As the holiday season fades into the proverbial background, we want to remind the region — as we do frequently — that the reasons for giving during the holiday season still remain as important now as they did a month or so ago.
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As the holiday season fades into the proverbial background, we want to remind the region — as we do frequently — that the reasons for giving during the holiday season still remain as important…
A snowy day. Seed catalogs poured in. Too early to plant. A good time to clean closets — where I found my fishing pole.
The Grant County Education Service District is joining the 197 school districts and other 19 ESDs throughout Oregon to celebrate January as School Board Recognition Month.
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Oregon voters have made their feelings about the state’s income tax kicker system exquisitely clear.
The stockings have been hung, the tree has been decorated, it’s beginning to snow — which means lambing season must be upon us! The first snowfall doesn’t changes one’s age — the cold flakes j…
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The scope of the task is immense, the progress slow and sometimes inconspicuous.
Oregon’s new governor, Tina Kotek, faces an array of challenges but the news that one of her first actions as the state’s top lawmaker was to sign an executive order to set a goal of building …
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January 2023 marks the nineteenth annual National Stalking Awareness Month, an annual call to action to recognize and respond to this prevalent, traumatic, and dangerous crime. As the Stalking…
Consider this: Your neighbor’s house is a real fixer upper in need of lots of improvements. It’s in such a terrible state it could even catch fire and that could spread to your home. And it tu…
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, wants to keep an important part of American history alive for future generations.
My grandpa set the events in motion when he visited our family when I was a child.
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The baler had been acting up all day, missing knots and stringing untied bales all over the field. My son had taken it out early that morning to finish baling up the last of the straw. He figu…
In our communities, the Blue Mountains are more than just a special place to us. These landscapes provide the water we drink, places we make lifelong memories and, for many of us, our very liv…
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Holiday time. Family traditions abound. For some, this means wrapped presents under a trimmed tree. For others, holiday music and a visit to loved ones may be the holiday highlight. As family …
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The federal judge who on Tuesday, Dec. 6 refused to issue a temporary restraining order blocking Oregon’s gun control Measure 114 from taking effect offered some curious logic in her ruling th…
My alarm went off at 3 a.m., waking me out of a dream where I was captaining an old schooner and had just gone over the edge of a fearsome waterfall. My pulse was racing so fast, my hand shook…
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Across the state the need for food assistance continues to climb, and this is the perfect time of year for area residents to focus on their local food pantry and help with donations of money or food.
Our family holiday season began with a couple gunny sacks and a visit to a walnut orchard. Farm workers filled the gunny sacks with unshelled walnuts. Dad hefted the sacks into the trunk of th…
In last week’s edition, we carried a story about a federally funded program that offers zero-interest loans to low-income homeowners across four counties in Northeast Oregon, including ours. T…
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