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PAT NEAL: Could learn a thing or two from black bears
SOMEONE RECENTLY ASKED me: How can I protect my children from the bears?
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Journey into your personal province
THERE IS THIS place, this miracle, some call “the zone.”
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Highway stands sprout with essentials, more
I WILL NEVER forget the time we were camping on the south end of Lake Ozette by Baby…
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PAT NEAL: Give Canada break on smokey air
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news, when we learned the value of things we take for…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: New parents at ages 63 and 77
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to correct the vows Jean Stratton took in Zen Buddhism.
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PAT NEAL: Helping tourists enjoy their their stays
WITH SWARMS OF tourists assaulting the North Olympic Peninsula this summer, it might be a good time to…
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PAT NEAL: Making the rain more palatable
THIS PAST WEEKEND saw a chain reaction of tragic events that might have marred the image of the…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Smile, you’re on candid game camera
EVERY NOW AND then, while walking in the wilderness of the West End forests, I will see something…
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: More in common than different with these couples
AS I SET out to interview interracial spouses, I expected disheartening stories about family rifts and struggle for…
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POINT OF VIEW: Staying strong during unsettled times
HAVING GROWN UP in Port Angeles, I’ve seen our community go through hard times.
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PAT NEAL: Question marks fill tourism’s legacy
IN MY JULY 5 column, we traced the history of tourists on the North Olympic Peninsula from the…
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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Fireworks show a Sekiu-wide affair
A WEST END fireworks show exceeded expectations during July Fourth week.
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DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Best of humanity in action in two local books
READING A GOOD book is like bodysurfing: You dive in, paddle — and the wave lifts and sweeps…
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PAT NEAL: A short history of tourists
NOW THAT THE tourists are finally here it’s easy to remember why we put a season on them.
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What heat? The races must go on
SELLING ICE CREAM must have been a cinch at Forks Airport on Saturday during the West End Thunder…
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PAT NEAL: Another round of stupefying rules
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news: The 2017 Washington state fishing rules were finally printed.
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PAT NEAL: My fruitless search for wild blackberries
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news, when the journalistic skills of this gossip columnist were tried…
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LETTER: Problems with news media are not new
Recent discourse on the efficacy and honesty of the U.S. media has surfaced in letters to the editor…
