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Oakridge Rocks the Park event needs early support
Oakridge Rocks the Park,' mark your calendar for October 18, 2025. Come to Greenwaters Park in Oakridge for a full day of family fun. WHY? Because Oakridge is full of some of the most friendly people on the planet and we are lucky to live in one of the most beautiful...
Newly released last of a trilogy, Ash Valley: The Promise of the land
"An honest, often funny, sometimes painful, accounting of the communal "back to the land" movement of the early seventies, newly married idealists Ben and Sarah Tucker set out with their varied collection of long-haired freaks to find a place where they can build a...
Parvin Butte
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Book Reviews
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Book review: The Garbage Brothers go to the fair
The Garbage Brothers go to the fair Summer officially arrived this week, and that means state and...
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Book review: THE BOTANY OF DESIRE
THE BOTANY OF DESIRE by Michael Pollan Copyright: 2001 By ROBERT WOODSON/for The Herald ...
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Book Review: the Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
By ROBERT WOODSON/for The Herald — Warning – this will make your brain hurt if you p...
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Book report: Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
By ROBERT WOODSON/for The Herald — Our book club pick for this month is: LINCOLN and the...
Poetry Corner
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Untitled — by Jillian Mardin
By JILLIAN MARDIN I, from the window, watched as the small bird, a finch I think, being buffeted ...
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Our Evolving Shadow Mirror
By IRIS K BARRATT The shadow mirror is a part of who we all are, Individually and collecti...
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Honoring Builds a Circle of Nobility
By IRIS K BARRATT Honoring is where silence joins what is true. Honoring is a divine reflection o...
Music
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30th annual Blackberry Jam Festival being held in Lowell over July 26 weekend
The 30th Blackberry Jam Festival is being held in Lowell from July 26 to July 28. The festival wi...
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Ben Olson’s contribution to local music comes from both sides of the music sheet
By GEORGE CUSTER/Editor — Stop by the 3 Legged Crane most any Thursday evening and you...
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Dexter Lake 4th Of July
Independence Day Celebration – fireworks, music, food and more at Dexter Lake State Park. Your donation helps to put this event on and we can’t do it without you.
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