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WEST END NEIGHBOR: More miles to be grateful on the interstate
THE TEXT FROM my mom saying she had just come home as the ambulance was leaving with my…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Service dogs, movie houses and randomness
EVERYDAY WISDOM FALLS into my lap like fruit — if I pay attention.
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PAT NEAL: The lost and the not yet lost
THERE ARE ONLY two types of mushroom pickers. Those that have gotten lost in the woods and those…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Twilight festival brings faithful to Forks
TRINITY HANNING, 16, told me her stagecraft teacher said “she is possessed by a demon again,” because of…
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PAT NEAL: Blue-tarp camping misery
THERE’S NOTHING QUITE like the sound of rain on the roof, unless you have a leaky roof.
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Still a bumpy path to jobs’ completion in Forks
WHEN SOMEBODY SAYS “the best laid plans” and leaves the words to hang in the air like smoke,…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: It’s not just the park — it’s the people
LOOKING DOWN AT the ladder of the avalanche chute, it appeared the wood rungs hadn’t been maintained since…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: A fresh look, in full color
IT HAPPENS WHEN least expected. A single still image beams me back to a place, a feeling.
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PAT NEAL: The orca task force not to the rescue
THE VISCERAL SPECTACLE of the mother orca carrying her dead baby for 17 days and the emaciated female…
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PAT NEAL: Stages of a Sasquatch sighting
THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA’S first Sasquatch Symposium, held last November at Studio Bob in Port Angeles, resulted in an…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Live music dips toes into the crick
THE LAST FULL month of summer has come.
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PAT NEAL: Top tourist questions
AS GOODWILL AMBASSADORS of the tourist industry, it is our civic duty to share our precious local knowledge…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Neighbors who help with the worst jobs
LAST WEEK I found myself at the bottom of a grave I was finishing up.