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Letters to the editor for October 3, 2012

October 03, 2012 03:19 pm

Relay paying dividends

October 03, 2012 03:14 pm

The 18 teams involved in Saturday’s 15th annual Drug Free Relay did important work in keeping the community a step ahead of the insidious evils of drug and alcohol addiction.

The world’s most dangerous ride

October 03, 2012 02:51 pm

Some things I do, I do for the sake of the story — like get up at 5 a.m. to go buck hunting on a bicycle.

The most dangerous ride

October 03, 2012 01:00 am

Some things I do, I do for the sake of the story - like get up at 5 a.m. to go buck hunting on a bicycle.

I got my first mountain bike after a lucrative forest fire in Arizona. I had test-ridden one some months before and was hooked. The ability to ride over rocks and up dirt trails put a whole, new spin on cycling.

My Trek was a garage-kept model, barely making it out for rides for the first few years of its life. When I moved to Steamboat Springs I was introduced to steep uphills and steeper downhills, or so it seemed.

Gardening combines creativity and passion for plants

October 01, 2012 03:48 pm

Gardening can most frequently be described as an art, not a true science.

Public, private effort saves sawmill

October 01, 2012 03:45 pm

The last sawmill standing in Grant County will stand a while longer, thanks to a combined private and public effort to save it. People throughout Eastern Oregon should take note. In the fight to preserve a decent standard of living in rural communities, teamwork and determination can win out.

Years of remembered treasures march through mind

October 01, 2012 03:22 pm

The harvest moon hung outside my kitchen window one wondrous September evening. It wasn’t as orange as it had been several nights before, thankfully with the easing of the forest fire smoke drifting in from flames along state lines trying to eat their way into our picturesque corner of the world.