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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…
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PAT NEAL: A historic canoe journey
LISTENING TO PEOPLE complain about the weather on the Olympic Peninsula is evidence we’ve evolved into a nation…
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PAT NEAL: Co-managed to extinction
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. The WDFW, aka the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife,…
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PAT NEAL: A decade of disaster
BY NOW WE are all fed up with know-it-all newspaper columnists telling us what the most important events…
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PAT NEAL: The royal visit
IT’S BEEN ANOTHER tough week in the news with the recurring snowmaggedon, the heartbreaking Seahawks playoff loss to…
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PAT NEAL: Rainforest expedition
IT WAS A dark and stormy night. Inside the cabin, the wood stove glowed red with venison stew…
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PAT NEAL: Happy New Year
THANK YOU FOR reading this. Sometimes I think if you didn’t read this, no one would.
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PAT NEAL: Merry Christmas anyway
THIS HAS BEEN a controversial Christmas season in the controversial year where everything is offensive if you think…
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PAT NEAL: Yes, Virginia, there is a steelhead
(WITH APOLOGIES TO Francis Pharcellus Church, editor of the New York Sun, Dec. 21, 1897.)
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PAT NEAL: Flu season shots help
THIS IS A morning that can make you feel like a spawned-out salmon headed downstream tail first.
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PAT NEAL: The holiday marathon
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news made even tougher by the long Thanksgiving weekend.
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PAT NEAL: A Dirty Thirties Thanksgiving
THIS IS A story of an Olympic Peninsula family celebrating Thanksgiving in the olden days.
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PAT NEAL: Our disappearing ferns
IT ALL STARTED with an attempt to share in nature’s bounty and celebrate the harvest of wild foods.…
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PAT NEAL: Bring back the spawners
IT WAS AN early morning on the river. I was launching a boat in the dark.
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PAT NEAL: Getting along in the country
AN AWFUL LOT of city folks are moving to the country these days and they want to know…