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PAT NEAL: It’s time for the best Arbor Day ever
HAPPY ARBOR DAY! Here’s hoping the joy of this most special day fills your heart with love and…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Can’t turn away from ‘unbearable’ movie
OH NO, NO. Of all the movies at the Women and Film festival, I cannot watch that one.
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PAT NEAL: A marmot lover’s dream
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news with rising concerns about economic uncertainty, constitutional crisis and the…
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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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PAT NEAL: The feast of fools
IT’S ALMOST TIME once again for that favorite holiday of the year, April Fools’ Day.
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Joyous agitation: Moore’s prescription
WE WILL RECLAIM our laughter and joy, she told me, for the work ahead.
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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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PAT NEAL: Looking on the bright side of snow
MAYBE THE BIRDS know something we don’t: that spring is just around the corner.
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: The shapes of water surround us
I’VE BEEN ALERTED to an evocative statement; one that makes perfect sense.
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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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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Former first lady Michelle Obama steps up with memoir
“Becoming” finds common ground across the country
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PAT NEAL: Snowstorm strategies and the bonds of vexation
BY NOW I think we’ve all had it up to here with living on the North Pole.
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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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OUR VIEW: Our neighbors need help
THE PAST WEEK has been difficult for all of us on the North Olympic Peninsula.
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PAT NEAL: That winter was a hard one
IF I’VE HEARD this once, I’ve heard it a million times from the local old-timers, “That winter was…