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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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PAT NEAL: The Christmas colonoscopy
IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the river, but I was not on a river. This was strange since I…
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YOUR VIEW: Facts about the Elwha Watershed study
OUTSIDE SPECIAL INTERESTS are threatening to tie up more Clallam County trust lands. These lands produce revenue that…
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PAT NEAL: Interpreting the weather report
ONCE UPON A time, anthropologists somehow determined that the Eskimos have 50 different words for snow.
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PAT NEAL: A rainforest expedition
IT WAS A dark and stormy night. Inside the cabin, the wood stove glowed red with venison stew…
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PAT NEAL: What Thanksgiving means to me
THANK YOU FOR reading this. Writing our nation’s only wilderness gossip column is not easy.
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PAT NEAL: You could be spawned out
MAYBE YOU’VE HAD one of those days. You wake up in the morning and everything hurts. None of…
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PAT NEAL: This otter work
WHO SAYS THERE’S no good news? Lately, the co-managers of our natural resources have stumbled upon a unique…
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PAT NEAL: A bad day on the river
THIS TIME OF year brings back a lot of memories. These can be triggered by the smell of…
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PAT NEAL: The Halloween hunt for Bigfoot
I WON’T BORE you, dear reader(s), with the petty details of my ill-fated, underfunded hunt for Bigfoot that’s…
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Helping families thrive with support center
WHAT DOES AFFORDING diapers have to do with employment? If you need childcare, something seemingly as simple as…
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PAT NEAL: Singing the birdfeeder blues
THIS IS THE season of one of the greatest migrations on Earth happening right now.
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PAT NEAL: The great deer hunt of 2025
OPENING DAY. IT’S a day when anything can happen. I was hoping, if for only a brief moment…
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PAT NEAL: The great clam hunt of 2025
THIS MUST BE the best autumn weather in years. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any…
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PAT NEAL: The great mushroom hunt
FALL MUST BE my favorite time of year. Could be because I like the rain?
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Why Recompete matters for North Olympic Peninsula
IF YOU’VE HEARD that the North Olympic Peninsula is receiving funding through the Recompete grant and aren’t quite…