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PAT NEAL COLUMN: The end of hunting season
AND SO ANOTHER hunting season passes astern. I hope your season went better than mine, a washed up…
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PAT NEAL’S COLUMN: Apple pie at the elk-hunt camp
OF THE MANY things I love about elk hunting, it’s the nightly buffet at the elk hunting camp…
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PAT NEAL COLUMN: ‘Translocating’ wolves to the Peninsula
WHO SAYS THERE is no good news? Not me. In an exclusive interview with PDN Managing Editor Leah…
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PAT NEAL COLUMN: Why Forks is ‘Twilight’ town: fishing
THERE’S A DISTURBING trend in modern journalism for writers to use fleeting celebrity references as an excuse for…
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PAT NEAL COLUMN: Why they call it sport fi$hing
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. The latest Department of Fish and Wildlife 2010 sport fishing…
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THE PAT NEAL COLUMN: Autumn on the North Olympic Peninsula
AUTUMN JUST MIGHT be the best time to experience nature on the North Olympic Peninsula. Before the rains…
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PAT NEAL COLUMN: Winter forecast
AUTUMN MUST BE my favorite time of year. Already there was a dusting of fresh snow on the…
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PAT NEAL COLUMN: A fitting memorial for Ted Woods
THERE WERE GIANTS in the land. It’s been my privilege to know some of them. Although Ted Woods…
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PAT NEAL COLUMN: Those giant squid and their predators
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. An invasion of giant Humboldt squid in the western Strait…
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PAT NEAL: For him, the plunking bell tolls
MAYBE IT’S JUST a local legend that the nicest weather of the year seems to occur after school…
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PAT NEAL COLUMN: Gather ye ’round for the tale of the Gertie
THERE ARE FEW things I enjoy more than gazing at the graceful lines of a wooden boat. Once…
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PAT NEAL: Portrait of the artist as an exhibitor
THIS IS ABOUT me, as an artist. As a youth I was impressed with the linear geometry of…
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THE PAT NEAL COLUMN: Dangerous waters
THE APPARENT LOSS of two fishermen in the Strait of Juan de Fuca last weekend reminds us all…
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THE PAT NEAL COLUMN: Kin keep coming west till they reach Peninsula
THERE WERE GIANTS in the land. I always thought my uncle, Len Neal, was about 10 feet tall.…
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THE PAT NEAL COLUMN: Sincerest form of flattery OK by him
FOUR SCORE AND many moons ago, I set out to boldly write where no columnist has gone before,…
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THE PAT NEAL COLUMN: Looking back at his lavender daze
IT’S TIME ONCE again for the annual Sequim Lavender Festival. It is only now — after that the…
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THE PAT NEAL COLUMN: How much wood does a man need?
A MAN AND his wife lived on a small farm in the backwoods of the North Olympic Peninsula.…
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THE PAT NEAL COLUMN: What do we tell the ‘Twilight’ fans about Sasquatch?
TWILIGHTERS ARE TRAVELING to Forks from all over the world hoping to meet a vampire or a werewolf.…
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THE PAT NEAL COLUMN: Bucky the Elk, we hardly knew ye
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news, when all the chickens came home to roost, so I…
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How I found my blackberry heaven
SEQUIM — I thought I had died and gone to heaven. That’s because I was in blackberry heaven.…