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Budget time

Budgets season is the most wonderful time of the year. I feel the need to put an asterisk next to that statement. In an absolute sense, it is perhaps as only wonderful, to a very select group of pe...
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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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Democracy is loud and messy

“How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you are on.” Throughout my childhood, my mother had a sign with that message hanging in the bathroom of her home. In a home with 10 people and two bathrooms, that pearl of wisdom and reminder not to dawdle was worth its weight in gold. It is one of those messages that has stuck with me over the years. Perspective matters a g...

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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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