SO ONCE AGAIN, happy New Year. We start a whole new gardening year and right now it is so perfectly cold, it’s ideal for the… Continue reading
CEDAR WAXWINGS ARE regular visitors and resident birds in Western Washington. They are unpredictable but they do show up at various times throughout the year.… Continue reading
HERE WE ARE on Jan. 8 and while some of us are actually succeeding in achieving our 2017 New Year’s resolutions (bravo), some of us… Continue reading
“YOU GETTING OUT to ride much?” It’s a question I’m asked all too frequently. I love to ride, but becuase I’m not riding as much… Continue reading
I’VE RECENTLY ADDED a once-weekly teaching gig that has me surrounded by toddlers for the first time in many years. As one expects when working… Continue reading
Theresa Stirling will demonstrate her painting style that uses beeswax and blow torches during Saturday’s Gallery Walk in Port Townsend. Stirling has… Continue reading
If runners don’t have red noses when they start the Port Angeles annual Reindeer Run on Saturday, they might by the time… Continue reading
The Port Townsend Marine Science Center will host a lecture at 3 p.m. Sunday by George Divoky on “40 Years of Change:… Continue reading
The Missoula Children’s Theatre will conduct auditions for “Rapunzel” in Forks on Jan. 16. The auditions will be from noon to 2 p.m.… Continue reading
The order in which things are done matters. Shane Miller and Peter Newland will lead a discussion on creating complex art works… Continue reading
Family films at the Sequim library and tree planting in Port Townsend are among the weekend’s activities on the North Olympic Peninsula. For more about… Continue reading
A program at the North Olympic Library System’s public libraries will reward parents for reading to their small children. The free 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten… Continue reading
I WISH YOU all the best and may your lawns be deep green, your yards be mole-, horsetail- and weed-free and all your flowers bloom… Continue reading
MANY READERS COMMENTED on the December “Picture from the Past” and they all knew that the people in the photo were smelt dipping. The area… Continue reading
THIS FIRST COLUMN for 2017 was retrieved from past columns. This will be the 50th year of the column’s existence and looking back over five… Continue reading
CONGRATULATIONS AND WELCOME to 2017. Flying in the face of what many of us thought were impossible odds, we’ve actually made it to New Year’s… Continue reading
Jon Gray remembers his first action figures well from the original 1977 “Star Wars: A New Hope.” His mom, Liisa, returned from a trip and… Continue reading
New Year’s Day birding, hiking and marathon bingo are among the weekend’s activities on the North Olympic Peninsula. For more about the First Night celebration… Continue reading
Glass artwork will be on display in a Sequim City Arts Advisory Commission exhibit that will open Friday, Jan. 6. The reception for… Continue reading
The Singalong “Messiah” has been a holiday tradition in Sequim for years, attracting singers and instrumentalists from all over the North Olympic Peninsula… Continue reading
