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Articles from the April 25, 2014 edition


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  • Cayuse tribe’s world-beating horses are now very rare

    Apr 25, 2014

    Cayuse horsemen By Finn J.D. John Joe Crabb was a gambling man - that much, at least, we know. And in 1871, he’d put his money down on an absolute ironclad sure thing. It was a horse race, and Crabb was a horseman. He was matching his own best animal, a magnificent thoroughbred, against a smallish spotted pony belonging to Howlish Wampoo, the chief of the Cayuse Indian tribe. The race was a big event in the Pendleton area, and everyone had turned out to watch it - shopkeepers and cowboys from the town as well as people from the Walla Walla, N...

  • Time to get out and wet a line

    Apr 25, 2014

    Happy angler The 2014 outdoor recreation season will get a boost this weekend starting with the annual Fisherman’s Breakfast, set for Saturday, April 26th. The event, sponsored by McKenzie Fire & Rescue at the Leaburg Training Center, will be held between 6 and 11 a.m. Admission is $6 for adults and $4 for kids. Further to the east in Nimrod, the 9th annual McKenzie River Wooden Boat Festival will be held at the Eagle Rock Lodge, 49198 McKenzie Hwy., from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is free to the public. The McKenzie River Guides Association will b...

  • 4-16-14 McKenzie School Board

    Apr 25, 2014

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