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As I get older there’s always new aches or pains: Knee, stomach, neck, you name it. It’s no big deal. It is what it is and I carry on.

But occasionally I read about a common symptom that’s a sign of a serious illness — and I scare myself.

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The Yellow-Rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata) is a brief springtime visitor to the Gorge. It arrives to the bare trees in April with a tiny flurry of brilliant white, blue-black, charcoal and yellow plumage, then vanishes before you know it.

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Rowan Patrick Sharkey was born on March 17, 1986, and died on April 7, 2024. Rowan was a wonderful, loving, sensitive and tender-hearted boy, …

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WHITE SALMON — When was the last time you looked, really looked, at the teeming world of insect life bustling at our feet or busily flying from wildflower to fruit tree or hive?  If you haven’t done so recently, you are missing one of the most stunning examples of co-evolution the natural world has to show us.