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Spring Brights Make For Easy Mixers

By Emily Smith Warm, spring days set the perfect backdrop for pulling Crayola brights into the fashion forefront. Mixing saturated hues is easy when you anchor your outfit with black

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The Harm Of Abortion Overlooked In Editorial

Dear Editor: The editorial by Donna Shade and Claudia Reynolds-LeBlanc [The New Rights War On Women, published March 7] was certainly passionate, but I never understood what their point was.

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It Can Happen Here

Dear Editor: Friday afternoon, March 29, Pegasus pipeline, an Exxon Mobil pipeline carrying Canadian crude oil, ruptured and sent thousands of barrels of oil, a yet “officially” undetermined amount, into

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Food Freedom

By Amanda Bancroft I’m not really a vegan, so you needn’t fear a long-winded lecture on the virtues of veganism. No, I’m not even a vegetarian anymore. Or an omnivore,

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The Unfineables

Through this column we feature various library materials and services. However, one service that rarely gets featured is something unique to public libraries and arguably a driving force in their

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Nothing Specialist

By Rachel Birdsell I’ve been thinking about specialists a lot, lately. Specialists take a field of study, narrow it down to a particular branch, then climb out to the end

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Yours A Little Too Truly

By Rachel Birdsell I recently read an article that touched on a very important subject, and one that needs to be addressed. The author of the article used roughly 2,000

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Interpreting Nature’s Language Through Birds

By Terrah Baker I needed an adventure last winter when I decided to attend the Ozark Tracker Society Coyote Mentoring workshop in the hills of the Ozark Mountains in the

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DIY Green Inventions

By Amanda Bancroft The popular claymation series, Wallace and Gromit, used to be just fun entertainment for my husband and I. But now, it’s inspiring us to become resourceful inventors

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Vrksasana: In Honor Of A Fallen Tree

By Alexander Wayne From circa 1930 to exactly 3:13 p.m. last Wednesday, a 30-foot post oak inhabited a space just outside my bedroom window. It succumbed to root rot and