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PAT NEAL: The Bucket List
Don’t wait until the end
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PAT NEAL: Can you eat a fish?
A TOURIST RECENTLY asked me how and where they could catch and eat a fish.
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PAT NEAL: The end of the last frontier
IN LAST WEEK’S episode of heroes and villains of the North Olympic Peninsula, Victor Smith, a city father…
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PAT NEAL: Olympic heroes or villains continued
IN LAST WEEK’S episode, we were reviewing a number of historic individuals who could be considered heroes or…
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PAT NEAL: Olympic Peninsula heroes
ON JULY 3, President Donald Trump proposed a “National Garden of American Heroes.” The proposed national monument would…
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PAT NEAL: There walks a logger
IT WAS THAT great American philosopher Buzz Martin, also known as “The Singing Logger,” who said, “There walks…
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PAT NEAL: My cow-riding rodeo career
NOTHING SAYS SUMMER like the roar of the lawn mower, the spike in seasonally-adjusted gas prices and the…
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PAT NEAL: A sorry individual
IT WAS THAT great American philosopher John Wayne who spoke these immortal words, “Never apologize and never explain.…
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PAT NEAL: The Thunderbird and the railroad
MAYBE THERE’S NO such thing as the good old days, but then again, disturbing days of the present…
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PAT NEAL: The Quarantine Chronicles: Boomer remover review
Imagine a view from a ridge top high in the mountains. It looks like someplace up the Dungeness,…
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PAT NEAL: The Quarantine Chronicles: A new reason to stay home
JUST WHEN YOU thought things couldn’t get any worse, we got another good reason to stay home, locked…
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PAT NEAL: The Quarantine Chronicles: A crop of hope
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. The governor extended the stay-at-home order for another month. It…
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PAT NEAL: The Quarantine Chronicles: The Boomer Remover
IT WAS A day I’ll never forget. I remember it like it was yesterday. Maybe it was yesterday.
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PAT NEAL: Herd mentality when there’s more than enough hay
IT WAS DAYLIGHT in the swamp. I was already late for a very important date. Breakfast with the…
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PAT NEAL: Skunk Cabbage Festival canceled
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. It was revealed that the Oil City Skunk Cabbage Festival…