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PAT NEAL: Up in smoke
THOSE WHO IGNORE history are doomed to watch television.
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PAT NEAL: The orca task force not to the rescue
THE VISCERAL SPECTACLE of the mother orca carrying her dead baby for 17 days and the emaciated female…
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PAT NEAL: Stages of a Sasquatch sighting
THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA’S first Sasquatch Symposium, held last November at Studio Bob in Port Angeles, resulted in an…
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PAT NEAL: Top tourist questions
AS GOODWILL AMBASSADORS of the tourist industry, it is our civic duty to share our precious local knowledge…
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PAT NEAL: Salmonberry deserving of honor
THERE’S NOTHING QUITE like the first salmonberry of the year.
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PAT NEAL: The horse fly menace
THIS IS A story about wilderness survival, told in hopes it will provide inspiration to others.
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PAT NEAL: Olympic tourist troubles
WHETHER IT IS an effect of climate change, the economy or the Fourth of July, it’s become apparent…
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PAT NEAL: Sympathy to new state Department of Fish and Wildlife director
DEAR MR. KELLY SUSEWIND: Allow me to express my deepest sympathy.
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PAT NEAL: The joys of cutting firewood
THERE ARE FEW outdoor recreational activities I enjoy more than cutting firewood.
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PAT NEAL: The fish duck blues
THERE’S NOTHING LIKE spending the night along one of our rivers where it is still possible to experience…
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PAT NEAL: Remembering D-Day
JUNE 6 MIGHT not mean much to people these days. Maybe it’s one day closer to a summer…
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PAT NEAL: Summer driving guide: You were warned
IN LAST WEEK’S episode of the Olympic Peninsula summer driving guide, we embarked on a westward journey down…
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PAT NEAL: Olympic Peninsula summer driving guide
IT’S TIME ONCE again for the Olympic Peninsula summer driving guide.
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PAT NEAL: The spud and I
THERE ARE FEW things more enjoyable to a gardener that planting potatoes. They are easy to plant. In…
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PAT NEAL: Sequim Irrigation Festival time again
IT’S TIME ONCE again for the Sequim Irrigation Festival, where we commemorate water being brought to the Sequim…
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PAT NEAL: The evils of rock stacking
IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the river with a heavy fog hugging close to the water.
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PAT NEAL: Celebrating April Fools’ week
THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, I’ve had enough April Fools’ jokes, pranks and poisonings played on me to make me…
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PAT NEAL: The Olympic Peninsula Treasure Hunt
OVER THE YEARS there have been many stories, legends and fables of lost treasures buried in the Olympic…