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PAT NEAL: Root hog or die
“ROOT HOG OR die.” If I had a dollar for every time I heard my aunt Stella say…
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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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POINT OF VIEW: Medication-assisted treatment clinic plans described
I WOULD LIKE to take a moment to provide a factual context for the Jamestown S’Klallam’s proposed medication-assisted…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Stepping into the river of dancers
CLOSE YOUR EYES, and allow yourself to float in your partner’s arms. This is not the time for…
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PAT NEAL: A berry good time
THIS IS THE season we wait for all year when you can walk into almost any patch of…
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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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PAT NEAL: ‘Lord of the Flies,’ in a raft
IT WAS WRONG to assert in last week’s column that, “Stereotyping and profiling have no place on a…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Feasting — without the boom
THE NERVE OF this guy, bringing lasers instead of fireworks for Port Townsend’s Old School 4th of July.
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PAT NEAL: Youngsters on the river
THIS IS A magical time of year when you see a lot of youngsters on the river.
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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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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: A fresh variety of reporting
AS PEOPLE POUR out of classrooms and into the new summer, I’m thinking about the last time I…
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PAT NEAL: Wildlife roulette
THERE’S A CERTAIN tension in the woods these days. The animals are nervous, as if they have something…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Facts? Nah. Fabulous? Oh yes.
TURNS OUT SIR Elton John, deep down, is an eminently relatable guy.
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PAT NEAL: The woodpecker war, continued
THEY SAY THERE’S no place like home, that home is where your heart is and every man’s home…
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PAT NEAL: The woodpecker war
IT’S NESTING SEASON in this bird watcher’s paradise we call the Olympic Peninsula.
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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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PAT NEAL: The all new First Salmon Ceremony
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. A historic event we’ve all been waiting for finally came…
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