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PAT NEAL: The end of the last frontier
IN LAST WEEK’S episode of heroes and villains of the North Olympic Peninsula, Victor Smith, a city father…
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PAT NEAL: Olympic heroes or villains continued
IN LAST WEEK’S episode, we were reviewing a number of historic individuals who could be considered heroes or…
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PAT NEAL: Olympic Peninsula heroes
ON JULY 3, President Donald Trump proposed a “National Garden of American Heroes.” The proposed national monument would…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Dead-on Dana and the dance party
DANA SULLIVAN, SPARK plug of a guy, is not tamped down by these times.
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PAT NEAL: There walks a logger
IT WAS THAT great American philosopher Buzz Martin, also known as “The Singing Logger,” who said, “There walks…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: The physics of waiting
THE FIRST TIME I saw — and heard — musician Emma Weller, she was among the youngsters giving…
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PAT NEAL: My cow-riding rodeo career
NOTHING SAYS SUMMER like the roar of the lawn mower, the spike in seasonally-adjusted gas prices and the…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: A neighborhood goddess
WALKING ONE NIGHT in my neighborhood, I saw an image and a message that widened my eyes.
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PAT NEAL: A sorry individual
IT WAS THAT great American philosopher John Wayne who spoke these immortal words, “Never apologize and never explain.…
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Peninsula College adapts to pandemic
WORKING FROM HIS home studio, Peninsula College Ceramics Instructor Steve Belz records ceramics demonstrations and raw materials lab…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Take it slow toward a new groove
AMID THE COUNTY-STATE-NATIONAL recovery, what about a personal reopening?
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PAT NEAL: The Thunderbird and the railroad
MAYBE THERE’S NO such thing as the good old days, but then again, disturbing days of the present…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Essential: work, mothering, reading
STEPHANIE LAND, AUTHOR of the bestselling “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother’s Will to Survive,” granted…
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PAT NEAL: The Quarantine Chronicles: Boomer remover review
Imagine a view from a ridge top high in the mountains. It looks like someplace up the Dungeness,…
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PAT NEAL: The Quarantine Chronicles: A new reason to stay home
JUST WHEN YOU thought things couldn’t get any worse, we got another good reason to stay home, locked…
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PAT NEAL: The Quarantine Chronicles: A crop of hope
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. The governor extended the stay-at-home order for another month. It…
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