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Farmer’s Fate: Time balls and New Year’s
Sitting on our living room floor, dressed in pajamas, feeding bummer lambs and watching the countdown to the ...
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Off the Beaten Path: Scared speechless, and other nightmares
“I was scared speechless,” said a friend recounting a harrowing experience. No one could be that scared, I ...
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Off the Beaten Path: A winter solstice walkabout
The calendar told the tale — the winter solstice, the first day of winter. A cause for celebration. ...
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Farmer’s Fate: Christmas in Killarney
The holly green, the ivy green, The prettiest picture you’ve ever seen Is Christmas in Killarney, With all ...
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Farmer’s Fate: The five seasons
What do old leaf springs, new tires, a box of potatoes and 900 pounds of ice have in ...
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Capital Chatter: In Oregon Senate, new faces from different places
Eastern and Central Oregon are losing much of their influence in the state Senate. Among the senators exiting ...
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Other views: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
Editor’s note: The following editorial, written by Francis P. Church, first appeared in the New York Sun in ...
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Homeplace: Cancer no match for community care
The photo shows two boys grinning into the camera and displaying the rotund robots they’ve just assembled at ...
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Off the Beaten Path: Gifts of the heart
Amazingly enough, the gift-giving started with high school boys, a group of juniors known as goof-offs. Our school ...
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Farmer’s Fate: ‘I thought it would be funny …’
There are some stories and phrases that somehow make such an impression that they live on in families ...