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Obituary: Howard Thille
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Obituary: Howard Thille

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Howard Henry Thille, AKA Howie, Hank, How Weird, and Junior to his close friend and family, passed peacefully to the Pearly Gates on Sept. 23,…

Howard Thille
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Howard Thille

Howard Henry Thille, AKA Howie, Hank, How Weird, and Junior to his close friend and family, passed peacefully to the Pearly Gates on Sept. 23,…

Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Cash economics

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To the editor: I don’t use credit cards. The other day I went to a local store to buy a garbage can for my plastic recycling. I saw a tractor, a lawn mower that turns on a dime, priced at $1,299.

Kaleidoscope: Along the Road
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Kaleidoscope: Along the Road

  • Kirby Neumann-Rea

A quiet weekday drive down the scenic east flank of the Hood River Valley yields plenty of beautiful vistas and tableaux on a day near the cusp of summer and autumn:

Urness recounts fire, neighbor support
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Urness recounts fire, neighbor support

  • Neita Cecil
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Judy Urness could hear the fire alarms going off in the background Tuesday as she called her son Charlie to tell him to stop trying to save their house on Emerson Loop Road and just get out. “But he didn’t listen to me,” she said of her 24-year-old son. “But my house is standing. I guess he gets away with it this time.”

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Tractor operator killed in fire

  • RaeLynn Ricarte
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On July 18 at approximately 1:30 p.m., Wasco County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a call of a burnt tractor. Deputies located the tractor and also located the operator of the tractor a short distance away, deceased. It appears the tractor operator died as a result of exposure to the fire.

Tractor Parade
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Tractor Parade

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A bright-red sleigh and a Christmas tree roll down Main Street in Dufur during the tractor parade Saturday night in Dufur.