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PAT NEAL: No fishing problem that new laws won’t solve
WHO SAYS THERE’S no good news when every day, there are new and exciting things happening all around…
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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.
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PAT NEAL: Hunting excuses for almost every occasion
IT WAS DAYLIGHT in the forest on opening day of deer hunting season. Opening day is my favorite…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Crossing lines, coming together: Stories make it possible
WHEN YOU’RE THE messenger bearing another person’s story, you perform a sacred act. It begins, of course, with…
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PAT NEAL: A good day’s fishing
DID YOU EVER have one of those days where nothing seems to go right? When everything you try,…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: West Enders rock and roll through construction the best they can
ROAD CLOSURES AND long delays are inconvenient for all who use U.S. Highway 101 to and from the…
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PAT NEAL: One more letter from the mail bag
THANKS FOR READING this. If you didn’t read this, no one would, but you do. I can tell…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Seeing new worlds via college program
I TOOK A seat beside John Lennon. As I marveled at my arrival here at last, he just…
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PAT NEAL: Blue tarp campers shun motorized comforts
OF COURSE IT’S wrong to compare the plight of the Syrian, Sudanese and Rohingya refugees with the blue-tarp…
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PAT NEAL: How to prepare for the coming winter
IT’S TIME ONCE again for the annual winter weather forecast.
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Helping Clallam inmates breathe a little easier
SHOWING MY RED badge — which permits me to go without escort — I pass through six gates…
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PAT NEAL: How’s the fishing on Enceladus?
IT WAS A rare good week for those of us who call the Earth our home, with the…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Trail warriors leave no trace
THERE WAS NERVOUS scuffling of horse feet as Larry Baysinger gently wiped fly spray on his mustang’s neck.
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PAT NEAL: The best available science for extinction
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news for the endangered species of the North Olympic Peninsula.
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: To open the mind, close the eyes … and point
JANE JULIAN THOUGHT maybe she should apologize. Many of her choices for the Port Townsend Film Festival are…
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PAT NEAL: Tourist questions asked by real tourists
THIS MUST BE one of the busiest tourist seasons ever.
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Keeping it simple and cool on the West End
A YOUNG BLACK dog named Poncho was lying in the shade created by the underbelly of a dusty…
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PAT NEAL: Don’t cry over spilled salmon
THERE’S AN OLD saying around here that good fences make good neighbors or good neighbors make good fences,…
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PAT NEAL: The Big One between Thunderbird, nemesis
AS AMBASSADORS OF the tourist industry, it is often our duty to answer the many questions visitors have…
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LETTER: Recent writer takes for granted the freedom jet noise symbolizes
This letter is in response to the August 17 letter to Peninsula Voices, titled “Jet Noise.”