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Articles from the October 23, 2012 edition


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  • If bones could talk

    Oct 23, 2012

    By Finn J.D. John Skeleton In a few weeks, the streets of Oregon will be thick with trick-or-treaters again. And although the hot costumes this year include zombies, pirates and Batman, there will probably be one or two kids out there dressed as skeletons. Skeletons may be out of fashion this year, but they’re arguably the most interesting Halloween artifact you could name. Skeletons are real; they’re dead, but were once alive; they can’t talk, but once could; and their cold and lifeless condition suggests that something dramatic, perha...

  • Life in a river pool

    Oct 23, 2012

  • Surf session at Clover

    Oct 23, 2012

  • Slash piles to burn

    Oct 23, 2012

    Slash piles along Hwy. 126 and 242 to be burned soon Burning slas in the McKenzie Valley MCKENZIE BRIDGE: Sometime in the next few weeks, as weather conditions permit, personnel from the McKenzie River Ranger District will begin to burn the slash piles that can be seen along Highways 126 and 242. These piles are part of a hazardous fuels reduction project that will make the area more defensible and safer in the event of a wildfire. Cutting the low-lying brush, limbs and small trees (understory vegetation), increases the distance between fuels...

  • My treats

    Oct 23, 2012

    McKenzie River Reflections...