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PAT NEAL: Outfoxed by crafty birds

ALL I WANTED was a quiet place at the end of the road where I could write my…

WEST END NEIGHBOR: Cornerstone store turns a page

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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Cornerstone store turns a page

RIGGS IS THE only regular shoplifter.

A fishing boat was stranded at the mouth of the Elwha River last weekend during fishing season for halibut and cod.

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PAT NEAL: Dangerous halibut date defies logic

IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the water.

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PAT NEAL: Green crab Dungeness’ newest tormenter

IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news for our environment.

WEST END NEIGHBOR: A story to tell under the ashes

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WEST END NEIGHBOR: A story to tell under the ashes

THERE ARE TIMES when setting something ablaze seems like a good solution.

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PAT NEAL: Real science too scary to deal with

HALLOWEEN USED TO be the scariest holiday of the year with ghosts, goblins and the zombie apocalypse threatening…

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POINT OF VIEW: The time to act on addiction is now

By Richard Schwartz

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PAT NEAL: There’s ‘gold’ in them thar ditches

THEY SAY AMERICA is a country divided and exploited by plundering gangs of panty-grabbing politicians eternally enthroned by…

WEST END NEIGHBOR: Rainforest Arts Center celebration in Forks

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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Rainforest Arts Center celebration in Forks

WHAT DOES AN annual celebration of the arts have to do with a beach cleanup?

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PAT NEAL: In loving memory: Goin’s gone fishing

SEEN ANY GOOD movies lately? I did. It’s a love story where boy meets girl and then boy…

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PAT NEAL: Wheels spin on replenishing our salmon

IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news for the Pacific Coastal Salmon Fund.

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PAT NEAL: The best April Fools’ joke ever

APRIL FOOLS’ DAY must be my favorite holiday.

POINT OF VIEW: Congress should step up for rural communities

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POINT OF VIEW: Congress should step up for rural communities

FOR NORTH OLYMPIC Peninsula residents, severe storms aren’t a nasty surprise.

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PAT NEAL: Biologists are OK after all

I THOUGHT IT would be fun to attend a meeting of some fisheries biologists with fishing folks at…

WEST END NEIGHBOR: Winter wanes as new chapters open

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WEST END NEIGHBOR: Winter wanes as new chapters open

WASN’T THE SUN a beautiful sight Sunday afternoon?

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PAT NEAL: Oh, for the good old days on the Elwha River

IT’S ALWAYS SAD to read about the loss of an old friend.

POINT OF VIEW: The Peninsula’s dental health emergency

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POINT OF VIEW: The Peninsula’s dental health emergency

ACROSS THE STATE and in the North Olympic Peninsula, low-income people are facing an oral health crisis.

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PAT NEAL: By chance, spared the savage sea

SOME SAY THERE is no such thing as a coincidence.

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PAT NEAL: The seeds of our fishless halibut fishery

IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news for the diminishing breed of fishing-license buyers who insist on…

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PAT NEAL: Will the Sasquatch ascend the cryptid throne?

IT MUST HAVE been a slow day at the Legislature.