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Education Corner: Preschool tricksters may need more help with reading

Have you ever encountered a preschooler or kindergartner who reads effortlessly? Often they are quite intelligent and are…

Letters to Editor

Letter: Love your community? Me too!

You might remember that Monday, Jan. 20, is the Martin Luther King Day of Service. What a great…

Columnists

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…

Editorials

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…

Editorials

Our View: Legislature needs to ease the PERS burden

School districts, cities, counties and other public employers in Oregon have tried to ease the financial burden of…

Columnists

Rich Wandschneider: Thoughts on diseases and vaccinations

A friend texted me to say that she “got whooping cough for Christmas.” I’m 82 and don’t remember…

Editorials

Our View: Why GPS can be a lousy, even dangerous, winter driving guide

GPS satellites can pinpoint your position on the globe to within a few feet, an accomplishment that seems…

Letters to Editor

Letter to the editor: Retribution or rehabilitation for Hunter Biden?

Which is better? Punishment or correction? Retribution or rehabilitation? Obviously, there are two ways of thinking about this.…

Columnists

Rich Wandschneider: ‘Annie’ is a gift for today and ‘Tomorrow’

Congratulations to Elgin and the Elgin Opera House. You did it. Mill town turned drama town; old stories…

Columnists

Bob Zybach: Deadly national forest fires now entering towns

In 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt created the U.S. Forest Service by transferring 56 million acres in 60 forest…

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