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Education Corner: Building Vocabulary

  • By Scott Smith, Ed.D.:
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When you think about learning vocabulary, what comes to mind? Word lists, dictionaries, writing meanings? Over generations, education has turned vocabulary learning into a reading and writing skill. While vocabulary is a key reading skill, many students can increase their vocabulary through reading.

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Letter to the Editor: Change for the better

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To the editor: I am Maria Peña and I am proud to support Kathy Schwartz, the nurse with white hair, for Wasco County commissioner. I have had the pleasure to work with Kathy in the public health department for over a decade and know that she is a born leader.

Kaare Berge
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Kaare Berge

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Kaare Berge was born December 14, 1925 in Helgen, Telemark, Norway, and died March 13, 2017 in Brush Prairie, WA.