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A GROWING CONCERN: Light the night

I’VE BEEN BUSY lately buying 88,000 lights for decorating the portable ice skating rink being set up in downtown Port Angeles. So this week I… Continue reading

BACK WHEN: Readers share memories of Sekiu in the 1940s

BACK WHEN: Readers share memories of Sekiu in the 1940s

SEVERAL PEOPLE RECOGNIZED the October picture from the past as Sekiu. The year was 1947. The following information came from “Jimmy Come Lately: Sekiu” by… Continue reading

BACK WHEN: Readers share memories of Sekiu in the 1940s

BIRD WATCH: Size, and more, matters

The brown creeper, a frequent visitor to the bird bath, has a unique way of approaching the bath. It lands beneath the basin on the… Continue reading

Documentaries examine role of childhood stress in disease, behavior

Two films scheduled this Wednesday and Nov. 14 will highlight how high doses of stress during childhood can lead to lifelong health and… Continue reading

HELP LINE: Help is only help if it’s wanted and understood

I JUST STUMBLED across something I presented almost exactly 10 years ago (please don’t be concerned, as I seem to stumble a lot). While I’m… Continue reading

Jamestown S’Klallam to screen ‘Highway of Tears’

A documentary about the missing and murdered indigenous woman of Canada will be screened at 6 p.m. Tuesday. “Highway of Tears,” a film… Continue reading

Sequim’s Coats For Kids hits 5,000-certificate milestone

Sequim’s Coats For Kids hits 5,000-certificate milestone

What started out as a charitable program initially intended to help less than a dozen youths has now, in its 22nd year, put… Continue reading

Sequim’s Coats For Kids hits 5,000-certificate milestone

ISSUES OF FAITH: Chase the hate from our hearts

THE JEWISH MYSTICAL tradition of Kabbalah teaches us that every word, even every thought has a ripple effect in the world. We may not know… Continue reading

Learn how to prep dahlias at Sequim work party this Saturday

Learn how to prep dahlias at Sequim work party this Saturday

The Sequim Botanical Garden Society will host the season’s final Work to Learn Party with a spotlight on dahlias. Lee Bowen, the group’s… Continue reading

Learn how to prep dahlias at Sequim work party this Saturday

Woodworking show, boating, history on the calendar

A Woodworkers’ Show in Port Townsend, a boating clinic in Sequim and a History Tales presentation in Port Angeles are among the upcoming activities on… Continue reading

PHOTO: Let your bridge flag fly

PHOTO: Let your bridge flag fly

Dungeness Audubon Center volunteer Terri Tyler of Sequim hangs decorative flags made by school children on the trestle at Railroad Bridge Park near Sequim on… Continue reading

PHOTO: Let your bridge flag fly
Sequim assistant pastor, friends record album

Sequim assistant pastor, friends record album

David Isaac Rivers wasn’t planning to record an album of his original songs when his friend Curry Winborn approached him with the idea.… Continue reading

Sequim assistant pastor, friends record album

PENINSULA KITCHEN: Broths warm you up in cool weather

LEAVES TURNING, NEW snow on the mountains and the short days of winter on their way. My advice to you: Go outside every chance you… Continue reading

A GROWING CONCERN: Pruning for decorations

IT IS SOMEWHAT spooky, almost eerie, that the second most decorated holiday of the year is Halloween. And since fright night precedes the deck-the-halls granddaddy… Continue reading

BIRD WATCH: Owls having a hoot

OCTOBER IS ‘OWL Month.’ It isn’t only the attention they get from the Halloween fun. This is a time of the year when owls are… Continue reading

HELP LINE: Don’t sign blank forms

I SUPPOSE YOU’VE heard that the Social Security/Supplemental Security Income [SSI] COLA for 2019 will be 2.8 percent, right? And that they haven’t figured out… Continue reading

HORSEPLAY: Carlsborg local still riding strong

HORSEPLAY: Carlsborg local still riding strong

CARLSBORG’S WAYNORA MARTIN competed in her first state finals at age 7. “I joined my family for team events, like the Bareback relay,” she said.… Continue reading

HORSEPLAY: Carlsborg local still riding strong

Art Blast, bake sale and harvest dinner set this week

A library Art Blast, a Sons of Norway bake sale and a harvest dinner are among the upcoming activities on the North Olympic Peninsula. Information… Continue reading

HELP LINE: Time for some this-and-that information

I THINK THAT today is a good day for a bit of this-and-that, so let’s jump right into a “this.” An alert reader, who not… Continue reading