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PAT NEAL: The fish duck blues
THERE’S NOTHING LIKE spending the night along one of our rivers where it is still possible to experience…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Roof, not rain, dampens spirits
SITTING ON THE bank of the Sol Duc River, Stan Fouts said, “I love my national park but…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Summer full of uplift, renewal
REACH INSIDE AND lift up your younger self, Joe Gaydos told us. See yourself as an explorer.
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PAT NEAL: Remembering D-Day
JUNE 6 MIGHT not mean much to people these days. Maybe it’s one day closer to a summer…
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PAT NEAL: Summer driving guide: You were warned
IN LAST WEEK’S episode of the Olympic Peninsula summer driving guide, we embarked on a westward journey down…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: History on tap at Forks Logging Museum
AT 6 P.M., THE Forks Timber Museum, 1421 Forks Ave., began pouring wine for the ladies of the…
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PAT NEAL: Olympic Peninsula summer driving guide
IT’S TIME ONCE again for the Olympic Peninsula summer driving guide.
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Cash, connection: Coyle’s got the right mix
HE WORKS IN the woods; what he builds is community, with music as the floorboards.
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Immigrant woman fearful of leaving life in Forks
“I SOLD MY house, packed and took my children,” Maria-Elena Perez told me of her border crossing from…
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PAT NEAL: The spud and I
THERE ARE FEW things more enjoyable to a gardener that planting potatoes. They are easy to plant. In…
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PAT NEAL: Sequim Irrigation Festival time again
IT’S TIME ONCE again for the Sequim Irrigation Festival, where we commemorate water being brought to the Sequim…
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PAT NEAL: The evils of rock stacking
IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the river with a heavy fog hugging close to the water.
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OUR VIEW: Action needed to protect Port Angeles industrial water supply
The changes in the Elwha River have been astounding since the two fish-blocking dams came down.
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PAT NEAL: The hidden dangers of tree hugging
THERE ARE MANY good reasons for tree-hugging and I must have heard them all.
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Solar energy, on tap
THERE’S NO MISTAKING it: the sound of the sun. This is musical nourishment, sweet to the soul and…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Flexibility reigns at Forks’ RainFest
“BLESSED ARE THE flexible for they will not be bent out of shape,” read a sign in my…
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PAT NEAL: Celebrating April Fools’ week
THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, I’ve had enough April Fools’ jokes, pranks and poisonings played on me to make me…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: No camera, just connection
AN UNMEDIATED ENCOUNTER: It’s what I hoped for on the whale-watching boat.
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PAT NEAL: The Olympic Peninsula Treasure Hunt
OVER THE YEARS there have been many stories, legends and fables of lost treasures buried in the Olympic…
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