JANUARY AND WINTER just keep rolling along. We are now 22 days into the season of cold (and wet), both of which we saw last… Continue reading
WHEN 48-YEAR-OLD JOSEPHINE Yarr returned to the family dairy farm in Chimacum in mid-1952, a few months after her brother Ned’s death, she was faced… Continue reading
THE BEST PART of clear, cold winter weather is the bright sunshine and the lack of clouds or rain. That’s a given, but there is… Continue reading
THIS IS ONE of those columns, meaning it won’t touch all of us, so it’ll be easy to think “click” and move on. However, if… Continue reading
EDITOR’S NOTE: Because the ground is frozen, this event has been rescheduled for January 28. The time, date and place details will be the same,… Continue reading
An Elvis dance and auction in Port Angeles and the performance of a student-written play in Port Townsend are among the weekend’s activities on the… Continue reading
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. (Psalm 90:12 ESV) IN 1522, THE journey begun by Ferdinand… Continue reading
Naturalist Ken Wilson will inaugurate a series of four natural history walks sponsored by the Friends of Fort Worden State Park on… Continue reading
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