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From hostile to habitat

  • Patrick Mulvihill
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Where once there was a bristling tangle of bramble and noxious weeds, the Friends of Willow Ponds are shaping a patch of healthy wetlands for native creatures to enjoy.

Charley LaVenture
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Charley LaVenture

Charley LaVenture, age 61, died peacefully in Boulder, Colo., on Oct. 27, 2009, from a rare form of leukemia (CMML). He was surrounded by frie…

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Pear Plenty

  • Hood River News

Mary Jette’s two-pound Bartlett stands out among the bounty of the season in Hood River County. The giant was picked last week on Mary and Fred Jette’s orchard on Willow Flat Road. The pear is more than twice the size and weight of most large Bartletts, such as the example in Mary’s right hand. The two-pounder spent a week in the fridge and was ready to eat by Monday. But Mary said the field man from Diamond Fruit, Chad Wimmers, told her, “Don’t eat that pear until I see it.”

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Mystic Mud

  • Hood River News

Potter finds wide interest in her work of ‘unexpected color’