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The beard

To shave, or not to shave, that is the question. A little over a month ago I shaved off my beard and mustache. It was the first time since high school that I was bare-faced and the first time in cl...
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Driving

It took me about 20 minutes to drive from The Star News office in downtown Medford to the Stetsonville Village hall on Monday afternoon. For the record, I did not use the ridiculous great circle detour that the state has of taking Hwy 64 east to Hwy 97 and then south Hwy 29 and then north on Hwy 13 from Abbotsford. If I, or anyone else for that matter, actually followed the official detour, I m...

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Cam fires

I am in a camp fire state of mind. There is something about August that makes me long for sitting beside a camp fire. Whether it is sharing jokes or stories with friends over frosty beverages. Reading in the dimming light of evening with my feet propped up against the warm stones of the fire ring, or sipping on whiskey while watching the glowing embers in the dark, there is something about a...

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Nothing to do

“There is just never anything going on and nothing to do in this county.” In between covering events going on this weekend, I volunteered some shifts with the Medford Kiwanis Club to drive a golf cart around the Taylor County Fairgrounds to shuttle people who needed rides. One of our stops was by the food vendor area between the Merchant and Co-op buildings at the fairgrounds. We would stop...

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Loss

Loss is hard, no matter who it is or what their age may be. Each week, the pages of include obituaries and death notices of local residents. Some led full and interesting lives, with numerous family and friends surviving and keeping their memories alive. Others were taken far too young and far too suddenly. The community mourns their potential and what they could have achieved. Some you wished ...

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The beard

To shave, or not to shave, that is the question. A little over a month ago I shaved off my beard and mustache. It was the first time since high school that I was bare-faced and the first time in close to two decades that I did not have a beard. During COVID, I let my beard grow out. While in my mind’s eye, I was going for the look of the classic band ZZ Top, in brutal honesty it probably l...

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It is amazing how much faster and easier it is to tear something down rather than to build it

It is amazing how much faster and easier it is to tear something down rather than to build it. On Saturday night, the stage lights went dark for the last time on Medford Area Community Theater’s production of “1776.” Long weeks of rehearsals, running lines and practicing songs and blocking came together and the payoff was the applause from the audience and the sense of accomplishment for ...

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