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Guest column: How to protect children in the digital age
Today’s youth are spending more time on the internet and social media than any other generation before. As ...
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Animal Shelter Report: Magic Major is Pet of the Week
Major is a charming four and a half-year-old pittie-hound mix in search of his forever home! This delightful, ...
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Coast Chronicles: Have Wheels, Will Travel (to community events)
Paladin Paladin has nothing on me. But who even remembers Richard Boone, that tough-looking gunfighter with the dark ...
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Lower Columbia Currents: Baltimore tragedy should prompt safety evaluation of Lewis and Clark Bridge
The moment I heard about the Baltimore bridge collapse, I thought about Jerry Reagor and a story I’d ...
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Editor’s Notebook: The Observer has come to stay — just not in our current building
Thirty-some years ago while browsing through original old bound volumes of the Chinook Observer, I came upon a ...
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Elementary, my dear… Remember when there were only two seasons? And they came right on time!
I know. I know. Other people probably remember more yearly seasons than I do. Especially if they grew ...
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Animal Shelter Report: Charming Creamsicle is ready for her human home
This charming-looking 11-month-old orange and white boy loves people but he absolutely hates other cats! With humans he ...
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Coast Chronicles: March’s Remarkable Women: Marla McGrew and Betsy Pfannestiel
“Every person that crosses is a person headed toward safety.” —Sister Angelica “Lika” Macias I’m writing this on ...
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Guest column: EV battery recycling requires herculean effort
Each year Americans throw away more than three billion batteries constituting 180,000 tons of hazardous material. The situation ...
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Editor’s Notebook: The bay’s beating heart gets even better
A couple decades ago, creation of Lewis and Clark National Historical Park on both sides of the Columbia ...