Opinion
PAT NEAL: The woodpecker war
IT’S NESTING SEASON in this bird watcher’s paradise we call the Olympic Peninsula.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: The all new First Salmon Ceremony
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. A historic event we’ve all been waiting for finally came…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Bigfoot believes in me
A RECENT OPINION poll on the Peninsula Daily News website asked, “Sasquatch: Real or myth?”
Opinion
PAT NEAL: It’s May Day
MAY DAY IS much more than just another pagan festival celebrating the return of the sun or a…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Device deprivation disorder
ON SOME OF these clear spring days you just know summer is on the way.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: More moratorium mumbo jumbo
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. Despite years of headlines proclaiming the return of the salmon…
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PAT NEAL: It’s time for the best Arbor Day ever
HAPPY ARBOR DAY! Here’s hoping the joy of this most special day fills your heart with love and…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: A marmot lover’s dream
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news with rising concerns about economic uncertainty, constitutional crisis and the…
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PAT NEAL: The feast of fools
IT’S ALMOST TIME once again for that favorite holiday of the year, April Fools’ Day.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Looking on the bright side of snow
MAYBE THE BIRDS know something we don’t: that spring is just around the corner.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Snowstorm strategies and the bonds of vexation
BY NOW I think we’ve all had it up to here with living on the North Pole.
Opinion
PAT NEAL: That winter was a hard one
IF I’VE HEARD this once, I’ve heard it a million times from the local old-timers, “That winter was…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: Remember your river etiquette
EDITOR’S NOTE: This column has been corrected to reflect that the river etiquette guidelines mentioned here are from…
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PAT NEAL: Finding the Pacific Trail
SOMETIMES, WHEN READING the accounts of the first people who came to the Olympic Peninsula, it’s hard to…
Opinion
PAT NEAL: From elk to puncheon trails
IN LAST WEEK’S episode we were considering the evolution of the Olympic Peninsula infrastructure while cruising the highways…