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Take your ‘Measure’ of Sequim author’s latest thriller at Saturday meet-greet

Take your ‘Measure’ of Sequim author’s latest thriller at Saturday meet-greet

It doesn’t take a detective to see Lisa Preston’s career is on the rise. The 53-year-old… Continue reading

Take your ‘Measure’ of Sequim author’s latest thriller at Saturday meet-greet
Sequim’s Student Film Festival premieres nine movies Friday night

Sequim’s Student Film Festival premieres nine movies Friday night

Students in Sequim Middle and High schools have created nine films for the 12th annual Student Film Festival and Art Show on Friday.… Continue reading

Sequim’s Student Film Festival premieres nine movies Friday night
Greywolf delves ‘Into the Woods’ for two nights this week

Greywolf delves ‘Into the Woods’ for two nights this week

Greywolf Elementary School’s drama team brings the stage musical “Into the Woods” to Sequim for two performances this week. The show begins at… Continue reading

Greywolf delves ‘Into the Woods’ for two nights this week

ANDREW MAY: Don’t rush to checkout line with summer-type plants; instead, pinch, prune

THREE DIFFERENT CONCERNS and/or horticultural alarm bells went off last week, so I thought I’d make this triad a time-appropriate garden column. First, and as… Continue reading

BACK WHEN: Memories of the Dosewallips found in memoirs

BACK WHEN: Memories of the Dosewallips found in memoirs

IN HER LATER years, Lillie Christiansen wrote a letter to Ida Bailey in Brinnon describing some of the homesteaders living along the Dosewallips River whom… Continue reading

BACK WHEN: Memories of the Dosewallips found in memoirs

BIRD WATCH: Birds’ simple songs signal season’s start

WHAT DO ROBINS, meadowlarks, orange-crowned warblers and Swainson’s thrushes have in common? These are birds whose songs are permanently etched in my memory banks. There… Continue reading

HELP LINE: Documents for decisions when you can’t make them

THOSE OF US who have been mucking about in these columns for years are probably fairly aware of things such as advance directives and durable… Continue reading

ISSUES OF FAITH: Invite Jesus into your life and heart with no regrets

IT IS GOOD Friday, and in two days, we celebrate the most important date on the Christian calendar: Easter. Paul tells us that our “faith… Continue reading

Entertainment: Northwinds Homeschool Band takes gold, silver

Entertainment: Northwinds Homeschool Band takes gold, silver

The Northwinds Homeschool Band received several awards at the WorldStrides Heritage Festival, held at Fullerton College in Southern California. The trip also… Continue reading

Entertainment: Northwinds Homeschool Band takes gold, silver

Two poets to read at Northwind Arts Center

The Northwind Reading Series will present An Evening with Two Sylvias Press at 7 p.m. Thursday. Poets Natasha Moni and Molly Tenenbaum… Continue reading

A GROWING CONCERN: Plan for the whole yard with this varied list of options

APRIL MARCHES ON, and so does your garden chore list. We’re now in the time to plant, plant, plant, but what to plant? That’s truly… Continue reading

BIRD WATCH: Look to the skies to see who’s on the wing

“THE VULTURES ARE coming!” That has a nice ring to it doesn’t it? At the least, it would make a good title for a science-fiction… Continue reading

HELP LINE: Use Medicare to avoid using Medicare

I CONCLUDED LAST week’s column with “Medicare happens,” implying that we were finished, at least for the time being, with talking about Medicare. I lied.… Continue reading

HORSEPLAY: PA, Sequim horse riders place at meet

HORSEPLAY: PA, Sequim horse riders place at meet

SEQUIM AND PORT Angeles’ high school equestrian teams completed their third qualifying meets of the season March 24-26 in Spanaway. More than 100 competitors from… Continue reading

HORSEPLAY: PA, Sequim horse riders place at meet

PENINSULA KITCHEN: Spring is the season for fresh asparagus sandwiches

EARLY SPRING 1994, my college roommate and I headed off on a grand camping road trip adventure. We followed the Columbia River out to the… Continue reading

“Lonicera sempervirens” by Barbara Neswald.

First Friday Art Walk in Sequim blushes with pink theme

The First Friday Art Walk will bloom with bright flowers and blush with pink — the color theme for tonight’s free, self-guided tour… Continue reading

“Lonicera sempervirens” by Barbara Neswald.

ISSUES OF FAITH: The paradox of proactive giving’s reward

DO YOU LIKE to receive gifts? I think most people do. Sometimes gifts can be expected: birthdays, holidays, graduations and, if you’re a young child,… Continue reading

Speaker to tell of Japanese-American internment

Speaker to tell of Japanese-American internment

“The Pine and the Cherry,” a tale of one family’s 100-year history and its involvement in the Japanese-American internment during World War II, will be… Continue reading

Speaker to tell of Japanese-American internment
Lunch in the Garden veteran Master Gardeners Audreen Williams, Jeanette Stehr-Green, Laurel Moulton, Bob Cain and Lois Bellamy will lead a walk through the Fifth Street Community Garden, 328 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles, at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 8.

PA garden walks move to Saturdays

Want to learn how to grow vegetables in your own backyard? Need help with pests that are getting the better part of… Continue reading

Lunch in the Garden veteran Master Gardeners Audreen Williams, Jeanette Stehr-Green, Laurel Moulton, Bob Cain and Lois Bellamy will lead a walk through the Fifth Street Community Garden, 328 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles, at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 8.

A GROWING CONCERN: From the ground up, soil critical for garden’s foundation

HERE WE ARE, already two days into April, the month that really kicks up the gardening work. With that said, I realize it has been… Continue reading