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WEST END NEIGHBOR: More miles to be grateful on the interstate
THE TEXT FROM my mom saying she had just come home as the ambulance was leaving with my…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Twilight festival brings faithful to Forks
TRINITY HANNING, 16, told me her stagecraft teacher said “she is possessed by a demon again,” because of…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Still a bumpy path to jobs’ completion in Forks
WHEN SOMEBODY SAYS “the best laid plans” and leaves the words to hang in the air like smoke,…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: It’s not just the park — it’s the people
LOOKING DOWN AT the ladder of the avalanche chute, it appeared the wood rungs hadn’t been maintained since…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Neighbors who help with the worst jobs
LAST WEEK I found myself at the bottom of a grave I was finishing up.
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Sarge’s Place Farmstand celebrates new growth
JAY BAKER OF Sarge’s Place joked, “The military issued me two dog tags, one said B positive and…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Roof, not rain, dampens spirits
SITTING ON THE bank of the Sol Duc River, Stan Fouts said, “I love my national park but…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: History on tap at Forks Logging Museum
AT 6 P.M., THE Forks Timber Museum, 1421 Forks Ave., began pouring wine for the ladies of the…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Immigrant woman fearful of leaving life in Forks
“I SOLD MY house, packed and took my children,” Maria-Elena Perez told me of her border crossing from…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Flexibility reigns at Forks’ RainFest
“BLESSED ARE THE flexible for they will not be bent out of shape,” read a sign in my…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: West End comes out for annual Forks auction
SARAH DECKER TOOK command of the microphone Sunday afternoon at the Quillayute Valley Scholarship Auction in the Forks…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Good time was had by all
JUST OVER A week ago, I was sitting with some friends and we were looking over our group…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: What to do when the trees fall
WHEN THE WINDS on the West End violently abuse the forest, trees fall.
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: West Enders seek warm meals, generators and water
THE POWER GOING out was fairly predictable, given the stormy weather Saturday night and early Sunday morning.
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: The how and why of Lake Pleasant plungers
THIS YEAR, I thought about joining the Polar Bear Plunge at Lake Pleasant in Beaver on New Year’s…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Authors cookin’ up books on West End life
THE MUSIC WAS too loud, though I’d never admit it was because then some smarty pants would say…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: West Enders endure the rain and the dark
TO LIVE ON the West End, one has to come to grips with the rain.
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Caring for precious family members
ALL MY FEARFUL thoughts instantly flew away as soon as I heard the unique rattle of the tags…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Fingers crossed for chinook, rain
FISHING IS NOT just child’s play out here on the West End.