOOD FRIEND of mine once argued that anything can be art. He said that art was undefined; an expression of a concept in the… Continue reading
ANGLERS ARE RUNNING out of time to pillage pink salmon. No doubt the gargantuan run, which typically begins to tail off inside the Strait of… Continue reading
• Sekiu salmon --If you don't catch a salmon while fishing at Sekiu, you're fired. After all, everybody else seems to be bringing in at… Continue reading
HAVE I GOT a movie event for you. It's quite the gala affair, one that might even inspire a long line. Yet unlike that other… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES -- It takes a lot to get noticed in the relative obscurity of the North Olympic Peninsula. Take the Peninsula College Pirates men's… Continue reading
• Kids' Salmon Derby -- The Clallam Bay-Sekiu Lions Club will host its annual Kids' Salmon Derby, open to ages 5-14 on Saturday. There is… Continue reading
FISH DRIVE MEN to madness. They drain children's college funds, dominate precious brain cells and, in some cases, lead to outlaw behavior. It's this last… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES -- Divaldo Mbunga will have to learn yet another language. The former Peninsula College men's basketball standout, and native of Angola, is headed… Continue reading
STATE OFFICIALS PULLED the plug on the untouchable season this morning. Healthy, and apparently in its prime, the Marine Area 5 (Sekiu) and 6 (eastern… Continue reading
MY LAWYER ONCE imparted some sage wisdom to me. "Matt," he said in a foreboding tone, "nothing good happens after 10 p.m." With only a… Continue reading
OLYMPIA -- Anglers can now double their fun with coastal chinook. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife announced an increase in the daily limit… Continue reading
I USED TO operate on a couple of assumptions in life: • It gets really cold at some point every year, and that's called winter.… Continue reading
THE AFTERNOON SUN baked Hollywood Beach on one of the hottest days of the year. Children played in the water before the watchful eyes of… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES -- It took Port Angeles High School wrestling coach Erik Gonzalez a few minutes to list off Bruce Baumgartner's career achievements. The list… Continue reading
THE WARNING SIGNS are easy to miss, even if one looks for them. Judging by the confluence of buoys floating around Port Angeles Harbor, several… Continue reading
