A WEST END fireworks show exceeded expectations during July Fourth week. The evidence came when there was a short lull after 40 minutes of fireworks… Continue reading
and the wave lifts and sweeps you forward. Time? Space? Limits? Gone. Summer’s… Continue reading
NOW THAT THE tourists are finally here it’s easy to remember why we put a season on them. From the acidified ocean to the melting… Continue reading
SELLING ICE CREAM must have been a cinch at Forks Airport on Saturday during the West End Thunder drag races. The metal bleachers had no… Continue reading
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news: The 2017 Washington state fishing rules were finally printed. I know what you’re thinking. Hasn’t it been… Continue reading
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news, when the journalistic skills of this gossip columnist were tried to the utmost through describing a devastating… Continue reading
Recent discourse on the efficacy and honesty of the U.S. media has surfaced in letters to the editor in Peninsula Voices (“Mainstream Media,” May 16,… Continue reading
PLAN B EXISTS for a reason. So does Murphy’s Law. When hiking and camping, my family’s Plan B is hot dogs. Inevitably, if fresh fish… Continue reading
By Roger Oakes I APPRECIATE THE opportunity to explain the Hoh River Trust’s plans to transfer ownership and management of trust lands along the Hoh… Continue reading
THIS PAST MONTH has been rough on the heart. Reading my newspaper and, OK, my Facebook feed, I feel pain around my chest. But hold… Continue reading
WHILE IT IS true that in describing the dissolution of the Hoh River Trust in my May 31 column, “Lack Of Faith In Hoh River… Continue reading
Abortion, like politics and religion, is a topic we strive to omit from dinner table banter at family gatherings. They are highly volatile subjects and… Continue reading
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news for those of us who love the Hoh River. The Hoh River Trust decided to give 7,000… Continue reading
If you wish for an exciting, jaw-jarring event, find the nearest U.S. Forest Service road. You are in for a treat. No amount of skill… Continue reading
I read the touching article about Marion “Skip” Yandell on Iwo Jima [“Iwo Jima Survivor Tells Of War’s Grief, Patriotism,” PDN, May 28]. Turns out… Continue reading
“YOU’LL NEVER SEE anything like this again, certainly not on the Olympic Peninsula,” said Rene Davis while looking out over part of the collection of… Continue reading
Donald Trump is president until 2020. It’s a fact, and nothing will change it (unless he does something really stupid, not just mildly “stupido”). What… Continue reading
THERE WAS A mysterious bright object seen out on the West End the other day. Some of the locals panicked and called me wondering if… Continue reading
ALL I WANTED was a quiet place at the end of the road where I could write my memoirs. About the years of struggling it… Continue reading
RIGGS IS THE only regular shoplifter. He is crafty and cute and hard to stop. The last time he got busted after sneaking in, he… Continue reading
