DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Looking forward, with women ‘Little’ and powerful

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Looking forward, with women ‘Little’ and powerful

WE’RE DUE FOR stories of triumph as we start this new year, don’t you think?

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PAT NEAL: Happy New Year

THANK YOU FOR reading this. Sometimes I think if you didn’t read this, no one would.

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PAT NEAL: Merry Christmas anyway

THIS HAS BEEN a controversial Christmas season in the controversial year where everything is offensive if you think…

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: His mother’s son

EMPATHY AND FACEBOOK combine in a kind of cowboy winter-gear drive out here in the badlands of Port…

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PAT NEAL: Yes, Virginia, there is a steelhead

(WITH APOLOGIES TO Francis Pharcellus Church, editor of the New York Sun, Dec. 21, 1897.)

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PAT NEAL: Flu season shots help

THIS IS A morning that can make you feel like a spawned-out salmon headed downstream tail first.

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Six words say it well

I’D GIVEN UP on finding the Sacred Heart. Husband Phil and I drove into and all around the…

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PAT NEAL: The holiday marathon

IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news made even tougher by the long Thanksgiving weekend.

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PAT NEAL: A Dirty Thirties Thanksgiving

THIS IS A story of an Olympic Peninsula family celebrating Thanksgiving in the olden days.

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: ‘Breath and resonance in real space’

DON’T DREAD THE winter, I tell myself. Dread doesn’t help anything. Going outside does.

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PAT NEAL: Our disappearing ferns

IT ALL STARTED with an attempt to share in nature’s bounty and celebrate the harvest of wild foods.…

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PAT NEAL: Bring back the spawners

IT WAS AN early morning on the river. I was launching a boat in the dark.

POINT OF VIEW: Stolen valor hurts all veterans

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POINT OF VIEW: Stolen valor hurts all veterans

False claims lead to passing of act

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PAT NEAL: Getting along in the country

AN AWFUL LOT of city folks are moving to the country these days and they want to know…

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Saying yes, and writing again

SUCH A PLEASURE to talk with my friend Alice after a series of emails. Hearing Alice Derry’s voice…

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PAT NEAL: A legend of the lost

THIS HAS BEEN a banner year for lost and injured hikers.

POINT OF VIEW: The problems with I-976

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POINT OF VIEW: The problems with I-976

TAXES TAKE A cut out of our personal and business resources and of course no one likes paying…

POINT OF VIEW: Vehicle tabs should be at flat $30 fee

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POINT OF VIEW: Vehicle tabs should be at flat $30 fee

HOW MANY TIMES do we, the people, have to vote for $30 vehicle tabs before our “representatives” respect…

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PAT NEAL: Pirates, patriots and plunderers

A LADY SAILED into Port Angeles last week.

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PAT NEAL: Stop, drop, cover and hold on

IT’S BEEN ANOTHER tough week in the news.