PAT NEAL: The Quarantine Chronicles: The Boomer Remover

IT WAS A day I’ll never forget. I remember it like it was yesterday. Maybe it was yesterday. How would I know? After a month… Continue reading

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Hope, healing and a spring break

THE EASTER BONNIE, aka Bonnie Schmidt of Port Angeles, gave her preschoolers little baskets of farewell last week. On the porch of her Little Rhythms… Continue reading

  • Apr 15, 2020
  • By Diane Urbani de la Paz

PAT NEAL: Quarantine chronicles: The herd

THERE’S A LOT of talk these days about the “herd.” This is in reference to herd immunity, the theory that if enough of a human… Continue reading

  • Apr 15, 2020
  • By Pat Neal

PAT NEAL: The quarantine chronicles continued

SOMETIMES IT SEEMS like living in today’s modern world is a lot like having a flock of woodpeckers live in your head. Many choose to… Continue reading

  • Apr 8, 2020
  • Pat Neal

PAT NEAL: The quarantine chronicles

IT WAS GOING to be one of those days. More precisely, day one of the coronavirus self-isolation quarantine. Or maybe it was day two or… Continue reading

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Dancing on, together and apart

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Dancing on, together and apart

I’LL TAKE MY cue from these youngsters. The Ballet Workshop’s 50th anniversary Ballet Gala, a triumphant celebration of live music and dance in Port Angeles,… Continue reading

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Dancing on, together and apart

PAT NEAL: Herd mentality when there’s more than enough hay

IT WAS DAYLIGHT in the swamp. I was already late for a very important date. Breakfast with the ladies. They consider breakfast the most important… Continue reading

LETTER: Residents of Clallam County

We know that many of you are now out of work, or missing a season of your favorite sport, or working longer-than-usual shifts and missing… Continue reading

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: At home on a two-way street

THESE “LESSONS” WON’T apply to me, I thought. “House Lessons,” the new memoir from bestselling local author Erica Bauermeister, starts out about her renovation of… Continue reading

PAT NEAL: Skunk Cabbage Festival canceled

IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. It was revealed that the Oil City Skunk Cabbage Festival scheduled for April 1 was canceled due… Continue reading

POINT OF VIEW: Jefferson Healthcare responds to COVID-19

POINT OF VIEW: Jefferson Healthcare responds to COVID-19

JEFFERSON HEALTHCARE PLANNED to deal with several challenging issues in 2020. A pandemic, however was not on this list. Jefferson County Public Health, Jefferson Healthcare… Continue reading

POINT OF VIEW: Jefferson Healthcare responds to COVID-19
EDC UPDATE: Women-owned businesses add value to economy

EDC UPDATE: Women-owned businesses add value to economy

By Colleen McAleer Economic Development Corp. March is Women’s History Month, a month that highlights the contributions women have made to our history, economy, culture… Continue reading

  • Mar 15, 2020
  • By Colleen McAleer Economic Development Corp.
  • Clallam County
EDC UPDATE: Women-owned businesses add value to economy
Herald employee mug Jerry Cornfield

CORNFIELD: Legislative session ends with plenty of hits and misses

THE 2020 REGULAR legislative session has come to a close. It didn’t unfold the way anyone thought it would, nor is it ending as any… Continue reading

Herald employee mug Jerry Cornfield

PAT NEAL: Don’t panic, stay calm

Don’t panic, stay calm BY NOW I think we’ve all had it up to here with health experts telling us not to panic over the… Continue reading

POINT OF VIEW: Legislature should help state conserve fish, wildlife

POINT OF VIEW: Legislature should help state conserve fish, wildlife

Nature is both more loved and more ignored than ever before. Less than 1 percent of the state’s general fund goes to support natural resource… Continue reading

POINT OF VIEW: Legislature should help state conserve fish, wildlife

DIANE URBANI DE LA PAZ: Women, whiskey, words

I HELD MY breath. It was almost midnight. My compañera, Jess, had ridden her horse into a situation that could mean the end of her… Continue reading

PAT NEAL: A historic canoe journey

LISTENING TO PEOPLE complain about the weather on the Olympic Peninsula is evidence we’ve evolved into a nation of wimps. To hear the horrors of… Continue reading

POINT OF VIEW: Economy, taxing districts lose after timber harvest decision

DUE TO THE state Department of Natural Resources increasing marbled murrelet habitat conservation, Clallam County will see significantly lower timber harvests from state-owned timber lands… Continue reading

The state has too much money and it’s a problem

The state has too much money and it’s a problem

With revenues rising, budget writers are going to get lots of requests on how to spend it

The state has too much money and it’s a problem

OUR VIEW: Vote YES on PASD levy

WE CAN’T AFFORD to let our schools fall apart. Opponents of the Port Angeles School District’s five-year $52.6 million capital levy on the Feb. 11… Continue reading