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Home and Garden, December 2025

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Home and Garden: Finance, winter gardening, holiday decorating, a deep dive into honey bee behavior, concrete advise and Huckleberry Sugar Cookies.

Keeping Our Community Whole, part 1: Conflict ≠ Contempt: How towns stay democratic under strain
Keeping Our Community Whole, part 2: How to Talk About Hard Things Without Losing Your Voice or Your Neighbors
Keeping Our Community Whole, part 3: What really protects our communities
Keeping our community whole, part 4: Free speech is not a free-for-all
Keeping Our Community Whole, part 5: Strong communities create strong societies
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Keeping our community whole commentary series

  • By Patrick T. Hiller, Ph.D.
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Keeping Our Community Whole is a five-part series that explores how to strengthen our local community amid toxic and overwhelming national politics, while building a more inclusive and resilient Columbia River Gorge. Each column shares practical experience, local stories, and proven conflict…

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