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PAT NEAL: Looking on the bright side of snow
MAYBE THE BIRDS know something we don’t: that spring is just around the corner.
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: The shapes of water surround us
I’VE BEEN ALERTED to an evocative statement; one that makes perfect sense.
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Even animals get cabin fever
THE GUNFIRE DIDN’T seem exceptionally loud as it carried across the street and snow on the night of…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Former first lady Michelle Obama steps up with memoir
“Becoming” finds common ground across the country
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PAT NEAL: Snowstorm strategies and the bonds of vexation
BY NOW I think we’ve all had it up to here with living on the North Pole.
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Making decisions for kids’ safety in Forks
SIX YEARS AGO, a school bus for the Quillayute Valley School District slid off the slick road south…
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OUR VIEW: Our neighbors need help
THE PAST WEEK has been difficult for all of us on the North Olympic Peninsula.
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PAT NEAL: That winter was a hard one
IF I’VE HEARD this once, I’ve heard it a million times from the local old-timers, “That winter was…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: ‘Oceans’ to Toto, movies open us up
THE WOMAN BEHIND me wasn’t ready to talk.
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PAT NEAL: Remember your river etiquette
EDITOR’S NOTE: This column has been corrected to reflect that the river etiquette guidelines mentioned here are from…
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PAT NEAL: Finding the Pacific Trail
SOMETIMES, WHEN READING the accounts of the first people who came to the Olympic Peninsula, it’s hard to…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Arrrgh: Teachers pack pirate production into a week
HOW ENTHUSIASTICALLY CAN a child say just a single number?
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: ‘Heart stories’ wanted
TELLING THE TRUTH is a revolutionary act, wrote George Orwell.
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PAT NEAL: From elk to puncheon trails
IN LAST WEEK’S episode we were considering the evolution of the Olympic Peninsula infrastructure while cruising the highways…
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OUR VIEW: Compassion, generosity saves us all
On Friday, the first of some 420,000 federal workers nationwide received paychecks with zeros where their wages used…
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POINT OF VIEW: Legislature should invest in training, education beyond high school
By Luke Robins
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PAT NEAL: The Peninsula’s hidden trails
OFTEN WHILE GLIDING along the paved roads of the Olympic Peninsula you wonder at the difficulty of travel…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: A challenge for the new year, or any old time
“I’M EXCITED FOR 2019,” Kristin told me. In my fatigued state, I want some of that.
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