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Senior center offers connection and community
I AM PLEASED to begin sharing a monthly column with you in the Peninsula Daily News. It’s a…
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PAT NEAL: Celebrating April Fool’s in style
APRIL FOOLS’ DAY must be my favorite holiday. It’s easy to remember the date. We look forward to…
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PAT NEAL: More research is needed
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, in cooperation with…
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Working together gets bigger results
THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA Narcotics Enforcement Team (OPNET) is a multi-jurisdictional taskforce comprised of four full-time investigators from the…
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PAT NEAL: Celebrating the skunk cabbage
THERE IS NOTHING more beautiful than a swamp full of skunk cabbage in the snow. The appearance of…
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PAT NEAL: Green crab confusion
THANK YOU FOR reading this. Sometimes, I think if you didn’t read this, no one would, but you…
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POINT OF VIEW: Training for high-wage work on waterfront
THE MARINE TRADES are one of humanity’s oldest activities, and walking through the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding,…
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PAT NEAL: National Invasive Species Awareness Week
HOW WAS YOUR National Invasive Species Awareness Week? Chances are, with our modern world of the future spinning…
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PAT NEAL: Birdwatching with a chainsaw
BIRDWATCHING IS my life. Most of my best birdwatching has been done with a chainsaw. Birdwatching with a…
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PAT NEAL: A wilderness crime spree
ADMITTING YOU HAVE a fishing problem is the first step in dealing with it. Sometimes, it’s only when…
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POINT OF VIEW: Let’s invest in state recreation areas
WHEN I WAS a young adult, I spent my summers working for the Boy Scouts, leading week-long backpacking…
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PAT NEAL: I’m not complaining about the weather
IT WAS DAYLIGHT in the swamp. The drumming of rain on the roof announced another damp and dreary…
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PAT NEAL: How not to prepare for the subduction event
Columnist note: This week marks the 326-year anniversary of the Jan., 26, 1700, magnitude-9 megathrust earthquake and associated…
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POINT OF VIEW: Qualifications bill undermines voters’ will
I WISH TO express my concern and to urge opposition to state Senate Bill 5974. Commonly referred to…
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PAT NEAL: Cabin fever cures
IT’S OFFICIAL. THE cabin fever season started early and hit hard this year.
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POINT OF VIEW: Mobile college campus coming to Peninsula
FOR MANY NORTH Olympic Peninsula residents, the biggest barrier to job training opportunities is distance. An hour or…
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PAT NEAL: Life on the stump ranch
THOUGH IT MAY seem like our dark and dreary winter will never end, there are rumors of spring…
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PAT NEAL: The 40-pound steelhead
THE HOLIDAYS ARE over. Only the mess remains. That, and the grim realization that after only a week…
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PAT NEAL: Making and breaking New Year’s resolutions
BY NOW, I’M pretty sure we’ve all had it up to here with know-it-all newspaper columnists wasting valuable…
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