THE BLUEPRINT FOR any state championship baseball team starts on the mound. Without at least one dominant pitcher, a team has little chance of securing… Continue reading
IF YOU HAPPEN to come across a grade school teacher today, I suggest you shake his or her hand. As I learned during a visit… Continue reading
WHEN IN DOUBT, schedule more meetings. One public comment session was not enough to decide the fate of the Snider Creek steelhead broodstock program. Thus,… Continue reading
CHIMACUM — The Chimacum Cowboys had a target on their back all spring. Yet after all was said and done, they were the only ones… Continue reading
THE CONDITIONS COULDN’T be much better for derby weekend. The fishing, on the other hand, may be something all together different. After three weekends of… Continue reading
■ Halibut Derby — Everyone knows who wins fishing derbies: the guy with the horseshoe sticking out the back of his pants. No doubt the… Continue reading
The busiest weekend of the entire prep sports season could end with more than one state championship for area athletes/teams. Along with the unbeaten Sequim… Continue reading
ONE HAS TO look long and hard to find any remnants of the old Port Angeles Salmon Derby. I stumbled upon one myself during an… Continue reading
With a total of 35 North Olympic Peninsula athletes competing in this weekend's state track and field championships, there's plenty of story lines. All told,… Continue reading
WRESTLING HAS A way of fostering independence. The individual nature of the sport forces wrestlers to succeed on their merits alone. It took Port Angeles… Continue reading
PAT NEAL HAS a problem with Kids Fishing Day this Saturday in Sequim. Mainly, that he’s not included. Approximately 1,500 trout have been dumped into… Continue reading
■ Strait halibut — Yes, the tides are a little less than desirable. Yes, the fishing has been a little less than spectacular. But the… Continue reading
QUILCENE — Brandon Bancroft doesn’t have to think too long about why pitching appeals to him so much. It’s the voices he hears from behind… Continue reading
FEW CLAMS ARE coveted quite like the geoduck. They’re large, they’re elusive and — more so than any other North Olympic Peninsula shellfish — they’re… Continue reading
THE CRESCENT LOGGERS will see a familiar face on the football field next fall, even if it’s a different one. The Crescent football search committee… Continue reading
WHENEVER WORD OF a monster flatty caught in the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca leaks out, more often than not, the location is said… Continue reading
■ Flatty fever — Take your pick on your favorite halibut hole. With the majority of the Peninsula’s saltwater opening to flatty fishing at some… Continue reading
SOME MIGHT SAY I’m doing you a disservice. Spending an entire column writing about clams and oysters in the month of May? For those who… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES — The Sequim boys soccer team kept coming up empty chance after chance. It took a golden opportunity for the Wolves (9-7-0 overall)… Continue reading
Howard “Scooter” Chapman has an idea how his career will end. The 76-year-old broadcaster will be doing his morning show on KONP radio someday when,… Continue reading
