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PAT NEAL: Most wonderful time of the year
IT’S THE MOST wonderful time of the year.
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PAT NEAL: Thanksgiving: Knowing when you got it good
THERE’S A LOT of talk these days about holiday stress.
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PAT NEAL: Autumn harvest frustrations
AUTUMN IS A time of gathering the wild abundance that grows all around us.
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PAT NEAL: Most wonderful time of the year
OPENING DAY OF deer season must be my favorite day of the year.
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PAT NEAL: The true cost of salmon fishing
ALONG ABOUT THIS time of year we get a run of salmon up the rivers.
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PAT NEAL: The lost and the not yet lost
THERE ARE ONLY two types of mushroom pickers. Those that have gotten lost in the woods and those…
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PAT NEAL: Blue-tarp camping misery
THERE’S NOTHING QUITE like the sound of rain on the roof, unless you have a leaky roof.
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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.