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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Of horses, fun and watermelon
WHAT DO YOU think of when someone says “watermelon-eating contest?”
Zorina Barker
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Moving Mom to Port Angeles
“Would Simba ever settle in to the noise of car and highway?” I asked myself again as the…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: No punchline to mask sadness, grief
THE CALL FROM Highland Court in Port Angeles telling me my dad had died felt surreal.
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Keeping a tradition alive
Vivian Lee of the Hoh Tribe laughed when she told me her favorite story to tell kids is…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Teens, music and cheap caffeine
LAST SATURDAY EVENING was Moonlight Madness in Forks and packs of teens roamed downtown.
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: ‘A people problem’ on the West End
THE BIG DOG showed up at our gate with a bullet hole in its head. My husband discerned…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Just how beautiful it is on the West End
LUKE TOLD ME, “It takes like six or seven hours to drive out here.”
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: A long drive for dad
I COME FROM a line of lead-foot drivers, but not the kind with one foot on the brake…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: New flag waves over Forks’ Tillicum Park
A FLAG THAT is 20 feet by 60 feet dwarfs almost everything in Forks.
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Spring has sprung on the West End
THERE IS A Bigfoot crossing sign nailed to a deciduous tree on the shore of Lake Crescent. It’s…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Proud weekend in Forks
How much would you pay to have four big high school senior boys work for you for 12…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Even animals get cabin fever
THE GUNFIRE DIDN’T seem exceptionally loud as it carried across the street and snow on the night of…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Making decisions for kids’ safety in Forks
SIX YEARS AGO, a school bus for the Quillayute Valley School District slid off the slick road south…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Arrrgh: Teachers pack pirate production into a week
HOW ENTHUSIASTICALLY CAN a child say just a single number?
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Embracing a windstorm
YET AGAIN, IT was raining and the power was out at home, so I split by 9 a.m.…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Warm music brightens up long-term care facility
ONE DOESN’T REALLY have to tune a washtub bass, so Larry Baysinger waited patiently while the other musicians…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Making the trek east
TO A SMOKER with a sizable habit, running out of cigarettes is much worse than running out of…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Mushroom season is fading out
IN THE FALL, there is gold out in the forests of the West End and anyone can pick…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Perfect end for an old hemlock
WHEN THE 124-FOOT hemlock fell with its top right in the fire, it could not have been more…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Staying out of the hunter’s scope
TO PICK UP a pair of binoculars and see the business end of a rifle pointed directly at…