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Rural roads an important link in urban food chain
On social media this spring, a Willamette Valley farmer noted one of the few upsides of the COVID-19…
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Rural and urban struggle with the basics
The Thursday lunch menu at the John Day Senior Center earlier this spring called for meatloaf, scalloped potatoes…
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Publisher’s Note
A lot has happened since our last issue came out in late December. On Dec. 31, we learned…
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Editor’s note
When we first started working on The Other Oregon nearly two years ago our goal was to bridge…
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Small towns work differently
There’s an urban process for doing things and a rural way for getting things done. And never the…
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Rural Roots and Urban Flowers
Two years ago I was covering an ag technology conference in Pendleton and was surprised to run into…
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Dining with Bigfoot
Athena, Ore., is the largest gathering of humans I’ve lived with in the last 50 years. By most…
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Coming home to change the world
At age 18, the imagined made-for-TV movie of my life features a whip-smart young woman leaving her podunk,…