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PAT NEAL: Thank you, Rose

THE NEW YEAR has come and with it a traditional impulse to resolve to do better than we…

WEST END NEIGHBOR: Embracing a windstorm

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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Embracing a windstorm

YET AGAIN, IT was raining and the power was out at home, so I split by 9 a.m.…

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PAT NEAL: What I wanted for Christmas

HOW WAS YOUR Christmas?

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ:

WE LIVE IN various kinds of families. Parents and siblings, yes, but our circles of friends and workmates…

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PAT NEAL: How’s the fishing?

HOW’S THE FISHING?

WEST END NEIGHBOR: Warm music brightens up long-term care facility

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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Warm music brightens up long-term care facility

ONE DOESN’T REALLY have to tune a washtub bass, so Larry Baysinger waited patiently while the other musicians…

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Port Angeles nurse can ‘go anywhere’

“I’LL GO ANYWHERE,” she told me. Marilyn Perkins is a recovery nurse, there when a child awakens after…

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PAT NEAL: A special time of year

IT’S A SPECIAL time of year when friends and relations get together to celebrate the joy of the…

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PAT NEAL: Most wonderful time of the year

IT’S THE MOST wonderful time of the year.

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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Making the trek east

TO A SMOKER with a sizable habit, running out of cigarettes is much worse than running out of…

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Kate’s arts, sweet and savory

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Kate’s arts, sweet and savory

MAKING MUSIC WITH people, emphasis on with: That’s what Kate liked to do.

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PAT NEAL: Thanksgiving: Knowing when you got it good

THERE’S A LOT of talk these days about holiday stress.

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PAT NEAL: Salmon’s gift to the future

MAYBE YOU’VE HAD one of those days.

WEST END NEIGHBOR: Mushroom season is fading out

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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Mushroom season is fading out

IN THE FALL, there is gold out in the forests of the West End and anyone can pick…

A tribute to four Peninsula residents who have received the Medal of Honor

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A tribute to four Peninsula residents who have received the Medal of Honor

EDITOR’S NOTE: This column by PDN Senior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb first appeared Nov. 10, 2000. We print…

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PAT NEAL: My crazy uncle

I’VE GOT THIS crazy uncle.

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Visit to Puerto Rico: All the grace we can muster

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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Visit to Puerto Rico: All the grace we can muster

PUERTO RICO WASN’T what I expected.

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PAT NEAL: All new fishing excuses

IT HAPPENS EVERY year about this time.

Frances Charles

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GUEST COMMENTARY: I-1631 is rural Washington’s great green hope

By Frances Charles and W. Ron Allen

WEST END NEIGHBOR: Perfect end for an old hemlock

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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Perfect end for an old hemlock

WHEN THE 124-FOOT hemlock fell with its top right in the fire, it could not have been more…