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PAT NEAL: Wheels spin on replenishing our salmon
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news for the Pacific Coastal Salmon Fund.
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POINT OF VIEW: Congress should step up for rural communities
FOR NORTH OLYMPIC Peninsula residents, severe storms aren’t a nasty surprise.
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PAT NEAL: Biologists are OK after all
I THOUGHT IT would be fun to attend a meeting of some fisheries biologists with fishing folks at…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Winter wanes as new chapters open
WASN’T THE SUN a beautiful sight Sunday afternoon?
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PAT NEAL: Oh, for the good old days on the Elwha River
IT’S ALWAYS SAD to read about the loss of an old friend.
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POINT OF VIEW: The Peninsula’s dental health emergency
ACROSS THE STATE and in the North Olympic Peninsula, low-income people are facing an oral health crisis.
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PAT NEAL: By chance, spared the savage sea
SOME SAY THERE is no such thing as a coincidence.
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PAT NEAL: The seeds of our fishless halibut fishery
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news for the diminishing breed of fishing-license buyers who insist on…
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PAT NEAL: Will the Sasquatch ascend the cryptid throne?
IT MUST HAVE been a slow day at the Legislature.
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POINT OF VIEW: A challenging voice among voices
I HAVE TAKEN an internal Hippocratic oath of choir participation: At first, do no harm.
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Stretching a hand from Forks to India
SOME PEOPLE TEACH and find ways to learn no matter where they go, even if it’s the eastern…
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FROM A WRITER’S NOTEBOOK: Serenity in accepting things as they are
AT FIRST, IT just felt like a crazy new year.
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PAT NEAL: Steelhead fishing’s last bastion gasping
I KNEW IT was the end when a low-holing, fly-flogging fishing guide floated past on the river and…
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PAT NEAL: Leave your garbage-bag rain gear at home
THE RECENT MARTIN Luther King Jr. holiday is a three-day weekend that traditionally marks the peak of the…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Community celebrates drugstore owner
“STAN THE MAN.” So read the words in the center of a photographic display on a table at…