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ISSUES OF FAITH: God is in the details when it comes to miracles

THE WHOLE IDEA of miracles is sometimes hard for us to wrap our minds around. Some of my favorite subjects to talk about or address… Continue reading

Sequim orchestra to play season’s end concert

The Sequim Community Orchestra will host its final concert of the 2016-17 season at 7 tonight. The concert will be at Trinity United… Continue reading

A GROWING CONCERN: A few tips to ride out the scourge of horsetail

OUR GARDEN NIRVANA here on the Peninsula has been shattered by the omnipresent horsetail. I get this question all the time, and my answer is… Continue reading

BIRD WATCH: Look to the skies for May’s migrants

BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS IN Port Angeles, Western tanagers in Forks, black-headed grosbeaks in Port Orchard and uncommon sightings of chipping sparrows and Lincoln’s sparrows got the… Continue reading

HELP LINE: If mothers ruled the world …

I THINK THAT most of us would agree (except for those of us who don’t agree) that we live in a time of hyper-partisanship (depending… Continue reading

HORSEPLAY: Shedding season has arrived

HORSEPLAY: Shedding season has arrived

SUNSHINE AND SHEDDING season is here. Can we celebrate budding blossoms and warm, sunny days without the exuviating hair of our furry friends? Not a… Continue reading

HORSEPLAY: Shedding season has arrived

Ribbon-cutting, Mother’s Day breakfast, geology lecture set this weekend

A ribbon-cutting, a Mother’s Day breakfast and a geology lecture are among upcoming activities on the North Olympic Peninsula. Information also is available on the… Continue reading

Guitarist to complete Music Live with Lunch’s season

Guitarist to complete Music Live with Lunch’s season

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s final concert of the season for Music Live with Lunch will feature Atlanta native Winston McFarlane at noon Tuesday.… Continue reading

Guitarist to complete Music Live with Lunch’s season

ISSUES OF FAITH: Thank and God bless teachers, for they light the way

BRACE YOURSELF: JUNE is coming quickly, and June means the end of another school year. But before the last bell rings, let’s take a minute… Continue reading

North Olympic Library System librarians Danielle Gayman and Sarah Morrison will offer a workshop about Media Literacy on Thursday night.

Librarians to lead workshop on media literacy

Media Literacy, a free two-hour workshop, is set at the Port Angeles Library at 6 p.m. Thursday. Librarians Danielle Gayman and Sarah… Continue reading

North Olympic Library System librarians Danielle Gayman and Sarah Morrison will offer a workshop about Media Literacy on Thursday night.
Veteran Master Gardeners Bob Cain, Laurel Moulton, Lois Bellamy, Audreen Williams and Jeanette Stehr-Green, from left, will lead a walk through the Fifth Street Community Garden this Saturday.

Port Angeles community garden walk Saturday to offer guidance

Advice on starting that vegetable garden will be dispensed at the Second Saturday Garden Walk at the Fifth Street Community Garden on… Continue reading

Veteran Master Gardeners Bob Cain, Laurel Moulton, Lois Bellamy, Audreen Williams and Jeanette Stehr-Green, from left, will lead a walk through the Fifth Street Community Garden this Saturday.

Emerging pests topic of Port Angeles gardening talk Thursday

Veteran Master Gardener Bob Cain will provide insight on plant disease and insect problems that have emerged in the recent past and… Continue reading

ANDREW MAY: Here’s a baker’s dozen ways to prettify your yard

HERE WE ARE in the first weekend of my favorite month. (It just sounds so good!) Since this is the month for flowers (think April… Continue reading

BACK WHEN: April mystery photo eludes Clallam community

BACK WHEN: April mystery photo eludes Clallam community

NO ONE RECOGNIZED the April Picture from the Past. There were several guesses that it might be Camp Hayden, but it is the Makah Air… Continue reading

BACK WHEN: April mystery photo eludes Clallam community

BIRD WATCH: Surprising sights in the middle of the ‘big city’

CITIES, ESPECIALLY LARGE cities, aren’t my preferred habitat. Ever since I was hatched, the great outdoors is where I have wanted to be. Sometimes, you… Continue reading

HELP LINE: Forks offers up fun with family fair

WANT TO SEE how to strike unmitigated terror into the hearts of hundreds of people, mostly male people? Watch. OK, now, we’re all remembering what… Continue reading

Festival art, crafts fair focuses on ‘Reuse, Recycle and Repurpose’

Festival art, crafts fair focuses on ‘Reuse, Recycle and Repurpose’

The Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair will offer vendors, demonstrations, a kids’ parade and entertainment during the first weekend of the Sequim Irrigation… Continue reading

Festival art, crafts fair focuses on ‘Reuse, Recycle and Repurpose’

ISSUES OF FAITH: Six different meanings of ‘spirit’

“SPIRIT” AND “SPIRITUAL” are slippery words, largely because they are used in so many ways. Here are six different ways we commonly speak of “spirit”… Continue reading

Betsy Burlingame, Master Gardener plant sale chair, readies potted plants for the sale. (Amanda Rosenberg)

Master Gardeners offer variety of plants in weekend sale

EDITOR’S NOTE: This has been corrected. The plant sale is at the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden in Seqim. The original version erroneously said the sale… Continue reading

Betsy Burlingame, Master Gardener plant sale chair, readies potted plants for the sale. (Amanda Rosenberg)

Opening of Whimsy Park celebrated today

Whimsy Park, a new temporary gathering place in Sequim, will be opened today with a ribbon-cutting and live music. The park is on… Continue reading