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OPEN RANGE: Life centered around one-room schools

While cowboying out on the Zumwalt the past few years, I have ridden up on several old abandoned…

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OUT OF THE PAST: Myron Fleser succeeds grandfather as Minam storekeeper

100 YEARS AGO Sept. 11, 1913 Excavation for the Carnegie library was finished by contractor John Oberg early…

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ARTS & LEISURE: Restaurant pleases a mismatched dining pair

The elegant Nancy Lincoln has long been a fixture in Wallowa County culinary circles. I started thirty years…

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OUT OF THE PAST: Fire destroys new threshing machine

100 YEARS AGO Sept. 4, 1913 The tents at Wallowa Lake park will be taken to Pendleton and…

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AND FURTHERMORE: Lawn problems call for creative solutions

Seems to me we could easily remove one of the burrs under Wallowa Countys saddle currently causing not…

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OUT OF THE PAST: Troy puts up award to catch ‘intelligent’ beaver

100 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1913 The contract for building the new Carnegie library in Enterprise was awarded…

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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: Golfers redeem selves, become heroes

As my wife Pepper would gladly attest, I watch WAY too much sports. Baseball, football, basketball, hockey, tennis,…

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OUT OF THE PAST: Big, Little Sheep ranches part of big swap

100 YEARS AGO Aug. 21, 1913 Charles Spains bucking cow was ridden by John McFetridge at the fairgrounds…

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MAIN STREET: Season remarkable for friends we’ve lost

There was a celebration of sorts at the Ferguson Ridge ski run last Sunday. We remembered Harold Klages…

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OPEN RANGE: Parader inexperienced on horseback

The saying he/she rides like an Indian has always meant to me that the person referenced was a…

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