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What's in the Sky: Happy Leap Year!
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What's in the Sky: Happy Leap Year!

  • By Jim White
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In 2024, we have an extra day, as we have every four years — 2024 is a “leap year” and we’ll have an extra “leap day,” on Feb. 29. But we don’t always have a leap year every four years. Are you aware that 1900 was not a leap year? Here is a bit about the interesting history of our calendars.

Letters to the editor

Letter to the editor: Change holiday name

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To the editor: This week the Oregon cities of Portland and Corvallis, as well as the state of Alaska, began observing the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of Columbus Day. The “new” holiday was first celebrated in Berkeley, Calif., in 1992, on the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to the Caribbean.