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Luke Jacobsen is just 8 miles from completing a nearly five-month solo backpacking trip at mile 2

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Verbatim: Luke Jacobsen

After a long pause, three words came to Luke Jacobsen’s mind while reflecting on his solo trek on…

Brunell: When forests become the ‘Big Polluters’

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Brunell: When forests become the ‘Big Polluters’

We associate air pollution with big cities, but millions of people are feeling the impacts of pollution from…

Cooper: Trump political correctness!

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Cooper: Trump political correctness!

Ever since the now well-known response by Donald Trump, one of the candidates for President — in case…

The front cover of the Dairy Herd Improvement Association’s annual report for 1967.

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Verbatim: Tim Wheeler … and a cow named Maybe

Tim Wheeler shares a story that, as he writes, “ultimately will appear in my memoir, if I ever…

Cooper: Signs of our time

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Cooper: Signs of our time

During the hottest part of the unsettling heat and dryness, my husband and I found ourselves paying a…

Burbank: Public school funding will pay off in the end

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Burbank: Public school funding will pay off in the end

This week is the real start of the new year. Parents take their 5-year-olds to their first day…

Cornfield: Not the last word on charter schools?

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Cornfield: Not the last word on charter schools?

Try as it might, Washington just can’t get this charter school thing down right.

Editor's Corner: The time I got lost in Boston ...

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Editor’s Corner: The time I got lost in Boston …

When I began preparing this column, it started off as a wistful bit of prose ruminating about the…

Brunell: Ruling derails school choices

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Brunell: Ruling derails school choices

On Sept. 4, the State Supreme Court derailed Washington’s nascent charter school movement when it ruled that charter…

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Cooper: SARC treading water and City going big on parks

Bertha Cooper continues her discussion about SARC and the City of Sequim's possible MPD

Cornfield: No squabble left behind

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Cornfield: No squabble left behind

Public schools are not just underfunded by the state as Washington’s Supreme Court has made abundantly clear. Most…

Cooper: ‘Dog Days’ of summer for SARC

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Cooper: ‘Dog Days’ of summer for SARC

“During summer’s Dog Days, flies increase in numbers and snakes go blind” … so says an old Farmers’…

Suzan Mansfield

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Verbatim: Suzan Mansfield

When she first opened the Sequim Licensing Depot, Suzan Mansfield had three license plates, including her own, hanging…