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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.”
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PAT NEAL: Could learn a thing or two from black bears
SOMEONE RECENTLY ASKED me: How can I protect my children from the bears?
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Journey into your personal province
THERE IS THIS place, this miracle, some call “the zone.”
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Highway stands sprout with essentials, more
I WILL NEVER forget the time we were camping on the south end of Lake Ozette by Baby…
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PAT NEAL: Give Canada break on smokey air
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news, when we learned the value of things we take for…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: New parents at ages 63 and 77
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to correct the vows Jean Stratton took in Zen Buddhism.
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PAT NEAL: Helping tourists enjoy their their stays
WITH SWARMS OF tourists assaulting the North Olympic Peninsula this summer, it might be a good time to…
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PAT NEAL: Making the rain more palatable
THIS PAST WEEKEND saw a chain reaction of tragic events that might have marred the image of the…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Smile, you’re on candid game camera
EVERY NOW AND then, while walking in the wilderness of the West End forests, I will see something…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: More in common than different with these couples
AS I SET out to interview interracial spouses, I expected disheartening stories about family rifts and struggle for…
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